My Son Just Got COVID in daycare. Be Careful You Guys!

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I'm still actually shocked to see these responses but now I feel far less guilty about sending my kid back to daycare while still having symptoms. 🤷‍♀️

Glad to hear your child is feeling better and out of the hospital! But why would you send them back with symptoms while telling others to be careful? I assume your ped said they were no longer contagious? My daycare would send anyone symptomatic straight back home.

Because parents here are acting like it's no big deal. So why would I go out of my way to be a good citizen? I'm missing work, opportunities, etc. Our school says he can come back when he reaches a certain benchmark, which he has. Ordinarily I would still keep him home if he was still coughing and snotty but nope - I'm sending him back.

You’re bizarre. So we should “be careful” of what exactly? Your sick kid? You’re going to risk infecting other kids and teachers in his class because your feelings were hurt on an anonymous message board? Are you 12?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be careful out there. There is definitely a rise in cases!

Was he properly wearing his face mask?

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Anonymous wrote:I understand OP's frustration. My DS3 has been in daycare since August 2021 (we'd kept him and DS8 home the prior year). As much as I like the idea of masks, they just don't work in daycares. Maybe in preschools where the kids are there just a few hours. But at my kid's school, they eat three times a day and many weren't very good about masking. His classroom closed three times from Jan/Feb.

Bottom line: I'm sure there are some exceptions, but I'd say that for the most part, if you're sending your child to daycare, you have to know that there's a real chance of exposure.

And for folks who think they haven't gotten in, many of you have. My DS8 got a positive at the weekly school testing. He had the most insignificant nose run and was perhaps slightly more fatigued than normal. Had the school not caught , I wouldn't have thought to test. I'd also had minor cold symptoms, prompting me to test as I'd had a known exposure. I finally got a positive a week after symptoms started. Had I not known about the exposure, I would have thought I'd had a light cold.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Of course our family can get exposed to COVID at daycare, we all know this, this is nothing new or groundbreaking. FWIW I am one of the posters that said we haven't gotten it, and for the past year or so we have been getting PCR tests every time DD gets sick, even just a runny nose, and they have always been negative. Of course it's possible that we did catch it and the tests didn't detect it. At that point, I'm sorry, I just don't care. None of us have had lingering symptoms. Of course I don't want to get anybody sick, but we've been following public health advice and doing everything we can to protect people and at a certain point there are only so many things I can worry about.

My DD just tested positive after testing 2 neg days in a row. If we had stopped after 1 or 2 tests we would not have known.

You got PCR tests three times? No, you're talking about rapid antigen tests? Do you get that these are different tests that work differently? I'm sorry but behaving as though every runny nose could be COVID (and isolating accordingly) regardless of PCR test results is not realistic for most families. I have a relative who works in public health and she assured us a negative PCR test on a symptomatic person is probably a true negative. Btw the recent time I was sick I did do rapid tests a few times over the course of 5 days and they were all negative. Oftentimes it actually is not COVID. There are other bugs out there. At certain point all we can do is our best and we have to recognize there will be some uncertainty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I'm still actually shocked to see these responses but now I feel far less guilty about sending my kid back to daycare while still having symptoms. 🤷‍♀️

That’s also an a**hole move. Sending your kid back when they’re still sick, whether Covid or flu is despicable.

No longer have any guilt. You should be talking to the people who are posting in this thread about how they aren't testing at all. Your kid is actually safer around my child than their children. I cared enough to test, notify the school and then keep him home beyond the required time. But now he's going back.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I'm still actually shocked to see these responses but now I feel far less guilty about sending my kid back to daycare while still having symptoms. 🤷‍♀️

Glad to hear your child is feeling better and out of the hospital! But why would you send them back with symptoms while telling others to be careful? I assume your ped said they were no longer contagious? My daycare would send anyone symptomatic straight back home.

Because parents here are acting like it's no big deal. So why would I go out of my way to be a good citizen? I'm missing work, opportunities, etc. Our school says he can come back when he reaches a certain benchmark, which he has. Ordinarily I would still keep him home if he was still coughing and snotty but nope - I'm sending him back.

