Covid on campus? Anyone testing positive now? How are they handling it?

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Anonymous wrote:just got an email, "Did you know you can buy covid tests from the new vending machines around campus?"

super...

Wow. Because that's how every college kid wants to spend their money...on Covid tests.

they get four free...guess their ID card knows how many they already "bought".

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My UVA sophomore tested positive yesterday morning and was sick since Sunday night. She was told professors will only work with you if you report your positive test to the university so she did. Two of her professors have thanked her for being honest and staying home and ensured her they'd work with her. As she lives in an apt with other roommates and one is immunocompromised, I picked her up yesterday morning and will bring her back on day 6. And, fortunately we live in a large house so she is quarantining in her two rooms on her end of the house. We also wore N95 masks in the car. I'm not Covid paranoid and am double boosted, but I don't want to get sick.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

Wow, you're cavalier with everyone else's health. You really don't get this disease or even how to spell its variant! Having omicron does not necessarily build not sufficient antibodies to prevent reinfection, esp w/ additional variants. Yes, there is some spreading before getting a positive test, but ignoring testing and isolating is just going to reignite the pandemic and result in more variants. Just try to be responsible.

Are you serious in that you think you can avoid covid anymore? OMG, get a clue. Keep running, Forest.

You are the problem. Try being just a little bit responsible. Masking with symptoms/pos test or if being in contact with infected people won't kill you or cramp your style too much and will help those around you stay well. But, it sounds like you only care about your own convenience.

How many times have you had it? I’m guessing none if you are still acting like this is a huge deal for 99.99 percent of people.

How many times have YOU had it? If more than one I'm guessing you're utterly irresponsible.

I've never had it and I do act utterly irresponsibly according to you. No one in my family of 5 has had it either. We don't mask or test.

If you don't test, you don't know if you had it. Denial must be nice.

lol! an illness soooo bad and scary she didn't even know she had it- i think you're proving her point here...

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

Wow, you're cavalier with everyone else's health. You really don't get this disease or even how to spell its variant! Having omicron does not necessarily build not sufficient antibodies to prevent reinfection, esp w/ additional variants. Yes, there is some spreading before getting a positive test, but ignoring testing and isolating is just going to reignite the pandemic and result in more variants. Just try to be responsible.

Are you serious in that you think you can avoid covid anymore? OMG, get a clue. Keep running, Forest.

You are the problem. Try being just a little bit responsible. Masking with symptoms/pos test or if being in contact with infected people won't kill you or cramp your style too much and will help those around you stay well. But, it sounds like you only care about your own convenience.

How many times have you had it? I’m guessing none if you are still acting like this is a huge deal for 99.99 percent of people.

How many times have YOU had it? If more than one I'm guessing you're utterly irresponsible.

I've never had it and I do act utterly irresponsibly according to you. No one in my family of 5 has had it either. We don't mask or test.

If you don't test, you don't know if you had it. Denial must be nice.

lol! an illness soooo bad and scary she didn't even know she had it- i think you're proving her point here...

Just because it wasn't bad for her doesn't mean it wasn't bad for people that she passed it to. I got Covid, wasn't a big deal. Passed it to my husband, who was sick as a dog for 5 days and lost his voice for over a week. He's a professor and had to cancel his classes--you can't teach with no voice.

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Anonymous wrote:My UVA sophomore tested positive yesterday morning and was sick since Sunday night. She was told professors will only work with you if you report your positive test to the university so she did. Two of her professors have thanked her for being honest and staying home and ensured her they'd work with her. As she lives in an apt with other roommates and one is immunocompromised, I picked her up yesterday morning and will bring her back on day 6. And, fortunately we live in a large house so she is quarantining in her two rooms on her end of the house. We also wore N95 masks in the car. I'm not Covid paranoid and am double boosted, but I don't want to get sick.

Wonder why an immunocompromised college student thought it was a good plan to live with a group of other students during a pandemic? Seems like they should have lobbied for a single on campus (which freshmen can usually get if they have a medical reason).

When schools were giving kids the option of residential vs online, my kid said she would come back to campus if she could live in a single, and the school accommodated her.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

Wow, you're cavalier with everyone else's health. You really don't get this disease or even how to spell its variant! Having omicron does not necessarily build not sufficient antibodies to prevent reinfection, esp w/ additional variants. Yes, there is some spreading before getting a positive test, but ignoring testing and isolating is just going to reignite the pandemic and result in more variants. Just try to be responsible.

