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A Runny Nose At Pre-School … OMG!


I just ran into the neighbor next store and his three year old son. When I asked if the three year old was still going to preschool during the summer, the father told me that the little boy was off for the past week, because he had a runny nose. I said, “Well, three year olds in their first year of pre-school are going to get a lot of runny noses.”

However, the worst of it was that the three year old could not return to pre-school until he had a negative covid test, and getting this test meant that he had to take time off from work. OMG! I didn’t say anything, but rather I bit my tongue  … hoping that neither the father nor his young son would notice the blood slowly dripping from the corner of my mouth.

Just when I started to think the Covid craziness was over, something like this brings me back to the “nutso reality” in which we live out here in California.

Keep in mind that this is not back last year when no one really knew that much about Covid. This is now July, 2021. Certainly one would think that a lot of information has been gathered since when Covid started, but this info has apparently not been read and certainly not been digested by  … here I am trying to think of the right minimally offensive description … not been digested by some of the wackos that run day care centers, or to the more elite the pre-schools.

This is the latest from BBC News:

Scientists from University College London, and the Universities of York, Bristol and Liverpool say their studies of children are the most comprehensive yet anywhere in the world.

Dr Elizabeth Whittaker, from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Imperial College London, said it was encouraging they were seeing very few seriously unwell children in hospital.

She added: “Although this data covers up to February 2021, this hasn’t changed recently with the Delta variant. We hope this data will be reassuring for children and young people and their families.”

What amazed me the most about this “needs a negative Covid test to return to pre-school” is that the pre-school that my two grandchildren attend has never required a negative Covid test in order for either the three year old or the five year old to return after cold like symptoms kept them home for a day or two. I know, I know … different rules in different states and in different cities … so what? However the two pre-schools in question are in the same state, and in the same city, and on the same street approximately two miles apart!

Can anyone tell me how this makes any sense?

7/16/21

For those interested in more of the findings in this English study, I have detailed the findings below:

They checked England’s public health data and found most of the young people who had died of Covid-19 had underlying health conditions:

  • Around 15 had life-limiting or underlying conditions, including 13 living with complex neuro-disabilities
  • Six had no underlying conditions recorded in the last five years – though researchers caution some illnesses may have been missed
  • A further 36 children had a positive Covid test at the time of their death but died from other causes, the analysis suggests
  • Though the overall risks were still low, children and young people who died were more likely to be over the age of 10 and of Black and Asian ethnicity.
  • Researchers estimate that 25 deaths in a population of some 12 million children in England gives a broad, overall mortality rate of 2 per million children ( a risk of 0.0002%).

Separately, scientists considered all children and young people in England who had an emergency hospital admission for Covid up to February 2021:

  • Some 5,800 children were admitted with the virus, compared to about 367,600 admitted for other emergencies (excluding injuries)
  • About 250 required intensive care (250 ICU admits out of 12 million children, for a risk of 0.025%)
  • There were 690 children admitted for a rare inflammatory condition linked to Covid, called paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS-TS)
  • Though the absolute risks were still small, children living with multiple conditions, those who were obese, and young people with heart and neurological illnesses were most at risk.

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