Are parents now sending kids to school and camp sick?

[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.

He probably won’t catch it. Most transmission occurs in the home.

[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.

Your post is proof that the quarantine guidelines are the problem.

[Anonymous]

I keep mine home long enough to get negative PCR test results, then send if they're feeling well enough to eat, sleep, play, and nap. They also need to be up to wearing a mask (some lingering cough ok, but not a runny nose).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

COVID aside, you’re not supposed to send your kid in unless they’ve been 24 + hours fever free. Same with gastro issues for the most part (although I know some schools allow one instance). I’ve gotten pretty good now of telling the difference between regurgitated food b/c my toddler stuffed his face too fast vs. sick vomit smell, so if it seemed like sick vomit, I’d keep him home after 1 puke.

Runny noses … ehhh kids seem to have those all the time, especially kids with allergies. If it’s just a slight runny nose I send (especially change of seasons), but thick discharge should be kept home until the worst passes (usually 48-72 hours). Cough should be staying home unless it’s just lingering from a virus (but I would hope you’d keep them home for the initial virus phase).

I honestly don’t understand some of you selfish parents who make everyone else deal with your sick kid’s germs b/c you can’t be inconvenienced. It’s gross. And yes I’m from a dual working household with 2 kids and no family help. We burn leave when needed on sick kids days and/or stagger schedules. Or we hire a backup sitter. You need to have contingencies that don’t involve sending a kid to school just 12 hours after spiking a fever. Or don’t have kids if you can’t handle caring for them while sick.

[Anonymous]

Oh and meant to add, even with a slight runny nose we’ve done a walk up PCR test through the county. It’s free. Results came back in < 24 hours.

[Anonymous]

The most bananas conservative Covid family I know (and we were very conservative for a long while) just got a summer cold and took their kid to the pool anyway to avoid a kid's tantrum at the change in plans. Whatever "cultural shift" we thought would happen has not happened. Everyone wants the shift to happen but no one wants to be inconvenienced.

I kept my son out of school for 2 full days leading up to a weekend because of a (covid negative) cold. But when he woke up with sniffles and nothing else (didn't end up turning into a cold) I sent him to his fully outdoor masked camp. We are trying, but sometimes the gametime decision is a gamble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

He probably won’t catch it. Most transmission occurs in the home.

How do you know the kid even felt sick?