Daycare Closed Due to Omicron (BCDC)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is closed this week due to Omicron. On the one hand, I appreciate that they are trying to keep everyone safe. On the other hand, I am paying for a service that I am not getting and needing to take leave from work. (There have been three confirmed cases at our facility so far.) Just curious how other daycares in the area are handling the surge in cases. Are your daycare facilities still open?

Think of it this way. You don’t pay for attendance. Rather, you pay for your spot. Similarly like when you go on vacation you still have to pay your mortgage on the house even though you’re not using it.

Your daycare‘s responsibility is to try and keep the entire group safe which is why they might have to close. If they stay open they could potentially be spreading Covid to the entire group and daycare and sill have to end up closing anyway.

Yeah but in the case of a house I'm in charge of whether I use my house or not, not someone else. I'm choosing to take the risk I'm choosing to use my leave in a matter of my choosing
Child Care should not depend on potentials. It's been considered an essential business for a long time and you don't just get to arbitrarily close without actually having cases. Because unfortunately what actually is going to happen is there are going to be cases and now you've made me use all of my leave for potentials and so I'll need to take leave without pay when there are actually cases.

You are also choosing the risk for other families who may not be in the same situation as you. You are also risking the staff's health and if they get sick then what. Let me guess, rules don't apply to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, we are two years into covid now. Facilities should have contingency plans in place to handle three cases without having to shutdown the entire facility. Just close the impacted classrooms.

Maybe the parents can rotate days they work at the day care when there is no staff available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is closed this week due to Omicron. On the one hand, I appreciate that they are trying to keep everyone safe. On the other hand, I am paying for a service that I am not getting and needing to take leave from work. (There have been three confirmed cases at our facility so far.) Just curious how other daycares in the area are handling the surge in cases. Are your daycare facilities still open?

Think of it this way. You don’t pay for attendance. Rather, you pay for your spot. Similarly like when you go on vacation you still have to pay your mortgage on the house even though you’re not using it.

Your daycare‘s responsibility is to try and keep the entire group safe which is why they might have to close. If they stay open they could potentially be spreading Covid to the entire group and daycare and sill have to end up closing anyway.

Yeah but in the case of a house I'm in charge of whether I use my house or not, not someone else. I'm choosing to take the risk I'm choosing to use my leave in a matter of my choosing
Child Care should not depend on potentials. It's been considered an essential business for a long time and you don't just get to arbitrarily close without actually having cases. Because unfortunately what actually is going to happen is there are going to be cases and now you've made me use all of my leave for potentials and so I'll need to take leave without pay when there are actually cases.

You are also choosing the risk for other families who may not be in the same situation as you. You are also risking the staff's health and if they get sick then what. Let me guess, rules don't apply to you.

If you can't take the risks of group care you shouldn't be in group care. Group care in general is not supposed to close it's supposed to stay open and the children that are sick are supposed to remove themselves from group CARE to protect others and the teachers. It is literally listed as an essential business.
If teachers get sick then you close the class because there's no teachers. If I get sick then I take leave and I don't go into work that's how it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, we are two years into covid now. Facilities should have contingency plans in place to handle three cases without having to shutdown the entire facility. Just close the impacted classrooms.

Maybe the parents can rotate days they work at the day care when there is no staff available.

Rotate the days? Do you live in America?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

What governments need to do is pay compensation to one of the two working parents so they can stay home with their quarantined kids, and make it illegal for an employer to fire a parent in this situation...


... just like some European countries are doing.

But don't put the burden on teachers. They need to protect themselves.

Why is this the government's problem? You hire a babysitter or use leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is closed this week due to Omicron. On the one hand, I appreciate that they are trying to keep everyone safe. On the other hand, I am paying for a service that I am not getting and needing to take leave from work. (There have been three confirmed cases at our facility so far.) Just curious how other daycares in the area are handling the surge in cases. Are your daycare facilities still open?

Think of it this way. You don’t pay for attendance. Rather, you pay for your spot. Similarly like when you go on vacation you still have to pay your mortgage on the house even though you’re not using it.

Your daycare‘s responsibility is to try and keep the entire group safe which is why they might have to close. If they stay open they could potentially be spreading Covid to the entire group and daycare and sill have to end up closing anyway.

