Rant with me- Losing my mind with sicknesses already

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PSA - get your flu shots in August. people! At least two weeks before school opens.

There is no reason to delay flu shots till October so that it can last till March. Your kids will mostly fall ill in Sept, Oct, Nov and Dec - when school opens, and when there is much holiday travelling.

It all calms down by Jan, Feb, March - because people get immunity. So, don't wait for your flu vaccine.

Rounding up my kids to go to Kaiser permanente for flu shots during their limited hours is a struggle. We don’t live close. I know I should just go to CVS but it’s like $100+ for us.

So you’d rather risk getting flu than going to the trouble of getting flu shots? 🤔

Sure why not. Never gotten the flu never gotten the shot

Oh I see you’re just counting on that good luck continuing? Once you or your kids get the flu (the real flu not what ppl call any random illness w “flu like symptoms”) once you’ll change your mind.

Also, why are you on a thread complaining about kids being sick a lot and yet admitting you don’t even bother to take basic free preventive measures to stay healthy?

[Anonymous]

Absolutely OP, so much commiseration. It feels like someone in our family has been sick every week since summer and more weeks than not, someone is out of daycare for at least a day
We are wiped out -- behind on work, housework, sleep, and always kind of sick ourselves but not really able to rest and just oh so tired.

Right now one kid has RSV and the other has an ear infection.

I'm with you - can't believe it's this bad and not even winter yet.

[Anonymous]

We should be a lot more worried about influenza as younger parents with younger children. Covid is a nothingburger for most people under about 50. Influenza is much more dangerous for younger people. I’m getting my flu shot but I’m done with Covid boosters at this point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have a baby in the house and an older preschooler and second grader. In the last 52 weeks, I have had a kid sick enough to stay home 43 of them. That included staying home from camp this summer too. I also tend to be more liberal on sending my kids to school so they aren’t staying home for just a runny nose. Name the illness and one of my kids has it. One even had chicken pox though she was vaccinated against it.

Also, I can’t attribute it to being masked up as neither of my older kids were required to mask in daycare and as someone who worked for FEMA, I was still in the office during covid.

43 full weeks/10 months of the year you’ve had sick kids at home? Or do you mean that at least one day of the week for 43 weeks of the year you’ve had sick kids?

If the former, are your kids immune-compromised or have health conditions that make them especially vulnerable?

Not the whole week, sometimes one day sometimes more due school requirements.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We tried to warn you to keep masking and taking precautions...hope everyone feels better soon.

Or it could be that we spent 2 years “wearing masks” and “taking precautions” (whatever that means, anyway), and our immune systems weren’t challenged at all and now we’re paying the price with all the sicknesses at once …

^^I don't really understand this really weak excuse. Most of us had covid abd it that doesn't challenge the money system then I don't know what does.

+1.
Obviously the condescending professor Minimizer will show up to tear it all apart in bad faith, but there is more scientific data on COVID dysregulating the immune system than on that 'immunity debt from too much masking' idiocy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We tried to warn you to keep masking and taking precautions...hope everyone feels better soon.

Or it could be that we spent 2 years “wearing masks” and “taking precautions” (whatever that means, anyway), and our immune systems weren’t challenged at all and now we’re paying the price with all the sicknesses at once …

^^I don't really understand this really weak excuse. Most of us had covid abd it that doesn't challenge the money system then I don't know what does.

+1.
Obviously the condescending professor Minimizer will show up to tear it all apart in bad faith, but there is more scientific data on COVID dysregulating the immune system than on that 'immunity debt from too much masking' idiocy.

Show me the data. And by data, I don’t mean a news article from the liberal media.

[Anonymous]

We are entering our third round of illness since August and the only reason we are holding it together is because of a ton of help (grandparents + FT nanny)

[Anonymous]

It looks like I will have a child home sick again tomorrow. This is insane. I think we have had 5 illnesses go through the house since August and one kid at least has been quite sick with each one. This is by far the worst since my oldest first year in daycare; we are all losing our minds (and the kids aren’t enjoying it either!)

