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conulyIt's a pretty common disease, of course - you almost certainly had it in childhood even if you don't remember it! - but even when the kids were little and we went to playgrounds and all I didn't expect to see it on every trip out.
But then, I guess the kids weren't getting it during quarantine, and now that even the most cautious people are taking their kids unmasked to the grocery store* and wherever they're all passing it around.
I'm not sure what to do with this information. I vaguely feel like people ought to know if there's an ongoing outbreak, but on the other hand, it really is a nothing disease. It's called fifth disease because it's the fifth on a list of rashy childhood ailments, which just goes to show how unremarkable it is. Unless, of course you have a compromised immune system or somehow dodged it in childhood and then contracted it during pregnancy, in which case there's a chance it can be serious for you/your baby; but I hope that nearly everybody in the first group is still masking relentlessly and honestly, given how very much the antivaxers harp on the MMR, if you're pregnant you and everybody you live with really should be masking all the time no matter what.
* I mean, I still wear a mask in the grocery store, but whatever.
But then, I guess the kids weren't getting it during quarantine, and now that even the most cautious people are taking their kids unmasked to the grocery store* and wherever they're all passing it around.
I'm not sure what to do with this information. I vaguely feel like people ought to know if there's an ongoing outbreak, but on the other hand, it really is a nothing disease. It's called fifth disease because it's the fifth on a list of rashy childhood ailments, which just goes to show how unremarkable it is. Unless, of course you have a compromised immune system or somehow dodged it in childhood and then contracted it during pregnancy, in which case there's a chance it can be serious for you/your baby; but I hope that nearly everybody in the first group is still masking relentlessly and honestly, given how very much the antivaxers harp on the MMR, if you're pregnant you and everybody you live with really should be masking all the time no matter what.
* I mean, I still wear a mask in the grocery store, but whatever.
