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ravan

Dear PantheaCon Shithead Childherders

Feb 19, 2008 19:11

Friday night, about 30 of us were all crowded into the Asatru Hospitality Suite. No windows were open, of course - it was a bit chilly outside. You people sat in there, oblivious, while your child ran around and coughed... and coughed... and was cranky... and coughed more. By the time I realized that it was just one child doing the coughing, not ( Read more... )

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zoe_me February 21 2008, 03:33:37 UTC

Well, when you go after her parents, here is why it isn't going to go far:

My daughter and I were with Sonja from about 1pm-8pm Friday. My daughter was with her roughly 10am to 3:30pm when we went up to the Pagan Alliance suite. My husband was with Sonja much of that time. (You saw us at the PA suite around 4:30pm.)

My daughter, my husband, and I had HOURS more contact with Sonja than you. No coughs, no fevers, no ick (I have bad allergies, but it doesn't look a thing like Sonja's ick).

I will check will the other mom of a kid who spent time with Sonja, but so far no complaints in her LJ of her kid having a cough.

ravan February 21 2008, 03:55:17 UTC

It wasn't in the Pagan Alliance suite, IIRC, it was the Asatru suite.

There were lots of parents with kids at P-Con this year. Most of them took good care of their kids.

Also, some people don't have the constant exposure to stuff to boost their immune systems though sheer inundation.

zoe_me February 21 2008, 04:01:09 UTC

You are missing the logic: Sonja had a wee cough on Friday, and her father explained it to me as the tail of something. Her father is the host of the Asatru suite, and we were in there for the drawing at like 5:45pm Saturday night(getting ready for the drawing) until 6:40pm when we went to help our fellow Greeks out down the hall. Sonja (the blond girl) was helping her mom draw tickets for the raffle and was the only kid in the room when my daughter left her.

so to add to the logic, we were with the Asatru kid in question near to your comparatively low exposure period, and as thick as theives as my daughter is with their kid...... hmm I am doubtful.

ravan February 21 2008, 04:03:25 UTC

The kid doing the drawing wasn't the one doing the coughing. She wasn't coughing much at all (and was cute as hell). There was another kid closer to the door.

Oh, and your logic fails anyway. Just because parents, exposed to every bug that their kid brings home from school and play, are immune doesn't mean everyone else is.

datapard February 21 2008, 04:35:41 UTC

1. Ravan was not running a fever and coughing her lungs out on Thursday.
2. Ravan was not running a fever and coughing her lungs out on Friday
3. Ravan was not running a fever and coughing her lungs out on Saturday
4. Ravan was not running a fever and coughing her lungs out on Sunday
6. She was starting to show symptoms on Monday.
7. She had to come home sick on Tuesday.
8. She stayed home sick today.

This sort of thing has a incubation period of 36 to 48 hours as a general rule, NOT 120. "Logic" would therefore indicate that she got it at PCon. Now whether or not she got it from exposure to the little darling at the Asatru suite "may" be open to debate, but it would certainly seem to be the most likely location.

All that not withstanding, what the bloody HELL was that child doing out of bed when she was sick. What kind of self-centered, self-indulgent egocentric "parent" does that to a child? Do they just not care or what?

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