Covid on campus? Anyone testing positive now? How are they handling it?

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

You’re so damn pathetic. He should be expelled.

At this point we need to end testing and end any isolation.

Why?

Because it is meaningless. So many do not. The value in doing this for others at a macro level does not exist anymore.

Great. So your college student’s sexual partners need not test for STIs, either. It’s meaningless. Everyone for themselves!

That’s a strawman argument, pp.

Covid in August 2022 isn’t what it was 2 years ago. It’s like the cold or flu: something that will always be with us and everyone will eventually get and continue to get.

STDs can largely be prevented with condoms and safe sex. There’s no way to avoid covid unless you hunker down in your basement.

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Anonymous wrote:And this is how a new, deadlier variant happens

Or it’s how Covid eventually turns into the weakened common cold, like other coronaviruses.

Since we don’t know which of these two outcomes is the more likely, perhaps better to err on the side of caution, hmm?

Do you think any student who tests positive should isolate and miss classes for 10 days?

It’s impossible. They don’t have spare dorms. They aren’t staffed to feed kids separately. And teachers can’t help kids catch up.

Plus: it’s so mild that kids are mingling long before they realize they are contagious.

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My freshman @ UMD came home for a couple of hours yesterday, complained of a sore throat and decided to stay home. At home test was negative but has now woken up with 102 fever. I will be testing him for COVID again in a short while. Thankfully we are local and 40 minutes from campus so we can take care of him.

No one was masking.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

You’re so damn pathetic. He should be expelled.

At this point we need to end testing and end any isolation.

Why?

Because it is meaningless. So many do not. The value in doing this for others at a macro level does not exist anymore.

Great. So your college student’s sexual partners need not test for STIs, either. It’s meaningless. Everyone for themselves!

That’s a strawman argument, pp.

Covid in August 2022 isn’t what it was 2 years ago. It’s like the cold or flu: something that will always be with us and everyone will eventually get and continue to get.

STDs can largely be prevented with condoms and safe sex. There’s no way to avoid covid unless you hunker down in your basement.

STIs will also always be with us. Chlamydia is no biggie—clears right up with a dose of antibiotics!

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Anonymous wrote:The parents on our FB page are not happy that there is no longer a quarantine dorm...says "but the roommate" when we all know the roommate has already been exposed for two days. Some of them also were very disappointed that no one at move in was wearing masks but them. I think i saw maybe two masks that day.

At ours you are supposed to report to the school and order meals via an app. Supposed to wear an N95 when you return to class on day 6-10. Not sure my kid has ever worn an N95 and I certainly didn't send any. When he had covid in May he totally felt fine with a "weird feeling throat" so I am going to guess that he probably wouldn't test like the post above if felt similar...we just had it going thru our house so that's why he tested before.

Well, consider the type of parent who posts on a college FB page .... of course they are complaining.

I do think some schools are hinting that they'd rather you just not test unless you are really sick and need to go to the health center. My kid had it before school started, but if he had to miss class over a slightly scratchy throat, I'd be really mad. Wearing a mask is fine, but these kids are not actually sick (as in symptomatic).

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Anonymous wrote:My freshman’s school has no isolation dorm and no virtual class options, and positive kids are told to go home if they’re in a dorm. I heard kids who bothered to test went home on Amtrak. Most kids realize it’s a don’t ask don’t tell type policy.

Yikes! This seems like an abdication of responsibility on the part of the school.

I see as accepting the reality that this virus is now milder than the flu, but still placating people who are afraid.

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Anonymous wrote:And this is how a new, deadlier variant happens

Or it’s how Covid eventually turns into the weakened common cold, like other coronaviruses.

Since we don’t know which of these two outcomes is the more likely, perhaps better to err on the side of caution, hmm?

Do you think any student who tests positive should isolate and miss classes for 10 days?

It’s impossible. They don’t have spare dorms. They aren’t staffed to feed kids separately. And teachers can’t help kids catch up.

Plus: it’s so mild that kids are mingling long before they realize they are contagious.

Yup. My kid will probably go back to class after dosing with Tylenol, if he feels up to it. What a bummer. He should have been masking at college but did not. What can I say? He is fully vaxxed and boosted. Have gone travelling internationally with us always fully masked and did not get COVID till now. Two days of dorm and he is sick. Why? Because no one is masking at college. What an idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:One of my kid’s colleges has a great screening testing program and an isolation form and mask requirements in certain conditions.

