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Anonymous wrote:You’re the problem OP not covid. Covid has never been serious for children. Never

Two years of childhood experiences robbed. And some people want to take it into year three. Crazy!

What isn't normal? Everything is back to normal and no restrictions.

I’m talking about the handful of posters here still keeping their kids under house arrest.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend whose Covid kid has never had a birthday party or celebration with anyone but their parents. And I doubt they will before they turn 3/4 because vaccinations are going to take a long time for authorization for the youngest of the youngest.

At least your kids know what normal is.

Wait, the kid is 2 - they’ve only HAD 2 birthdays. Why is it so extraordinary that those first two birthdays were celebrated only with the parents? Not everyone always does it up for birthdays even pre-pandemic. Not everyone lives in the same town as their extended family.

The first birthday party I had was huge. Family flew in from all across the country. It was a great time and a mini-reunion all rolled up in one. Its very important for many people and many cultures.

My kids were allowed to play outside with friends from March 2020 to March 2021, and they did a lot. Once adults got vaccinated we decided kids were so low risk we could allow indoor play dates again. Good luck.

Now my husband, our 12 year old, and me are fully vaccinated. I guess I’ll get a booster sooner than later - I only just became eligible. Now our younger two recently got their first shots.

I basically feel like we don’t have any high risk conditions that we are aware of and I should believe in vaccines so we can do what we want.

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Anonymous wrote:You’re the problem OP not covid. Covid has never been serious for children. Never

Two years of childhood experiences robbed. And some people want to take it into year three. Crazy!

What isn't normal? Everything is back to normal and no restrictions.

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Anonymous wrote:You’re the problem OP not covid. Covid has never been serious for children. Never

Two years of childhood experiences robbed. And some people want to take it into year three. Crazy!

No one has robbed your kids of anything except you. You can make the best of the situation and instead of dumping your kids on others you could actually spend time with them and create wonderful family memories.

My kids have had a normal childhood since fall of 2020. They haven’t had Covid, but some of their friends have and they’ve been just fine.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t worry about the variant until we know more about it. There have been a lot of “scary” variants that didn’t become dominant.

They will not worry, even if a child dies... as long as its not their child they really don't care. And, then they will put on a fake concern, donate to the go fund me and go on living life as normal.

Anonymous wrote:0 children age 19 and under have died in MoCo from Covid. That's for the entire time -- even before we had vaccines available.

Many children died during the same time in MoCo from car accidents, drowning, and falling out of windows. Do you also not take them on car rides; avoid swimming and baths; put special locks on all windows?

Saying no kids have died of covid in MoCo is misleading as we've been very fortunate. What happens when one does? Our schools were not in person which probably played a big part in it. However, many kids have died of covid in the use and many many more around the world. Approx. 700 in the US died. And, how many kids have lost their parents due to covid? Right, you don't care.

You can justify it how ever you want and not be responsible about it, but that's really too bad for your kids you cannot set a good example for them

I would hope you have locks on your widows, I'd hope you use car seats, seat belts and when you purchase a new car get all the safety features. I'd also hope that your kids only swim with a skilled adult or lifeguard around... precautious in everything you said are important which makes death avoidable. A drowning in a bathtub is completely avoidable if a adult is supervising. But, again, it takes a responsible adult.

Back to the covid discussion, which you aren't capable of.

Don’t worry about the variant until we know more about it. There have been a lot of “scary” variants that didn’t become dominant.

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend whose Covid kid has never had a birthday party or celebration with anyone but their parents. And I doubt they will before they turn 3/4 because vaccinations are going to take a long time for authorization for the youngest of the youngest.

At least your kids know what normal is.

Wait, the kid is 2 - they’ve only HAD 2 birthdays. Why is it so extraordinary that those first two birthdays were celebrated only with the parents? Not everyone always does it up for birthdays even pre-pandemic. Not everyone lives in the same town as their extended family.

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Anonymous wrote:I would absolutely allow indoor playdates and bday parties once my kids were fully vaccinated (and have been doing so since our youngest, 13, was vaccinated over the summer).

Sure. You are fine once your kids are vaccinated, but this new variant may evade vaccines to the point exposure to it is as if you ARE unvaccinated. So basically if you didn’t socialize when your kids are unvaxed, this variant resets everything back to an unvaxed state for all of us.

Given the variant was discovered in asymptomatic carriers, that reset isn’t happening…

There were plenty of asymptomatic cases before delta. That’s the whole problem with COVID is it’s unpredictability.

We will have to see if greater transmission in vaccinated results in great hospitalization and death. The markets sure are worried.

The markets have no medical insight. They’re worried about an overreactive European lockdown.

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Anonymous wrote:This is crazy. I live in Texas. I am pro vaccine and anti all of our state leadership.

But our kids are back to normal. School is normal. Sports are normal. Playdates are normal. It's all normal.

Tell me more. I’m actually looking into moving purely for normalcy. Masks in school? Play dates without hesitation?

Where do you live (I’m guessing MoCo)? I’m in McLean and have 3 kids. Completely back to normal for months with all friends in terms of sleepovers and play dates indoors with no masks. All parents and kids have gotten vaccinated as soon as they could.

Just don't post about how SHOCKED you are that you all got covid and don't know how it happened.

Why would anyone be shocked? I’d just head to Giant to get some Kleenex in the event any of them even noticed.

My best friend’s healthy thin 11 year old was hospitalized for a week with COVID. Keep being smug and glib though.

Anonymous wrote:This is crazy. I live in Texas. I am pro vaccine and anti all of our state leadership.

But our kids are back to normal. School is normal. Sports are normal. Playdates are normal. It's all normal.

My sibling lives in Texas. After being down for the past month plus, cases are rising steadily again in their large county. But hey, let’s just be dumb like Abbott, stick our heads in the sand and pretend everything’s fine. Yaaaaaaay!

Anonymous wrote:You’re the problem OP not covid. Covid has never been serious for children. Never

Two years of childhood experiences robbed. And some people want to take it into year three. Crazy!

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I would absolutely allow indoor playdates and bday parties once my kids were fully vaccinated (and have been doing so since our youngest, 13, was vaccinated over the summer).

Sure. You are fine once your kids are vaccinated, but this new variant may evade vaccines to the point exposure to it is as if you ARE unvaccinated. So basically if you didn’t socialize when your kids are unvaxed, this variant resets everything back to an unvaxed state for all of us.

Given the variant was discovered in asymptomatic carriers, that reset isn’t happening…

There were plenty of asymptomatic cases before delta. That’s the whole problem with COVID is it’s unpredictability.

We will have to see if greater transmission in vaccinated results in great hospitalization and death. The markets sure are worried.