To think the school are BU by wanting me to get DS tested?

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A member of the household had covid symptoms but the test came back negative. DS(5) now has caught the cold and has a cough and the school are asking for a test. I don't want to get him tested as I know it's a cold but aibu or are the school?

YABU. This sort of mindset is why so many people have died.

My husband had a mild cold and tested negative, the next day my son developed a cough and tested positive. I then became ill and my husband worse so I tested and he tested again, we were both positive.

If you don’t want to test you can isolate for ten days instead.

@WishingHopingThinkingPraying

Huh? Why is everyone saying he has symptoms?? Did I miss where OP says he has a cough??

you've probably seen this.... DS(5) now has caught the cold and has a cough

Just get him tested.
It's not harmful
It takes minutes

I don't understand this insistence that parents will not test their children. Just test him and send him back when the negative result comes back. It's not the end of the world.

If another child was sent in because their parent decided their cough was 'just a cold' and Covid spread through the school you'd be here complaining that your ds wasn't protected.

YANBU to not want to get him tested. We decided on no further tests for DS after the distress of getting the first one done, we've opted to keep him home for the specified time instead. You are being unreasonable is you expect to be able to send him back to school without being tested.

If it's just a cold then you won't mind getting him tested, it'll prove you right.

I don't understand your resistance. My ds and his class all test twice a week, every week, no big deal.

At the very least, be generous and put his teacher's mind at rest.

It is a cold.the covid result was negative and DS has now caught a cold. He's fine in himself and no fever.

Which part of the other person being negative magically protects your DS from picking up Covid in the meantime?

He needs a test.

Oh come ON.
It’s quick, free, easy, necessary.
Don’t be a dick.

Yes, you need to get him tested.

It might be a cold that he’s caught from this relative, but it’s also possible that he’s caught COVID from someone else.

Sorry but this is just selfish. I’m a teacher, my own children have missed out each time I’ve had to isolate. At least one of those occasions was a child sent in because parents ‘thought’ they were fine. Do a test.

I had a cold and cough - tested - negative - cold ran it's course and a week later it came back with a mild cough - tested again due to the cough - I had Covid

Never had a fever and the cough lasted 24 hrs - covid wiped me out for 8 weeks.

GET HIM TESTED

Your child has a new cough.
Yes, it's probably a cold.
However, you don't know for sure. No one does, even a medical practitioner wouldn't know for sure, without a test.

YABU

Your child has a new cough.

You have two choices:

1. Self isolate until your child has had a pcr test and it has returned negative

Or

2, self isolate at home for 10 days from when the cough started.

YABU, the test takes a minute to do and many of us have had to test ourselves and our kids, it’s become the norm. My high school kids have to test twice a week so it’s become routine, of one of them got cold symptoms school would ask for them to be tested properly at a testing station.

Just because someone in the house has a cold and has tested negative it doesn’t mean that your ds has the same cold? Of course there’s a high chance he does just have a cold but if it’s not then he could spread covid around school. Just get him tested.

It is a cold.the covid result was negative and DS has now caught a cold. He's fine in himself and no fever.
Your HUSBAND'S covid result was negative. That doesn't mean your child now has a cold passed on by said husband, after all you don't have it. It could just be a cold, or it could be the virus that's had us all locked down for over a year. It's crazy it's been this long and people still don't get it.

Everyone in my household tests weekly. Tests are free...walk in / drive through tests are free.

There is no excuse not to test...

YABVU. The school are absolutely right.

You don’t know it’s a cold. It’s really that simple.

You have no way of knowing. Just because one person is negative for covid, it doesn't automatically mean your son doesn't have it. The school is being responsible. Just get the test. It's not hard.

Just get the test. We had our results back within 20 hours.

YAB hugely U. Your household needs to isolate and he needs a test. As far as i understand this is still the law in the UK.

@Brokensharted

No child of mine has had or will be having any test.

Do you mind me asking why?

Get a test. Even though a member of your household got a negative result, that does not mean that everybody else in the household is also negative.

How do you know it's not a cold? You cannot possibly know that for sure.

YABU. Many of the symptoms are very similar.

Would you bet a hundred million pounds on it being a cold?

OP seems unaware that two seperate people can become sick with 2 seperate conditions simultaniously.

Could it just be the 'cold'? yes
Could it be covid? yes
Could it also be something else? yes

I nearly died as a child because everyone assumed I just had flu for a month due to an outbreak at school, I didnt though I had pnumonia. I was sick completely seperately from what was going on around me because sometimes things with almost identical symptoms arent automatically the same thing.