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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand parents being so panicked over their young otherwise healthy kids catching COVID compared to other diseases/activities which statistically pose a greater risk to children of that age but to each their own.[/quote]
Unless your kid has some complications or health issues that put them at significant risk, there’s no rational reason to worry about them catching COVID. My oldest son caught COVID from my wife (I didn’t get it, and neither did my youngest, strangely. And we never bothered with isolating the other family members), as did his two cousins. The worst symptoms any of them had was a sore throat and losing their senses of taste and smell for a few days.

So, stop worrying about kids.[/quote]

NP here.

Look, the OP IMO is overreacting and not perpective-taking-- there are many reasons to take young kids out, etc.

But I don't understand all the people responding that "kids don't get it bad." Like that's the only reason to worry about COVID? I'm not worried about my child getting COVID, per se. I mean, we don't know all the long term effects even from mild COVID, but okay.

I'm concerned with my child getting it [i]and then spreading it[/i]. First to my husband, who has some risk conditions. But even if he didn't, even if I could be guaranteed WE would only get sore throats, as a family, I am worried that my kid gives it to another kid who gives it to their grandmother who dies or whatever... and I'd probably never know.

Why can't people conceive of others beyond themselves? [/quote]

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