The other kid’s college has nothing! All they did was handout one rapid test at check-in! No isolation dorm (poor roommate and fellow users of the hall bathroom) and no assistance with classes and professors. My kid is a freshman who hasn’t had COVID yet and I am sure he will get it within a week. I worry that he will miss class and not be taken care of with food or medical care.

If you kid gets it, they won't need medical care. Take Mucinex. Drink tea. That's it.

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Anonymous wrote:And this is how a new, deadlier variant happens

Or it’s how Covid eventually turns into the weakened common cold, like other coronaviruses.

Since we don’t know which of these two outcomes is the more likely, perhaps better to err on the side of caution, hmm?

Sure. Tell that to the colleges that make the consequences of reporting a positive dire, when the kids themselves experience Covid as a minor cold.

If you want kids to report all positives, you need to ensure support for them when you do. A policy that bars an 18-year-old with cold symptoms from being on campus but doesn’t give them a place to stay or give them support for missing work is not going to work.

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Anonymous wrote:He does not need to go to urgent care!! That’s so selfish. It just means he will spread COVID to everyone there and unless he’s immunocompromised, he’s not going to qualify for any treatments.

If for some reason he needs an extra test, tell him to go thru a cvs drive thru or do a labcorp pixel thru the mail

Calm down. It is not selfish. Home tests don’t work and I wouldn’t trust cvs. Same as home.

Home tests do work and CVS is highly respected.

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Anonymous wrote:My freshman’s school has no isolation dorm and no virtual class options, and positive kids are told to go home if they’re in a dorm. I heard kids who bothered to test went home on Amtrak. Most kids realize it’s a don’t ask don’t tell type policy.

This. Kids aren’t testing. No isolation dorms. I’m fine with it. We live 2,000 miles away. Kid would have to fly home if they tried to send her home. Don’t ask don’t tell.

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My DS is a first year at a liberal arts college that has required masks until the end of next week. His roommate tested positive a couple of days ago. My DS is negative. School doesn’t isolate roommates but he doesn’t want to potentially infect anyone so he’s eating alone outside and not interacting much with other people. Hasn’t made friends and is stressed about getting sick. He tries to be out of the room outside during the day or masked studying in a different building but of course he is sharing the tiny dorm room at night with a Covid positive person. College no longer provides temporary rooms for Covid positive students.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

You’re so damn pathetic. He should be expelled.

At this point we need to end testing and end any isolation.

Why?

Because it is meaningless. So many do not. The value in doing this for others at a macro level does not exist anymore.

Great. So your college student’s sexual partners need not test for STIs, either. It’s meaningless. Everyone for themselves!

That’s a strawman argument, pp.

Covid in August 2022 isn’t what it was 2 years ago. It’s like the cold or flu: something that will always be with us and everyone will eventually get and continue to get.

STDs can largely be prevented with condoms and safe sex. There’s no way to avoid covid unless you hunker down in your basement.

STIs will also always be with us. Chlamydia is no biggie—clears right up with a dose of antibiotics!

But alas, the bitter sting of herpes stays with your nether region for life, rearing it’s ugly head when you least expect it.

I’ve managed to make it to nearly 50 without contracting herpes. I’m fairly confident I can avoid it for the rest of my life.

Zero chance I’ll avoid covid. Zero. And I’m okay with that.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS is a first year at a liberal arts college that has required masks until the end of next week. His roommate tested positive a couple of days ago. My DS is negative. School doesn’t isolate roommates but he doesn’t want to potentially infect anyone so he’s eating alone outside and not interacting much with other people. Hasn’t made friends and is stressed about getting sick. He tries to be out of the room outside during the day or masked studying in a different building but of course he is sharing the tiny dorm room at night with a Covid positive person. College no longer provides temporary rooms for Covid positive students.

The bolded is just part of the crime that public health is perpetrating on college students. It is now August 2022. There is no need to be any more paranoid about colds than in 2019.

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STIs will also always be with us. Chlamydia is no biggie—clears right up with a dose of antibiotics!

I know this is a COVID post and completely unrelated, but plenty of women have silent Chlamydia infections and can develop infertility from damage to Fallopian tubes… so not really no biggie.