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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand OP's frustration. My DS3 has been in daycare since August 2021 (we'd kept him and DS8 home the prior year). As much as I like the idea of masks, they just don't work in daycares. Maybe in preschools where the kids are there just a few hours. But at my kid's school, they eat three times a day and many weren't very good about masking. His classroom closed three times from Jan/Feb.

Bottom line: I'm sure there are some exceptions, but I'd say that for the most part, if you're sending your child to daycare, you have to know that there's a real chance of exposure.

And for folks who think they haven't gotten in, many of you have. My DS8 got a positive at the weekly school testing. He had the most insignificant nose run and was perhaps slightly more fatigued than normal. Had the school not caught , I wouldn't have thought to test. I'd also had minor cold symptoms, prompting me to test as I'd had a known exposure. I finally got a positive a week after symptoms started. Had I not known about the exposure, I would have thought I'd had a light cold.[/quote]

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Of course our family can get exposed to COVID at daycare, we all know this, this is nothing new or groundbreaking. FWIW I am one of the posters that said we haven't gotten it, and for the past year or so we have been getting PCR tests every time DD gets sick, even just a runny nose, and they have always been negative. Of course it's possible that we did catch it and the tests didn't detect it. At that point, I'm sorry, I just don't care. None of us have had lingering symptoms. Of course I don't want to get anybody sick, but we've been following public health advice and doing everything we can to protect people and at a certain point there are only so many things I can worry about. [/quote]

My DD just tested positive after testing 2 neg days in a row.  If we had stopped after 1 or 2 tests we would not have known.  [/quote]

You got PCR tests three times? No, you're talking about rapid antigen tests? Do you get that these are different tests that work differently? I'm sorry but behaving as though every runny nose could be COVID (and isolating accordingly) regardless of PCR test results is not realistic for most families. I have a relative who works in public health and she assured us a negative PCR test on a symptomatic person is probably a true negative. Btw the recent time I was sick I did do rapid tests a few times over the course of 5 days and they were all negative. Oftentimes it actually is not COVID. There are other bugs out there. At certain point all we can do is our best and we have to recognize there will be some uncertainty.[/quote]

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