Coughing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

I’m a teacher and I have been coughing since September 10 from COVID. Stayed home for 11 school days but I can’t stay home just for a cough.

Don't you care at all about the newborn siblings of your students you callous monster? s/

lol now we care about newborns? I thought it was all about protecting grandma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

I’m a teacher and I have been coughing since September 10 from COVID. Stayed home for 11 school days but I can’t stay home just for a cough.

Don't you care at all about the newborn siblings of your students you callous monster? s/

She has long Covid you idiot. She’s way past the contagious phase. God some of you people are so stupid. Show sone empathy would you? She probably got it from the unmasked kids in her class!

Relax, I was being sarcastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re worried about it, get vaxxed and mask up. A vast (and admittedly anecdotal) majority of teachers and students are no longer masking, but a good KN95 would prevent transmission of most of the grossness going around.

Teacher with about half my class out this week with a terrible virus. It starts with a cough and runny nose. I’m not wearing a mask. If I get it, I get it. I will take the week off (every kid who has gotten it has missed a full week of school).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Every time my DD is sick my MIL will decide DH and I did something wrong to cause it and/or not respond correctly. Recently when DD tested positive for RSV (after three weeks of mild cold symptoms, most likely started with at lease one other different virus) she said, "Next time, take her to the doctor after she has been coughing for ::pause to make up fake medical advice:: two weeks". I just stared at her and she looked back at me like a little child caught in a lie.

I suspect there are a lot of people like my MIL on this thread, who for whatever reason get some satisfaction out of being the "parenting police" and making sh&t up to try to make other parents feel bad. I see you, and I pity you.

How about if we get satisfaction from NOT giving RSV to someone else's child? You let your kid be around other kids when they had RSV. And yet your only takeaway is to hate your MIL for daring to tell you to take your kid to the doctor. She was probably being sarcastic when she said take your kid to the doctor after two weeks of coughing. Most people wouldn't wait that long.

Thanks on behalf of all the other parents who now have to deal with RSV, and possibly have their kids in the packed emergency rooms dealing with it. You are a real sweetheart, PP.

Not PP but doctors offices are pretty overwhelmed right now. I’m not taking my kids in to be tested for RSV for every little cold symptom. Amazing how the expectation has changed since the pandemic started. RSV just used to be something everyone got unknowingly.

Things change, you idiot!! COVID used to be something everyone got unknowingly -- a simple cold -- until it wasn't. We are in an RSV surge. Hospitals are filling to capacity with children who have RSV. Do you really not know that? To stupidly pretend it's an attitude adjustment issue when it's actually a community health crisis is just plain idiotic.

People who don't care if they send to their children to school coughing when we are in the middle of a public health crisis regarding respiratory illness for children are either monsters or morons. Take your pick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time my DD is sick my MIL will decide DH and I did something wrong to cause it and/or not respond correctly. Recently when DD tested positive for RSV (after three weeks of mild cold symptoms, most likely started with at lease one other different virus) she said, "Next time, take her to the doctor after she has been coughing for ::pause to make up fake medical advice:: two weeks". I just stared at her and she looked back at me like a little child caught in a lie.

I suspect there are a lot of people like my MIL on this thread, who for whatever reason get some satisfaction out of being the "parenting police" and making sh&t up to try to make other parents feel bad. I see you, and I pity you.

How about if we get satisfaction from NOT giving RSV to someone else's child? You let your kid be around other kids when they had RSV. And yet your only takeaway is to hate your MIL for daring to tell you to take your kid to the doctor. She was probably being sarcastic when she said take your kid to the doctor after two weeks of coughing. Most people wouldn't wait that long.

Thanks on behalf of all the other parents who now have to deal with RSV, and possibly have their kids in the packed emergency rooms dealing with it. You are a real sweetheart, PP.

