My 2-year old got sent home Friday because a kid in his class tested positive (no masks in their classroom).
Since then, all 4 of his teachers have tested positive, and 3 more kids. His test is in a few hours. The 2-year old room is shut down for at least a week (well, they have no staff!) Apparently one of the 1-year old rooms is also shut because at least 1 teacher was positive.
The daycare is still letting masked siblings attend, so 4-year old is still going. I fully expect them to be shut down soon.
Heâs showing no symptoms at all, but honestly, I expect that we will all have this.
I kind of feel like itâs futile to try to prevent omicron. We just hope vaccines work. I feel so bad for immucompromised people in this one.
We possibly foolishly went to a basketball game yesterday, since son had exposure and hadnât been tested yet. We wore masks and sat far away from any other group, and it was not crowded (womenâs non-conference game). But only like 10% of the crowd had masks on. It was kind of shocking, I knew a lot of people wouldnât have masks, but wow.
If 2-year old tests positive, we will pull 4-year old from daycare, and husband will stay home from the lab (he wears a N-95 while there), but the rest of us wonât bother getting tested. Itâs too hard to access them. We will just work under the assumption we all have it.
Oh, and my Dad has covid. He says it is only a light cough, so I assume thatâs vaccines+booster working. heâs nearly 70, so Iâm a bit worried about this, and really really hope it stays mild.
So far mom is negative, but Iâm guessing she wonât keep testing.
In my circle of acquaintances is a family in the UK with three kids, the youngest is in elementary school or whatever the equivalent is there (primary I think?) and everyone is as vaccinated as they can be. The mom, dad, and eldest child all have Covid but none of them are sick in bed. Theyâre sick, just up and around. Iâm taking it as good news, this is the kind of Covid I can live with.
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday authorized booster doses of Pfizer-BioNTechâs coronavirus vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds, a group that became eligible for initial shots in May.
Regulators also shortened by a month the amount of time that adults and adolescents should wait between second and third doses, allowing them to seek booster shots five months after second injections. And they allowed some immunocompromised children aged 5 to 11 to seek a third shot, including those who have undergone solid organ transplants or have conditions that amount to âan equivalent level of immunocompromise,â the F.D.A. said in a statement.
That photo? Is a photo of piled up covid tests that were supposed to be taken by students and fedexed back in to get results by the first day of in-person school. Which is today. A number of them did make it in for analysis but were invalid? Maybe because they sat for too long? I donât even know.
I know all the reasons for in-person school, but this seems like somewhat of a mess.
One week into symptoms. Canât stop coughing long enough for a good sleep. To rub my nose in it, my co infected buddies now have freedom and energy. And Iâll have to move my OB appointment again. Tastes and smells are coming in slowly.
Sonâs covid test was negative. WhewâŚ
Heâs still home for the whole week, potentially 2, while I try to work and also provide enrichment so he doesnât just watch TV for 12 hours a day. Sounds like his teachers all have mild cases, so thatâs good.
I imagine that, since this is thought to have jumped from animals to humans, there is concern that it could jump to animals and back with more mutations.
The mutations are a problem but my larger point was Iâd be glad to have less deer and tickborne disease. Instead the deer continue to be incubators of even more plague.
Maybe my north eastern hatred of deer did not come thru.
There is a Vaccination Bus that is going around the school district, so my 5 year old has an appointment on Thursday! My husband finally decided that vaccination was worth it, so Iâm excited.
His kindergarten teacher is out all this week and next Monday on quarantine, though
maybe this is what's happened to testing, maybe I'm buying into a conspiracy theory
There are missing test results in Ontario. I know people as far back as December 24 waiting for results. Mine are from December 30. Yet the official documents still say 2-3 days and some people have (negative) results.
Apparently one way to process them is to put n (maybe 100?) Tests together somehow and batch test. If positive test individual tests. But when the positivity rate skyrocketed the system basically failed so anyone in a positive batch is now in a long long line.
I actually like this theory better than my theory which was that they are so far behind results are invalid. And I want my family to get results so that medium and long term effects are documented and treated. I strongly believe that people who develop long covid after the test rule changes wonât get the same support.
Also, does anyone know what the deal is if Iâm still sick after 10 days? Do I just never get to go out in public? Should I be ordering a fetal Doppler? I havenât moved tomorrowâs ob appointment yet but I should
âmaybe this is whatâs happened to testing, maybe Iâm buying into a conspiracy theoryâ feels like my default state with all covid news these days.
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Conspiracy theory or no?: Floridaâs state government is suppressing testing and test processing to improve numbers and encourage people to get the monocolonal treatment, and this has nothing to do with the fact that the people that own the monoclonal stuff gave the governor a major campaign contribution.
I should already be planning the live, in-person program for toddlers that I was supposed to be starting next month. You know, unvaccinated, many unmasked (if under 2), toddlers with a questionable understanding of the six-foot rule. This is now seeming unwise but I worry I will look bad if Iâm the one to pull the plug.
Primary School is what we call Elementary, yes, can confirm 
