Daycare testing for runny noses?!

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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.

During a viral pandemic? I can't imagine why.

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My 4 year old has had a few mild colds (runny noses)- each time, I've rapid tested him at home repeatedly (every morning before school) and sent him to school where he wears a mask all day. His school has never said anything and I don't feel bad about it in the least.

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

But the kids 0-4 years of age can transmit to adults who then die. It is all interconnected but again people just look at it selfishly. For example, their myopic view is the risk of death to my toddler is low so I can not going to ask my toddler to take reasonable precautions to prevent spread even if such precautions might prevent someone’s grandparent getting infected and dying.

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

But the kids are passing in on to those adults. Also, we don’t know the full scope of possible long-term effects to kids. A recent study showed an increase in diabetes among kids who had COVID. This virus isn’t just a mild cold, it attacks many systems of the body—vascular, pulmonary, neurological, etc. a mild cold may currently represent initial infection but time will tell how kids’ bodies respond to COVID in the long run.

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

But the kids 0-4 years of age can transmit to adults who then die. It is all interconnected but again people just look at it selfishly. For example, their myopic view is the risk of death to my toddler is low so I can not going to ask my toddler to take reasonable precautions to prevent spread even if such precautions might prevent someone’s grandparent getting infected and dying.

Grandma should be vaccinated and boosted by now. Millions and millions of people have been infected with Covid. And easily gotten better. It is a fact of life now. Yay vaccines. You need to take off your blinders.

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

But the kids 0-4 years of age can transmit to adults who then die. It is all interconnected but again people just look at it selfishly. For example, their myopic view is the risk of death to my toddler is low so I can not going to ask my toddler to take reasonable precautions to prevent spread even if such precautions might prevent someone’s grandparent getting infected and dying.

Grandma should be vaccinated and boosted by now. Millions and millions of people have been infected with Covid. And easily gotten better. It is a fact of life now. Yay vaccines. You need to take off your blinders.

Yes, I understand the availability of vaccines and boosters for people 12 and up. But, there are plenty of people not vaccinated and Omicron does seem more likely to break through (even if the break through symptoms generally are manageable). With infections at an all time high, it seems unreasonable to stop mitigation efforts at this point (especially if we are keeping day cares and schools open).

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

But the kids are passing in on to those adults. Also, we don’t know the full scope of possible long-term effects to kids. A recent study showed an increase in diabetes among kids who had COVID. This virus isn’t just a mild cold, it attacks many systems of the body—vascular, pulmonary, neurological, etc. a mild cold may currently represent initial infection but time will tell how kids’ bodies respond to COVID in the long run.

Ok. So kids can pass it onto adults. But the adults are out eating in restaurants, going on trips, going to house parties, etc. and also spreading it to other adults. It’s just that we make kids take responsibility by sacrificing their normal childhoods and education. So don’t come at me about community spread unless others are willing to sacrifice too.

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

But the kids are passing in on to those adults. Also, we don’t know the full scope of possible long-term effects to kids. A recent study showed an increase in diabetes among kids who had COVID. This virus isn’t just a mild cold, it attacks many systems of the body—vascular, pulmonary, neurological, etc. a mild cold may currently represent initial infection but time will tell how kids’ bodies respond to COVID in the long run.

Ok. So kids can pass it onto adults. But the adults are out eating in restaurants, going on trips, going to house parties, etc. and also spreading it to other adults. It’s just that we make kids take responsibility by sacrificing their normal childhoods and education. So don’t come at me about community spread unless others are willing to sacrifice too.

Adults should sacrifice too you a 🕳

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

But the kids are passing in on to those adults. Also, we don’t know the full scope of possible long-term effects to kids. A recent study showed an increase in diabetes among kids who had COVID. This virus isn’t just a mild cold, it attacks many systems of the body—vascular, pulmonary, neurological, etc. a mild cold may currently represent initial infection but time will tell how kids’ bodies respond to COVID in the long run.

Ok. So kids can pass it onto adults. But the adults are out eating in restaurants, going on trips, going to house parties, etc. and also spreading it to other adults. It’s just that we make kids take responsibility by sacrificing their normal childhoods and education. So don’t come at me about community spread unless others are willing to sacrifice too.

Adults should sacrifice too you a 🕳

Great. When we shut down the bars and cruise ships, let me know.

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

But the kids 0-4 years of age can transmit to adults who then die. It is all interconnected but again people just look at it selfishly. For example, their myopic view is the risk of death to my toddler is low so I can not going to ask my toddler to take reasonable precautions to prevent spread even if such precautions might prevent someone’s grandparent getting infected and dying.

Adults have had plenty of time to be vaccinated and boosted.

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

But the kids are passing in on to those adults. Also, we don’t know the full scope of possible long-term effects to kids. A recent study showed an increase in diabetes among kids who had COVID. This virus isn’t just a mild cold, it attacks many systems of the body—vascular, pulmonary, neurological, etc. a mild cold may currently represent initial infection but time will tell how kids’ bodies respond to COVID in the long run.

Ok. So kids can pass it onto adults. But the adults are out eating in restaurants, going on trips, going to house parties, etc. and also spreading it to other adults. It’s just that we make kids take responsibility by sacrificing their normal childhoods and education. So don’t come at me about community spread unless others are willing to sacrifice too.

Adults should sacrifice too you a 🕳

Great. When we shut down the bars and cruise ships, let me know.

This exactly. Why are you coming for my low risk preschooler first? Let’s mandate vaccinations and shut down all unnecessary frivolous entertainment venues for adults. And prohibit parties and such. And, if you still have overflowing hospitals, you can tell little kids to shove things up their nose every morning, wear masks, stay six feet from their friends, and stay home for 10+ days every other week basically while asking their parents to somehow stay employed without any reliable child care.

A lot of us just don’t see the point anymore. This disease is going to be endemic. It is never going away. My kids are so so so unlikely to need hospitalization. I don’t care if they get Covid today or in a few months or in a few years. What difference does it make?

And blah blah blah with the small possibility of long covid and diabetes. Nothing is risk free and everything has an opportunity cost. You know what also probably increases your chances of adverse health outcomes? Having unemployed parents or parents stressed out of their minds. Give us a break already. This is equivalent to a cold for kids. Stop asking them to bear the brunt of the social isolation policies.

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

+1. I’m so glad you woke up from your coma.

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

There are no adults on your child’s preschool? Weird. And your children have no contact with adults outside of school, to whom they could spread COVID since you think it’s your right to refuse to test them?

You see, Becky, it’s not just about YOU and YOUR CHILD.

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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.

Out of those 825,000 Americans, 250 were kids aged 0-4 years. That is 0.03% of the deaths. Covid is killing unvaccinated adults, not preschoolers.

But the kids 0-4 years of age can transmit to adults who then die. It is all interconnected but again people just look at it selfishly. For example, their myopic view is the risk of death to my toddler is low so I can not going to ask my toddler to take reasonable precautions to prevent spread even if such precautions might prevent someone’s grandparent getting infected and dying.

Grandma should be vaccinated and boosted by now. Millions and millions of people have been infected with Covid. And easily gotten better. It is a fact of life now. Yay vaccines. You need to take off your blinders.

No blinders here. Many schools and daycares are requiring testing and rightly so.