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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?

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.

You should homeschool...directed to the immediate previous poster.

[Anonymous]

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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).

This is 100% RSV. While not dangerous for most of us, babies and old people can die.

[Anonymous]

Seriously. If you are worried about getting sick, your kid should be in Virtual Academy or you should homeschool.

Kids get sick. Helps them build their immune system. Coughs, colds, runny noses. All an important part of a healthy childhood.

[Anonymous]

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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).

This is 100% RSV. While not dangerous for most of us, babies and old people can die.

Yes we get that. Diseases kill people.

Public health authorities are responsible for determining appropriate measures for preventing the spread of disease. Unsurprisingly, they do not recommend keeping home any child with a cough. They do not do this because there are a myriad of negative effects, including health effects, from missing extensive amounts of school. If you disagree with this, take it up with them.

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Are people here really that stupid?

Since when is it a good idea to send sick kids to school? It's not good for them or their classmates or teachers. It's just inconsiderate. It's not up to you to make sure their classmates get enough exposure to viruses.

Kids will still get sick enough if the really sick kids stay home. Kids will still be exposed to enough germs to build immunity. You don't need to have Covid and RSV several times in order to grow up healthy. Geez - these justifications for trying to pawn off your sick kid on a teacher are just ridiculous.

Teachers and other parents know what you are doing and that you are low lifes who don't care much about your kids or their classmates. And yes - we do see the same parents sending in sick kids all the time and we judge them. No you are not being the best parents you can be and nobody thinks your goal is to strengthen their immune system - it's to get to Pilates on time.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of kids have lingering coughs from asthma and allergies. Lots of kids have runny nose and congestion. If my kids have any of those symptoms, I only keep them home if their behavior/appetite is impacted, or fever, etc. But we are absolutely not missing multiple days and days due to the run-of-the-mill congestion. We did that in 2020 and 2021, happily. Not anymore.

This. It is ridiculous to expect kids to stay home from school for a cough (or for runny nose/congestion). Not going to do it.

What a weird post, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously. If you are worried about getting sick, your kid should be in Virtual Academy or you should homeschool.

Kids get sick. Helps them build their immune system. Coughs, colds, runny noses. All an important part of a healthy childhood.

No. We will be in class and you will deal with it.

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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.

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.

Can you read at all? Where does it say to take you child to the doctor? I said KEEP THEM HOME. DON'T SEND THEM TO SCHOOL.

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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.

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.

Can you read at all? Where does it say to take you child to the doctor? I said KEEP THEM HOME. DON'T SEND THEM TO SCHOOL.

These tests exist for a reason guys. If you or your child have RSV, you need to stay away from old person Poe and babies for a few days, or anyone else who may have these people in your household. Please do your part to stop the spread.

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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.

Obviously wearing a mask is the courteous thing to do, but how do you know when others are contagious?

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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?

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.

Strangely, my DC at daycare got one of the viruses that seemed to last for a while, and passed it to me, but not my school aged DC. I’m sure he’ll pick up something similar at school at some point but IME we’ve had more illness outbreaks at daycare than school. Which isn’t surprising when you think about it in terms of immune system development.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously. If you are worried about getting sick, your kid should be in Virtual Academy or you should homeschool.

Kids get sick. Helps them build their immune system. Coughs, colds, runny noses. All an important part of a healthy childhood.

No. We will be in class and you will deal with it.

Cool! And my kids will be in class with their coughs and runny noses. We’re not the ones bothered by kids coughing. Makes no difference to me if you send your kid to school with a cough or not.

Not sure what you think we’ll be ‘dealing with’?

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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.

You can call us whatever names you want. I’m not doing anything to accommodate your irrational anxiety about getting sick. Turn of CNN and get some perspective. Kids get sick. It’s normal and unavoidable.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously. If you are worried about getting sick, your kid should be in Virtual Academy or you should homeschool.

Kids get sick. Helps them build their immune system. Coughs, colds, runny noses. All an important part of a healthy childhood.

No. We will be in class and you will deal with it.

Cool! And my kids will be in class with their coughs and runny noses. We’re not the ones bothered by kids coughing. Makes no difference to me if you send your kid to school with a cough or not.

Not sure what you think we’ll be ‘dealing with’?

We know you don't care. We see your sick kid in school instead of comfortably resting at home. If you don't care about your OWN CHILD why would you care about anyone else's? Sociopath.

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Anonymous wrote:Are people here really that stupid?

Since when is it a good idea to send sick kids to school? It's not good for them or their classmates or teachers. It's just inconsiderate. It's not up to you to make sure their classmates get enough exposure to viruses.

Kids will still get sick enough if the really sick kids stay home. Kids will still be exposed to enough germs to build immunity. You don't need to have Covid and RSV several times in order to grow up healthy. Geez - these justifications for trying to pawn off your sick kid on a teacher are just ridiculous.

Teachers and other parents know what you are doing and that you are low lifes who don't care much about your kids or their classmates. And yes - we do see the same parents sending in sick kids all the time and we judge them. No you are not being the best parents you can be and nobody thinks your goal is to strengthen their immune system - it's to get to Pilates on time.

Who are you talking to here? Like, specifically?