Exactly, why is covid 19 still getting put on a pedestal? RSV is worse for kids than covid 19, yet daycare does not shutdown for 2 weeks because of RSV.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33015684/

Society's risk tolerances are being very inconsistent right now, and the only reason I can see is for political purposes (i.e. cover your ass).

Is it worse for adults / elderly? Are the long term risks of RSV as fuzzy as covid?

By the way, I'm not claiming we should be more strict about any of this, but on a personal level I'd rather do my best to not infect others.

I also want to do my best not to infect others, but I do not see people risking their economic livelihood to do that outside of those with the luxury of working from home.

I guess what I am getting at is the dichotomy of leaders officially acting if people should test and quarantine and all that jazz, while obviously knowing that those who need to go out and work to put food on the table and funds in the retirement account will continue to do so.

Based on the stats, I would bet all I have on one of those snot nosed kids at my kids' daycare having covid right now. But I am sure many or most of the parents need to work for the cash to meet the mortgage payments or whatever their expected quality of life is.

Even if somebody does have to go to work while sick with covid for whatever reason, they can avoid other nonessential contact with people based on their test result.

I do agree there's a lot of hypocrisy and ass-covering going on. Even earlier in the pandemic healthcare workers were discouraged from getting tested so they wouldn't need to stay home from work. I think making tests available prevents at least some unnecessary transmission which is good enough for me.

I think you are correct, making the tests available is probably good. Maybe we should have similar availability for other infections.

RSV isn't currently killing ~1800k Americans a day.

RSV has no vaccine unlike Covid 19. If people do not want to get vaccinated, then that is their problem.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination

From that link, like 1 in 10 people dying are vaccinated. And even ignoring that, I will still personally choose to stay home when infected with covid even if it only helps the unvaccinated.

There's no approved vaccine yet for the daycare-aged population being discussed.

The daycare age population are not the ones dying. Point being that yes, COVID 19 is resulting in more deaths than RSV nationwide, but as a vaccinated individual, I am more concerned about RSV (one of my kids has already got it), than I am from COVID 19.

> The daycare age population are not the ones dying.

Which, if daycares were run by the toddlers independently of adult supervision, would be a great point.