Where’s all these colds come from!!!

[BrieAndChilli]

So kids been off school for 6 months. No colds. Gone back for a couple of days and boom, kids all over the country have come down with colds!! Where do they come from? Are there some Typhoid Mary children running around who spread the disease wherever they go? Otherwise where has the cold been lingering all this time?!

Yep - we’ve had 6 months of being completely cold free and well. One week into school and DD has a snotty cold. I kept her off yesterday , but sent her in today - checked her temp etc - spoke to another mum, her DD has the same cold but she sent her in. According to my DD lots of kids have this cold, quite a few kids out of school already and her class teacher was out yesterday too apparently (probably with the same cold).

Haha. Ditto here. 3 days in school and a cold which has been passed on to me.

I, without fail, get a cold every single September..this has happened since childhood. Even when I was a childfree adult so no link to any school, I would still get my September cold. I'm currently recovering from one now.

It just shows how easily you can pick anything up including Covid. Most are hand sanitising and being much more careful hygienically yet the cold barges on through. Damn viruses!

But they didn't go away. Loads of people had "summer" colds, including me. It was a stonker, rivers of snot, followed by chesty cough. No-one else in the family got it, no idea where it came from. Hopefully it will stop me getting one now .

No idea but I’ve got a bloody streaming cold and I’m grumpy as fuck.

@daisychain1620

It just shows how easily you can pick anything up including Covid. Most are hand sanitising and being much more careful hygienically yet the cold barges on through. Damn viruses!

This. DS2 now has a cold - which is far less contagious than Covid apparently. We genuinely haven't been anywhere else other than school since he returned, not even a supermarket. So this shows that the distancing, handwashing, staggering start times etc is basically useless against covid!

Y2 students and staff are all off for two weeks now, as a child tested positive over the weekend. If DS's cold turns into a cough (as it usually does) we will all have to isolate for a fortnight too. This is because once he starts coughing, school won't take him unless he's tested negative or isolated for 10 days. And there are NO tests available here. None. I've been checking hourly for two days now as despite school saying DS should be in school I'm still worried. I'd not forgive myself if he spread covid to others! It will be unauthorised absence of he stays off currently though.

How many times will this happen during the next term or two? It's hard enough to find a job if you have young kids, however illegal discrimination may be in theory. Who wants to employ someone who may have to isolate for 14 days several times in the next few months because one can get tested? I'm raging about this today!

It's the perfect illustration of why lockdown doesn't work and you can't hide away from viruses. People are being more hygienic than ever, and yet the normal September colds are doing the rounds as normal. Suspect it's worse this year because we've trashed our immune systems by not giving them constant low level challenge for months and bleaching and sanitising everything. I hate colds, they make you feel really grotty.

Well I don’t think people should send their kids in with heavy colds myself! It’s presenteeism at school and work, stupid 100% attendance certificates etc. If you feel rough stay at home!

If my DC have a heavy cold, I let them stay at home. I feel hideous with a cold and just want to rest so I don't push them to get through a long school day.

@blueberries20

Well I don’t think people should send their kids in with heavy colds myself! It’s presenteeism at school and work, stupid 100% attendance certificates etc. If you feel rough stay at home!

That has got a lot to do with why people go into work and school despite being ill. No one should ever be penalised for being unwell and I'm willing to bet employers in particular are still funny about it.

The Zoe tracker app suggests that children often have less obvious symptoms than adults and it tends to present more like a cold!
No tests to be had anywhere here though.

https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/back-to-school?fbclid=IwAR3cFgCRpHoIY8HW0QE6vv_GFVPtuVRNh1xQ5z6WIcardDMpwauEy5E9tUY

Krook the Zoe app mentions tiredness, sore throat, be aware of skin rash in children.

Still doesn't mention runny nose or productive coughs which I think of as typical cold in my kids.

I was wondering the same thing. Both my kids developed really runny noses last week and they had only been back to school/nursery for a week. They go to different settings but developed symptoms on the same day so I don't think one of them passed it on to the other. Now I'm full of the cold and feeling rubbish and DH said this morning he's getting a sore throat 😳

I can’t remember the last time me or the DCs had a cold, I have DCs in more than one school and I’m customer facing at work. Definitely not an every September event here and nothing this year either. We are filthy enough to exercise our immune systems regularly it seems.

Not everything has stopped over lockdown - people have still been at work and some kids have been at school throughout, so the common cold will have been spreading round (albeit slower than usual). Because it's so contagious, the second everyone comes back together again it's obviously going to spread quickly, or seem that way, as lots of people will get it at the same time due to the fact they haven't been exposed to any cold viruses for so long.

This does not mean our immune systems are all shot to pieces. It doesn't work like that. Our immune systems don't 'forget' how to work just because we've been exposed to less over the past few months. It's literally just because a large group of people have come together and they haven't been exposed to that strain of cold virus - not because the immune system is weak. Pretty much everyone will get a cold if they take in virus particles. The only difference is severity.