Tested positive Sunday, would you send child to school tomorrow?

[pandapoppers]

So DS tested positive Sunday eve... off school all week. No symptoms. His test was a very faint line (took ages to appear) on the positive yesterday & same today. If there's a negative tomorrow, should I send him in? He's 10, I have a very important work meeting I need to attend!
I'm in two minds. Before Sunday had not tested for 5 days so could be that he'd been positive for ages!!! I am negative. DH too.
What would you do?

@user1471443411

I thought we weren't meant to be testing or isolating any more, unless really ill/vulnerable. I'd go with what your school says otherwise.

That's only the legal requirement. The guidance is to still test and isolate.

Depends on school policy. Ours are following the guidelines and because cases are so high across the school any sign of any illness the kids are being sent home and told not to go back till the following week.

@millytint44

It's a cold! Get on with it!!!!!

@millytint44 very ignorant view. Yes, it’s just a cold for some people I’ve had one family member and one family friend die from covid. Yes, one had other health conditions which made him worse but the other was young, fit and healthy with no other health issues at all. A friends 2 year old was hospitalised due to covid and has been having seizures ever since.

Get on with things as normal if you wish but stop preaching on about it to those of us that still want to be a bit cautious! I have a toddler and a loved one that I am providing palliative care for - I don’t particularly want either of them taking thei chances with it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Since the dawning of time, some people have been more badly affected than others by all sorts of illnesses. We all take our own precautions relevant for our own needs/health status.

2 years ago, people would have gone to work/school with a cold. That's what covid is now. This level of fear and paranoia is more damaging than the virus.

@millytint44

Yes. You don't need to isolate now. It's just a cold. Give calpol, get on with it.

This is .

Anyone calling COVID 'a cold' is scientifically/medically illiterate.

@millytint44

Since the dawning of time, some people have been more badly affected than others by all sorts of illnesses. We all take our own precautions relevant for our own needs/health status.

2 years ago, people would have gone to work/school with a cold. That's what covid is now. This level of fear and paranoia is more damaging than the virus.

Again, the things you are writing are scientifically/meically illiterate.

You are wrong, there is no gloss I can put on it.

OK. Whatever.

Anyway OP, did you send your kid to school or bow to the pressure to virtue signal?

Yes, it’s just a cold for some people

COVID is not a cold for anyone, the virus is hugely more impactful on a very high percentage of people, including those who have mild cases.

There is an excessive focus on the deaths of the very vulnerable, people who may have died from flu or other illnesses that the majority of us shake off.

COVID is different. It causes damage to a variety of organs and internal systems even in people who have 'mild' cases and asymptomatic cases. This is what makes it very different to a cold.

If I were to catch a common cold I would have an almost zero risk of having lingering/permanent brain, heart, lung, blood symptoms. If I were to catch COVID, I would have a significant risk of having lingering/permanent brain, heart, lung, blood symptoms.

The whole system impacts of COVID are unfortunately nothing like a cold.

There is an excessive focus on the deaths of the very vulnerable, people who may have died from flu or other illnesses that the majority of us shake off. Just to clarify, I do not mean an excessive focus in terms of these things not mattering - they matter hugely and the way CEV people and the elderly have been disregarded is disgusting to me - but by only focusing on these deaths those of a minimising mindset are able to say COVID is not a widespread problem.

The numbers going into hospital now are rising and due to waning immunity care homes are apparently vulnerable to major outbreaks.

Every person affected by COVID matters - the vulnerable who are at risk of the worst impacts and the less vulnerable at risk of the chronic impacts.

@millytint44

It's a cold! Get on with it!!!!!

And yet a cold has never caused my blood pressure to spike so high I needed to be rushed to a and e with a risk of heart attack or stroke. A cold has never had be admitted to hospital. A cold has never left me with a life long health condition requiring daily medication and ongoing monitoring. A cold has never left me with ongoing breathing issues for well over a year. A cold has never led to me requiring 7 weeks off work. A cold has never required me to seek medical attention for anti virals to be given via a drip to ensure my worsening symptoms don't get worse. Neither has flu for that matter - though I've only knowingly had flu once in my life. So far I've had covid twice in 18 months, both times it was definitely not a cold.

By the way the reason why I'm 'so vulnerable' to your 'just a cold' - arthritis and it's accompanying medication, something I normally wouldn't expect to impact my breathing and blood pressure.

Yes, we are learning to live with it.
However, we currently have guidelines to help us do that.

Despite some posters, fortunately in real life my experience shows most people are following the guidance as we come towards the end of this gradually.

All those people saying it’s just a cold - it really really isn’t for a lot of people. You don’t know if you’ll be unlucky and have a kid who is still unable to go to school months later and totally unable to function normally