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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]COVID scares me because it is unpredictable. There seem to be some people who are more vulnerable then others but a decent percentage of people who have become serious ill or died are not in the groups that are deemed at risk. For many people COVID was nothing, they were asymptomatic. For other people it was “like the flu”. And for others, have never had an issue recovering from the flu, it was pure hell even when not hospitalized. Toss in the long term COVID cases and the comparisons to the flu are not helpful.

I can fully understand a parent of a kid who is medically vulnerable being worried about COVID. The patterns of illness are murky at best, the treatments are not really understood yet, and the lingering effects are real. So I don’t think comparing what a parent does during the flu season for kids who are vulnerable is fair. I know some who pull their kid from school, I know some who prepare for a long bout of the flu. But you can prepare for the flu and have an idea of how to treat and handle the flu.  COVID is different. And while I might be comfortable that my healthy kid is statistically unlikely to have much to worry about, the parent of a kid who is vulnerable has a whole host of reasons to not be comfortable.

And I do worry that my medically healthy kid will be the kid who is the exception to the rule because I have seen enough exceptions to the rule with COVID to think that the rules are less rules and more vague guidelines. [/quote]

This post sounds like it is based on anxiety and not data. I really don't blame you for being anxious though. Covid has been very scary.

However, if you want to convince people,  you have to show us with data that your child is statistically at risk if other children don't mask and that risk is different from the risks of other respiratory illnesses.  Please note that lots of viruses causes long term damage, including a serious bout of the flu, which can also place kids on respirators.[/quote]

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