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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry.  It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.[/quote]

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close. [/quote]

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids?  If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive).  It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases.  Only one negative on an asymptotic person. [/quote]

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room.  It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test. [/quote]

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!![/quote]

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is. [/quote]

Well just keep the pandemic going since it's such an inconvenience to your life.  [/quote]

Covid is endemic. Its not going away. We have to learn to live with it and that includes not testing for minor symptoms or quarantining.

But I hope OP has fun keeping BOTH her kids home for 10 days because 1 kid had a 10 minute headache. You do you. Just know that most others are not doing this any more. [/quote]

You obviously don’t live in DC. Stop pretending your norms are our norms. [/quote]

I live in Nova. Absolutely no one is testing or keeping kids home for brief headaches that resolve on their own. [/quote]

Well you guys are all so selfish. How hard is it to get a PCR test and stay at home for a day until you get results?  Quarantining for 10 or more days sucks, and I’ve been there with kids who had one day of mild to no symptoms, but I still listened to the rules so my kids didn’t spread it to a vulnerable person who could have gotten very sick. Also, I didn’t want other families to have to spend days/weeks in quarantine from exposure or getting sick from my kids. [/quote]

Since I guess this isn't obvious, I'll spell it out. If you don't test children for minor symptoms that resolve quickly, you don't have to report said test to the school, and no one has to quarantine. Our public elementary school has had zero Covid cases this year. Zero. [/quote]

Except maybe your kids are spreading when they are out in public to other more vulnerable people or perhaps even giving it to someone at school who then asymptomatically gives it to a vulnerable person who gets very sick.  You are an incredibly selfish person! [/quote]

No I'm just more accepting of our collective future than you are. [/quote]

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