daycare peeps - are you worried about omicron? is your daycare doing anything different for safety?
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Anonymous
DP masking 2 year olds is absurd. The WHO recommends against it. The CDC's policy is extreme. An attempt to compensate for half the country acting like this virus doesn't exist. All it does is hurt young children whose verbal and social skills are just developing. Plenty of evidence of increased delays so don't you dare give me the crap about how delays happen anyway. This is not in my f&ING imagination. |
Anonymous
I'm not saying don't do mitigation measures. But choose ones that work while limiting the collateral damage. Take quarantine policies as a simple example. Some places are still requiring 14-day quarantines, while others have at least dropped that to 10 days. But why aren't we more broadly allowing the same shortened quarantine policies that have been available to school-aged kids? Particularly returning with a negative PCR taken 5 days after an exposure. And why aren't more parents pushing for a test-to-stay option? Masks are another issue. I'm not strictly opposed to a mask mandate continuing through the Omicron wave, but do you realize the US is the odd one out on masks for kids 5 and under? The WHO explicitly recommends against mask mandates for kids 5 and under. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control doesn't recommend masks on kids until they're in secondary schools. Young kids very, very often aren't consistently wearing well-fitting masks. Plus they're regularly taking them off throughout the day. Masks in preK/childcare aren't doing much. |
Anonymous
The CDC endorsed this one day ago, so... I think we'll get there eventually. And honestly, the main reason I haven't been worried about quarantine requirements is that we have had ZERO covid exposures the entire time my kid has been in daycare, and just one in a different room. So yes, the class might close for 10 days instead of letting kids return after 5 days with negative PCRs, but it is just an abstract concept at this point. If it were regularly happening, I'd feel more pressure to "fix" it. Masks, I would guess that at least half the parents still want their kids masked. I'm not one of them, and think it is dumb (especially outside!), but I'm not concerned enough to be an anti-mask advocate. My kid is developing completely fine and does not mind her mask. If this is still going on next fall, I'll maybe reconsider. We also should have a crisper view of the data on masking. |
Anonymous
DP well as long as your child is ok, we're good right |
Anonymous
Not just covid in room exposures it's also anytime you have a symptom and if you're telling me that in the past year your kid is not had one runny nose and that's great for you but my kid is just recently being treated for asthma because he's had a cough on and off for the past year and a half so every time he had a f****** spell of coughs we had to go and get tested. Our pediatrician was very patient with us she did not want to overreact and now that it happened again this fall we are treating it as reactive airway disorder. Runny nose have to get tested. It may also be that I test often because I feel a responsibility when my kid is in with other kids and I do not want to be the parent who put their kid in school for just a runny nose and didn't get them tested and then all those other kids got covid. But out of the 5 to 10 times he's been tested in the past year he's only had a fever once everything else was a symptom like cough or runny nose. |
Anonymous
Well, I'm good.....Am I supposed to talk to your daycare about their policies? OR am I supposed to call the CDC? Seriously, what do you want me to do? |
Anonymous
Fair, we do test every time there is a runny nose. I don't think that is a totally crazy policy at this stage, but it will have to phase out. Although accepting rapids would be very helpful. We have been able to get <12 hr PCR turn around covered by insurance, but that is rare. |
Anonymous
Maybe don't ramble on for two paragraphs about how you got yours |
Anonymous
There should be discrepancies between daycare policies if they're certified by the state because the regulated by the state and the State health department so there should be no differences within daycare policies |
Anonymous
As a parent of a child with serious delays you are full of it. And, your kids should not be in day care more than 8-9 hours during weekdays and should get time with you/no masks. If your kids have delays get them help, like we did. |
Anonymous
Why do people keep parroting this ad nauseum? You live in the United States. We follow not the WHO or the European CDPC, but the American Centers for Disease Control. If you want to demand we follow only WHO, move somewhere that that is the case. Hint: It won’t be in the U.S. |
Anonymous
Maryland doesn't have masking/testing/quarantine requirements for preschools and child care facilities. Local orders and the local health departments determine those. |
Anonymous
The point is that there are definitely people out that that seem to think only COVID-denying Trumpers that refuse to listen to scientists believe that mask requirements should be lifted from preK settings. That's obviously not the case. |
Anonymous
That's interesting because our preschool sent us direct link from MDOH which is what they follow |
Anonymous
DP. I understand this is DCUM, where half the people claim to have $400k+ incomes, but most of us need to work. Even those of us with kids that have special needs. So yes, my kids spend 9+ hours in their preK programs. They're awake and home less than 3 hours a day, most of which is spent on breakfast/dinner/bath. And regardless of their time with us, having all interactions with peers be through masks is going to have an impact. |