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orm518 t1_ivgez5t wrote

Reply to comment by theanti_girl in Local part time bartender here, stop coming to the bar sick .. by [deleted]

At some point, kids are no longer actively contagious. We keep our kids home for a few days, and if no fever and symptoms improving, our day care POLICY is it's ok to send them back.

If we kept a kid home until he was 100% back to normal he would be out for 10 days every other week.

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theanti_girl t1_ivgglqk wrote

Well, obviously. I remember as a kid that “perfect attendance” was touted as an achievement. In some schools, it still is. It’s also complete horseshit.

I’m not saying she doesn’t keep her kids home until there’s not a single sniffle or cough. I’m saying she doesn’t keep them home at all because “it’s not Covid, it’s just a cold.”

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jjayzx t1_ivgrcs4 wrote

Cause when you grow up they want you to not miss a single day of work in your life, the american way.

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JimmyHavok t1_ivggpjq wrote

Maybe the reason your kids get sick so often is the lax attitude at your daycare.

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orm518 t1_ivgl0xz wrote

How do you juggle your kids and two parents with full-time jobs? I'd love to know.

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ziddersroofurry t1_ivh3fzz wrote

Schools aren't supposed to be extended day care. They're supposed to be where kids go to learn. Kinda hard to learn when you've got some drippy-nosed germ factory making you and everyone else sick. When I had a cold my aunt-a nurse-kept me out of school until she was certain I wasn't contagious.

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orm518 t1_ivhhji2 wrote

Go back and read my comment. It is extended day care.

Also, we wait until symptoms largely resolved, at that point you’re not shedding tons of virus and for some infections you’re not contagious within 2-3 days. Even COVID is only a 5 day quarantine plus 1-2 negative tests.

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makesumnoize t1_ivin4m9 wrote

I could be wrong, but pretty sure CDC only went to a 5-day quarantine when the economy really couldn't bear the weight of longer quarantine periods on a mass scale anymore. I think it was 10 days prior to that change. But again, I could be misremembering.

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orm518 t1_ivjc73z wrote

You’re right it was a medical decision on the benefit of additional time from a medical outcome standpoint. The percentage of people capable of still spreading the virus at day 6 is not statistically significantly more than at day 11, given the added burden on the patient.

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WarExciting t1_ivh6m5o wrote

As another redditor said to me recently, “Don’t try to argue with the hive mind.”

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orm518 t1_ivhhq72 wrote

Yeah. Our viral season this year is going to be tough specifically because we have largely avoided any immune challenge (for good reason, don’t get me wrong!) during two plus years of COVID and masking.

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