About coughing children in shops…

[3cats2kids]

Just seen a mum pop in to a shop near me for no essentials, just sweets, with a child with a bad cough. I’ve seen this a few times recently. I think it’s irresponsible at the moment. I also feel it’s a bit mean to drag a sick child out and about at the best of times. I didn’t say anything as I wouldn’t upset a child, but am I wrong to quietly judge?

I have a sudden need to go out and buy

Dickhead

@TheVolturi

I often wonder when I see school age kids in schools on school days at the moment. Are they off because they're isolating? Seems to be a lot of kids around during school hours at the moment. I would never say anything though or give funny looks, there could be a perfectly reasonable explanation!

My mum got verbally abused while she had my kids in a shop last holidays. The term times where we live are one of those LEA that have gone really away from the norm with them and so it was term time where mum lives and the girls were staying with her (was still holidays for them). Gobful of abuse in the middle of Aldi.

My child has had a cough for nearly 4 weeks after having a cold that cleared up (he’s had several negative COVID tests and has seen a dr -who said it is the remnants of a virus and should clear on its own in a week or two, and if not it may be asthma and he will need an inhaler)
I’ll be damed if I’m making my 3 year old stay home for over a month just because he does the occasional cough, life has to continue! As far as I’m concerned I have done the right thing- we know it’s not COVID, we’ve seen a doctor. What else should I do until his cough clears (which if it’s asthma it may never fully clear!)
You never know someone’s circumstances so mind your own business!

That’s awful @CoffeeWithCheese. A gob full of abuse is never acceptable.

I’m clearly being a bit unreasonable, but I kept my thoughts to myself and wasn’t rude. Rudeness is something else I quietly judge…

I often wonder when I see school age kids in schools on school days at the moment. Are they off because they're isolating?

A reasonable assumption to make but often it couldn't be further from the truth. Lots of people have decided to homeschool because the governments response to covid control measures in schools has been nothing short of woeful. For example A very skinny DS can't wear a jumper under his pe kit when he's exercising outside despite being bloody freezing in case he sweats too much and gives someone covid but a friends DSs school is nearly at 50 cases and has just been told her DS has to isolate after being in school all week and only just getting notification of a close contact testing positive. DCs have doctors appointments etc and today my DC1 will be out in school time as they have a work placement interview. I took my DCs out for the day on a weekday recently after my dickhead neighbour kept everyone awake all night. Being out meant DC1 could still get on with their exam revision and meant I wasn't going to be in a cell by teatime if I saw her smug coked up face breezing out for the 3rd time that week. Just remember as long as you're distancing you'll be fine.

“I often wonder when I see school age kids in schools on school days at the moment. Are they off because they're isolating?”

My partner has noticed this more and more. Yes, it’s wrong to be rude. Yes, there are plenty of explanations. But as a pattern it might show many people don’t care anymore. If this is the case, then the schools could shut and kids will suffer, so I don’t think I’m 100% unreasonable. I do, however, accept getting anxious about random coughing, that could be anything, is my problem, so am going to shop online only now!

I’m clearly being a bit unreasonable

More than just a bit.

I had some fluff on the inside of my mask the other day which I accidentally inhaled (I was mouth breathing because it was very hot and I’d just walked 1.5 miles with a double pram) so I choked and coughed a bit. Had so many parents staring at me in the playground, I felt like a total leper. I felt like telling them I was choking on fluff but I didn’t.

People cough for so many different reasons. Hayfever and asthma are 2 reasons, coughs from a cold can last for weeks too.

If this is the case, then the schools could shut

Schools aren’t the cause of the increase in cases. If you look at the data, schools returned in early March and cases remained low right up until the pubs reopened. It’s drunk people in pubs, fuck all to do with children quite rightly going to school. But yeah, people don’t care anymore because it’s dragged on for so long now and everyone wants to live a normal life. I don’t blame anyone for feeling that way, it’s an illness with a very small death rate and the average age of covid deaths is 84.

My child has a cough from mid November - March usually, I was the same too when younger. We would lead a pretty sad life if we couldn't go out.

This year she had ALOT of covid tests!

@3cats2kids

That’s awful *@CoffeeWithCheese*. A gob full of abuse is never acceptable.

I’m clearly being a bit unreasonable, but I kept my thoughts to myself and wasn’t rude. Rudeness is something else I quietly judge…

You kept your thoughts to yourself and wasn't rude...

So, you don't think it's rude that you've slagged off this woman and child, along with any single parents and person who coughs (so probably half the country) for having the audacity to enter a shop.

Dry up. I'd find you far more rude, self important and entitled than the woman and her child innocently buying sweets.

For the last 7 months my 4 year old has struggled with on and off coughs. They all begin and present in the same way - we are on the list for an ENT appointment and are waiting to see about an asthma diagnosis.

We use an inhaler when it gets bad but cannot do anything else, at the present moment.

After several traumatic COVID tests on a toddler I know that he isn't carrying anything.

He's already suffering in other ways, I'm not going to stop him leaving the house to then please other people.