Not PP but doctors offices are pretty overwhelmed right now. I’m not taking my kids in to be tested for RSV for every little cold symptom. Amazing how the expectation has changed since the pandemic started. RSV just used to be something everyone got unknowingly.

Things change, you idiot!! COVID used to be something everyone got unknowingly -- a simple cold -- until it wasn't. We are in an RSV surge. Hospitals are filling to capacity with children who have RSV. Do you really not know that? To stupidly pretend it's an attitude adjustment issue when it's actually a community health crisis is just plain idiotic.

People who don't care if they send to their children to school coughing when we are in the middle of a public health crisis regarding respiratory illness for children are either monsters or morons. Take your pick.

Calm down.

My kids my husband and I are still coughing from an illness two weeks ago. You’re telling me you expect me to keep my kids home for two weeks for a cough? You are out of your mind.

I also work in a daycare and we are not excluding kids who have a cough because that would be an extreme burden on the parents. If we were to exclude children with coughs we would have had empty classrooms for the past couple of weeks/month. Of all of these kids that have been out, and have gone to the doctor, nly a couple drs have tested for RSV. Doctors are not testing all the children.

[Anonymous]

LOL I read a few of these comments and had to chime in. My daughter had cold symptoms. Started with sore throat, turned into a full fledged cold with cough etc. Ended up with double ear infection and laryngitis. This went on for weeks. Do you thinks she missed one day of school? Absolutely not!! She had multiple negative antigen tests and that sufficed. Nobody masks at her school. It's all good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time my DD is sick my MIL will decide DH and I did something wrong to cause it and/or not respond correctly. Recently when DD tested positive for RSV (after three weeks of mild cold symptoms, most likely started with at lease one other different virus) she said, "Next time, take her to the doctor after she has been coughing for ::pause to make up fake medical advice:: two weeks". I just stared at her and she looked back at me like a little child caught in a lie.

I suspect there are a lot of people like my MIL on this thread, who for whatever reason get some satisfaction out of being the "parenting police" and making sh&t up to try to make other parents feel bad. I see you, and I pity you.

How about if we get satisfaction from NOT giving RSV to someone else's child? You let your kid be around other kids when they had RSV. And yet your only takeaway is to hate your MIL for daring to tell you to take your kid to the doctor. She was probably being sarcastic when she said take your kid to the doctor after two weeks of coughing. Most people wouldn't wait that long.

Thanks on behalf of all the other parents who now have to deal with RSV, and possibly have their kids in the packed emergency rooms dealing with it. You are a real sweetheart, PP.

Not PP but doctors offices are pretty overwhelmed right now. I’m not taking my kids in to be tested for RSV for every little cold symptom. Amazing how the expectation has changed since the pandemic started. RSV just used to be something everyone got unknowingly.

Things change, you idiot!! COVID used to be something everyone got unknowingly -- a simple cold -- until it wasn't. We are in an RSV surge. Hospitals are filling to capacity with children who have RSV. Do you really not know that? To stupidly pretend it's an attitude adjustment issue when it's actually a community health crisis is just plain idiotic.

People who don't care if they send to their children to school coughing when we are in the middle of a public health crisis regarding respiratory illness for children are either monsters or morons. Take your pick.

You are insane. No, doctors do not want you to take your child in for mild symptoms. Why would you think it is remotely a good idea to flood doctors' offices with mild cases of RSV? WTAF is wrong with you? Even if you do get an RSV test and test positive, the only guideline for sending a child back to school is when they feel better. They will not tell you to keep your child home for 8 days purely because of a positive test. There are reasons for that, which I am sure you don't care about while you spout off made up medical advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi all, here are some basic facts for the posters here who appear to be divorced from reality:

1. Children often get sick and can get one virus after another, meaning they can be symptomatic for several weeks without requiring a trip to the doctor if their symptoms are mild.

