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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][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]

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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]m

You left out the part about being symptomatic. The posts had been about asymptomatic individuals. I don’t think anyone was suggesting people that are actively showing symptoms that would otherwise dictate staying home should go out with covid. They’re saying people without symptoms should do whatever they want, regardless of whether they decide to test or not.[/quote]

People who test positive, should not be able to do whatever they want if they're asymptomatic. Consider yourself lucky if youre asymptomatic, but stay away from others to protect them.[/quote]

If you really believe that, then you’re just saying people shouldn’t test are all if they’re not going to isolate for 5-10 days. I fail to see how that’s any better, even in your mind.

Admittedly, testing is a waste of resources, so maybe we should be heavily discouraging it as you propose.[/quote]

I’m not testing my kids unless they are sick and only if they have a fever, etc. I don’t send my sick, feverish, hacking, vomiting kid to school but [b]I’m not keeping my asymptomatic child home. [/b][/quote]

If your child tests positive, you won't keep your child at home (because they're asymptomatic)? Wow. You are probably one of the parents who have now opted out of the in-school testing. [/quote]

Why would one test an asymptomatic child? They won’t test positive because there would be no test.[/quote]

Isn’t this one of the reasons for the in-school testing? To identify asymptomatic, positive students (who could very well spread the illness to their classmates)? Two of my Covid positive students were identified this way since January. Other students who sit near them also tested positive (but many of these were identified by parents testing at home). [/quote]

The original purpose of this thread was basically asking when that mindset would end. Covid is well on its way to being an endemic, mild disease, particularly for children. The idea they we’re going to keep treating covid unlike any other disease is ridiculous. So surely we're not going to keep looking for reasons to keep kids out of school. The question is just whether that is done "officially" by changing the isolation policies or unofficially by people simply no longer testing.

The latter will almost certainly happen first. A lot of us are already doing that.[/quote]

I know you'd like to believe this but unfortunately that isn't true. Long covid has serious consequences even for the vaccinated and children. It's not going away.[/quote]

Oh well, still not worried.[/quote]

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