Omnivore-Dan wrote: “My wife and I did not get sick for many years, then our kids went to school, brought home all sorts of disease. Our kids got over being sick in a day or two. I felt like warmed over death for a week. Yuk.”
Cruise ships might be petri dishes but k-12 schools are petri pots.
They are! My barber told me a mother brought a kid in with lice on his head. He told the mother to take him and leave, get some stuff for the lice and don’t come back until they are gone. She acted like she didn’t even know he had lice. It wasn’t long before the school nurse had to inspect every kid.