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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can we please just stop testing! The less we continue to talk about Covid , new case numbers, etc... the more we will normalize getting it. Your kid is probably going to get sick 5 or 6 times a year. If one of those times it happens to be covid... it statistically and scientifically likely won't matter.

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Seriously?   Its not the kids in our home I worry about getting sick, its the adults.  Lucky you covid is no big deal.  [/quote]

Sorry, I’m not testing my kids’ colds either.[/quote]

Do you have your kids wear high-quality masks when they have symptoms and are out in public, including at school?[/quote]

DP. Why would they? They didn’t before covid. People get sick from time to time. It’s normal.[/quote]

Because that's what the CDC recommends. [/quote]

Well, I let them eat raw cookie dough, too, so at least I’m consistent with my belief that the CDC guidelines are ridiculously cautious.[/quote]

Yeah, I mean who cares about other people, am I right? F-them.[/quote]
That’s what I told my kids. After society sold them out to try and protect people who were on death’s door anyway, I don’t see any reason to care about anyone other than close family and a few friends.[/quote]

And, you sum up why we have so many issues right now in our country.[/quote]
I can’t help it if people like you fell into media created hysteria over a virus that is no worse than a cold to the vast majority of people.

Get vaccinated and move on with your life. Stop living in fear.[/quote]

I guess someone should have told the people I know who died of COVID (including the healthy 40-something) that it’s “no worse than a cold.”

You’re a selfish moron.[/quote]

Really, you know so many people under the age of like 85 who died of Covid despite being fully vaccinated? So weird. [/quote]

Agree, very strange.  Maybe it’s a group of friends who met at OA or something and have a lot of preexisting conditions. Everyone I know who has had Covid (dozens, including old/obese/cancer patient) are all fine.  The virus was worse than a bad flu but they all recovered without long Covid. [/quote]

I have a family member who taught school in Northern VA in her early 50s who is fully vaccinated and was on a ventilator. She is not teaching due to long covid and carries an oxygen tank. I’m not saying this to be dramatic but there ARE these cases out there. Just because you haven’t met one doesn’t mean they don’t exist. [/quote]

I don't think you understand statistics.  It's highly unlikely for a single individual to know "many" people who have died of covid including under 40s, as PP claimed.  Highly unlikely is not the same as "doesn't exist."  Maybe the person claiming to know so many dead people works in a nursing home--those employees probably know a lot of people who died of covid.  As for long covid, no one's claiming it doesn't exist.  But it's not nearly as prevalent as the news stories claim.  While symptoms taking a long time to resolve seems to be common with covid, true disabling long covid, which is causing a lot of fear, seems to be a rare phenomenon.[/quote]

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