Yes, even though I am a silly woman, I do understand the science behind it.
She tested positive, she had a fever of close to 103, he listened to her lungs and decided she was bad enough to be treated.
As a mother, I decided to listen to her doctor and treat her for something that was making her very ill.
If you find yourself in the same situation, by all means tell your kid to suck it up for the greater good.
“Yes, even though I am a silly woman,”
I did not connect your silliness to your gender. Don’t try to make me out to be some kind of sexist. If you have some phobia about your gender, that’s your problem, not mine.
“She tested positive,...”
Please tell me how your doctor knew that? It takes several days to a week to get the results of a lab test that identify the STRAIN. If he gave her tamiflu after onset he was wasting the drug.
“As a mother, I decided to listen to her doctor and treat her for something that was making her very ill.”
Good for you. In my initial comment I did not say you were wrong. I said your doc was wrong.
“If you find yourself in the same situation, by all means tell your kid to suck it up for the greater good.”
If I’m in the same situation I will go with what the top doctors in the world say I should do, not some idiot who may be creating a new strain of antiviral resistant flu that could kill millions of people because I know better. Again, I do not fault you for that.