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Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere by from-nibly on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:16AM (#39863731)
No. Keep your kids home if they are sick. An screw every parent who thinks this way. My family got sick 6 times in the last 12 weeks because of this nonsense. If your kid is sick it's your fault if other kids catch what they have.

I dont care if it's "just the sniffles" It causes so much inconveniece for my family.

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Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere by bombcar on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:21AM (#39864437)
Unfortunately even if you have a "zero sniffles and max masking" policy schools are just a breeding ground for germ transmission. You're usually "infectious" before you're symptomatic, so it spreads like wildfire anyway.

School sicknesses are so common that it might almost be argued that the point of public education is to make sure everyone is exposed to as many diseases as possible.

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Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere by fn-mote on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:06PM (#39865700)
I completely disagree with this defeatist attitude, and I do not think it is supported by evidence.

Regularly washing your hands reduces spread of the flu by 30%. (Old study, not going to find it.)

I will believe anti-disease spread measures are effective until they are proven otherwise.

> You're usually "infectious" before you're symptomatic

This trait of Covid was what made it unusual. For the flu, the most infectious period days 1-3 with symptoms. ("Period of Contagiousness" in [1]... of course there are exceptions.)

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/keyfacts.htm

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Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere by bombcar on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:42PM (#39866106)
Sure, and you should take reasonable precautions (including not penalizing "sick days" in various ways), but if kids go to school they're going to get sick.
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Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere by from-nibly on Friday March 29, 2024 @03:01PM (#39867728)
I agree with this but if you knowingly send your sick kid to school everyone should be united in being pissed off at you.
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Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere by freitzkriesler2 on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:29AM (#39863886)
This is how it always was before covid and how it will always be if you send kids to germ factories (aka schools). Get the meds, drink water, go to sleep.

Part and parcel of living in modern society.

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Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere by earthling8118 on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:42AM (#39864025)
It doesn't have to be this way. Covid has nothing to do with it. I didn't like it then, and don't like it now.
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Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere by freitzkriesler2 on Friday March 29, 2024 @03:24PM (#39867975)
Then move to the boondocks. You want the benefits of community without the consequences. It's not going to happen and no I'm not going to sequester myself or wear masks for everyone else's benefit.
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