Kid at birthday party came sick, now COVID symptoms

[Anonymous]

It could be one of a number of viruses going around, including Covid. These are the risks of getting together, OP. I agree that next time do remind parents not to drop off kids who have cold symptoms. This is what people should be doing anyway, but the pandemic makes it more socially acceptable to actually say it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has there been one documented case of Covid transmission outside? I don’t think there has. Now if sick kid was sick last Thursday and indoors with your kid all day, he might have transmitted it to your son then, but that too is unlikely if they were masked and with proper filtration.

Yes, outdoor transmission has been documented. Check Provincetown, among others.

[Anonymous]

1. You can't get covid outside
2. Hand sanitizer doesn't stop the spread of covid.

I am so sick of the misinformation going around. That being said they shouldn't have brought a sick kid.

[Anonymous]

We need to stop with the narrative that outdoors = safe.

Outdoors is only safe if you are also distanced from other people & their spewed droplets.

I have a cousin who just went to an outdoor only wedding where everyone in attendance had to be vaccinated. Guess what? A covid outbreak still happened afterwards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My son turned 7 last week and we had a small, outdoor birthday party for him. Some friends from his class came. We had asked that everyone wear masks, but a couple of kids were dropped off without one. I figured it was outdoors and probably okay. I did text both moms of the boys who wore masks to let them know and they said it should be fine.

Yesterday night, my son commented that Larlo wasn't in school yesterday and hadn't been on Friday, but that he came to our party on Saturday. A little strange, and had me a little concerned during a pandemic but I hoped it wasn't for being sick.

Today, my son was sent home feeling tired and has a headache. IF this is covid, the exposure may have happened before the party so I will notify everyone. But, I can't help but wonder if the maskless Larlo, who was out on Friday and Monday should not have come over Saturday.

It's too late now but in future, havea few extra masks for the idiot parents who don't make their kids wear masks. I have a friend, who is so an idiot about vaccines, wanted to come to my house and I told her that she had to wear a mask and if she didn't have one, I could give her one.

[Anonymous]

You already did this so just get your kid a test and then notify people as needed. You need to take responsibility for your own actions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has there been one documented case of Covid transmission outside? I don’t think there has. Now if sick kid was sick last Thursday and indoors with your kid all day, he might have transmitted it to your son then, but that too is unlikely if they were masked and with proper filtration.

Yes, outdoor transmission has been documented. Check Provincetown, among others.

NP, but China also documented cases early on-- they were much less common, but existed. I remember one case where neighbors shot the breeze for about an hour in fairly close proximity. They are probably still far less likely than with indoor transmission, but with Delta being so much more virulent, there's no reason to think they aren't happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has there been one documented case of Covid transmission outside? I don’t think there has. Now if sick kid was sick last Thursday and indoors with your kid all day, he might have transmitted it to your son then, but that too is unlikely if they were masked and with proper filtration.

Have you been living under a rock?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My son turned 7 last week and we had a small, outdoor birthday party for him. Some friends from his class came. We had asked that everyone wear masks, but a couple of kids were dropped off without one. I figured it was outdoors and probably okay. I did text both moms of the boys who wore masks to let them know and they said it should be fine.

Yesterday night, my son commented that Larlo wasn't in school yesterday and hadn't been on Friday, but that he came to our party on Saturday. A little strange, and had me a little concerned during a pandemic but I hoped it wasn't for being sick.

Today, my son was sent home feeling tired and has a headache. IF this is covid, the exposure may have happened before the party so I will notify everyone. But, I can't help but wonder if the maskless Larlo, who was out on Friday and Monday should not have come over Saturday.

Was the "maskless Larlo" also symptomatic? If he was sick on Friday and Monday, he ought to have been sick on Saturday, too.

That said, I would have handed the kids with no masks disposable masks when they arrived.

[Anonymous]

Chances are the spread of whatever is going around (COVID or a cold) happened at school when they were indoors close to each other, but there is a chance it happened at the party. There's no real way to know.

There's nothing you can do now, but I agree with the PP who said to remind parents not to send kids with any symptoms and to have masks at your party that you give to the kids if they don't have one.

I find it not surprising that kids might not be totally mask-compliant even if they have them because I am seeing adults be that way all the time. I was just at a work event where masks were required, and guess what? Many people had them off for long periods, and no one was enforcing it. So frustrating. It's hard for those of us who want to take fewer risks to judge what we can and cannot do if activities that are supposed to be masked end up not being. I would be more comfortable if we were just told ahead of time that masks weren't going to be "required" because then I could make an informed decision ahead of time.

