What illness is this going around schools?

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Anonymous wrote:My child just had this. Negative for flu, strep and covid. A few kids in her class have covid, including one who sits next to her. They are unmasked. My theory is that she actually had covid, but her prior infection and vaccines allowed her to fight it off so that it never showed positive on a test.

Are you suggesting that vaccinations are masking positive COVID test results? If so, that is SCARY.

Also, tangentially, what the heck is Monkeypox? My initial Google search turns up a disease in animals not humans. Have there been cases of that in humans now? It turns up on front page of WaPo and I don’t have access.

Holy god are you serious.

Did you read the pp at the top of this group?

I don't know what you are referencing. There's a person who is suggesting that vaccination means you'll test negative even if you have covid. That's either someone trying oddly to be funny or some deep anti-vax conspiracy sh!t.

np: Being vaccinated changes the timing and responsiveness of the at-home tests. Read the news. No conspiracy.

ok, point me to this news, please. And timing is a different point than what the other two posters are suggesting which is that the vaccine means you test negative even though you are positive. Presumably on a PCR.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher who is living with it right now. It’s gross and I wish it were covid so I could stop going into work while coughing up phlegm

I hope you feel better. FYI you can still take sick leave if you're sick, doesn't have to be COVID.

Another teacher here. I don’t have any sick or personal leave. I burned through mine staying home with CoVID and with my kids who had to quarantine a lot earlier in the year. Now that my under 5 is outside of his 90 days post infection I know I will have to take some more unpaid time in the next few weeks. So definitely working with a cold.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher who is living with it right now. It’s gross and I wish it were covid so I could stop going into work while coughing up phlegm

I hope you feel better. FYI you can still take sick leave if you're sick, doesn't have to be COVID.

Another teacher here. I don’t have any sick or personal leave. I burned through mine staying home with CoVID and with my kids who had to quarantine a lot earlier in the year. Now that my under 5 is outside of his 90 days post infection I know I will have to take some more unpaid time in the next few weeks. So definitely working with a cold.

I'll be intrigued to see if DCUM starts calling you a horrible person, like they do everyone else who works with a cold, context be damned.

I'm sorry that we don't offer paid leave.

[Anonymous]

Another teacher with this as well. We are down to about negative 5 subs in the building. Taking sick leave unless you're in the hospital or have covid right now comes with a lot of guilt and huge mess for the school.

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Anonymous wrote:My child just had this. Negative for flu, strep and covid. A few kids in her class have covid, including one who sits next to her. They are unmasked. My theory is that she actually had covid, but her prior infection and vaccines allowed her to fight it off so that it never showed positive on a test.

Are you suggesting that vaccinations are masking positive COVID test results? If so, that is SCARY.

Also, tangentially, what the heck is Monkeypox? My initial Google search turns up a disease in animals not humans. Have there been cases of that in humans now? It turns up on front page of WaPo and I don’t have access.

Holy god are you serious.

Yes, what the heck is Monkeypox???

something the DC council will req uire that our children be vaccinated against by the fall.

😂😂😂