Anyone Feel Guilty for Isolating Their Kids due to COVID???

[Anonymous]

The lack of testing and contact tracing ENSURES that no issues can ever be found, PP. It's so convenient for all the business-as-usual people to forget that this pandemic is driven by asymptomatic cases. Community spread has to reach the vulnerable, elderly and sick among us before anyone realizes it's too late... unless we implement systematic pooled testing and contact tracing, which the USA (and many other countries) refuses to do.

Where the heck do you get you (mis)information? From April 2020? No. Asymptomatic spread is .7% in households. And contact tracing would have been super helpful early on, but the horse had already left the barn by the time most of us had even heard of contact tracing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/health/covid-contact-tracing-tests.amp.html

[Anonymous]

Nope. Not a bit. Having living parents was a much higher priority than anything he missed.

[Anonymous]

my kids school has weekly testing of 1000 kids and 250 staff. Most weeks it's zero positives. One in awhile there is 1 or 2 positives and they will pull out a 10 kid pod. Guess what? Never any positives in the "exposed" pod either.

the data speaks for itself. THe media and gov't aren't showing you that data.

and the schools, sports, activities that do no testing also show no issues, spread, etc.

you can keep harping on test everyone all the time. at the end this will just look like the flu in the data. Sick unhealthy people who caught the flu fared badly.

Know how many ER doctors I know who own and operate testing gigs and urgimeds now due to the sheer easy profit of doing so now?

PCR tests are being misused. Have you inquired into the cycle threshold they are using? CDC knows that if the thresholds are high false positives or noninfectious positives are likely.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/Information-for-laboratories-COVID-vaccine-breakthrough-case-investigation.pdf

Schools should be using rapid antigen tests instead of PCR tests. Who cares if someone has a small amount of virus at the nose level?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Not a bit. Having living parents was a much higher priority than anything he missed.

Are you fat or over 80?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve been really careful since the beginning of the pandemic, which has meant very limited human interaction for our 6-year-old. Her school has been virtual since last March, camps were canceled. We did work hard to make outdoor playdates happen last summer and early fall, but in November it got too cold plus we moved to a place where we didn’t know anyone. Normally we’d do outings at the children’s museum, playgrounds etc, but being in crowded places felt unsafe. So we’d go places but keep a distance and she wouldn’t get to interact with other kids. Besides us and her grandparents (once they got vaccinated), she hasn’t really had any contact with people.


She’s always been really quiet and shy, and this year seems to have made it worse. We’re trying to make up for lost time by signing her up for classes, camp this summer, etc, but I feel like I’ve messed her up and I’m a terrible mom. Especially looking at everyone I know who didn’t take precautions at all and none of them or their kids got seriously sick and I’m kind of feeling like an idiot. People were pretty judgy about us trying to follow the COVID rules, so I’m really second guessing if we were wrong to do that.

Obviously the ideal would be to have a few close friends taking the same level of precautions and hang out with them, but we just didn’t have any friends like that.

At this point I kind of feel like throwing all caution to the wind, esp because my DH and I are completing our own vaccinations, and just letting her socialize in any way we can get - inside, outside, masks, no masks, getting up close in each other’s faces, etc. In our area other people just don’t seem to care the same way we do, so the other kids don’t wear masks or distance.

It feels like such a lose-lose situation for me.

I am so sorry OP. Do what’s right by your kid and don’t let the judging Karens dictate your choices. Seriously, look at the data and make your own decisions.

No, the judging Karen’s are the pro-masking harpies who go mental when even one person is unmasked within a 1 mile radius of them. I feel bad for OP but worse for her kid. Barring major pre-existing medical conditions, OP should have done her own risk analysis instead of relying on the idiotic media to do it for her.

Yes but this was a mass delusional event, especially for those in areas of the country like ours. It’s not her fault.

[Anonymous]

Nope, not all all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. Not a bit. Having living parents was a much higher priority than anything he missed.

Are you fat or over 80?

Stop being a fool, PP. My trim 35 year old neighbor died from covid.