You’re bizarre. So we should “be careful” of what exactly? Your sick kid? You’re going to risk infecting other kids and teachers in his class because your feelings were hurt on an anonymous message board? Are you 12?

Probably a teenager posting from their parents basement to stir up a debate.

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Omg who cares? It’s like a mild cold in most children.

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Anonymous wrote:Omg who cares? It’s like a mild cold in most children.

Did you read? The OP’s child was so bad they needed hospitalization.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I'm still actually shocked to see these responses but now I feel far less guilty about sending my kid back to daycare while still having symptoms. 🤷‍♀️

Glad to hear your child is feeling better and out of the hospital! But why would you send them back with symptoms while telling others to be careful? I assume your ped said they were no longer contagious? My daycare would send anyone symptomatic straight back home.

Because parents here are acting like it's no big deal. So why would I go out of my way to be a good citizen? I'm missing work, opportunities, etc. Our school says he can come back when he reaches a certain benchmark, which he has. Ordinarily I would still keep him home if he was still coughing and snotty but nope - I'm sending him back.

OP you sound like a real nut. Your kid coughed hard a few times - that doesn't mean he was on the verge of hospitalization. There are VERY few hospitalization due to covid at the moment...despite there being this crazy contagious variant.

https://www.vhha.com/communications/virginia-hospital-covid-19-data-dashboard/

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Anonymous wrote:Omg who cares? It’s like a mild cold in most children.

Did you read? The OP’s child was so bad they needed hospitalization.

It doesn't sound like OP's kid was actually hospitalized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD caught RSV at daycare when she was 18 months old. She was horrifically ill, and had to be hospitalized for days on high flow oxygen because she was having such trouble breathing. It was awful, stressful and she’s needed an inhaler since then. That was in 2018. No one talked about shutting down daycares or requiring masks on toddlers and I never would have thought to ask that of others. And that was okay.

OP, I have a lot of sympathy for the stressful situation you are going through right now. I hope your child feels better soon - it’s so hard to watch young children be so sick. I also hope we as a society can start to recalibrate our perception of risks after the chaos of the last two years.

This this this. Sick kids are scary....but it's also not a call to shut down society. They get sick and recover.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I'm still actually shocked to see these responses but now I feel far less guilty about sending my kid back to daycare while still having symptoms. 🤷‍♀️

Glad to hear your child is feeling better and out of the hospital! But why would you send them back with symptoms while telling others to be careful? I assume your ped said they were no longer contagious? My daycare would send anyone symptomatic straight back home.

Because parents here are acting like it's no big deal. So why would I go out of my way to be a good citizen? I'm missing work, opportunities, etc. Our school says he can come back when he reaches a certain benchmark, which he has. Ordinarily I would still keep him home if he was still coughing and snotty but nope - I'm sending him back.

With the low standards your daycare has, it’s no wonder your son caught it there. Ever stop to think about that? I got called last week to pick up DC because her eye was slightly red- they were like, it might be pinkeye and pinkeye has been associated with Covid! Took her to ped and a tiny piece of mulch had gotten in there that I didn’t see- no pinkeye. Getting called for every little thing is definitely annoying and inconvenient but we’ve had zero class quarantines in 18 months, and only a handful in the other classes. So their sone upsides to a strict illness policy.

This is OP. Our daycare doesn't have low standards. It follows the Health Department's rules for the county where we live, which is based upon the CDC's recommendations. Your daycare sounds draconian. Where is it - China? Are you also unemployed or an "entrepreneur" (i.e., MLM)? That is the only way I can see someone (like you) bragging about being repeatedly inconvenienced yet willingly complying with such ridiculous protocols for minor non-Covid related issues.

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Wow. In the course of just a couple days your kid was so sick they needed to be hospitalized and already back to school. That's quite the turn around!!

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Surprised to get these responses. My son has been horrifically ill to the point of hospitalization, with no pre-existing conditions. I hope to God that you don't have to deal with what our family has had to over the past two weeks.

