My kindergartner has been wearing KF94s since August and has had a couple colds. They take their masks off for snacks, lunch, and recess, and most kids don't wear them very well anyway.

Anonymous wrote:We decided to allow our now vaccinated 5yo preschool child to school maskless. She came home with a cold. Tested her twice and both tests negative. In the past two years, she has not been sick. One thing I will miss is kids not being sick.

Eh, our kids are masked and they still have gotten colds! masks aren't impervious. And colds are part of life - if you don't get some now you will simply be a much more sick older kid/adult.

Our childcare has had several colds that have gone through teachers and kids but not covid. I think colds are more contagious than covid in most cases.

I think we will always mask on planes/public transportation and in the grocery store during the winter. Just to avoid severity of colds but I also do think little kids need to challenge their immune system but agree that I will miss those days when colds were rare.

My kids go to a school where masks are still required and just getting over colds (the toddler brought it home and passed it to the kindergartener, tests were negative). Strangely enough I spent considerable time unmasked around both of them while they were sick at home and I appear to be in the clear.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are supposed to get sick sometimes. It's actually good for them (in the long term). The immune system is like a muscle, and it doesn't get stronger if it doesn't have to work and develop.

+1. Colds are annoying and I certainly haven’t missed the lack of illness over the past two years, but it isn’t healthy for your immune system to go thoroughly unchallenged, especially in younger children.

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Kids do need to get normal little sicknesses again

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Anonymous wrote:We mask every single place we go and still get colds.

Someone is not wearing a mask somewhere and just not telling you.

Anonymous wrote:You pick up colds from touching surfaces and then your mouth/nose/eyes. Masks don't prevent that; hand washing does.

They why did I catch a cold.47 hours after some idiot sneezed on me in the grocery store line? I sanitize and wash my hand and don't touch my face ever (a result of parents who old school slapped my hands down as a child.)

You pick up colds from touching surfaces and then your mouth/nose/eyes. Masks don't prevent that; hand washing does.

Anonymous wrote:You don’t get exposed to a cold an immediately have symptoms. This whole thread is totally stupid.

Incubation for a common cold can be as short as a day or two.

Anonymous wrote:You don’t get exposed to a cold an immediately have symptoms. This whole thread is totally stupid.

It probably depends on the person. I catch them pretty quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:We decided to allow our now vaccinated 5yo preschool child to school maskless. She came home with a cold. Tested her twice and both tests negative. In the past two years, she has not been sick. One thing I will miss is kids not being sick.

The incubation period for a child is three days. Your kid did not get a cold at school.

But but masks

Anonymous wrote:I’m all in favor of masking but DS has had five colds since September.

That’s not normal.

Anonymous wrote:You don’t get exposed to a cold an immediately have symptoms. This whole thread is totally stupid.

+1

Also my PK kid has had many colds (and what we think was RSV) over the course of the last two years despite being in a school with a 100% mandatory mask policy. It's not uncommon. If your child hasn't been sick at all, I question how much time they have actually spent in group learning environments because I don't know any that haven't had a single virus circulate.

Masking to prevent colds has always been a dubious proposition. Especially masking kids who take their masks off regularly to eat and nap. But anyway...

You don’t get exposed to a cold an immediately have symptoms. This whole thread is totally stupid.

Anonymous wrote:My kids were masked all year up to this week and yet we still got a stomach bug and a couple of colds.

They aren't masked at lunch and other times nor masked outside school so its not a surprise.