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Anecdotal data point of 1 Me and my wife would rarely get sick before kids, and even then before they started school Once they started going to daycare, then

by nico 3y ago

Anecdotal data point of 1 Me and my wife would rarely get sick before kids, and even then before they started school Once they started going to daycare, then preschool, or when switching schools… we all get sick at home now

bediger4000 3y ago
I had the same experience. I found that bring-home illnesses eases off about 5th grade, and almost disappears when kids are in high school.
- BooneJS 3y ago
  Our kids are 17 & 19, and this fits what I remember. Little kid hands always seemed moist and sticky, making for perfect vectors.
kayodelycaon 3y ago
Now that I don’t work from an office, I rarely get sick.
moron4hire 3y ago
While it's obvious that people send their sick kids to daycare--because what are you gonna do, gotta go to work--there is probably at least some small part at play that people with young chicken are also sleep deprived and stressed the fuck out. Written from my back porch as the two children scream at each other inside.
- throw9away6 3y ago
  It’s a prisoner’s dilemma. I don’t want to send sick kid to child care but if the other parents do then I have no choice because I’ll run out of sick leave
  - HWR_14 3y ago
    Assuming you cannot work from home and have finite sick leave. Both of which are reasonable assumptions for most people, but it would be great if more people didn't have those assumptions work for them.
ceejayoz 3y ago
Yep. Two years of respite from cold/flu was one of the few bright spots.
dangwhy 3y ago
If you don't mind me asking, are you overweight and/or sedentary or prediabetic ( fasting > 100) ? My doctor told me that being metabolically unhealthy weakens immune system and excersing and eating healthy will protect from frequent infections. I don't know what to make of this.
- nico 3y ago
  No one in my family is overweight or has any sort of health issues As you are aware, it is kind of a rude question, but also a weird one Not sure why you’d ask that given my anecdote Pretty much all parents I know describe the same situation of not getting sick very often before kids, and that completely changing once their kids start going to daycare/school
  - atlantic 3y ago
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    - nico 3y ago
      Not really what? I’m giving my personal experience and explicitly calling them anecdotes It’s perfectly alright for you to have a different life experience But don’t deny mine because yours is different
  - Izkata 3y ago
    > No one in my family is overweight or has any sort of health issues > As you are aware, it is kind of a rude question, but also a weird one The (US) media drilled into us for years that being overweight/obese may as well be a covid death sentence, doing things like stating how many covid hospitalizations/deaths were overweight/obese without context. So it's become very easy for people to jump on that. The missing context was that if you actually compared like-for-like, using the real rates in the general US population... overweight/obesity has (almost) no effect. They just left that part out so the number sounded high, or compared "obese" in the population to "overweight or obese" in hospitalizations.
cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Yep, it's a constant onslaught until they to about 9 or 10 we found. It gets better once they creep up on teenage years. Not sure if it's just their immune systems improving or if it's a product of better hygiene once they get older. Do not miss those years. And in fact I wonder how much of a toll the constant virus fighting had on me (combined with poor sleep and generally getting older, etc.)

by nico 3y ago

bediger4000 3y ago

I had the same experience. I found that bring-home illnesses eases off about 5th grade, and almost disappears when kids are in high school.

BooneJS 3y ago
Our kids are 17 & 19, and this fits what I remember. Little kid hands always seemed moist and sticky, making for perfect vectors.

kayodelycaon 3y ago

Now that I don’t work from an office, I rarely get sick.

moron4hire 3y ago

While it's obvious that people send their sick kids to daycare--because what are you gonna do, gotta go to work--there is probably at least some small part at play that people with young chicken are also sleep deprived and stressed the fuck out. Written from my back porch as the two children scream at each other inside.

throw9away6 3y ago
It’s a prisoner’s dilemma. I don’t want to send sick kid to child care but if the other parents do then I have no choice because I’ll run out of sick leave
- HWR_14 3y ago
  Assuming you cannot work from home and have finite sick leave. Both of which are reasonable assumptions for most people, but it would be great if more people didn't have those assumptions work for them.

ceejayoz 3y ago

Yep. Two years of respite from cold/flu was one of the few bright spots.

dangwhy 3y ago

If you don't mind me asking, are you overweight and/or sedentary or prediabetic ( fasting > 100) ? My doctor told me that being metabolically unhealthy weakens immune system and excersing and eating healthy will protect from frequent infections. I don't know what to make of this.

nico 3y ago
No one in my family is overweight or has any sort of health issues As you are aware, it is kind of a rude question, but also a weird one Not sure why you’d ask that given my anecdote Pretty much all parents I know describe the same situation of not getting sick very often before kids, and that completely changing once their kids start going to daycare/school
- atlantic 3y ago
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  - nico 3y ago
    Not really what? I’m giving my personal experience and explicitly calling them anecdotes It’s perfectly alright for you to have a different life experience But don’t deny mine because yours is different
- Izkata 3y ago
  > No one in my family is overweight or has any sort of health issues > As you are aware, it is kind of a rude question, but also a weird one The (US) media drilled into us for years that being overweight/obese may as well be a covid death sentence, doing things like stating how many covid hospitalizations/deaths were overweight/obese without context. So it's become very easy for people to jump on that. The missing context was that if you actually compared like-for-like, using the real rates in the general US population... overweight/obesity has (almost) no effect. They just left that part out so the number sounded high, or compared "obese" in the population to "overweight or obese" in hospitalizations.

cmrdporcupine 3y ago

Yep, it's a constant onslaught until they to about 9 or 10 we found. It gets better once they creep up on teenage years. Not sure if it's just their immune systems improving or if it's a product of better hygiene once they get older. Do not miss those years. And in fact I wonder how much of a toll the constant virus fighting had on me (combined with poor sleep and generally getting older, etc.)