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#2869775 16-Feb-2022 17:08

Dingbatt:

As well as the lockdown preventing us from attending my mother’s funeral last year, and limiting numbers to 10. The red setting has limited the numbers able to attend her memorial service this month. Postponement (again) not an option.

And now Six60 have postponed their Auckland concert to until November. The disappointment is the original concert date was on my wife’s milestone birthday and I had secured some really good tickets to mark the occasion.

I am really sorry, you are having a really crumby set of timings. It really sucks. Hopefully, you can still find some way to celebrate with your wife that will befit her milestone..

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#2869776 16-Feb-2022 17:09

Well, we have all had our test, it's my first time having someone stick something in my nose that felt like my brain stem was being drilled into.

On the positive side, my staff member who was ill this week with similar symptoms has come back negative and can return to work now he is feeling better. One less stress to worry about.

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#2869782 16-Feb-2022 17:16

The small people got their first vaccinations on Monday. Miss 7 was fine but miss 10 lost the plot and had to be restrained to be vaccinated.

They are fine now but Miss 10 has convinced herself that she is terrified of needles. Sigh.

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#2869789 16-Feb-2022 17:21

Handle9:

The small people got their first vaccinations on Monday. Miss 7 was fine but miss 10 lost the plot and had to be restrained to be vaccinated.

They are fine now but Miss 10 has convinced herself that she is terrified of needles. Sigh.

Sorry to hear about your 10-year-old, that's tough on everyone.

Our kids have been wildly variable over time with various needle-related things. Seems a bit cyclical and we never really know the days they will be ok with it and won't. I have found if I go with them, there is less performing and drama as I don't really tolerate it much, but my wife is a bit softer than me. We have found if we know stuff is coming up, we talk about it a lot to 'normalise it'. Not sure if it will help with your little ones.

We also have found a bit of bribery does help the medicine go down, not a method I subscribe to as a parent generally, but it's probably the lesser of two evils as opposed to watching our kids make a massive fuss at medical centers :)

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#2869793 16-Feb-2022 17:26

networkn:

Handle9:

The small people got their first vaccinations on Monday. Miss 7 was fine but miss 10 lost the plot and had to be restrained to be vaccinated.

They are fine now but Miss 10 has convinced herself that she is terrified of needles. Sigh.

Sorry to hear about your 10-year-old, that's tough on everyone.

Our kids have been wildly variable over time with various needle-related things. Seems a bit cyclical and we never really know the days they will be ok with it and won't. I have found if I go with them, there is less performing and drama as I don't really tolerate it much, but my wife is a bit softer than me. We have found if we know stuff is coming up, we talk about it a lot to 'normalise it'. Not sure if it will help with your little ones.

We also have found a bit of bribery does help the medicine go down, not a method I subscribe to as a parent generally, but it's probably the lesser of two evils as opposed to watching our kids make a massive fuss at medical centers :)

She gets a bit of anxiety, I think it is somewhat linked to her dyslexia. There were all sorts of bribes involved but she'd worked herself over an extended period of time. She'll get over it eventually, as she has other things, but unfortunately I don't think it'll happen in 3 weeks.

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#2869821 16-Feb-2022 17:48

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She gets a bit of anxiety, I think it is somewhat linked to her dyslexia. There were all sorts of bribes involved but she'd worked herself over an extended period of time. She'll get over it eventually, as she has other things, but unfortunately I don't think it'll happen in 3 weeks.

Yeah, that's a tough combination. For my daughter, it was a matter of asking her what would make her feel better about it, whilst emphasizing the benefits to others of the vaccination, something she responded well to. She wanted a reward, which was a visit to the bakery to grab any one thing she wanted. It's probably a little more complex with your daughter I suspect, but it may help give her some 'control' over the scenario. Probably nothing is going to make it 'great', but I'd imagine anything you can do to lessen the trauma for everyone involved might be good :)

Not sure if it will help, but it has helped for us.

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#2869862 16-Feb-2022 19:14

networkn:

Handle9:

She gets a bit of anxiety, I think it is somewhat linked to her dyslexia. There were all sorts of bribes involved but she'd worked herself over an extended period of time. She'll get over it eventually, as she has other things, but unfortunately I don't think it'll happen in 3 weeks.

Yeah, that's a tough combination. For my daughter, it was a matter of asking her what would make her feel better about it, whilst emphasizing the benefits to others of the vaccination, something she responded well to. She wanted a reward, which was a visit to the bakery to grab any one thing she wanted. It's probably a little more complex with your daughter I suspect, but it may help give her some 'control' over the scenario. Probably nothing is going to make it 'great', but I'd imagine anything you can do to lessen the trauma for everyone involved might be good :)

Not sure if it will help, but it has helped for us.

For mine 7, I got my booster first so she could she that it didn't hurt. (she was also promised ice-creams on the way home which might have had something to do with how willing she was)

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#2869876 16-Feb-2022 20:22

Daughter's school moving to online learning from tomorrow.

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#2869880 16-Feb-2022 20:43

freitasm: Daughter's school moving to online learning from tomorrow.

Egads! We are barely at the start of this outbreak. Could be a long few months ahead for parents if lots of schools follow suit!

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#2869882 16-Feb-2022 20:54

freitasm: Daughter's school moving to online learning from tomorrow.

Good move. In Iceland and the UK kids going to school was like a state-run spreader. The kids are necessarily affected, but everyone who comes in contact with them is. Perfect for breakthrough infections in vaccinated adults.

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#2869886 16-Feb-2022 20:58

Someone I know in Brisbane has had almost a txt a day from school of another positive. Sometimes multiple a day.
Basically about a 20% rate.

And yes, like the Dunedin one, basically takes out families in a single swipe.

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#2869968 16-Feb-2022 22:30

Linuxluver:
freitasm: Daughter's school moving to online learning from tomorrow.

Good move. In Iceland and the UK kids going to school was like a state-run spreader. The kids are necessarily affected, but everyone who comes in contact with them is. Perfect for breakthrough infections in vaccinated adults.

The friend in Vienna I talked to a week or so ago pointed out something similar: "If you have kids at school, you will get Covid" (this was for Austria and Germany).

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#2869988 16-Feb-2022 23:49

Linuxluver:
freitasm: Daughter's school moving to online learning from tomorrow.

Good move. In Iceland and the UK kids going to school was like a state-run spreader. The kids are necessarily affected, but everyone who comes in contact with them is. Perfect for breakthrough infections in vaccinated adults.

It's fine for a short term thing but the greater harm to kids as a group is in them not being in school rather than Covid.

Covid can be a problem for individual children but as a group the effects are minor.

A very close friend has just moved from Qatar to here in the UAE as they have had 2 years of his kids being in and out of school. It's a disaster socially, and to their learning.

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#2869989 16-Feb-2022 23:52

neb:

Good move. In Iceland and the UK kids going to school was like a state-run spreader. The kids are necessarily affected, but everyone who comes in contact with them is. Perfect for breakthrough infections in vaccinated adults.
The friend in Vienna I talked to a week or so ago pointed out something similar: "If you have kids at school, you will get Covid" (this was for Austria and Germany).

Not necessarily. We've had the kids in school in a covid environment since September 2020 and haven't had it (to our knowledge). Someone else in the house did but not my wife and not the kids. My wife is a teacher so it's possible not to catch it.

Classes get closed periodically due to being close contacts but it's hardly run wild, I think the kids have had 2-3 weeks at home in that period.

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#2870060 17-Feb-2022 08:31

Partner woke up this morning with symptoms.

Not ideal, so off to get a test we go, hopefully she is just hyperchondriacing a bit.

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