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In reply to the discussion: reopening is clearly a mistake, but i don't think it will lead to the obvious disaster some think. [View all]yellowdogintexas
(22,114 posts)younger kids pick up any old virus because their immune systems are not fully developed. The older we get, the more exposured we have, the stronger our resistance and the fewer of these minor virus infections we get. An adult who has not acquired immunity to certain strains of colds, etc will catch everything.
When our daughter was in early school years she seemed to have a cold every other month. As she got older, she brought home fewer and fewer of them. I remember my early school years in the same way; I must have missed half of first grade due to various viral illnesses, and by the time I was in fourth grade I was seldom sick at all.
I managed to escape her infections; her father's immune system is not as strong as mine and he got everything.