Daycare Covid policy vent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should not have announced this policy late Saturday night but you should’ve gotten your Covid PCR test at some point last week. With those symptoms, you shouldn’t be relying entirely on Rapids. So I don’t think it’s a bad policy but they should not have sprung that on you

Agreed. It sounds like your kid was exposed. They did not just decide to do this because they wanted a quiet Monday. My family tested negative for 4 days on rapids and needed a PCR to confirm Covid (after exposure and symptoms so we were pretty sure).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should not have announced this policy late Saturday night but you should’ve gotten your Covid PCR test at some point last week. With those symptoms, you shouldn’t be relying entirely on Rapids. So I don’t think it’s a bad policy but they should not have sprung that on you

Agreed. It sounds like your kid was exposed. They did not just decide to do this because they wanted a quiet Monday. My family tested negative for 4 days on rapids and needed a PCR to confirm Covid (after exposure and symptoms so we were pretty sure).

If their child was exposed, the child care provider should tell families that, not just randomly announce a new policy. If there is an exposure, vulnerable family members need to know as soon as possible. That's incredibly irresponsible of the provider not to disclose it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely right to be livid. I’m super pissed for you. Who is going to have a PCR in the morning? I’d show up with my kid and demand they take them. Bring a rapid test and do it right there.

People who thought ahead instead of tantruming on DCUM and booked an early morning PCR test at an urgent care where they can get the test results right away.

Doesn’t matter how early this morning you booked a PCR, you don’t get the results back for at least a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely right to be livid. I’m super pissed for you. Who is going to have a PCR in the morning? I’d show up with my kid and demand they take them. Bring a rapid test and do it right there.

People who thought ahead instead of tantruming on DCUM and booked an early morning PCR test at an urgent care where they can get the test results right away.

Doesn’t matter how early this morning you booked a PCR, you don’t get the results back for at least a day.

If OP had done the responsible thing and gotten her kid a PCR last week, she wouldn’t be dealing with this problem now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely right to be livid. I’m super pissed for you. Who is going to have a PCR in the morning? I’d show up with my kid and demand they take them. Bring a rapid test and do it right there.

People who thought ahead instead of tantruming on DCUM and booked an early morning PCR test at an urgent care where they can get the test results right away.

Doesn’t matter how early this morning you booked a PCR, you don’t get the results back for at least a day.

There are urgent cares that do same-day onsite PCR testing. Results usually take about 2 hours.

[Anonymous]

is this 2020? I don't have a kid in daycare, but it seems like daycares are keeping these draconian policies because it is financially beneficial to them (you have to pay, but they don't need staff to watch your kid).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:is this 2020? I don't have a kid in daycare, but it seems like daycares are keeping these draconian policies because it is financially beneficial to them (you have to pay, but they don't need staff to watch your kid).

This is such a stupid take, and of course you are saying it while having no experience with daycare. If they are short staffed, that’s far more likely to be due to workers catching covid from kids than due to some scheme to keep kids out of the daycare for fun and profit.

[Anonymous]

It is the PCRs that aren’t working, not the rapids. Y’all people are slow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely right to be livid. I’m super pissed for you. Who is going to have a PCR in the morning? I’d show up with my kid and demand they take them. Bring a rapid test and do it right there.

People who thought ahead instead of tantruming on DCUM and booked an early morning PCR test at an urgent care where they can get the test results right away.

Doesn’t matter how early this morning you booked a PCR, you don’t get the results back for at least a day.

If OP had done the responsible thing and gotten her kid a PCR last week, she wouldn’t be dealing with this problem now.

That is so dumb. A PCR gives you a point in time result. A PCR last week does not guarantee that the child does not have COVID now. This is why daycares should not be in charge of defining public health policies.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like the policy is test to stay but they are only just catching on that the rapids aren’t catching the strain. However, the late night notification would make me extremely upset. Not everybody can just take the day off on such short notice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is the PCRs that aren’t working, not the rapids. Y’all people are slow.

Not for my family. We were all the reverse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is the PCRs that aren’t working, not the rapids. Y’all people are slow.

Not for my family. We were all the reverse.

DP. Well, that settles it then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:is this 2020? I don't have a kid in daycare, but it seems like daycares are keeping these draconian policies because it is financially beneficial to them (you have to pay, but they don't need staff to watch your kid).

This is such a stupid take, and of course you are saying it while having no experience with daycare. If they are short staffed, that’s far more likely to be due to workers catching covid from kids than due to some scheme to keep kids out of the daycare for fun and profit.

If OP's child has been exposed and she wasn't notified (she says her child was not exposed so she clearly has not been notified), that's a huge failure on the part of the child care provider. If the workers are "catching covid from kids" then OP's child would have been exposed, and the child care provider needs to disclose that if they want to be responsible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:is this 2020? I don't have a kid in daycare, but it seems like daycares are keeping these draconian policies because it is financially beneficial to them (you have to pay, but they don't need staff to watch your kid).

This is such a stupid take, and of course you are saying it while having no experience with daycare. If they are short staffed, that’s far more likely to be due to workers catching covid from kids than due to some scheme to keep kids out of the daycare for fun and profit.

If OP's child has been exposed and she wasn't notified (she says her child was not exposed so she clearly has not been notified), that's a huge failure on the part of the child care provider. If the workers are "catching covid from kids" then OP's child would have been exposed, and the child care provider needs to disclose that if they want to be responsible.

Oh dear lord. If the daycare had 2-3 workers test positive for covid over the weekend, does it not seem remotely within the realm of possibility to you that they caught it from kids at the daycare, in which it would make sense to have anyone who has shown symptoms in the past week so a PCR test to confirm they don’t have covid before coming back? Sure, they could require everyone at the daycare to do that, but that just means excluding more kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:is this 2020? I don't have a kid in daycare, but it seems like daycares are keeping these draconian policies because it is financially beneficial to them (you have to pay, but they don't need staff to watch your kid).

This is such a stupid take, and of course you are saying it while having no experience with daycare. If they are short staffed, that’s far more likely to be due to workers catching covid from kids than due to some scheme to keep kids out of the daycare for fun and profit.

If OP's child has been exposed and she wasn't notified (she says her child was not exposed so she clearly has not been notified), that's a huge failure on the part of the child care provider. If the workers are "catching covid from kids" then OP's child would have been exposed, and the child care provider needs to disclose that if they want to be responsible.

Oh dear lord. If the daycare had 2-3 workers test positive for covid over the weekend, does it not seem remotely within the realm of possibility to you that they caught it from kids at the daycare, in which it would make sense to have anyone who has shown symptoms in the past week so a PCR test to confirm they don’t have covid before coming back? Sure, they could require everyone at the daycare to do that, but that just means excluding more kids.

AGAIN THE CHILD CARE PROVIDER NEEDS TO DISCLOSE COVID CASES TO THE FAMILIES. You are acting like COVID prevention is a one-way street. It's all on the families, the provider has no responsibility whatsover? jfc.