You still upset about trump losing so badly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I don’t feel guilty. But I also know a fair number of people who weren’t as careful as we were, and they did get Covid, and so did their kids. Or their kids got it and they didn’t or vice versa.

Was anyone hospitalized? Any symptoms worse than flu?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, of course I don’t feel guilty! Not one tiny bit. We acted in the best interest of our children and our community.

I know it’s going to be hard for my son to start school after seeing virtually no one but us and nanny for a year. But we’ll help him adjust and so will his preschool. He’ll be fine. He’s healthy and we, as a family, didn’t spread the virus to anyone.

+1. We feel proud. We took every precaution seriously and did not get or spread covid to anyone. My boys get it and understand their sacrifice was for the good of our community.

“Proud” —?? That’s so silly.

Not silly at all. Those who took all recommended precautions saved lives and slowed the mutation. And they did at at their own sacrifice. Great reason to feel proud.

Those running around pretending it didn’t exist spread the virus through their selfishness. They should feel shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No sinus infections or antibiotics for 18 months instead of 4x a year is WIN for our family!

So you isolated yourself and didn’t get a cold or flu. Will you continue this? I think the Covid lifestyle has been great for so many middle class families. No commute or getting ready for work. More time with family. No social obligations and an easy out - “We’re just being careful”. Outsourcing grocery shopping and food delivery to the poor. It’a been nice hasn’t it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, of course I don’t feel guilty! Not one tiny bit. We acted in the best interest of our children and our community.

I know it’s going to be hard for my son to start school after seeing virtually no one but us and nanny for a year. But we’ll help him adjust and so will his preschool. He’ll be fine. He’s healthy and we, as a family, didn’t spread the virus to anyone.

+1. We feel proud. We took every precaution seriously and did not get or spread covid to anyone. My boys get it and understand their sacrifice was for the good of our community.

“Proud” —?? That’s so silly.

Not silly at all. Those who took all recommended precautions saved lives and slowed the mutation. And they did at at their own sacrifice. Great reason to feel proud.

Those running around pretending it didn’t exist spread the virus through their selfishness. They should feel shame.

No they didn’t. Sheltering the elderly and providing supports for essential workers would have done much more to prevent the spread of illness. Staying home did not save lives. In fact according to CDC data teen deaths increased 15%.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/AH-Deaths-by-Age-Sex-and-Week-2018-2020/w56u-89fn

Drug overdoses increased 30%.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/health/overdose-deaths-fentanyl-opiods-coronaviurs-pandemic.amp.html

This is the tip of the iceberg.

[Anonymous]

OP, you're doing it right. Other people will do it their way. Our family has laid low for more than a year. My husband is a Ph.D. biologist who already had us locking down in February 2020 and was warning there was only a few weeks of in-person school left. He was right. Last summer, our excited was playing board games. No vacation, no pool, no camps, pretty boring. Online school only.

Three out of four of us are now fully vaccinated. The youngest is not. So while we are going out a bit more to shop, we are still using quite a bit of caution to keep the youngest safe. We won't let up until all of us are fully vaxxed. Just waiting on the FDA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. Not a bit. Having living parents was a much higher priority than anything he missed.

Are you fat or over 80?

Stop being a fool, PP. My trim 35 year old neighbor died from covid.

You still upset about trump losing so badly?

I voted for Biden. But I will be voting for DeSantis in 2024 if schools are not open 5 days per week and kids are still masked in the fall.

What underlying condition did your neighbor have. You are absolutely leaving out something important.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I don’t feel guilty. But I also know a fair number of people who weren’t as careful as we were, and they did get Covid, and so did their kids. Or their kids got it and they didn’t or vice versa.

Was anyone hospitalized? Any symptoms worse than flu?

NP here. Five people in my brother’s nine person office got covid from their trump-loving boss. My brother, who had both malaria and dysentery, said his 14 days with covid was the worst he ever felt in his life. The cough was unbearable.

So yes, far, far worse than the flu.

[Anonymous]

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