Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Benjamin is required to wear a mask in school, to social distance, and they sanitize everything like crazy.
Despite that, he caught a very bad cold late last week, and symptoms showed up Saturday. He said a girl sitting behind him seemed to have a cold, so that's most likely where it came from.
This is probably the worst cold he ever had, but it's clearly a cold, carrying all of the usual symptoms, but not COVID symptoms. We got him a COVID test anyway, which was negative.
He has since given to the cold to both of his parents.
Strangely, I thought I had a cold last week because I had a sore throat, but it must have just been my throat being dry or something, because it went away after several hours, and I was fine. Now I definitely have one, and it's pretty bad. Benjamin's mom also is experiencing bad cold symptoms.
I've been sleeping a ton of hours over the past 2-3 days. I'm up a short time and then get very tired and need to go back to sleep. Sucks. Definitely not COVID, though.
I do find it interesting that with all the intrusive COVID mitigation measures, which actually work BETTER at preventing cold and flu than they do at preventing COVID, Ben caught a cold at school anyway.
However, there have been very few COVID cases at his school thus far, and they've been there for over a month now. I am starting to believe the theory that kids just don't transmit COVID very much. That would explain why we're not seeing classrooms were 20 out of 30 kids come down with COVID at the same time. It's not even hard to believe this theory, because kids are also least affected by COVID, and there's been a longtime belief that asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic people don't transmit much or at all, whereas pre-sympomatic (people with no symptoms, but destined to be very symptomatic) transmit big time.
Note that it's not unusual for colds and flus to spread around classrooms quickly. I remember in my 6th grade class, there was one week where over half the class was out due to flu, including me. But this just isn't happening with COVID. I really think it's time for schools to reconsider these idiotic mask mandates, and let the kids be kids.