[Anonymous]

It is crazy! Not only is school out for holidays and workdays almost every single week of October-December, we have had nonstop sickness too. It all started with flu over the summer and since then we’ve had random puking, weird post viral hives, recurrent strep, one repeat covid case, a fun reprise of HFM that we hadn’t seen since the daycare years. The irony is for once we actually planned ahead for schools out camps, play dates, and even a trip out of town (!!) and have had to cancel multiple plans due to random illnesses. It feels so defeating! DH and I haven’t been spared, either.

[Anonymous]

I commiserate. In the last three weeks we have had: hfm, flu, pinkeye, diarrhea and poison ivy. I’ve had at least one kid home every day for three weeks (I have four kids). My daughter came home yesterday with a weird rash in her face - maybe the post viral rash PP was describing. I don’t think anything can surprise me at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s the middle of October and my kids have collectively already been sick for 3 weeks straight. I’m just so worn out, the house is trashed and now I’m sick too (just weak, congested and dizzy). I’m dreading winter. It’s giving me flashbacks to Covid too where i worked at home with screaming kids all day and had no help available.

Dh and I are working together to fill in gaps but he can’t telework and I can. I haven’t been able to get any work done and things are falling apart at work. My family is immunocompromised so they can’t help. We’re running out of leave and likely won’t be able to see our families over the holidays now too. Oh and the next two Monday’s are school holidays too that we need to take off for.

Anyone else here already? Normally I only feel this way in late January or early February when I’m out of leave.

Same boat here. It's annoying. I actually didn't mind RTO for that reason, it evens things out so everyone is inconvenienced

Look at backup babysitters. People throw shade at Care.com but I found some great sitters there. A lot of them don't mind watching mildly ill kids esp if you rapid-test them and they're negative.

TBH the only thing that worked for us was picking a daycare that is...pragmatic about nonCOVID sickness and doesn't mind a runny nose/lingering cough if they're not hacking up lungs. And sending our kid if she isn't miserable. Sorry to say that's the only real solution.

[Anonymous]

yes, here too with 1st grader and preschooler. DH just got over pneumonia! I think it's worse this year than it was last year with mask wearing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PSA - get your flu shots in August. people! At least two weeks before school opens.

There is no reason to delay flu shots till October so that it can last till March. Your kids will mostly fall ill in Sept, Oct, Nov and Dec - when school opens, and when there is much holiday travelling.

It all calms down by Jan, Feb, March - because people get immunity. So, don't wait for your flu vaccine. [/

This makes no sense. Flu shots protect against one virus and it typically doesn’t start cropping up until several months into the school year. That flu shot does nothing to stop the million other cold viruses circulating. And historically, flu has not “calmed down” in Jan and Feb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PSA - get your flu shots in August. people! At least two weeks before school opens.

There is no reason to delay flu shots till October so that it can last till March. Your kids will mostly fall ill in Sept, Oct, Nov and Dec - when school opens, and when there is much holiday travelling.

It all calms down by Jan, Feb, March - because people get immunity. So, don't wait for your flu vaccine. [/

This makes no sense. Flu shots protect against one virus and it typically doesn’t start cropping up until several months into the school year. That flu shot does nothing to stop the million other cold viruses circulating. And historically, flu has not “calmed down” in Jan and Feb.

Pp again. To be clear, I think everyone should get flu shots. But doing it in august instead of October isn’t strategic and definitely does not stop people from getting worn down by other viruses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We tried to warn you to keep masking and taking precautions...hope everyone feels better soon.

Or it could be that we spent 2 years “wearing masks” and “taking precautions” (whatever that means, anyway), and our immune systems weren’t challenged at all and now we’re paying the price with all the sicknesses at once …

^^I don't really understand this really weak excuse. Most of us had covid abd it that doesn't challenge the money system then I don't know what does.

+1.
Obviously the condescending professor Minimizer will show up to tear it all apart in bad faith, but there is more scientific data on COVID dysregulating the immune system than on that 'immunity debt from too much masking' idiocy.

If its all the isolation and masking, why is it so bad in Texas?