Are you serious in that you think you can avoid covid anymore? OMG, get a clue. Keep running, Forest.

You are the problem. Try being just a little bit responsible. Masking with symptoms/pos test or if being in contact with infected people won't kill you or cramp your style too much and will help those around you stay well. But, it sounds like you only care about your own convenience.

How many times have you had it? I’m guessing none if you are still acting like this is a huge deal for 99.99 percent of people.

How many times have YOU had it? If more than one I'm guessing you're utterly irresponsible.

I've never had it and I do act utterly irresponsibly according to you. No one in my family of 5 has had it either. We don't mask or test.

If you don't test, you don't know if you had it. Denial must be nice.

lol! an illness soooo bad and scary she didn't even know she had it- i think you're proving her point here...

Just because it wasn't bad for her doesn't mean it wasn't bad for people that she passed it to. I got Covid, wasn't a big deal. Passed it to my husband, who was sick as a dog for 5 days and lost his voice for over a week. He's a professor and had to cancel his classes--you can't teach with no voice.

Did you feel bad at all about bringing it into the house? Just curious.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

Wow, you're cavalier with everyone else's health. You really don't get this disease or even how to spell its variant! Having omicron does not necessarily build not sufficient antibodies to prevent reinfection, esp w/ additional variants. Yes, there is some spreading before getting a positive test, but ignoring testing and isolating is just going to reignite the pandemic and result in more variants. Just try to be responsible.

Are you serious in that you think you can avoid covid anymore? OMG, get a clue. Keep running, Forest.

You are the problem. Try being just a little bit responsible. Masking with symptoms/pos test or if being in contact with infected people won't kill you or cramp your style too much and will help those around you stay well. But, it sounds like you only care about your own convenience.

How many times have you had it? I’m guessing none if you are still acting like this is a huge deal for 99.99 percent of people.

How many times have YOU had it? If more than one I'm guessing you're utterly irresponsible.

I've never had it and I do act utterly irresponsibly according to you. No one in my family of 5 has had it either. We don't mask or test.

If you don't test, you don't know if you had it. Denial must be nice.

lol! an illness soooo bad and scary she didn't even know she had it- i think you're proving her point here...

Just because it wasn't bad for her doesn't mean it wasn't bad for people that she passed it to. I got Covid, wasn't a big deal. Passed it to my husband, who was sick as a dog for 5 days and lost his voice for over a week. He's a professor and had to cancel his classes--you can't teach with no voice.

you passed it onto your husband despite being a Good Covid Citizen. So...what does that tell you?

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

Wow, you're cavalier with everyone else's health. You really don't get this disease or even how to spell its variant! Having omicron does not necessarily build not sufficient antibodies to prevent reinfection, esp w/ additional variants. Yes, there is some spreading before getting a positive test, but ignoring testing and isolating is just going to reignite the pandemic and result in more variants. Just try to be responsible.

Are you serious in that you think you can avoid covid anymore? OMG, get a clue. Keep running, Forest.

You are the problem. Try being just a little bit responsible. Masking with symptoms/pos test or if being in contact with infected people won't kill you or cramp your style too much and will help those around you stay well. But, it sounds like you only care about your own convenience.

How many times have you had it? I’m guessing none if you are still acting like this is a huge deal for 99.99 percent of people.

How many times have YOU had it? If more than one I'm guessing you're utterly irresponsible.

I've never had it and I do act utterly irresponsibly according to you. No one in my family of 5 has had it either. We don't mask or test.

If you don't test, you don't know if you had it. Denial must be nice.

lol! an illness soooo bad and scary she didn't even know she had it- i think you're proving her point here...

Just because it wasn't bad for her doesn't mean it wasn't bad for people that she passed it to. I got Covid, wasn't a big deal. Passed it to my husband, who was sick as a dog for 5 days and lost his voice for over a week. He's a professor and had to cancel his classes--you can't teach with no voice.

Isn't COVID most contagious 2-3 days before symptoms set in?

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

Wow, you're cavalier with everyone else's health. You really don't get this disease or even how to spell its variant! Having omicron does not necessarily build not sufficient antibodies to prevent reinfection, esp w/ additional variants. Yes, there is some spreading before getting a positive test, but ignoring testing and isolating is just going to reignite the pandemic and result in more variants. Just try to be responsible.

