New Guidance...if You Have A Cold

[pastafreak]

Stay home, as of tomorrow.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/people-covid-nhs-jenny-harries-children-b2046747.html

[Buenchico]

The Independent's interpretation of the Government's strategy, which is mirrored on other media websites, refers to 'people with a cold' but the actual Government guidance refers to 'people with symptoms of a respiratory infection'. I doubt that it was ever intended to refer to people with 'just a bit of a runny nose' or other very mild cold symptoms:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-next-steps-for-living-with-covid

[dave50]

Another skivers charter.

[jno]

I always used to take the first day of a cold off - fellow workers preferred not to have idiots passing their ailments around.

[wolf63]

I take any opportunity to take a day off sick.

[rowanwitch]

It was always difficult working in a hospital, you didn't want to infect others but you knew your workload would have to be picked up by your colleagues. As a manager put it. I would rather cover one today than three next week

[pat2604]

I really resent people with bad colds happily mixing with others or going to work. It's antisocial. I simply don't want to mix with snotty selfish people

[douglas9401]

That's the Tory party conference out then. :-)

[lankeela]

Well it is April 1st tomorrow

[burlyshirley]

When I was working, I always stayed away if I had a bad cold, so did everybody else ! Not only do you feel rough, but others don't want you passing on your bugs.

[jourdain2]

I grew up to Tony Hancock singingthe NHS posters which were everywhere. 'Coughs and sneezes spread diseases -
Trap your germs in a handkerchief.'
(To the tune of Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles for younger members.) Perhaps the NHS should re-launch the campaign? Sound advice - alas not followed very often these days. :(

[Buenchico]

Lottie: Back in the days when the Common Cold Unit existed, they did some research to compare transmission rates between environments where anyone with a cold stayed off work and those where everyone with a cold, however severe, went into work. They found that there was no difference whatsoever in the transmission rates.

Back in my teaching days, I made it extremely clear to the kids in my class that 'having a cold' was an unacceptable reason to be off school. If a child brought a note from a parent, explaining their absence on those grounds, I'd tear it up in front of the class and express my rage vociferously. My classes always had the best attendance records in the school ;-)

[Buenchico]

For Jourdain2:

[douglas9401]

I tended to ignore the foibles of teachers when they went off on one.

[pastafreak]

To Chris...my mother would have told you where to go.
She was a firm believer in confining her children to their beds when they were snotty, or otherwise.

[Hopkirk]

I wouldn't dream of going sick just for a cold. Wimps.

[jourdain2]

Thank you very much, Buenchico! :)

[DTCwordfan]

But the common cold is of the same sars family as covid - Astra Zeneca claimed that they had come up with a cure for it, following their excellent Covid work....where then is the medication?

[Hopkirk]

Not quite true DTC.
Some common colds are coronaviruses, but the majority are rhinoviruses.

[pat2604]

I am not talking sniffles but you won't get a good days work out of an adult or child with a nasty full blown cold. I worked in schools for a long time. Full attendance doesn't mean a jot to me and shouldn't be rewarded. Good attendance is what matters. If you feel really awful and are likely to spread your germs stay at home. You certainly are not a wimp. You're intelligent or have intelligent thoughtful parents. Too many parents send children to school with awful colds these days so they can go to work. School staff aren't there to teach children and look after their health as well.

I never sent my ill child to school. He did very well right through his schooldays and his career so far.

I can never understand when people boast about never having time off. Is simply nothing to boast about.

[pastafreak]

It's gonna "get them" one day.