Lots of people have coughs and colds at the moment - husband works in a school, it's rife.

[comfyslipers]

What I would like to know is that with everyone socially distancing, wearing masks and constantly hand washing and cleaning how are these germs spreading. And if the common cold can spread very easily what is to stop Coronovirus? Are we really doing all this for nothing? Seems to me that it only take one person in a work place, pub, restaurant etc. and there are a whole wad of cases. How is it getting passed on if we are all being so careful?

I have a cold but I assume I picked it up on my first journey on public transport for 5 months.

DH and I have been working from home and we’ve had nothing. DC back in nursery and we all now have colds!

Just shows you how important SD and hand washing really is! Unfortunately, most people aren't doing it.

Both my children got colds yesterday, on the youngest birthday. Snotty noses, sneezes, very occasional wet cough. We've had them tested and we're waiting for results, will be a nightmare when this happens every week once school is back. Not even sure whether the oldest will be allowed to return to school on Thursday if he still has a cold and, hopefully, a negative test result 🤷

My dc got sent home from school on Friday with "covid symptoms " (a really snotty nose and a slight sinus headache basically a cold) we both had to get tested before he could go back guess what its a cold.
They are being ridiculously cautious and literally sending them home for nothing

@comfyslipers as you say the lady at your work most probably does have a cold. I might have missed it though but haven’t seen anything on the NHS website to say ‘if you have a new continuous cough but also are sneezing, don’t bother getting tested’. They’re defining a continuous cough as coughing a lot for more than an hour, or three coughing episodes or more in 24 hours.

Cv19 aside, I'm still wfh, 5 months now, and I haven't had a cold in all this time and am so glad. I wish we could work out how to manage to contain our germs as a society without having to wfh.

[quote Debradoyourecall]@comfyslipers as you say the lady at your work most probably does have a cold. I might have missed it though but haven’t seen anything on the NHS website to say ‘if you have a new continuous cough but also are sneezing, don’t bother getting tested’. They’re defining a continuous cough as coughing a lot for more than an hour, or three coughing episodes or more in 24 hours.[/quote]
Is there any reason yoU could t have Covid and hay fever? Or Covid and a cold? I think anyone with a temperature or a continuous cough should get tested and isolate. Sneezing shouldn’t be something that stops you getting tested.

Sorry, @Debradoyourecall that reads like I’m arguing with you! I’m agreeing!

@InDeoEstMeaFiducia

People transmit human diseases among themselves. The only way to entirely stop it is to kill everyone. Fortunately, most of them, including Covid, are not fatal to the overwhelming majority of the afflicted.

Yes.

We can't keep germs at bay or live in bubbles.

After every long school holiday DS gets a sore throat. Maybe 2nd or 3rd week into a new term. The issue is his throat leads to a a dry cough.Always gets a fever. Lasts around 3/4 days but cough lingers.
His school have said we have to test and isolate and prove negative test before return. Fair enough obviously.
His primary school has 590 children.
I think we will see an issue where testing stations are over run, how will we meet capacity??

@ftm202020

Doesn't it have to be a new, dry, continuous cough. So a snotty cough isn't a symptom.

Not 'dry', just new, continuous.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/symptoms/

There's something like 100,000 kids not in school in Scotland this week. And something like 40,000 Covid tests took place on children. Just over 100 tested positive. At the back end of last week people were being told to go hundreds of miles for a drive-through test.

Colds are rife after 6 months of isolation. I was on the point of booking a Covid test for DS yesterday when the new guidance from the Scottish Cheif Medical officer came through saying to treat a cold as a cold.

I have to say that all of that should have been thought through ahead of time. Misinformation was rife, each school seemed to be making up its own rules.

New and continuous two days after the start of a snotty cold isn't 'new' really though, is it? DS has a cold, it's moved down, now he's coughing a bit. It's not Covid.

I have a cold. I got it from my kids who are back at school and they don’t need to social distance. But none of us have been ill till now, so it must have been working. The key is to minimise it, but we can’t stop all bugs, nor do we want to.

Some schools won’t let kids come in with a cough. Problem is my DD always gets a honking coughin September/Oct along with her first cold. I lasts until spring and is very annoying, so much so we had her assessed at the Kids hospital. She just just has very sensitive lungs.

It would be shit if she had to stay off for 6 months with nothing wrong with her just because she has her normal annual cough.

The whole thing is contradictory. We've been told all along children mostly get it mildly. I've also seen reviews state that around 20% of children with a positive test have nasal congestion. So if a child presents with a cold, it probably is a cold because colds are more prevalent but it is possible that it is Covid and the only way to know is by testing.
Anecdotally, my 2 year old had a positive test at the start of lockdown, she was at hospital for other reasons and had a Covid test only because she was kept in. She developed a cough around day 4. The rest of the household only really had cold symptoms.

My 6 year old has got a cold somehow and because he was coughing a bit this morning I took him for a test today. I’m totally certain it’s a cold rather than COVID but thought I’d better be cautious. Both kids are meant to be starting back at school tomorrow morning so am keeping fingers crossed for test results by 8.30am! It will be so annoying if they have to miss the first day back, plus I’m meant to be working...

Probably because people aren't actually washing their hands properly or being careful like they're saying rhey are... also... young children will always spread germs, they don't remember to wash hands properly for 20 seconds+ unless supervised and they won't be in school ..they also won't cover mouths properly when coughing/sneezing..have a runny nose etc...(source: ive worked in preschools and schools)