Are you serious in that you think you can avoid covid anymore? OMG, get a clue. Keep running, Forest.

You are the problem. Try being just a little bit responsible. Masking with symptoms/pos test or if being in contact with infected people won't kill you or cramp your style too much and will help those around you stay well. But, it sounds like you only care about your own convenience.

How many times have you had it? I’m guessing none if you are still acting like this is a huge deal for 99.99 percent of people.

How many times have YOU had it? If more than one I'm guessing you're utterly irresponsible.

I've never had it and I do act utterly irresponsibly according to you. No one in my family of 5 has had it either. We don't mask or test.

If you don't test, you don't know if you had it. Denial must be nice.

lol! an illness soooo bad and scary she didn't even know she had it- i think you're proving her point here...

My very healthy 20 year old was just sick with a 103 fever with it for 5 days--he says it's the worst illness he ever experienced and 3 weeks later he still can't smell/taste food properly. It's the roll of the dice how bad your symptoms will be. The rest of our family masked with n95s around him and we all tested negative and didn't get it thankfully.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

Wow, you're cavalier with everyone else's health. You really don't get this disease or even how to spell its variant! Having omicron does not necessarily build not sufficient antibodies to prevent reinfection, esp w/ additional variants. Yes, there is some spreading before getting a positive test, but ignoring testing and isolating is just going to reignite the pandemic and result in more variants. Just try to be responsible.

Are you serious in that you think you can avoid covid anymore? OMG, get a clue. Keep running, Forest.

You are the problem. Try being just a little bit responsible. Masking with symptoms/pos test or if being in contact with infected people won't kill you or cramp your style too much and will help those around you stay well. But, it sounds like you only care about your own convenience.

How many times have you had it? I’m guessing none if you are still acting like this is a huge deal for 99.99 percent of people.

How many times have YOU had it? If more than one I'm guessing you're utterly irresponsible.

I've never had it and I do act utterly irresponsibly according to you. No one in my family of 5 has had it either. We don't mask or test.

If you don't test, you don't know if you had it. Denial must be nice.

lol! an illness soooo bad and scary she didn't even know she had it- i think you're proving her point here...

Just because it wasn't bad for her doesn't mean it wasn't bad for people that she passed it to. I got Covid, wasn't a big deal. Passed it to my husband, who was sick as a dog for 5 days and lost his voice for over a week. He's a professor and had to cancel his classes--you can't teach with no voice.

you passed it onto your husband despite being a Good Covid Citizen. So...what does that tell you?

It tells me that different people react differently to the same illness. Your kid may be fine this time, but next time she may be the one with the high fever, shaking uncontrollably, nauseous, unable to eat or drink because her throat hurts so badly. And then she'll miss events that are important to her. Don't think you and yours will come out of this unscathed.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

Wow, you're cavalier with everyone else's health. You really don't get this disease or even how to spell its variant! Having omicron does not necessarily build not sufficient antibodies to prevent reinfection, esp w/ additional variants. Yes, there is some spreading before getting a positive test, but ignoring testing and isolating is just going to reignite the pandemic and result in more variants. Just try to be responsible.

Are you serious in that you think you can avoid covid anymore? OMG, get a clue. Keep running, Forest.

You are the problem. Try being just a little bit responsible. Masking with symptoms/pos test or if being in contact with infected people won't kill you or cramp your style too much and will help those around you stay well. But, it sounds like you only care about your own convenience.

How many times have you had it? I’m guessing none if you are still acting like this is a huge deal for 99.99 percent of people.

How many times have YOU had it? If more than one I'm guessing you're utterly irresponsible.

I've never had it and I do act utterly irresponsibly according to you. No one in my family of 5 has had it either. We don't mask or test.

If you don't test, you don't know if you had it. Denial must be nice.

lol! an illness soooo bad and scary she didn't even know she had it- i think you're proving her point here...

Just because it wasn't bad for her doesn't mean it wasn't bad for people that she passed it to. I got Covid, wasn't a big deal. Passed it to my husband, who was sick as a dog for 5 days and lost his voice for over a week. He's a professor and had to cancel his classes--you can't teach with no voice.

Did you feel bad at all about bringing it into the house? Just curious.