The thing I don't really understand is why people are so nonchalant about the spread of colds. If colds are going around, that means that there is spread of viruses, and that means that whatever safety measures you think you are taking, they are not working. Maybe your kid only ended up with a cold as a result, but if you are trying to avoid getting COVID, it's clear that whatever you're doing is not going to prevent it if a cold is going around.

[Anonymous]

And your kid and the rest could not have gotten this in school? Only at this outdoor party??
LOL!

[Anonymous]

I think outdoors is a lot safer. Low risk. But not risk free.

Also, your kid probably didn't catch covid from an outdoor party where no children were symptomatic.

But sure, it's possible.

[Anonymous]

Well, what can I say.. when my kid was in ES, a girl had a birthday party (that was before COVID) and one child came in, infected with lice. I actually even knew who it was as the girl was scratching her head violently and, truth be told, she always looked kinda unkempt. Lo and behold, 5 days in, the entire party, including the birthday girl and my child, and one third of their class had lice.

It was a friggin' nightmare. I tend to think that having a bit of COVID is less of on an inconvenience than dealing with lice for months on end. UGGGH! Just thinking about it raises my blood pressure.

My point is, you just never know. You can't pinpoint the actual source of infection, you can only guess, but what's done is done. Your child will be okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chances are the spread of whatever is going around (COVID or a cold) happened at school when they were indoors close to each other, but there is a chance it happened at the party. There's no real way to know.

There's nothing you can do now, but I agree with the PP who said to remind parents not to send kids with any symptoms and to have masks at your party that you give to the kids if they don't have one.

I find it not surprising that kids might not be totally mask-compliant even if they have them because I am seeing adults be that way all the time. I was just at a work event where masks were required, and guess what? Many people had them off for long periods, and no one was enforcing it. So frustrating. It's hard for those of us who want to take fewer risks to judge what we can and cannot do if activities that are supposed to be masked end up not being. I would be more comfortable if we were just told ahead of time that masks weren't going to be "required" because then I could make an informed decision ahead of time.

The thing I don't really understand is why people are so nonchalant about the spread of colds. If colds are going around, that means that there is spread of viruses, and that means that whatever safety measures you think you are taking, they are not working. Maybe your kid only ended up with a cold as a result, but if you are trying to avoid getting COVID, it's clear that whatever you're doing is not going to prevent it if a cold is going around.

I am relatively nonchalant about colds because a cold won't keep my kids out of school for a long period of time. Covid will. My main conern at this point, for me personally, is not my kids getting Covid or even the vaccinated adults in our house getting covid. It's the logistical hassles of getting covid. I think many people feel this way. And clearly some are just still very afraid of their kids getting covid.

Any event with large numbers of people, some people will not be compliant. Just know that going in. And no one will enforce it either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chances are the spread of whatever is going around (COVID or a cold) happened at school when they were indoors close to each other, but there is a chance it happened at the party. There's no real way to know.

There's nothing you can do now, but I agree with the PP who said to remind parents not to send kids with any symptoms and to have masks at your party that you give to the kids if they don't have one.

I find it not surprising that kids might not be totally mask-compliant even if they have them because I am seeing adults be that way all the time. I was just at a work event where masks were required, and guess what? Many people had them off for long periods, and no one was enforcing it. So frustrating. It's hard for those of us who want to take fewer risks to judge what we can and cannot do if activities that are supposed to be masked end up not being. I would be more comfortable if we were just told ahead of time that masks weren't going to be "required" because then I could make an informed decision ahead of time.

The thing I don't really understand is why people are so nonchalant about the spread of colds. If colds are going around, that means that there is spread of viruses, and that means that whatever safety measures you think you are taking, they are not working. Maybe your kid only ended up with a cold as a result, but if you are trying to avoid getting COVID, it's clear that whatever you're doing is not going to prevent it if a cold is going around.

I'm not totally nonchalant about the spread of colds, but I think that we usually identify people as having colds only when they're asymptomatic. So, yes, I'd be annoyed if someone came to any party sneezing and wiping their nose, covid or not covid. But the concern here seemed to be that there would be an asymptomatic spread, and that just didn't seem likely given the outdoors, etc. Still unclear as to whether the maskless offender was out sick the day prior (and of course whether OP's kid ended up testing positive) but otherwise the presence of a maskless kid at an outdoor party wouldn't bother me.

We talk about asymptomatic covid spreaders for good reason, but I never considered the spread of asymptomatic colds or even asymptomatic flu prior to this year. The stat about all of these asymptomatic covid carriers walking around is scary, but, I dunno - maybe it's less than all of the asymptomatic cold and flu carriers that we've never tested.