2. Thankfully, for most children, symptoms of viruses like RSV are very mild.

3.Taking a child to the doctor for every new mild symptom is not appropriate, especially when health systems are overwhelmed and your goal is to NOT spread disease to vulnerable newborns and children with high risk conditions

4. Most parents do not know that what their child has is RSV and cannot be reasonably expected to know. In fact RSV spreads the most at the beginning of the illness before it is apparent that the child is even sick.

5. A new cough does not mean a child definitely has RSV. A new cough often presents later in a mild cold due to phlegm.

6. "Keep your child home if they have a new cough" is not based on medical advice, it is a made up rule. People should follow medical advice, not made up rules on DCUM.

7. Unfortunately, it is impossible to completely stop the spread of RSV. The best that can reasonably be done is for parents to keep kids home when they are not feeling well enough to participate in school/daycare. Forcing them to keep kids that are feeling well, home, works against that because there is a limit to how much school and work people can/are willing to miss.

All of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

How do you know this is happening? Do you follow your kid into the classroom? Are you a teacher? My kid has been coughing for a month now. I have no idea what is wrong with him. I dose him with Claritin and Robitussin every morning and if he happens to cough as I am dropping him off, I look at him with exaggerated pity in front of his teachers and just say, "Aw allergies got you this morning, huh, bud?" and then drive off to get Starbucks before going to work. Sorry.

I have a post-nasal drip cough two weeks after having a cold (not covid, I tested). I am not sick and I am not contagious.

People cough for a variety of reasons. Now, they should be covering their mouths with their elbows. And/or using hand sanitizer pretty frequently at school. But we can't shut down our lives when people have mild illnesses. We just can't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

Nobody cares anymore and it will be a contributing factor to so many kids being very sick this year (and spreading it to adults).

In my son's preschool, I was told sick kids are allowed to attend if they have a negative Covid test. They don't have to mask or anything anymore.
Parents flipped out when kids were asked to mask for a week when one child had Covid. Because the county mandate was over they were furious their child was asked to mask even though they knew that their child (and others in class) had been exposed.

It is American selfishness. Nobody cares if anyone else gets sick.

I keep my child home when they are sick and since they don't mind wearing masks - they do so. I can't prevent everything but because people knowingly send their kids to school sick - I have to make my kid take precautions. My spouse has some health issues that can get scary if he gets Covid or a bad cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

How do you know this is happening? Do you follow your kid into the classroom? Are you a teacher? My kid has been coughing for a month now. I have no idea what is wrong with him. I dose him with Claritin and Robitussin every morning and if he happens to cough as I am dropping him off, I look at him with exaggerated pity in front of his teachers and just say, "Aw allergies got you this morning, huh, bud?" and then drive off to get Starbucks before going to work. Sorry.

I have a post-nasal drip cough two weeks after having a cold (not covid, I tested). I am not sick and I am not contagious.

People cough for a variety of reasons. Now, they should be covering their mouths with their elbows. And/or using hand sanitizer pretty frequently at school. But we can't shut down our lives when people have mild illnesses. We just can't.

You are correct but the issue is that people who are actively contagious don't care. My child has terrible asthma. After a mild cold, he will cough for a month. I can't keep him home until he stops coughing completely but he is masked even though he likely isn't contagious. The mask also prevents him from getting sick again while he is still recovering from the last illness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time my DD is sick my MIL will decide DH and I did something wrong to cause it and/or not respond correctly. Recently when DD tested positive for RSV (after three weeks of mild cold symptoms, most likely started with at lease one other different virus) she said, "Next time, take her to the doctor after she has been coughing for ::pause to make up fake medical advice:: two weeks". I just stared at her and she looked back at me like a little child caught in a lie.

I suspect there are a lot of people like my MIL on this thread, who for whatever reason get some satisfaction out of being the "parenting police" and making sh&t up to try to make other parents feel bad. I see you, and I pity you.

