03-01-2022, 05:42 AM
It's more a PITA then anything. He is particularly shattered about missing all the cricket stuff this weekend. The kids' school has been lucky - it's not very big (~300), but less than 20 cases. Other bigger schools around us have had up to 25% staff and students away - that's disruptive.
We're (again) very lucky - we get free RATs from school for the kids and both our sets of parents get a free box a month being elderly - some have been passed on to us. Not what the system was designed for, but we won't say no.
One lesson is that if there is a +ve RAT and you're not convinced, ignore it and get a PCR. We've had friends get a false +ve RAT and report it, then tell their school that the PCR has come back -ve. Bad luck. The schools have to go by what was originally reported.
We're (again) very lucky - we get free RATs from school for the kids and both our sets of parents get a free box a month being elderly - some have been passed on to us. Not what the system was designed for, but we won't say no.
One lesson is that if there is a +ve RAT and you're not convinced, ignore it and get a PCR. We've had friends get a false +ve RAT and report it, then tell their school that the PCR has come back -ve. Bad luck. The schools have to go by what was originally reported.