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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you think their daughter has COVID, logic dictates you think you are now a close contact of someone with COVID (close contact is defined by 15 minutes, and you admit the kids were together on the playground).  And yet, here you are at school, and I am guessing you did not get a PCR test.  So, if you are going to be upset at her, you also have to be upset at yourself.  [/quote]

OP here.  So their daughter is actually a close contact of a confirmed covid case.  My son is a close contact of a close contact (their daughter), not a confirmed case, so he doesn't need to quarantine or test.  If my friend told me her or her daughter were covid positive, yes I would have kept my son home.  [/quote]

Oh really? Did you phone the parent on the morning of school and confirm her child was negative before sending your child?  No, you didn't.  You knew you had potentially been exposed, but you didn't bother to confirm, quarantine, or test.  You're as bad as everyone else OP.  So save your outrage. [/quote]

You just "didn't yet know" whether your daughter was a close contact or not. [/quote]

What?  The only way anyone knows if they are a close contact is when they are told.  I hope the people I associate with are responsible enough to do their diligence and contact trace if they test positive.  Because my friend did tell us about the potential exposure I think it's fair to assume she would also have told us if she or her daughter subsequently tested positive.

And to the poster above you, I didn't know my son had been potentially exposed - he was a close contact of a close contact, which according to literally every public health authority is not someone who needs to quarantine, test, or isolate.

I'm not "outraged" just a little concerned.  I posted here to try to gauge how reasonable my neighbor's actions were, and whether other people think it's okay.   My actions in this situation are totally in line with public health guidance and I'm not sure why you're suggesting I needed to do anything differently. [/quote]

You can't be outraged that the friend sent her potentially positive child to school while also being feigning ignorance that your child might also have already been exposed to the very same child OP.  [/quote]

1. Again, not outraged.  Just concerned and trying to gauge how others would react to this.

2. Her child had a close, extended indoor contact with a confirmed covid case.  She is by definition a "close contact", and since she is unvaccinated, should be required to quarantine.   My child had a briefer, outdoor exposure to her child.  Even if their interaction would qualify as close contact, her child is not a confirmed covid case, so my child did not have a close close contact with a confirm covid case.  Only close contact with actual confirmed or suspected covid cases beget the need for others to quarantine.  It's not a transitive sequence where close contacts of people who were close contacts with a covid case all need to quarantine.   What is difficult to understand about this?[/quote]
SO MUCH going on in this thread. To OP: Yes, that person should have quarantined their kid and tested with a PCR 5-7 days after exposure. That's what we recently had to do for our public school (kid was exposed at school). And yes, your situation is very different from your friend's. All these other posters are likely trying to justify their own irresponsible behavior by throwing their hands up and saying "everyone will get it!"[/quote]

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