PDSZ Warns Government Action Could Lead to Mass School Closures

Based on all this, it cannot be revealed whether those who were infected but had been running without symptoms could have transmitted the infection. However, in an educational institution, the danger is quite high, wrote the PDSZ, according to which the protocols applied are contingent and incomplete.

It is common practice for COVID suspects to be quarantined immediately, and if the student’s worker or parent can’t get the GP to order the test, it won’t happen automatically. Because of this, it remains hidden if it was infected before being quarantined. And the affected worker cannot come out of quarantine, unless he pays for the PCR test with his own money, which is a minimum of HUF 30,000, and with a difference of 48 hours, two of them must be negative. Because of this, he remains in quarantine for two weeks, with only 60% of the sick pay, unless he can get the authority to classify the infection as an occupational disease. This is contributed by the fact that the already significant workload of other employees continues to increase, as the lost colleague must be replaced – the organization presents the situation.

According to the union this practice is unacceptable. The goal would be to test immediately in case of suspicion to make sure there is a specific emergency.

It is also a common experience for events to happen very slowly where tests are finally ordered. The spread of the virus is not prevented by the fact that the authority has prescribed the tests; if it occurs days later, the infection can easily spread if the quarantined colleague or student was actually infected, the PDSZ draws attention.

The organization also points out that what is entrusted to the institutions is poorly considered. “Sometimes there are also problems where institutions are not competent at all: for example, local epidemiological protocols are expected to be developed by non-professional faculties.”

“However, the objective would be clear: to avoid the massive stay of workers at home due to the closure of institutions.”

However, with the government’s measures, he will get them to close massively soon.

– warns the union, then points out that the government’s measures do not support the much vaunted goals.

• The government is not working to detect infections as early as possible, isolating those infected, thereby protecting kindergarten and student communities and those working in children’s institutions from mass infection. HE by implementing bulk testing the spread of the infection could be suppressed at an early stage: the many unnecessary bureaucracies, the potentially infected people sent here and there, the senseless expectations of several days indicate recklessness and disorganization.
• The government does not seek to have as few people as possible inside a building to eliminate the mixing of student groups, the tumult, and achieve some of the distance required elsewhere.
• In this way, the government does not seek at all to keep at least the young children, the lower grades, in the institutions, with whom – if the kindergarten or the school closes – one of the parents has to stay at home. And this, now that workers no longer have freedom, would be a huge cut, not to mention a further increase in the number of people losing their jobs due to the epidemic.
• The government does not seek to prevent educators from being quarantined, thereby paying them sick. Nor does it seek to have a digital curriculum in place of an extraordinary didactic recess, where children who are forced to stay at home due to the epidemic can study. If many educators get sick, there will be no one to teach them, besides, who will replace them? If you don’t become a teacher, a public education worker, you will be forced to close most institutions without the possibility of a digital curriculum.

Featured Image: Attila Fülöp, Secretary of State for Social Affairs at the Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi), will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the Emmi Special Orphanage Center, Primary School and Vocational School in Kalocsa on September 7, 2020 . Source: MTI / Tibor Illyés