New Allergy Symptoms - Check for COVID-19!

[Anonymous]

Health care provider here - I cannot tell you how many kids have gone to school with "allergy symptoms" and then tested positive for COVID within a day. If your child is having new allergy symptoms, please test for COVID before sending him/her out in the community, especially without a mask on. (Best time to test is about 12+ hours after symptoms begin.)

Also, remember that you can get COVID through your eyes. If your child is well masked but other unmasked kids are spewing viral particles, your kid can get it through their eyes.

Seeing how many are out and about without masks, it seems that people feel COVID is just a cold and are comfortable getting it and spreading it. However, please remember that we are still learning about COVID long-haul symptoms. Always better to vaccinate fully and avoid the virus.

[Anonymous]

We also recommend testing for any one symptom (Cough, runny nose, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, excessive fatigue, body or muscle aches, new headaches, loss of smell or taste.

[Anonymous]

Thank for for repeatedly posting this on more than one forum. As others have asked, do you suggest we now wear goggles everywhere we go? Masks not not required and unmasked people are everywhere. So you must be suggesting people never leave their house or wear googles.

Please get help for your anxiety, especially if you work in health care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank for for repeatedly posting this on more than one forum. As others have asked, do you suggest we now wear goggles everywhere we go? Masks not not required and unmasked people are everywhere. So you must be suggesting people never leave their house or wear googles.

Please get help for your anxiety, especially if you work in health care.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank for for repeatedly posting this on more than one forum. As others have asked, do you suggest we now wear goggles everywhere we go? Masks not not required and unmasked people are everywhere. So you must be suggesting people never leave their house or wear googles.

Please get help for your anxiety, especially if you work in health care.

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OP, just for the record, my family and kids have been suffering from "allergies" for about 3 weeks now. Let me assure you that the last thing any of us plan to do is test for covid.

We have "allergies" - that's our story, and we're sticking to it.

[Anonymous]

I work in a school. There are cold symptoms everywhere, in every classroom. It’s all good.

If anyone is super worried about it, they should probably stay out of schools though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank for for repeatedly posting this on more than one forum. As others have asked, do you suggest we now wear goggles everywhere we go? Masks not not required and unmasked people are everywhere. So you must be suggesting people never leave their house or wear googles.

Please get help for your anxiety, especially if you work in health care.

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OP, just for the record, my family and kids have been suffering from "allergies" for about 3 weeks now. Let me assure you that the last thing any of us plan to do is test for covid.

We have "allergies" - that's our story, and we're sticking to it.

You are a pretty terrible person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank for for repeatedly posting this on more than one forum. As others have asked, do you suggest we now wear goggles everywhere we go? Masks not not required and unmasked people are everywhere. So you must be suggesting people never leave their house or wear googles.

Please get help for your anxiety, especially if you work in health care.

+1

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OP, just for the record, my family and kids have been suffering from "allergies" for about 3 weeks now. Let me assure you that the last thing any of us plan to do is test for covid.

We have "allergies" - that's our story, and we're sticking to it.

You are a pretty terrible person.

I disagree. I’m the first person who replied and a teacher. Covid symptoms wouldn’t last three weeks. Allergies would. It’s okay. There have not been many absent from my classes. Don’t let OP worry you.

[Anonymous]

The original poster specifically said "new allergy symptoms". Thank you for sharing as a healthcare provider. If everyone did as they said and tested as a precaution it would reduce spread of Covid and disruptions to everyone's lives.

Please be courteous to everyone you interact with and if you don't have anything nice to say just keep your comments to yourself. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work in a school. There are cold symptoms everywhere, in every classroom. It’s all good.

If anyone is super worried about it, they should probably stay out of schools though.

Tell me more about how my kids should just stay out of schools please. You know... with needing an education and mandatory attendance laws and all.

[Anonymous]

I would need to buy COVID test kits for every day of the week. Between hot flashes because of perimenopause and allergies, I am displaying symptoms every day. My son and husband would need a daily test.

We know what our symptoms are. If our allergy medicine does not relieve our symptoms, we test. If our symptoms are outside our norm, we test. That doesn't happen all that often.

COVID is endemic, we are going to need to learn to live with it. Paying for test kits for almost every day of the spring and fall season is not happening at our house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank for for repeatedly posting this on more than one forum. As others have asked, do you suggest we now wear goggles everywhere we go? Masks not not required and unmasked people are everywhere. So you must be suggesting people never leave their house or wear googles.

Please get help for your anxiety, especially if you work in health care.

+1

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OP, just for the record, my family and kids have been suffering from "allergies" for about 3 weeks now. Let me assure you that the last thing any of us plan to do is test for covid.

We have "allergies" - that's our story, and we're sticking to it.

You are a pretty terrible person.

I'm actually not. What I am is sane and not obsessed with covid like OP and some of the other posters.

[Anonymous]

I would literally be testing myself every day for months.

Signed,
Springtime grass allergy sufferer

[Anonymous]

Thank you OP for your input and your work in health care during this pandemic. Your message had some good reminders. I hope the nasty people don't get your down.

[Anonymous]

First time having cold and allergy symptoms in two years. Went through our whole family. We COVID tested (antigen and PCR via school) and no COVID. It’s a way of life move on