CDC updating guidelines to not require isolation once symptoms are mild and fever free

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

God forbid being “trapped” in one’s own home.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

Given that we're all going to die anyway, on balance there isn't good reason not to smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

I prefer going on vacation everyday since this is preference-based as you suggest.

Right. It comes down to what is practical, not what is personally desirable. It isn't practical to stay home for mild illnesses.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

God forbid being “trapped” in one’s own home.

Some of us are productive members of society. I know that's a foreign concept to you.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

Given that we're all going to die anyway, on balance there isn't good reason not to smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day.

If you really like smoking that much, I suppose that's true. Not my thing, but you do you.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

I prefer going on vacation everyday since this is preference-based as you suggest.

Right. It comes down to what is practical, not what is personally desirable. It isn't practical to stay home for mild illnesses.

I'm sorry that your workplace is so inflexible. That's one of the things that should have changed, as a result of covid. So that people would be able to stay home and avoid infecting others, while they had an infectious disease that can cause people to get very ill or even die, without fear of losing their jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

I prefer going on vacation everyday since this is preference-based as you suggest.

Right. It comes down to what is practical, not what is personally desirable. It isn't practical to stay home for mild illnesses.

I'm sorry that your workplace is so inflexible. That's one of the things that should have changed, as a result of covid. So that people would be able to stay home and avoid infecting others, while they had an infectious disease that can cause people to get very ill or even die, without fear of losing their jobs.

If covid is going to kill you, it can kill you just as well coming from someone that is asymptomatic as someone with mild symptoms. Work on your own health and stop expecting everyone else to make up for your own poor choices.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

I prefer going on vacation everyday since this is preference-based as you suggest.

Right. It comes down to what is practical, not what is personally desirable. It isn't practical to stay home for mild illnesses.

I'm sorry that your workplace is so inflexible. That's one of the things that should have changed, as a result of covid. So that people would be able to stay home and avoid infecting others, while they had an infectious disease that can cause people to get very ill or even die, without fear of losing their jobs.

If covid is going to kill you, it can kill you just as well coming from someone that is asymptomatic as someone with mild symptoms. Work on your own health and stop expecting everyone else to make up for your own poor choices.

If a car crash is going to kill you, it can kill you just as well if you're wearing a seatbelt as if you're not. But the car crash is less likely to kill you if you're wearing a seatbelt. Just like everyone is less likely to get sick if more people who are sick with an infectious disease stay home while they are infectious.

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Ah covid. Guaranteed to make strangers fight on the internet.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

I prefer going on vacation everyday since this is preference-based as you suggest.

Right. It comes down to what is practical, not what is personally desirable. It isn't practical to stay home for mild illnesses.

I'm sorry that your workplace is so inflexible. That's one of the things that should have changed, as a result of covid. So that people would be able to stay home and avoid infecting others, while they had an infectious disease that can cause people to get very ill or even die, without fear of losing their jobs.

If covid is going to kill you, it can kill you just as well coming from someone that is asymptomatic as someone with mild symptoms. Work on your own health and stop expecting everyone else to make up for your own poor choices.

If someone makes an effort to mask and take caution, then how is that poor choice. Some of us are still careful due to health issues. You are pretty selfish and obnoxious.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

I prefer going on vacation everyday since this is preference-based as you suggest.

Right. It comes down to what is practical, not what is personally desirable. It isn't practical to stay home for mild illnesses.

I'm sorry that your workplace is so inflexible. That's one of the things that should have changed, as a result of covid. So that people would be able to stay home and avoid infecting others, while they had an infectious disease that can cause people to get very ill or even die, without fear of losing their jobs.

If covid is going to kill you, it can kill you just as well coming from someone that is asymptomatic as someone with mild symptoms. Work on your own health and stop expecting everyone else to make up for your own poor choices.

If a car crash is going to kill you, it can kill you just as well if you're wearing a seatbelt as if you're not. But the car crash is less likely to kill you if you're wearing a seatbelt. Just like everyone is less likely to get sick if more people who are sick with an infectious disease stay home while they are infectious.

Do you think getting covid is like getting in a car crash?

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Why not both? People will still get sick, but they will get sick less often if people stay home when they're sick. (Also, if people get vaccinated.) Generally, people prefer not getting sick, over getting sick. But your preferences may be different.

People also generally prefer living their lives to being trapped at home or having to miss work/school. So given that we're all going to get sick occasionally anyway, on balance there isn't good reason to stay home if you're feeling well enough to do your daily activities.

I prefer going on vacation everyday since this is preference-based as you suggest.

Right. It comes down to what is practical, not what is personally desirable. It isn't practical to stay home for mild illnesses.

I'm sorry that your workplace is so inflexible. That's one of the things that should have changed, as a result of covid. So that people would be able to stay home and avoid infecting others, while they had an infectious disease that can cause people to get very ill or even die, without fear of losing their jobs.

If covid is going to kill you, it can kill you just as well coming from someone that is asymptomatic as someone with mild symptoms. Work on your own health and stop expecting everyone else to make up for your own poor choices.

If someone makes an effort to mask and take caution, then how is that poor choice. Some of us are still careful due to health issues. You are pretty selfish and obnoxious.

Because if you made good choices you wouldn't be dependent on others to protect you from covid.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting covid is really bad for you. At this point I feel like if you're too stupid to wear a mask and tell your kids to wear masks, explain to them why they should ... There's nothing I can do.