Yeah but in the case of a house I'm in charge of whether I use my house or not, not someone else. I'm choosing to take the risk I'm choosing to use my leave in a matter of my choosing
Child Care should not depend on potentials. It's been considered an essential business for a long time and you don't just get to arbitrarily close without actually having cases. Because unfortunately what actually is going to happen is there are going to be cases and now you've made me use all of my leave for potentials and so I'll need to take leave without pay when there are actually cases.

If you used up all your leave, then yes, you take leave without pay. You knew this was the policy when you choose this child care. We are in a health pandemic. You are a parent. This is parenting.

[Anonymous]

Nearly every parent I know with young children across multiple states has had covid in the last few months and every single case they (in their own words) have traced back to their kids' daycare.

That isn't because the daycares or the employees are at fault, though they might have been. It's not because of other parents, although that's a factor too. It's the nature of this illness. It's contagious. It spreads. Even in the best of times, kids are germ factories. Put a bunch of them together and they get sick, they pass along illness, etc.

I hope none of you have to see what mis-c does to a five-year-old's heart like my friend in New York. I wish more of you were concerned.

I suspect a lot of you, like the woman who keeps advocating for daycares to drop mask requirements, are used to living in a world that you control. Parenting will never completely be that world. Neither will a global pandemic. You're going to have to let go of that and acknowledge that everyone is struggling to keep their family safe and their children developing. Sometimes there are no good choices, there is only doing the least harm to the most people. Please try and keep that in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nearly every parent I know with young children across multiple states has had covid in the last few months and every single case they (in their own words) have traced back to their kids' daycare.

That isn't because the daycares or the employees are at fault, though they might have been. It's not because of other parents, although that's a factor too. It's the nature of this illness. It's contagious. It spreads. Even in the best of times, kids are germ factories. Put a bunch of them together and they get sick, they pass along illness, etc.

I hope none of you have to see what mis-c does to a five-year-old's heart like my friend in New York. I wish more of you were concerned.

I suspect a lot of you, like the woman who keeps advocating for daycares to drop mask requirements, are used to living in a world that you control. Parenting will never completely be that world. Neither will a global pandemic. You're going to have to let go of that and acknowledge that everyone is struggling to keep their family safe and their children developing. Sometimes there are no good choices, there is only doing the least harm to the most people. Please try and keep that in mind.

Masking is optional in Northern Virginia. What they're asking for is nothing radical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nearly every parent I know with young children across multiple states has had covid in the last few months and every single case they (in their own words) have traced back to their kids' daycare.

That isn't because the daycares or the employees are at fault, though they might have been. It's not because of other parents, although that's a factor too. It's the nature of this illness. It's contagious. It spreads. Even in the best of times, kids are germ factories. Put a bunch of them together and they get sick, they pass along illness, etc.

I hope none of you have to see what mis-c does to a five-year-old's heart like my friend in New York. I wish more of you were concerned.

I suspect a lot of you, like the woman who keeps advocating for daycares to drop mask requirements, are used to living in a world that you control. Parenting will never completely be that world. Neither will a global pandemic. You're going to have to let go of that and acknowledge that everyone is struggling to keep their family safe and their children developing. Sometimes there are no good choices, there is only doing the least harm to the most people. Please try and keep that in mind.

Masking is optional in Northern Virginia. What they're asking for is nothing radical.

Little Johnny's parents don't care if he gets permanent lung damage because they live in Virginia. It's not radical if everyone else is jumping off a cliff too. Why don't you sign my petition? People are saying it's a good idea!!

Melanie, I suspect, lives in Virginia. Wonder if she's connected to the disrupt the Loudon schools crowd?

[Anonymous]

Nearly everyone at my husband's work lives in Northern Virginia.

Atm, although they are scientists who believe in science, nearly all of them are sick at home with COVID, courtesy of their families. Reports indicate Omicron may be mild for vaccinated people, and let's hope they're right. While we wait to find out I'd like to thank the good people of Northern Virginia, who, like the good people of Florida and Texas, were willing to put their family's lives and long-term health on the line to find out how bad things can be. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, we are two years into covid now. Facilities should have contingency plans in place to handle three cases without having to shutdown the entire facility. Just close the impacted classrooms.

