01-12-2022, 05:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-12-2022, 05:10 PM by danbrotherston.)
(01-12-2022, 04:20 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: Both my kids had covid over the holidays and I saw first hand how little it effected them. Interestingly enough, my wife who has all vaccinations got it too from the kids. She is still under the weather and was way worse then the kids. I never tested positive, (I am vaccinated) but I am sure I did have it too. Couple of days with an itchy throat.
My kids mental health and learning is important, on line learning is not effective. Both my daughters are extremely high achievers in school, they are suffering not being in class.
I am fine with my kids sitting beside other children. They are already out playing with all their classmates and doing birthday parties etc. anyways.
"If" they have to go to the emergency. I don't live in the if, I live life. I have family members who work in the hospital, they have told me that they are doing fine coping and it was worse before. I am working in the public everyday liaising with emergency services and no one is saying to me that they are overwelled. I have not missed a day of work and had vacations canceled because of Covid. Myself and my colleagues all feel the same way, we can manage, why cant others.
What you fear as dangerous is your decision, it isn't mine though. (I respect your decisions, I agree that a person has to do what they believe is right for their situation free of any judgement)
Your children...who are vaccinated...unlike mine, who is ineligible for vaccination?
It is your and your children's choice to be out playing with classmates and having birthdays. That's a choice which is contributing to the spread of COVID (you yourself acknowledge your family got it, do you know if you spread it to anyone else? anyone vulnerable?).
As for your family members who work in hospitals, where do they work? Apparently not Peel, whose ER is closed right now. Others will follow, we are still growing exponentially, this isn't going to get better. I don't understand why you think it being fine now means anything about the future?
I think it's awfully selfish of you and your colleagues to question why others "can't manage" when others cannot be vaccinated, when others are in vulnerable groups. You KNOW these things, so why do you think you don't know why others "can't manage".
What I recognize as a dangerous situation is different from you because I am IN A DIFFERENT SITUATION FROM YOU, not because I am more fearful than you. Also, because I recognize exponential growth and can use that understanding to predict the future.
Edit: Umm...you didn't go to work at your job where you liaise with the public while you were sick likely with COVID did you?!