@gremlins not 100% going to work in your case I’m sure but I was immunocompromised due to medication I was taking for Crohn’s disease. Was getting sick constantly from my son bringing home illnesses from day care, softplay, and his grandparents.

I eventually just had enough, came off the immunosuppressant’s about 7 months ago and just take the flu and covid shots. Haven’t had a flare up in that time and feel a lot healthier without them (the side effects were pretty annoying).

@gremlins we're running a bunch of HEPA filters at home, mask as much as possible, and we should have a UV scrubber entering our central HVAC as soon as the contractors return to do it. Unfortunately that's kind of... the best we've found other than the obvious keeping up with vax updates. In person school is necessary for all the emotional growth stuff and you can't govern your kiddos while they're there nor the school itself.

For extra bonus points my wife is a teacher at the community college and she runs a HEPA filter in her classroom and office.

@gremlins I'm sorry you had to add that edit!

Our experience:

It's close to impossible to protect the children at school (because of the teachers). The children wear masks in public transport, shops, theatre, etc., but not at school 😠

So our focus is to prevent spreading diseases between household members. We have a built-in ventilation system that is always running on low. When someone has a "cold", it's on high. Also whenever someone else is here (like maintenance), and especially when grandparents (who are the people who need to be protected most in this setting) visit, it's on high. We don't get a lot of visitors.

Otherwise, "normal" hygienic precautions, like washing hands when coming home, before eating, after bathroom. Everybody uses their own cutlery, toothbrush, towel, etc. Keep tissues in a closed container and remove asap (I don''t know how much of this is "normal")

Like this, we've not had infections passed between the kids or from kids to parents.

Oh and, we eat at restaurants practically only in the warm season when we can sit outside. Otherwise only very, very rarely, and with nasal spray and a mobile air filter on the table.

We have the maximum vaccinations that we can get here, which is influenza and covid both yearly. Try to convince the grandparents, but only one side gets them. (Influenza might kill one of them, but at least they won't get it from us...)

@gremlins

Masks sadly didn't work with our children. We have several HEPA13 filters in the house, always on. Daily vitamin D (though whether that is a real factor or myth, who knows.) We adults wear FFP2 masks in shops, trains and at work. One of the children got covid in 2021, the rest of us not, as far as we can tell.

A crazy world we live in, isn't it, where society refuses all public mitigations. We do our best to protect the children whilst keeping them integrated.

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