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[quote=Anonymous]OP I am 53 years old and have rarely suffered any virus or other communicable illness in the last 23 years since I stopped attending school. I’m a clean freak including hand hygiene and wasn’t sick once in the last 8 years I was working in healthcare settings.

I started working with kids in an educational setting four weeks ago; four days after I started I woke up with a viral infection which morphed into a bacterial infection - I was sick for 11 days. I went back to work and four days later I woke up with sudden onset severe joint pain which four days later was diagnosed as covid and I am now out sick for three more days while I take Paxlovid (terrific stuff, aside from the nausea and diarrhea) and recover.

I work with kindergartners and 1st graders. They run up to hug me and cough right into my face - as they do to each other. They’re keen to wash paint off their hands after crafts, but are unconcerned with snot on their hands whether it is theirs or someone else’s. They are delightful and fun and they are walking germ vectors.

Plan on dealing with communicable illnesses on a regular basis until your kids are MS/HS age and potentially even then because while they might learn to wash their hands better and more frequently, the air in schools is a mist of expelled virus particles and most schools are poorly ventilated.

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