Are parents now sending kids to school and camp sick?

[Anonymous]

Now? I'm not sure anyone stopped.

[Anonymous]

Just received word that my kid was exposed to covid at outdoor summer camp. Problem is that the kids go inside to eat lunch. The kid that tested positive has been at camp all week and tested positive today. So frustrated with his parents for sending him sick. This exposure will screw up our weekend plans to see my family. It would have been the first I’ve seen them pre-covid. Pure selfishness in the part of these parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just received word that my kid was exposed to covid at outdoor summer camp. Problem is that the kids go inside to eat lunch. The kid that tested positive has been at camp all week and tested positive today. So frustrated with his parents for sending him sick. This exposure will screw up our weekend plans to see my family. It would have been the first I’ve seen them pre-covid. Pure selfishness in the part of these parents.

Lol i love how you say you’re so frustrated with the parents for sending him in sick. A majority of kids with Covid don’t get symptoms. You have no reason to believe that the parents knew or suspected the kid was sick. Ridiculous

[Anonymous]

Define “sick.”

If my kid has a fever (100.3+) overnight or in the morning, they don’t go to school or camp. If the fever was during the day, afternoon, or early evening before, they go.

If my kid is feeling sick/lethargic, they don’t go to school or camp.

If my kid is actively throwing up or nonstop diarrhea, they don’t go. If they threw up/have diarrhea once the day or night prior but seem otherwise fine, they go.

I do not keep my kid home for coughs or runny noses.

If one kid is totally fine, but another kid is sick. I let the fine one go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Define “sick.”

If my kid has a fever (100.3+) overnight or in the morning, they don’t go to school or camp. If the fever was during the day, afternoon, or early evening before, they go.

If my kid is feeling sick/lethargic, they don’t go to school or camp.

If my kid is actively throwing up or nonstop diarrhea, they don’t go. If they threw up/have diarrhea once the day or night prior but seem otherwise fine, they go.

I do not keep my kid home for coughs or runny noses.

If one kid is totally fine, but another kid is sick. I let the fine one go.

Forgot to add that whenever there is a fever or cough, I immediately get a rapid COVID test and of course only send if negative, which so far, through 3+ viruses in two months, they all have been .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just received word that my kid was exposed to covid at outdoor summer camp. Problem is that the kids go inside to eat lunch. The kid that tested positive has been at camp all week and tested positive today. So frustrated with his parents for sending him sick. This exposure will screw up our weekend plans to see my family. It would have been the first I’ve seen them pre-covid. Pure selfishness in the part of these parents.

Lol i love how you say you’re so frustrated with the parents for sending him in sick. A majority of kids with Covid don’t get symptoms. You have no reason to believe that the parents knew or suspected the kid was sick. Ridiculous

+1 I have lost track of the number of kids who were randomly tested and turned out positive. Maybe a dozen or so I my wide circle? Totally asymptomatic and arisin surreptitiousl surprising everyone. It's frustrating when it ruins plans and it's very disruptive regardless, but you really can't blame the parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Define “sick.”

If my kid has a fever (100.3+) overnight or in the morning, they don’t go to school or camp. If the fever was during the day, afternoon, or early evening before, they go.

If my kid is feeling sick/lethargic, they don’t go to school or camp.

If my kid is actively throwing up or nonstop diarrhea, they don’t go. If they threw up/have diarrhea once the day or night prior but seem otherwise fine, they go.

I do not keep my kid home for coughs or runny noses.

If one kid is totally fine, but another kid is sick. I let the fine one go.

Forgot to add that whenever there is a fever or cough, I immediately get a rapid COVID test and of course only send if negative, which so far, through 3+ viruses in two months, they all have been .

So you have sent your kids to camp sick in the past 3 months with negative rapid tests.

My kids have not been sick in 16+ months.

Guess we are just back to normal where parents send kids to school sick.

[Anonymous]

The child was sent home from camp because he was ill. Definitely not asymptomatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For over a year kids weren’t exposed to many viruses. This is natural and it’ll take time for immunities to be restored.

I don't think that is how the immune system works.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just received word that my kid was exposed to covid at outdoor summer camp. Problem is that the kids go inside to eat lunch. The kid that tested positive has been at camp all week and tested positive today. So frustrated with his parents for sending him sick. This exposure will screw up our weekend plans to see my family. It would have been the first I’ve seen them pre-covid. Pure selfishness in the part of these parents.

Lol i love how you say you’re so frustrated with the parents for sending him in sick. A majority of kids with Covid don’t get symptoms. You have no reason to believe that the parents knew or suspected the kid was sick. Ridiculous

+1. I'm sure the parents were like it's PROBABLY covid but I have coffee with Barb at 10 so I'm going to send him. Covid has every symptom under the sun, and sometimes zero. I had multiple positive cases in our classroom. I didn't blame the parents, I bet they were debating it for hours. The kid had diarrhea, people get weird poops every day.

