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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher (vaccinated/boosted). I had three students out this past week with Covid (all three of these students do not wear masks).  I also have families who have stopped the in-school testing for their children (these students don’t wear masks at school). My situation may not be something that comes to mind with many of you. I am scheduled to have surgery in less than four weeks. If I test positive for Covid, I can’t have surgery. My surgeon wanted to operate sooner, but I wanted to wait until school was over. It’s a surgery with a long recovery and I need the summer to recuperate. I am doing everything I can while in the classroom (including wearing a proper mask) to avoid testing positive. It doesn’t matter if I’m asymptomatic. A positive test result means I can’t have surgery in June.

Sometimes testing is about protecting others who may have situations you know nothing about. [/quote]

As someone with immediate family members with complicated medical conditions, I’m fairly sympathetic to those, but I’m pretty confused by what sort of surgery would have such a long recovery period that you [b]couldn’t wait 2 weeks after school and still be able to work in the fall.[/b] One of my family members was jogging less than 3 months after a liver transplant, and there aren’t a lot of procedures with longer recovery times than that.[/quote]

Having surgery at the end of June gives me the time to recover so I WILL be able to work in August.

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Understood, but while I obviously have no idea what sort of surgery you’re having done, it really seems like having the surgery at the of June or the beginning of July would either allow you to go back before classes resume, or at least minimize time away.  If you’re really that concerned about the impact of getting covid, it seems like waiting a couple weeks would have been a good tradeoff.

Interesting that it’s being done at a hospital. Almost everything non-emergent is done at outpatient surgical centers these days.[/quote]

Unbelievable. Someone posts about their surgery and dcurbsnmom types blame them, interrogate them, and pretty much accuse them of lying.

I ask myself time and again... What is wrong with you people? [/quote]

No accusations intended. I’m really curious about what she’s having done. It sounds like it must be an unusual procedure.[/quote]

Why? Is your life that hollow and empty? Do you watch a lot of surgery shows? Does health confidentiality only apply to *your* family? [/quote]

She’s the one that brought up the surgery and extended recovery time.[/quote]

Dp. I agree it made sense to be curious. She was saying she was having a surgery that takes over 2.5 months to recover from and couldn’t possibly delay it to allow her to actually isolate before hand. And this was a reason for kids to be isolating, masking, and testing for light illnesses.  She should be challenged. [/quote]

I think “challenged” is the wrong word. But she brought up an interesting scenario and left of hanging on the details. Of course I’m going to wonder.

Gastric sleeve is a good guess. And while I'm sure they said the recovery time would be several months, I highly, highly doubt they'd tell someone they'd need to take 2 months off work for that.[/quote]

Regardless of the surgery and to the point of this thread, [b]expecting asymptomatic children to stay home from school for a full week despite the fact that they’re feeling good and ready to learn[/b] to avoid infection before surgery is not reasonable. The more reasonable path is that the individual who is going into surgery isolates for two weeks prior. There’s no such thing as zero risk even with masking and testing. Enough with the disruption to our kids education! [/quote]

Do you feel the same way about asymptomatic people at your place of work? Are you o.k. working side by side with coworkers who have tested positive but are asymptomatic? What if they tell you they “feel fine?” They’re still testing positive and you can honestly say you have no problem working side by side this person?[/quote]

DP, but of course. Who expects coworkers to test for asymptomatic illnesses? That’s a risk you take by living around others.[/quote]

+100[/quote]

That’s not what I meant. Posters have said that asymptomatic children should be allowed in school and not forced to remain home for five days because they “feel fine.” My question is… Are you comfortable working side-by-side a coworker who has tested positive and comes to work because they “feel fine.” Maybe they tested because a family member tested positive. Regardless of the reason for testing, if a person knows they have tested positive and comes into your place of work, are you comfortable working in a room all day with this person? Wouldn’t you prefer the positive person remains home for the recommended five days? [/quote]

And I said I was fine with that. What wasn’t clear about that? If I don’t care if someone doesn’t test and comes into work, why would I care if they do test and come into work? Potentially being exposed to an asymptomatic person with covid is just like potentially being exposed to someone with asymptomatic  cold/flu. It’s a risk I accepted without a second thought long ago.[/quote]

So if I’m your coworker and I test positive and let you know I’m Covid positive, you are comfortable working with me all day in a small room? I would want my coworker to stay home for the recommended five days. I guess we have to agree to disagree on this point. [/quote]

Here's the problem with your scenario.  People should not be testing if there are no symptoms.  See?  Problem solved. [/quote]

I’m not talking about randomly testing throughout the week. If one of my kids tests positive, then my husband and I would also test ourselves. Wouldn’t you do the same?  If one of us tests positive, we would adhere to the recommended five day isolation and stay at home and not go into work. We would stay home IF we test positive. See?[/quote]

You’re not vaccinated? The guidelines say you don't need to test. Obviously that doesn't mean you can't get infected, but it demonstrates that from a public health perspective there's an acceptance that people will get covid and need to carry on with their lives.[/quote]

Where did I say I was not vaccinated? Of course I'm vaccinated. The above situation actually did happen with our family. One of our children tested positive (highly symptomatic) on a Sunday. At the time, Covid was running rampant within her school. The rest of us continued to go to school and work until we tested positive. I tested positive on Wednesday. I was also highly symptomatic and very sick. After testing postive, I stayed home from work for the recommened period of time. We all ended up testing positive within 10 days of child#1. One of our children was essentially asymptomatic, but we kept her home from school...because that's what is required and it makes sense. According to many of the posters, we should have just sent her to school because she was asymptomatic. [/quote]

Thats really crummy to go to work and school  when you know here is a god chance you'll test positive soon  an infect school and work.  [/quote]

You know this is the norm, right?  I’ve had two close coworkers come to work when their kids had covid.  They were considerate and wore masks. Didn’t bother me at all.  There’s no support anymore for people staying home, so I wouldn’t ask them to take leave if they aren’t sick. [/quote]

Exactly, it’s normal to go to work and school if you feel fine. Covid isn’t the only virus that can cause asymptomatic illness. We’ve always just accepted that as a risk.[/quote]

Are you intentionally dumb?  The PP was saying people who test positive should quarantine regardless. This is for the good of your community. It isn't a concept to grasp. Stop trying to argue semantics to confuse weak minded people. [/quote]

You don’t seem to get that most people here are saying they’re fine treating covid just like we’ve treated other viruses. You’re the odd one out here.[/quote]

Except that many people on this thread have said that asymptomatic children should not have to isolate for the recommended period of time. If you KNOW your child has tested positive, you should NOT send your child to school. [/quote]

Before covid, when was there an expectation that you’d test and isolate kids without symptoms of an illness?[/quote]

"Before Covid" doesn't count. This is different and you should know that by now. People should isolate if they test positive. [/quote]

Why do you expect people to treat covid differently from other diseases of similar severity?

But I've been somewhat trying to agree with you. We should be discouraging people from testing, and insisting on 5-10 day isolation periods is an awfully good way to discourage testing.[/quote]

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