No--I woke up feeling funny, tested positive at 9 am. My husband tested negative that morning, was positive by dinnertime. It happened far too quickly to isolate or take any mitigating steps.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

Wow, you're cavalier with everyone else's health. You really don't get this disease or even how to spell its variant! Having omicron does not necessarily build not sufficient antibodies to prevent reinfection, esp w/ additional variants. Yes, there is some spreading before getting a positive test, but ignoring testing and isolating is just going to reignite the pandemic and result in more variants. Just try to be responsible.

Are you serious in that you think you can avoid covid anymore? OMG, get a clue. Keep running, Forest.

You are the problem. Try being just a little bit responsible. Masking with symptoms/pos test or if being in contact with infected people won't kill you or cramp your style too much and will help those around you stay well. But, it sounds like you only care about your own convenience.

How many times have you had it? I’m guessing none if you are still acting like this is a huge deal for 99.99 percent of people.

How many times have YOU had it? If more than one I'm guessing you're utterly irresponsible.

I've never had it and I do act utterly irresponsibly according to you. No one in my family of 5 has had it either. We don't mask or test.

If you don't test, you don't know if you had it. Denial must be nice.

lol! an illness soooo bad and scary she didn't even know she had it- i think you're proving her point here...

Just because it wasn't bad for her doesn't mean it wasn't bad for people that she passed it to. I got Covid, wasn't a big deal. Passed it to my husband, who was sick as a dog for 5 days and lost his voice for over a week. He's a professor and had to cancel his classes--you can't teach with no voice.

Did you feel bad at all about bringing it into the house? Just curious.

No--I woke up feeling funny, tested positive at 9 am. My husband tested negative that morning, was positive by dinnertime. It happened far too quickly to isolate or take any mitigating steps.

Again, you're kind of proving PP's point.

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My DC tested positive last night. Symptoms were a massive headache and achey bones. My child took Tylenol and is feeling much better this morning. My child didn’t call me and tell me until this morning but I had a feeling that something was off (intuition). I figured my child would get it with going out Friday and Saturday night and seeing posts on the parent page about new covid cases. The university (In NY) has protocols in place for isolating (5 days- has single room), picking up food and notifying teachers with an official note. This child rarely got symptoms when exposed in the past and I’m hearing other kids are much sicker this go around so this strain must be pretty bad.

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Binax Now at home tests have been incredibly accurate for our family during COVID. Not all at home tests are equal.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at a big 10. Lots of posts on parents page about kids turning pos. They isolate you in a special dorm room if they can unless you live less than 4 hours away you have to go home. You are isolated for 5 days. Last week the dorm filled up and parents are now paying for hotels out of pocket.

If my son felt sick I would tell him not to test. Missing a week of classes is a lot and we all already had delta and omnicrom.

I think schools need to stop this nonsense with isolation. Ever since Delta passed its been like the flu. It was more like a cold with Omnicron for us.

Wow, you're cavalier with everyone else's health. You really don't get this disease or even how to spell its variant! Having omicron does not necessarily build not sufficient antibodies to prevent reinfection, esp w/ additional variants. Yes, there is some spreading before getting a positive test, but ignoring testing and isolating is just going to reignite the pandemic and result in more variants. Just try to be responsible.

Are you serious in that you think you can avoid covid anymore? OMG, get a clue. Keep running, Forest.

You are the problem. Try being just a little bit responsible. Masking with symptoms/pos test or if being in contact with infected people won't kill you or cramp your style too much and will help those around you stay well. But, it sounds like you only care about your own convenience.

How many times have you had it? I’m guessing none if you are still acting like this is a huge deal for 99.99 percent of people.

How many times have YOU had it? If more than one I'm guessing you're utterly irresponsible.

I've never had it and I do act utterly irresponsibly according to you. No one in my family of 5 has had it either. We don't mask or test.

If you don't test, you don't know if you had it. Denial must be nice.

lol! an illness soooo bad and scary she didn't even know she had it- i think you're proving her point here...

Just because it wasn't bad for her doesn't mean it wasn't bad for people that she passed it to. I got Covid, wasn't a big deal. Passed it to my husband, who was sick as a dog for 5 days and lost his voice for over a week. He's a professor and had to cancel his classes--you can't teach with no voice.

PP. so when do suggest I should have tested since we’ve had absolutely ZERO symptoms over the past two years? Randomly test just for the hell of it? Sorry, that’s ridiculous. I stand by my no testing. Sure if we were sick we’d test but none of us have been sick. Despite not wearing masks.