Daycare testing for runny noses?!

[Anonymous]

Our preschool/pre k has just informed us that runny noses are now considered a reason to test our toddlers. This is apparently based on APS.

Soo how does this work exactly? Every morning my routinely snotty kids are snotty we test? Once a week? Does APS provide free tests cause I'm pretty sure our school isn't. Between allergies and regular colds I'll be testing two kids all the time. Is this how is been going at APS? They've also ignored the CDC in favor of APS guidelines on how long to miss when infected with covid. So any idea when APS will follow the people they love to love so much (CDC) so our kids can go back to school?!

[Anonymous]

When Virginia isn't at the highest hospitalization rate in two years...you're acting like you exist in a silo

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry, but where have you been since August?

[Anonymous]

Perhaps you now understand why so many of the posts of parents with young kids have stated that they are losing their minds?

But yes, OP, it is as nerve wracking and near impossible as you are imagining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps you now understand why so many of the posts of parents with young kids have stated that they are losing their minds?

But yes, OP, it is as nerve wracking and near impossible as you are imagining.

I've long opposed any of the so called mitigation measures for kids but this one is new in our school so I'm genuinely curious how it works in practice. We will prob pull them sadly and I'm seatching for another option

[Anonymous]

How active is your daycare in sending kids home? If it’s a little runny and clear just send them. We have the same (and actually even stricter) rules and I freaked out at first. Then I just started sending my kids and made daycare call me if it hit their threshold of sick. Our daycare was doing silly things, like taking the kids temperature 3 times a day including when walking off the playground in August. If they are going to implement weird rules then let them enforce it. I have never been called for just a runny nose.

[Anonymous]

Everyone knows kids all get the daycare drip. Constant gross noses. Man I don’t miss those days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How active is your daycare in sending kids home? If it’s a little runny and clear just send them. We have the same (and actually even stricter) rules and I freaked out at first. Then I just started sending my kids and made daycare call me if it hit their threshold of sick. Our daycare was doing silly things, like taking the kids temperature 3 times a day including when walking off the playground in August. If they are going to implement weird rules then let them enforce it. I have never been called for just a runny nose.

No idea. Brand new and just found out and totally panicked. Ive never tested my kids despite repeated visits to their pediatrician for sick visits (during which I kept them out of school because...common sense). I can't wrap my head around buying a hundred tests

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone knows kids all get the daycare drip. Constant gross noses. Man I don’t miss those days.

Yes but people are crazy and are terrified of snotty toddlers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How active is your daycare in sending kids home? If it’s a little runny and clear just send them. We have the same (and actually even stricter) rules and I freaked out at first. Then I just started sending my kids and made daycare call me if it hit their threshold of sick. Our daycare was doing silly things, like taking the kids temperature 3 times a day including when walking off the playground in August. If they are going to implement weird rules then let them enforce it. I have never been called for just a runny nose.

No idea. Brand new and just found out and totally panicked. Ive never tested my kids despite repeated visits to their pediatrician for sick visits (during which I kept them out of school because...common sense). I can't wrap my head around buying a hundred tests

I’m the Pp. so many of the daycare requirements are nuts. Don’t buy hundreds of tests just send your kid. I would bet their on paper requirements are stricter than their practices. Our daycare has crazy rules but my Children have never been sent home for just a runny nose (even though their requirements say they should). Also, are your kids going in masks? Easier to hide that way too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How active is your daycare in sending kids home? If it’s a little runny and clear just send them. We have the same (and actually even stricter) rules and I freaked out at first. Then I just started sending my kids and made daycare call me if it hit their threshold of sick. Our daycare was doing silly things, like taking the kids temperature 3 times a day including when walking off the playground in August. If they are going to implement weird rules then let them enforce it. I have never been called for just a runny nose.

No idea. Brand new and just found out and totally panicked. Ive never tested my kids despite repeated visits to their pediatrician for sick visits (during which I kept them out of school because...common sense). I can't wrap my head around buying a hundred tests

I’m the Pp. so many of the daycare requirements are nuts. Don’t buy hundreds of tests just send your kid. I would bet their on paper requirements are stricter than their practices. Our daycare has crazy rules but my Children have never been sent home for just a runny nose (even though their requirements say they should). Also, are your kids going in masks? Easier to hide that way too.

Fingers crossed. And yes they also force masks on toddlers. Because...science. funny how the cdc says they must mask toddlers and everyone listens. But when cdc shortens isolation and quarantine periods APS and others think they are insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps you now understand why so many of the posts of parents with young kids have stated that they are losing their minds?

But yes, OP, it is as nerve wracking and near impossible as you are imagining.

I've long opposed any of the so called mitigation measures for kids but this one is new in our school so I'm genuinely curious how it works in practice. We will prob pull them sadly and I'm seatching for another option

Ahh, so you’re one of those people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps you now understand why so many of the posts of parents with young kids have stated that they are losing their minds?

But yes, OP, it is as nerve wracking and near impossible as you are imagining.

I've long opposed any of the so called mitigation measures for kids but this one is new in our school so I'm genuinely curious how it works in practice. We will prob pull them sadly and I'm seatching for another option

Ahh, so you’re one of those people.

Yes the OP epitomizes the selfishness that has exacerbated the pandemic for almost two years. Cold like symptoms can indicate Covid. The day care should be commended for taking mitigation measures to protect its staff and children under care and to minimize community spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps you now understand why so many of the posts of parents with young kids have stated that they are losing their minds?

But yes, OP, it is as nerve wracking and near impossible as you are imagining.

I've long opposed any of the so called mitigation measures for kids but this one is new in our school so I'm genuinely curious how it works in practice. We will prob pull them sadly and I'm seatching for another option

Ahh, so you’re one of those people.

Yes the OP epitomizes the selfishness that has exacerbated the pandemic for almost two years. Cold like symptoms can indicate Covid. The day care should be commended for taking mitigation measures to protect its staff and children under care and to minimize community spread.

Hate to break it to you but community spread is here. And everywhere. That's what happens with respiratory illness. We don't shut down the world for mild colds, which even you acknowledge this is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps you now understand why so many of the posts of parents with young kids have stated that they are losing their minds?

But yes, OP, it is as nerve wracking and near impossible as you are imagining.

I've long opposed any of the so called mitigation measures for kids but this one is new in our school so I'm genuinely curious how it works in practice. We will prob pull them sadly and I'm seatching for another option

Ahh, so you’re one of those people.

Yes the OP epitomizes the selfishness that has exacerbated the pandemic for almost two years. Cold like symptoms can indicate Covid. The day care should be commended for taking mitigation measures to protect its staff and children under care and to minimize community spread.

Hate to break it to you but community spread is here. And everywhere. That's what happens with respiratory illness. We don't shut down the world for mild colds, which even you acknowledge this is.

This is a worldwide pandemic not a normal mild cold. It has killed over 825K Americans. Pediatric inflections and hospitalizations are at an all time high. The described mitigation strategies are reasonable precautions. If people were just more willing to follow the best scientific advice out there, some of the deaths and serious illnesses could have been avoided. But, instead we whine.