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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ger your kid vaccinated, and lets all just move on. Our family just had COVID as have most of the families we know in the last 4 months.  Its a minor cold.   Are kids going to start wearing masks full time forever to avoid a cold?[/quote]

Minor cold or not, Covid still means your kid stays home and misses 5-10 school days and I miss work. Or if their teacher gets sick, the kid has a week with the PE teacher as a substitute.

But you’re right, it’s just a minor cold! Who cares???[/quote]

or its not a minor cold for you. know two friends who got it this month having a really rough go. i don't mind if you aren;t worried about it, but please stop assuring people its a teensy little nuisance when there is NO WAY to predict if it will be for you or a family member as individuals.[/quote]

+1 I feel like this is being missed. Many people only have minor cold symptoms, but some people are sick for days and even weeks. I've only had the flu once in my life, but it knocked me out for a good week. When we are dealing with an airborne virus that is much more transmissible than any of the other viruses we regularly encounter, those days and weeks of sickness add up and have a disruptive impact throughout society. [/quote]

Right, but we don't maks for the flu. And masksing isn't cost-free.[/quote]

We don't mask for the flu because the flu is seasonal, less transmissible, is not a novel virus, and has a lower mortality rate than COVID.[/quote]

DP. The latter has never been true for kids, and frankly isn't even true anymore for vulnerable vaccinated and boosted people either. Dr. Monica Gandhi was just making this point - in addition to very effective vaccines, we also have very effective treatments for Covid, as well as preventatives such as Evusheld, while we have nothing for other common viruses such as rhinovirus, which can also kill a vulnerable person. Tamiflu is useless against the flu compared to Paxlovid against Covid.[/quote]

PP here. To be clear, I wasn't advocating for mandated masks for young kids. However, watching COVID spread like wildfire from my kids' high school it's really disruptive to staff, teachers, and students, and many kids are sick enough to be out for more than a day or two. And I wasn't talking about forever, or even in the long term, but when there is such a light level of community spread, masks might allow more normalcy.

I also listened to Dr. Gandhi's interview. She's obviously well-informed and she made some very good points, but many of her colleagues do not agree with her dismissal of long COVID risks in vaccinated people.

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I'm not mandating masks either. I do like open windows. improved ventilation and air purifiers, and regular community testing (both PCR on a schedule and rapid in the case of symptoms or before events) and reporting of results. Testing keeps everyone safe. If you have Covid and learn that through a test, you can obviously take measures to not infect others (break the chain). Oh, and you can take Paxlovid if you are above 12 and make that choice for yourself or child with your doctor. You have to take it early in the progression for it to be effective and stop the virus from replicating in your body, so testing may let you know within the window, before you have a full blown case. The "it's just a cold" people are very all or nothing (typical in our polarized society--such a knee jerk, default position on everything).[/quote]

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