How about if we get satisfaction from NOT giving RSV to someone else's child? You let your kid be around other kids when they had RSV. And yet your only takeaway is to hate your MIL for daring to tell you to take your kid to the doctor. She was probably being sarcastic when she said take your kid to the doctor after two weeks of coughing. Most people wouldn't wait that long.

Thanks on behalf of all the other parents who now have to deal with RSV, and possibly have their kids in the packed emergency rooms dealing with it. You are a real sweetheart, PP.

Not PP but doctors offices are pretty overwhelmed right now. I’m not taking my kids in to be tested for RSV for every little cold symptom. Amazing how the expectation has changed since the pandemic started. RSV just used to be something everyone got unknowingly.

Things change, you idiot!! COVID used to be something everyone got unknowingly -- a simple cold -- until it wasn't. We are in an RSV surge. Hospitals are filling to capacity with children who have RSV. Do you really not know that? To stupidly pretend it's an attitude adjustment issue when it's actually a community health crisis is just plain idiotic.

People who don't care if they send to their children to school coughing when we are in the middle of a public health crisis regarding respiratory illness for children are either monsters or morons. Take your pick.

Calm down.

My kids my husband and I are still coughing from an illness two weeks ago. You’re telling me you expect me to keep my kids home for two weeks for a cough? You are out of your mind.

I also work in a daycare and we are not excluding kids who have a cough because that would be an extreme burden on the parents. If we were to exclude children with coughs we would have had empty classrooms for the past couple of weeks/month. Of all of these kids that have been out, and have gone to the doctor, nly a couple drs have tested for RSV. Doctors are not testing all the children.

It’s more burdensome to make healthy kids sick because you are too lazy to keep sick kids home. If kids are such a burden don’t have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

Nobody cares anymore and it will be a contributing factor to so many kids being very sick this year (and spreading it to adults).

In my son's preschool, I was told sick kids are allowed to attend if they have a negative Covid test. They don't have to mask or anything anymore.
Parents flipped out when kids were asked to mask for a week when one child had Covid. Because the county mandate was over they were furious their child was asked to mask even though they knew that their child (and others in class) had been exposed.

It is American selfishness. Nobody cares if anyone else gets sick.

I keep my child home when they are sick and since they don't mind wearing masks - they do so. I can't prevent everything but because people knowingly send their kids to school sick - I have to make my kid take precautions. My spouse has some health issues that can get scary if he gets Covid or a bad cold.

Mcps schools are much larger than day cares so the spread is even worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

Nobody cares anymore and it will be a contributing factor to so many kids being very sick this year (and spreading it to adults).

In my son's preschool, I was told sick kids are allowed to attend if they have a negative Covid test. They don't have to mask or anything anymore.
Parents flipped out when kids were asked to mask for a week when one child had Covid. Because the county mandate was over they were furious their child was asked to mask even though they knew that their child (and others in class) had been exposed.

It is American selfishness. Nobody cares if anyone else gets sick.

I keep my child home when they are sick and since they don't mind wearing masks - they do so. I can't prevent everything but because people knowingly send their kids to school sick - I have to make my kid take precautions. My spouse has some health issues that can get scary if he gets Covid or a bad cold.

When your child is old will you keep them home from elementary school for a month because they have a cough?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

Nobody cares anymore and it will be a contributing factor to so many kids being very sick this year (and spreading it to adults).

In my son's preschool, I was told sick kids are allowed to attend if they have a negative Covid test. They don't have to mask or anything anymore.
Parents flipped out when kids were asked to mask for a week when one child had Covid. Because the county mandate was over they were furious their child was asked to mask even though they knew that their child (and others in class) had been exposed.

It is American selfishness. Nobody cares if anyone else gets sick.

I keep my child home when they are sick and since they don't mind wearing masks - they do so. I can't prevent everything but because people knowingly send their kids to school sick - I have to make my kid take precautions. My spouse has some health issues that can get scary if he gets Covid or a bad cold.

When your child is old will you keep them home from elementary school for a month because they have a cough?

You should homeschool.