The health department shows them down. Their may not enough workers to staff all of the rooms and combining rooms is not a good idea. This article was in cnn today “Nearly two years into the outbreak in the United States, the conversation has shifted to a labor shortage -- businesses just can't find enough workers. Meanwhile, lawmakers and economists are trying to figure out what's still keeping people on the sidelines.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/economy/us-economy-bad-jobs/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, we are two years into covid now. Facilities should have contingency plans in place to handle three cases without having to shutdown the entire facility. Just close the impacted classrooms.

The health department shows them down. Their may not enough workers to staff all of the rooms and combining rooms is not a good idea. This article was in cnn today “Nearly two years into the outbreak in the United States, the conversation has shifted to a labor shortage -- businesses just can't find enough workers. Meanwhile, lawmakers and economists are trying to figure out what's still keeping people on the sidelines.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/economy/us-economy-bad-jobs/index.html

3 teacher at our daycare quit over the last 4 months and they have had no luck hiring full-time replacements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is closed this week due to Omicron. On the one hand, I appreciate that they are trying to keep everyone safe. On the other hand, I am paying for a service that I am not getting and needing to take leave from work. (There have been three confirmed cases at our facility so far.) Just curious how other daycares in the area are handling the surge in cases. Are your daycare facilities still open?

Think of it this way. You don’t pay for attendance. Rather, you pay for your spot. Similarly like when you go on vacation you still have to pay your mortgage on the house even though you’re not using it.

Your daycare‘s responsibility is to try and keep the entire group safe which is why they might have to close. If they stay open they could potentially be spreading Covid to the entire group and daycare and sill have to end up closing anyway.

Yeah but in the case of a house I'm in charge of whether I use my house or not, not someone else. I'm choosing to take the risk I'm choosing to use my leave in a matter of my choosing
Child Care should not depend on potentials. It's been considered an essential business for a long time and you don't just get to arbitrarily close without actually having cases. Because unfortunately what actually is going to happen is there are going to be cases and now you've made me use all of my leave for potentials and so I'll need to take leave without pay when there are actually cases.

If you used up all your leave, then yes, you take leave without pay. You knew this was the policy when you choose this child care. We are in a health pandemic. You are a parent. This is parenting.

No this is not any parenting that any previous generation has had to do. Stop shaming people and for god sakes I hope you dont call yourself a feminist or a humanist. The US cant complain about labor shortages and women in the workforce and then be like its a pandemic your a parent youre on your own. If I am on my own then so shall I treat everyone else. If there is no community then who the f*** am I protecting?

[Anonymous]

My daycare is doing test to return and is not closing down classrooms even when there is a direct covid exposure in the classroom. I wish they would. I wish they would take more precautions for our kids under 5 who can't get vaccinated. And by the way, I'm a single mom, so I have no one else to tag team with. And yes I also have used up my leave. But I agree with the PP who said this is parenting. And we are in a pandemic. And maybe it is a mild case for you or your little one, but others have risks. Not caring about others' risks is how we got to this point in the first place -

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daycare is doing test to return and is not closing down classrooms even when there is a direct covid exposure in the classroom. I wish they would. I wish they would take more precautions for our kids under 5 who can't get vaccinated. And by the way, I'm a single mom, so I have no one else to tag team with. And yes I also have used up my leave. But I agree with the PP who said this is parenting. And we are in a pandemic. And maybe it is a mild case for you or your little one, but others have risks. Not caring about others' risks is how we got to this point in the first place -

You can always pull your own child out for every exposure, and figure out what that means for your job/finances since you have no leave yet. We pulled our kids out during the peak of the delta wave and avoided one exposure. But, this year, now that we are vaccinated, it does not seem worth it. My child's risk is lower than my own (vaccinated & boosted) risk.

With original COVID in spring 2020, I was 100% with you in trying to stop COVID spread, to flatten the curve, to give us time to get vaccines and treatments. But eradicating COVID is not going to happen at this point, and Omicron is beyond contagious. If you are very concerned, you may want to pull from daycare until vaccines arrive for <5 set.