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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s an op-Ed headline: “Have we forgotten what it means for kids to get sick?” - meaning the thousands of viruses they bring home every single year from daycare and school.[/quote]

I sort of feel like my background of coping with anxiety has actually made me more rational about covid. I am That Mom who worries about her 9 year old choking on a hotdog at camp. If it were up to my anxiety brain, he’d have a 1:1 Mary Poppins following him around everywhere making sure he is having fun and all his food is cut up into tiny pieces. I realize this is completely crazy. [/quote]

I have been thinking the same thing. The possibility of infection with a scary virus (to me it was and is norovirus) at school has always been on the forefront of my mind. So I have learned to cope with the idea that my kids might catch something terrible at school. I also have a history of catastrophizing about many other dangers, and I have had to teach myself to manage that tendency of my mind. Now there is Covid, and I know how to mentally deal with the what ifs. I think people who have always experienced the world as a risky place are better equipped to handle this situation.[/quote]

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