AngB
01-28-2021, 07:37 PM
Our state/school district/ health department made up a ludicrous "modified quarantine" policy so that kids in school that are around a positive kid don't have to quarantine as long as they are wearing masks, they can continue going to school only while on 'modified quarantine'.
So DS2 got "modified quarantined" back Jan.14. He was unhappy about it because he had to go to school- he doesn't like school- and couldn't play with his friend (who is in his class anyway but we honored the actual quarantine/rules and didn't let them play, which is the only place he ever goes besides school anyway.) (And he's also the kid that had his teacher change abruptly, rough month for DS2.)
Monday evening after being in school, (day 11!) he gets a runny nose, sneezing, sore throat. Silly me, following the rules, took him to urgent care to get covid tested. Both tests end up being negative. I let the school know all of this anyway (tests were pending anyway Tuesday so that was whatever, anyway. ) Now after spending about 100 hours on the phone, taking him our ped, sending them two doctor's notes saying he's negative and can return to school...he's "presumed positive" anyway because he had a cold (nevermind that he's completely fine now except for a slight runny nose and very occasional cough like once every 4 hours, and spent two hours outside sledding..) Now we all have colds because DS2 was sneezing everywhere but because he's presumed positive with his negative test but symptoms, we're all "presumed positive" because we have symptoms too. And there's no point in getting tested because close contact + symptoms make tests irrelevant. Also I had my second dose of the covid vax weeks ago so it's highly unlikely my EXACT same symptoms as DS2 are covid especially only 2 days later from DS2's symptoms. Plus the negative tests.
UPDATED: So last night I was super miserable with my congestion (headache/drainage/bleh, still no fever or labored breathing or cough or anything though.) Out of an abundance of caution since my mom plans to work with DS2 later this week, I went to get tested to make sure and sure enough, flu, strep and covid tests are all negative and I have the start of a sinus infection that is too early for antibiotics (which is fine, I wasn't really there for antibiotics.) So now we have THREE negative covid tests between us, me fully vaccinated as of Jan.14, two different doctor's notes saying DS2 doesn't have covid, and a sinus infection but all of this is "probable covid" :banghead:. I feel bad because DS1's classmates that he's been talking to on Fortnight said they have like 6 people in his class quarantined because of all that, much less DS2's class. (And they better hope they didn't catch DS2's cold/ "fake covid"!)
When they are letting kids go to freaking school while quarantined, who knows what the hell they pick up in the meantime (I mean yes masks help but not 100%) and we'll just call it covid because we pick and chose which rules to follow and make them up when it's convenient.
On the bright side, since we all have colds aka symptoms we only have to quarantine 10 days from our symptoms starting vs. the 10 days from ds2 +14. more.
Ugh, I am so over this crap.
So DS2 got "modified quarantined" back Jan.14. He was unhappy about it because he had to go to school- he doesn't like school- and couldn't play with his friend (who is in his class anyway but we honored the actual quarantine/rules and didn't let them play, which is the only place he ever goes besides school anyway.) (And he's also the kid that had his teacher change abruptly, rough month for DS2.)
Monday evening after being in school, (day 11!) he gets a runny nose, sneezing, sore throat. Silly me, following the rules, took him to urgent care to get covid tested. Both tests end up being negative. I let the school know all of this anyway (tests were pending anyway Tuesday so that was whatever, anyway. ) Now after spending about 100 hours on the phone, taking him our ped, sending them two doctor's notes saying he's negative and can return to school...he's "presumed positive" anyway because he had a cold (nevermind that he's completely fine now except for a slight runny nose and very occasional cough like once every 4 hours, and spent two hours outside sledding..) Now we all have colds because DS2 was sneezing everywhere but because he's presumed positive with his negative test but symptoms, we're all "presumed positive" because we have symptoms too. And there's no point in getting tested because close contact + symptoms make tests irrelevant. Also I had my second dose of the covid vax weeks ago so it's highly unlikely my EXACT same symptoms as DS2 are covid especially only 2 days later from DS2's symptoms. Plus the negative tests.
UPDATED: So last night I was super miserable with my congestion (headache/drainage/bleh, still no fever or labored breathing or cough or anything though.) Out of an abundance of caution since my mom plans to work with DS2 later this week, I went to get tested to make sure and sure enough, flu, strep and covid tests are all negative and I have the start of a sinus infection that is too early for antibiotics (which is fine, I wasn't really there for antibiotics.) So now we have THREE negative covid tests between us, me fully vaccinated as of Jan.14, two different doctor's notes saying DS2 doesn't have covid, and a sinus infection but all of this is "probable covid" :banghead:. I feel bad because DS1's classmates that he's been talking to on Fortnight said they have like 6 people in his class quarantined because of all that, much less DS2's class. (And they better hope they didn't catch DS2's cold/ "fake covid"!)
When they are letting kids go to freaking school while quarantined, who knows what the hell they pick up in the meantime (I mean yes masks help but not 100%) and we'll just call it covid because we pick and chose which rules to follow and make them up when it's convenient.
On the bright side, since we all have colds aka symptoms we only have to quarantine 10 days from our symptoms starting vs. the 10 days from ds2 +14. more.
Ugh, I am so over this crap.