This is almost certainly Covid. We already know it damages the brain and attacks the executive as well as behavioural centres of the brain and children are out sick for twice as long from school directly due to sickness. We are also busy trying to force children with Long Covid, of which there are 68,000 in the UK now, into school and unfortunately that will make them very unwell. Most schools are having to use a lot of substitute teachers due to doubling of sickness and teachers are the second hardest hit profession with Long Covid (behind medical staff).
It will keep getting worse as more and more suffer from Long Covid impacts.
This is almost certainly Covid.
I think there are so many possible factors and that “it’s long COVID” is not just hysteria but entirely unhelpful.
It is kind of weird that everyone who seems to get long covid are the people you suspect might get it. Not met anyone with it IRL and been surprised by the revelation.
Edit: Just to be clear, long covid is definitely real as a phenomenon; there is scientific consensus on that. Was just wondering what predisposes people towards getting it.
My neighbour has it. She was a live wire teacher in her early 39s, fit healthy, joined us on on Parkrun every week. Still suffering, working half days.
I somewhat agree.
It is a real phenomena, but a random assortment of afflictments post COVID with no real test to prove that someone does or doesn’t have it is pretty unhelpful.
I’ll remain sceptical of long COVID until we have hard science that can explain the causes and effects.
You don’t get it, that’s OK. But it’s very real and debilitating, so just try to empathise.
I didn’t say it’s not real. I was just implying that “everything bad is long COVID” is hysteria and that we shouldn’t over react until we have the science that explains the phenomenon.
It definitely is, and quickly. My year wasn’t exactly well-behaved, but as we grew up and in comparison to older and younger years, we got better. Besides, the badly-behaved students in my year generally only nasty to staff, and can be pretty friendly once you get to know them.
Meanwhile, my brother and several of his friends have effectively been bullied out of school, and the culprits let off with a detention.
The bullies didn’t bully me so therefore they couldn’t be bullies
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That’s not at all what I said.
Besides, the badly-behaved students in my year generally only nasty to staff
Yes it fucking was.
My brother is a few years below me. The point I was trying to make was that behaviour has gone downhill. The badly-behaved students in my year were generally only nasty to staff, and still manageable; but just two years below and they’re the worst people you could meet, who will pick a fight with anyone and anything and won’t stop until you are out of the picture, one way or another.
