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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD plays an instrument and has a mandatory holiday concert tonight. If she isn’t there, her part won’t be covered and she may lose her spot for the spring. It’s not a wind instrument and she can wear a mask, and her Covid tests are negative.

However, [b]she’s pretty down for the count and has a fever, sore throat and headache with post nasal drip. [/b]I’m alternating cold/cough medicine with Motrin and making her light smoothies with ginger and coconut water and pineapple juice. What else can I do to revive her for the evening?

And yes, I know I shouldn’t send a sick kid out into the world, but the Covid era of forgiveness for absences for illness is definitely over at her school and at her activities. And obviously she wouldn’t have caught something if someone else didn’t go out with it first.[/quote]

The bolded are pre-COVID reasons to keep a sick kid home.  You're not talking about mild nasal congestion and a kid who feels fine, which was what the COVID nuttery was about.

PS - illnesses can (and often are) spread asymptomatically.  The whole "someone else went out with it, too" isn't an excuse.[/quote]

Yes this is like a weird overreaction to covid in the other direction.

In 2019, if you were so sick that you literally needed to be propped up, you stayed home. You would go to the doctor, get tested for whatever was going around, and seek appropriate treatment.

Now it's like, to prove you're not one of those crazy covid people, you have to show up everywhere no matter how sick you are, make sure you don't get tested for anything and just white knuckle it. No mask because people might be suspicious you are sick (apparently the clammy skin, raspy voice, and congestion won't give it away). [/quote]
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So dumb to "prove" covid isnt real or something. [/quote]

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