My family? We wear masks and we use enovid. And we don't get sick.

Sucks to be the rest of y'all. I feel horrible for kids who are too young to get this. But my empathy for everyone else is gone

By the way, despite precautions, I've had it twice since 2019--once because DH brought it home from work, once because my father brought it to us when he visited. They didn't get that sick and neither did my kid.

I was sick for months. It was absolutely terrifying. I hope you all never have to learn the hard way like my family did, but I'm not even sure youd pay attention if you did.

I’m so sorry. People have a tendency to think if they had an easy time, others must be exaggerating. I have it right now for the first time. Everyone insisted their Covid was just a cold but I’m really sick right now. I feel worse than the flu. Between a nagging wet cough and severe pain i haven’t slept more than an hour here or there in days. No amount of OTC pain reliever has worked. I also have some really bizarre symptoms that I’ve never heard reported. I tried to get paxlovid but the NP scared me about the risks of taking it. I’m so nauseous I can’t stomach any more meds anyway. I hope this ends soon. It’s just common courtesy to stay home when sick. It’s so easy to wait for a negative test to return and that should remain the policy. Especially in the workplace (which a school surely is) when people have no means to protect themselves. Almost everybody I know who has tested out of isolation has felt better while still testing positive and for a lot longer than the current guidance of 5 days. So I think the current guidance is too lax. The general public has no tolerance for Covid anymore and they really don’t care about the science. I’m very disappointed in the CDC.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Yes, and you still need to stay home when sick. Accept it.

You’d be better off accepting that people have been going to the grocery store with covid for 4 years and will continue to do so …

This! People have covid and don't even know it. People are getting exposed on a regular basis. Wear your mask if you are concerned.

My daughter had a little cold and tested negative twice. She went to school. Then later in the week she tested again and was positive. I am sure she exposed people!! But she wasn't sick enough to stay home. The teachers want kids to go to school...there has been too much learning loss trying to avoid virus that has little to no impact on children.

Again, wear a mask if you are concerned. That is the only way around it. You can also stay home. People are spreading germs and you cannot control it.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean for MCPS guidelines? Sounds like they will need to update...covid will be treated like any other illness.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/covid-isolation-change-cdc/index.html

We could have changed the policies for other major illnesses, as well as covid. But no, instead we're going to have the same bad policies for other major illnesses as for covid.

Why do you want kids to be deprived of education for a sniffly nose?

Why do you describe influenza and covid as "a sniffly nose"?

Because often covid is just that. Barely any symptoms...or even no symptoms. Influenza can also present as mild in someone who has been vaccinated.

And the person with the "sniffly nose" from covid goes to school or work and infects someone else with covid, who then gets major symptoms, because that's how infectious diseases work. They're diseases, which are infectious. So yes, I do want kids to be deprived of education while they are infectious with a disease that can make people seriously ill.

Most people don't know they're infectious. Simply out, it isn't possible to prevent people from ever getting sick.

Most people who are sick with an infectious disease don't know they're infectious? Wow.

Correct- they don't. They're either asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Are you just learning that now?

So it's ok for people who have symptoms and know they're infectious to go out and spread a disease because there are other people who may have the disease and be infectious without knowing it? Bonkers.

You're getting sick either way. That's life.

You need to stay home when sick. That’s life.

You're still going to get sick. Accept it.

Yes, and you still need to stay home when sick. Accept it.

You’d be better off accepting that people have been going to the grocery store with covid for 4 years and will continue to do so …

This! People have covid and don't even know it. People are getting exposed on a regular basis. Wear your mask if you are concerned.

My daughter had a little cold and tested negative twice. She went to school. Then later in the week she tested again and was positive. I am sure she exposed people!! But she wasn't sick enough to stay home. The teachers want kids to go to school...there has been too much learning loss trying to avoid virus that has little to no impact on children.

Again, wear a mask if you are concerned. That is the only way around it. You can also stay home. People are spreading germs and you cannot control it.

We do wear masks. That's why we haven't gotten it again. My husband slipped up at work because "no one else was wearing a mask." The coworker who got the entire office sick knew he was sick. He just didn't care. My father who infected me last year flat-out lied to me. He came to visit, I asked him to wear a mask for a few days on arrival when interacting with us--and we would too--during that time he started coughing. He swore to me up and down it was just his asthma. Then, I kept walking into rooms and finding him unmasked. We had air purifiers running, and everyone else was acting like I was paranoid, so I dropped my guard. My dad has asthma. He is a little allergic to our cat. The story I was given made sense. He'd been with us five days when I dropped precautions. On the sixth day, he confessed he'd been feeling sick for the last three but he was testing negative and just didn't want to tell me. On the eighth day, (after we reinstituted masking and isolation), I couldn't get out of bed. My cough was utterly terrifying. I felt like I couldn't catch my breath for a week. I had crashing fatigue and brain fog for the next four months, accompanied with a randomly racing heart. I started forgetting words. I lost my sense of smell and taste for months. Its been about a year and I seem to have recovered, but stuff still isn't quite how it was and I have absolutely no damned clue why anyone would accept this as normal.

I feel gaslit and pissed off. Yes, my family masks. I wish you all could understand why. I feel fortunate we are some of the lucky ones.