AIBU to want one nice occasion without another school virus?

[Virusaftervirus]

Christmas holidays - domino effect in our house. Birthday, valentines, half term and looks like even Mother’s Day now. Autumn term was similar. So fed up, especially as it doesn’t need to be this way.

Yanbu. Ds10 got sent home today with a possible sick bug, worse that he’s a diabetic and it can land him in hospital. Always happens at the most unconvient times!

A large and vocal majority of people on this site eschew masks. They are strident and political about how usage can never be brought back, stating "over my dead body" etc.

The effects of climate change (something else regularly denied on here) mean we have experienced wetter winters and a wet spring compared to previous years. This means more people mixing indoors, more opportunity to spread viruses.

Until we get actually REAL about this subject and talk about the science, Britain will always be a nation of people who view viruses and sniffles a bit like traffic:

"Why is there so much of it around...?"

@WeepingAngelInTheTardisI hope he’s ok. One of my DC has glue ear and is set back with every virus - would be far better for her education and development if I had a crystal ball to say better not attend school on x days as impact will be outweighed by benefit!
@JacquesHarlowpart of my job involves public inquiries and so I have a bit of a (admittedly sad) interest in other inquiries going on. I listened to some of the covid inquiry in the background and remember a bit where a senior bod (from NHS?) was saying how surgical masks were fine, when evidence was showing higher grade masks had worked so much better. Presumably was a cost/defending poor earlier decision-making thing? It was cringy to hear the defence of poor PPE. I think alot of people won’t / wouldn’t wear masks, but I also think there’s not much education on it (maybe deliberately due to culture, unless you look for it). I heard a witness from an organisation talking about cheap cost of filters as a quick fix and the positive impacts they’d had where used. I do actually think masks should be used in hospitals, but again had no idea previously how much more ill NHS staff are now or how much infection was spread in hospitals and the impact on outcomes, the awful decisions vulnerable families have to make, how many children affected and so on. I haven’t had a chance to listen to the latest module. Sorry, droned on a bit there.

Nope, you can't have one with kids, it's the law. You may have one germ-free St Patrick's day every three years, but you will be on your period.

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I feel for you OP and am in the same boat here in Vancouver, CAN.
My two are in a sort of play school through the school board twice a week. It is parent participation. We caught something, likely Covid, that took us out for all of Oct and first week Nov. We caught another virus which we couldn't shake for most of Feb. Then, we went to school last week on Monday and on Tuesday one dc became violently ill with vomiting, diarrhea a day later; second dc and I started V&D on Thursday and only now do I think first dc and I are over it, second dc still had diarrhea last night.
It is so exhausting and frustrating. It also seems no one has learned a thing from the pandemic. Stay home when ill/signs of illness. Wear a mask if you must go out. It's not difficult.

@Mumtobabyhavochope you’re all through the worst of it. Vomiting here also 🤮

We're finally over it here.
4y lost 2.5lbs, 2y lost 1.5lbs and still had diarrhea yesterday, though. It has been about 12 days. Spring break here now so no school for 3 weeks.
I think we're slightly traumatized by the relentless vomiting, day after day after day.

😵‍💫 there were a few days where I was bleach washing the bathroom a few times a day due to v&d accidents; was doing laundry 3 times a day. i'm going to have to shampoo the rug and couches as wasn't able to get it all out despite laying towels down for the kids as it seeped through when they got sick. It would be vomiting multiple times in a row. My poor kids. 😩 It was only 48 hours for me with v&d and then several days of fatigue.

It has been an absolute horror here.

Honestly I am with you. Every holiday, every event. We haves cold with D&V here wondering if it's COVID.

That sucks, but I feel sorriest for one of my DC's teachers, as she seems to go down with every classroom bug herself. Poor woman.

I’m in bed with a virus, and I'm a teacher. It’s a bit rubbish, but we can celebrate when we’re not poorly.

My 7 year old has chicken pox, a few weeks after an email went out warning of cases of chicken pox in his class. Now my 1 year old will probably get it

Hope today is better @Virusaftervirus 💛💐

It’s so frustrating. We have weirdly had a good winter with very little illness (no idea how) so fully expecting everyone to be ill over Easter and of course the sun will be blazing