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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't test. My child was 1 yo when the pandemic hit. At age 2 she was wearing a mask all day at daycare (except for the several hours of snacks, lunch and naps). You couldn't question masking toddlers or you'd be called a MAGA. Weeks of missed work for quarantine/isolation. That I kind of get - with a young kid it was really difficult to not catch it from her. One time she tested positive again 2 months after having it. My scientist relative insisted the rapid tests were never wrong and she had it again. We were horrified at the notion of more weeks of lost child care, so we got two PCRs, both negative. It turns out false positives are a thing. I lost some faith in public health agencies during this whole thing. I try to stay home when sick but when doctors charge a fee to cancel, I'm not paying that if I can avoid it. I don't mask. It's so uncomfortable plus I don't want people to think I am sick lol [/quote]

You shouldn’t have lost faith - it was a new situation and we all did the best we could with the info that we had, as it developed. Few things went to plan, but arguably as much because people refused to follow any protocols.

Two weeks of quarantine and serious attempts at masking would’ve helped but we closed the schools and kept bars and restaurants open, thus negating any value for the people who took it seriously and stayed home.

The development of vaccines, which saved countless lives by somewhat slowing the spread and majorly blunting the severity, and the treatments developed in record time, were modern miracles.

Your relative was right about the tests and you just had to read the box - false positives were rare but happened, false negatives were almost non-existent. You just didn’t understand what they were explaining.

All anyone asks of you now, with Covid or anything else - strep, the flu, colds or STIs, is to test when you can, do your best to minimize spread to others.

No one expects perfection - people understand busy lives, demanding jobs, children, etc but good faith effort to try and reduce the harm to others is very little to ask. [/quote]

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