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Anonymous wrote:Just received word that my kid was exposed to covid at outdoor summer camp. Problem is that the kids go inside to eat lunch. The kid that tested positive has been at camp all week and tested positive today. So frustrated with his parents for sending him sick. This exposure will screw up our weekend plans to see my family. It would have been the first I’ve seen them pre-covid. Pure selfishness in the part of these parents.

Lol i love how you say you’re so frustrated with the parents for sending him in sick. A majority of kids with Covid don’t get symptoms. You have no reason to believe that the parents knew or suspected the kid was sick. Ridiculous

+1 I have lost track of the number of kids who were randomly tested and turned out positive. Maybe a dozen or so I my wide circle? Totally asymptomatic and arisin surreptitiousl surprising everyone. It's frustrating when it ruins plans and it's very disruptive regardless, but you really can't blame the parents.

Yeah. I only know 4 kids that have tested positive. Each one only tested because a family member tested positive. No symptoms in any of the kids.

Tbh, it makes me wonder how many people also catch the flu each year but don't show symptoms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just received word that my kid was exposed to covid at outdoor summer camp. Problem is that the kids go inside to eat lunch. The kid that tested positive has been at camp all week and tested positive today. So frustrated with his parents for sending him sick. This exposure will screw up our weekend plans to see my family. It would have been the first I’ve seen them pre-covid. Pure selfishness in the part of these parents.

Lol i love how you say you’re so frustrated with the parents for sending him in sick. A majority of kids with Covid don’t get symptoms. You have no reason to believe that the parents knew or suspected the kid was sick. Ridiculous

+1 I have lost track of the number of kids who were randomly tested and turned out positive. Maybe a dozen or so I my wide circle? Totally asymptomatic and arisin surreptitiousl surprising everyone. It's frustrating when it ruins plans and it's very disruptive regardless, but you really can't blame the parents.

Yeah. I only know 4 kids that have tested positive. Each one only tested because a family member tested positive. No symptoms in any of the kids.

Tbh, it makes me wonder how many people also catch the flu each year but don't show symptoms.

All of this depends on how you define positive. The PCR tests are set to be so sensitive (for the unvaxed, the CDC has a different level for the vaxed) that we aren't even sure that a positive means you are infectious.

I'm not sure the flu tests are as sensitive as the COVID ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Define “sick.”

If my kid has a fever (100.3+) overnight or in the morning, they don’t go to school or camp. If the fever was during the day, afternoon, or early evening before, they go.

If my kid is feeling sick/lethargic, they don’t go to school or camp.

If my kid is actively throwing up or nonstop diarrhea, they don’t go. If they threw up/have diarrhea once the day or night prior but seem otherwise fine, they go.

I do not keep my kid home for coughs or runny noses.

If one kid is totally fine, but another kid is sick. I let the fine one go.

You are a douche. If your kid had vomiting, diarrhea or fever the day before, you don't send them in the next day. Those GI things are so transmissible and so gross.

[Anonymous]

+1 I have lost track of the number of kids who were randomly tested and turned out positive. Maybe a dozen or so I my wide circle? Totally asymptomatic and arisin surreptitiousl surprising everyone. It's frustrating when it ruins plans and it's very disruptive regardless, but you really can't blame the parents.


Yeah. I only know 4 kids that have tested positive. Each one only tested because a family member tested positive. No symptoms in any of the kids.

Tbh, it makes me wonder how many people also catch the flu each year but don't show symptoms.



All of this depends on how you define positive. The PCR tests are set to be so sensitive (for the unvaxed, the CDC has a different level for the vaxed) that we aren't even sure that a positive means you are infectious.

I'm not sure the flu tests are as sensitive as the COVID ones.

We don’t test asymptomatics for any other disease. Wonder what our measles rate would be if we mass tested and counted anyone who had fragments of the virus in their noses.

Yes, PCR tests were oversensitive especially if set at high cycle thresholds. I believe CDC recommends a cutoff of 28 for vaccinated individuals. Sad that there was never even a standard definition of a positive with different labs using totally different cutoffs.

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Anonymous wrote:Just received word that my kid was exposed to covid at outdoor summer camp. Problem is that the kids go inside to eat lunch. The kid that tested positive has been at camp all week and tested positive today. So frustrated with his parents for sending him sick. This exposure will screw up our weekend plans to see my family. It would have been the first I’ve seen them pre-covid. Pure selfishness in the part of these parents.

Lol i love how you say you’re so frustrated with the parents for sending him in sick. A majority of kids with Covid don’t get symptoms. You have no reason to believe that the parents knew or suspected the kid was sick. Ridiculous

+1 I have lost track of the number of kids who were randomly tested and turned out positive. Maybe a dozen or so I my wide circle? Totally asymptomatic and arisin surreptitiousl surprising everyone. It's frustrating when it ruins plans and it's very disruptive regardless, but you really can't blame the parents.

Yeah. I only know 4 kids that have tested positive. Each one only tested because a family member tested positive. No symptoms in any of the kids.

Tbh, it makes me wonder how many people also catch the flu each year but don't show symptoms.

We never considered asymptomatic people sick before now. Historically sick meant presenting with symptoms.