I'm really sorry OP- are you exploring different childcare arrangements for the future? Sometimes a second infection can be even worse so I'd start making plans now. It seems like daycares should be back at reduced capacity and fulltime masking at least.

Why yes, let's cripple the child care sector while adults hang out unmasked at restaurants, bars and parties. It makes perfect sense since young children can't get vaccinated and ...are STILL at lower risk of getting infected, hospitalized or dying from COVID compared with a vaccinated and boosted adult

Have you read the OP's post? Her kid is really sick. Kids are not immune to Covid. Are you more concerned about a business or kids' health?

You have a choice to keep your kids home or hire a nanny.

This response is so much that's wrong with our society. "Get a nanny," as though every household has $60k to spare? "Let them eat cake!" Or the implication that quitting your job to keep your kid home during a global pandemic in which all mitigation measures have ended, or sending them to day care and not complaining if they get covid, is any kind of real choice. You know what I'm complaining about? These stupidly limited choices. Why don't we have the choice to take as much sick leave as we need when we or our kids are sick?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Surprised to get these responses. My son has been horrifically ill to the point of hospitalization, with no pre-existing conditions. I hope to God that you don't have to deal with what our family has had to over the past two weeks.

I'm really sorry OP- are you exploring different childcare arrangements for the future? Sometimes a second infection can be even worse so I'd start making plans now. It seems like daycares should be back at reduced capacity and fulltime masking at least.

Why yes, let's cripple the child care sector while adults hang out unmasked at restaurants, bars and parties. It makes perfect sense since young children can't get vaccinated and ...are STILL at lower risk of getting infected, hospitalized or dying from COVID compared with a vaccinated and boosted adult

Have you read the OP's post? Her kid is really sick. Kids are not immune to Covid. Are you more concerned about a business or kids' health?

You have a choice to keep your kids home or hire a nanny.

This response is so much that's wrong with our society. "Get a nanny," as though every household has $60k to spare? "Let them eat cake!" Or the implication that quitting your job to keep your kid home during a global pandemic in which all mitigation measures have ended, or sending them to day care and not complaining if they get covid, is any kind of real choice. You know what I'm complaining about? These stupidly limited choices. Why don't we have the choice to take as much sick leave as we need when we or our kids are sick?

100%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I'm still actually shocked to see these responses but now I feel far less guilty about sending my kid back to daycare while still having symptoms. 🤷‍♀️

Glad to hear your child is feeling better and out of the hospital! But why would you send them back with symptoms while telling others to be careful? I assume your ped said they were no longer contagious? My daycare would send anyone symptomatic straight back home.

Because parents here are acting like it's no big deal. So why would I go out of my way to be a good citizen? I'm missing work, opportunities, etc. Our school says he can come back when he reaches a certain benchmark, which he has. Ordinarily I would still keep him home if he was still coughing and snotty but nope - I'm sending him back.

With the low standards your daycare has, it’s no wonder your son caught it there. Ever stop to think about that? I got called last week to pick up DC because her eye was slightly red- they were like, it might be pinkeye and pinkeye has been associated with Covid! Took her to ped and a tiny piece of mulch had gotten in there that I didn’t see- no pinkeye. Getting called for every little thing is definitely annoying and inconvenient but we’ve had zero class quarantines in 18 months, and only a handful in the other classes. So their sone upsides to a strict illness policy.

This is OP. Our daycare doesn't have low standards. It follows the Health Department's rules for the county where we live, which is based upon the CDC's recommendations. Your daycare sounds draconian. Where is it - China? Are you also unemployed or an "entrepreneur" (i.e., MLM)? That is the only way I can see someone (like you) bragging about being repeatedly inconvenienced yet willingly complying with such ridiculous protocols for minor non-Covid related issues.

+1 my child has been in daycare since September 2020 and she has never been quarantined due to daycare exposure. A couple of the other classes have, so same situation as PP. Our daycare follows state rules, no crazy policies like PP. We are just lucky the families that use the daycare overwhelmingly can work from home, and tend to be pretty COVID cautious outside of school. They dropped masks a month ago too.