Is this out of order, or just cheeky!

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My friend had covid two weeks ago, then her husband tested positive last week. Their teenage son started feeling ill last weekend, went to school all last week coughing, full on cold, looked poorly but didn't test, I think because they had a special trip planned this weekend and didn't want to miss it. My DD is friends with him, and spends a lot of time with him. She tested positive yesterday and is really poorly, she's missed out on a party and another planned day out today. He's come back from the weekend and tested and of course is negative because it's been over a week! Obviously we have no proof it was him but it's odds on isn't it! Is this selfish or just accepted with Covid now, my DD so poorly and fed up 😕

Large numbers of parents send their children into school when they are coughing and sneezing

Very few children do not cough or sneeze, especially during winter. They catch loads of viruses as their immune systems learn to fight them. Surely we can't afford to keep them all off school each time they catch another virus? When they're small, parents would have to take time off their work to look after them. It would have a huge knock on effect

I think you are quoting me so yes, that is a problem for the school community since it means other children also catch the bugs and so do the staff which leads to more absenteeism. I work in a secondary school so I think by a certain age most pupils could stay at home if they are ill and parents can't look after them. I'm not talking about a bit of a cold or the odd cough I'm talking about parents who send their teenage children into school when they are plainly pretty ill and in fact can't concentrate and struggle to get through the school day. It may be difficult re working parents and I sympathise with that but it is still selfish behaviour.

Thanks @EarringsandLipstick. WHO said “Endemicity assumes that, first of all, there’s stable circulation of the virus at predictable levels, and potentially known and predictable waves of epidemic transmission,” she said. “We really need to hold back on behaving as if it’s endemic before … the virus itself is behaving as if it’s endemic.” At what point is it stable and are we saying that the continual waves are now predictable?

What do you call them then?

It's life

@pinkyredrose - nothing. What are you meant to say to people who have no qualms about harming others?

We're coming into cold and flu season, there's loads of stuff going around, covid isn't everything

Like all the different strains of flu, covid, and all it’s subsequent strains, is here to stay. It has now become part of our every day reality. If you are clearly very ill, with serious symptoms, you stay at home and away from others. But if you don’t, or your symptoms are very mild, or you are asymptomatic, than you just need to carry on as normally as you can, otherwise there will be perpetual social disruption, on so many levels. We have to learn to live with it.