Thread by @sethjlevy

Not sure if this will interest anyone but my family and I have had the flu this week.

My two year old son was very sick a few nights ago. Last year he was in the hospital three times with a respiratory virus right at the begging game of the Covid thing.

They weren’t testing then unless you had been in certain countries. So I don’t really know what he had. Anyway, one night he was struggling to breath. We have a nebulizer so we gave him a treatment and he got through the night.

The next morning it started up again so out of caution we brought him to the emergency room of the local children’s hospital.

I was expecting they would ask us all of the Covid questions and do a rapid test but no. They did ask he he had traveled out of the country. That’s it.

He’s two. They don’t require a mask at that age.

When doctor came in she checked on him and explained that the normal viruses were making there way through the community. Said they weren’t seeing much Covid. Offered to test but said it wasn’t really necessary.

Gave him some steroids to open his airways and sent us home.

It was just a normal hospital visit. No panic. No insane measures. No hyperbole.

Anyway that’s it. That’s the story. Kids get viruses. It’s not the end of the world.

FYI he’s doing much better.