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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes of course at some point we will get to that point but obviously we’re nowhere close to there now. Were you ready for us to be there 2 weeks ago, just prior to your son catching covid? Would you have been ok with every kid in his class who caught covid coming in 2 days later, if they felt better, or the next day, if mom and dad are out of sick leave? No, probably not. Most of us want people who are in the most contagious part of covid to stay home. [/quote]

DP, But I don’t get this post. If you agree that we’ll stop doing extended quarantine and isolation periods for Covid at some point, why not now? We’ve got vaccines and booster, so kids (who were already at low risk) are well protected. What do you think is going to change in a month/year/decade?[/quote]

I won’t care anymore when 1) we have a vaccine for kids under 5 and 2) when we have a treatment (or way to prevent) long covid. [/quote]

1) Why? Kids under 5 are at lower risk from Covid than vaccinated and boosted adults. They are at lower risk from Covid than from RSV (for which we have no vaccine and I don’t think we’re even working on one). Why is a vaccine for this age group the dividing line?

Especially since OP is talking about elementary kids, who CAN be vaccinated. And before you say “well they can spread it and other kids can take it home and infect younger siblings”, please consider logic. Toddlers are much, much lower risk than elderly people who have been vaccinated and boosted, and plenty of kids live with people in this category. So why would the vaccination if this very low risk group be the think that’s finally changes quarantine rules? Will the risk to elderly people suddenly be acceptable because 3 yr olds can be vaccinated? It makes no sense at all.

2) The vast majority of long Covid sufferers have a lingering cough fir a few months, anxiety, general fatigue, ir other ailments for which we do, in fact, have treatments. These are also common lingering symptoms for other respiratory illnesses, including the flu and the aforementioned RSV. There is zero evidence in recent studies that these issues are caused by damage to the respiratory, neurological, or cardiovascular systems.

If I get a cold and then have a lingering cough for a while (something that’s happened to me several times in my life) do I have “long cold”? Do we need to definitely figure that out and come up with unique treatment for this condition before people who recently recovered from colds return to school?

Make it make sense.[/quote]

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