Are you still taking DC to daycare?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My company is about to move to 100% telework. I want to pull my child from daycare, but I have no idea how I'll get work done if I do. It doesn't feel right to make sure I'm safe at home while she's out there mingling.

I mean she'll be fine. "The WHO-China Joint Mission report also noted that children appear largely unscathed in this epidemic, writing, “disease in children appears to be relatively rare and mild.” From the data so far, they report that “infected children have largely been identified through contact tracing in households of adults.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/

By staying home you are avoiding catching it from work and spreading it to other people, most importantly to vulnerable people who are elderly and/or have underlying conditions. Keeping her home would also help slow the spread, but you have to do what you have to do.

but sending a child to daycare completely negates the protection of teleworking. Your child is exposed to teachers, administrators, building staff, and a class full of kids each day, all of whom have a house full of people at home that may have been exposed to Coronavirus. Any one of them could currently be transmitting the virus. I honestly think that the kids are the tricky part of the equation. They don’t seem very sick, but they can make other children sick and all of the children can make the adults around them very, very ill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My company is about to move to 100% telework. I want to pull my child from daycare, but I have no idea how I'll get work done if I do. It doesn't feel right to make sure I'm safe at home while she's out there mingling.

I mean she'll be fine. "The WHO-China Joint Mission report also noted that children appear largely unscathed in this epidemic, writing, “disease in children appears to be relatively rare and mild.” From the data so far, they report that “infected children have largely been identified through contact tracing in households of adults.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/

By staying home you are avoiding catching it from work and spreading it to other people, most importantly to vulnerable people who are elderly and/or have underlying conditions. Keeping her home would also help slow the spread, but you have to do what you have to do.

but sending a child to daycare completely negates the protection of teleworking. Your child is exposed to teachers, administrators, building staff, and a class full of kids each day, all of whom have a house full of people at home that may have been exposed to Coronavirus. Any one of them could currently be transmitting the virus. I honestly think that the kids are the tricky part of the equation. They don’t seem very sick, but they can make other children sick and all of the children can make the adults around them very, very ill.

Um, no. By teleworking you are still reducing contact with other people. Your baby going to daycare doesn't negate that. Of course the baby is bring exposed to other people but your family, collectively is being exposed to fewer people. Of course taking the baby out would be better, but until the daycare closes people will still take their kids in, because people have to work. You alone not taking your kid in is not going to significantly slow the spread of the virus, which is really what the vulnerable adults need so when they do get sick, the hospitals have capacity to care for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My company is about to move to 100% telework. I want to pull my child from daycare, but I have no idea how I'll get work done if I do. It doesn't feel right to make sure I'm safe at home while she's out there mingling.

I mean she'll be fine. "The WHO-China Joint Mission report also noted that children appear largely unscathed in this epidemic, writing, “disease in children appears to be relatively rare and mild.” From the data so far, they report that “infected children have largely been identified through contact tracing in households of adults.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/

By staying home you are avoiding catching it from work and spreading it to other people, most importantly to vulnerable people who are elderly and/or have underlying conditions. Keeping her home would also help slow the spread, but you have to do what you have to do.

but sending a child to daycare completely negates the protection of teleworking. Your child is exposed to teachers, administrators, building staff, and a class full of kids each day, all of whom have a house full of people at home that may have been exposed to Coronavirus. Any one of them could currently be transmitting the virus. I honestly think that the kids are the tricky part of the equation. They don’t seem very sick, but they can make other children sick and all of the children can make the adults around them very, very ill.

Um, no. By teleworking you are still reducing contact with other people. Your baby going to daycare doesn't negate that. Of course the baby is bring exposed to other people but your family, collectively is being exposed to fewer people. Of course taking the baby out would be better, but until the daycare closes people will still take their kids in, because people have to work. You alone not taking your kid in is not going to significantly slow the spread of the virus, which is really what the vulnerable adults need so when they do get sick, the hospitals have capacity to care for them.

What it does is increase the risk for your family

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My company is about to move to 100% telework. I want to pull my child from daycare, but I have no idea how I'll get work done if I do. It doesn't feel right to make sure I'm safe at home while she's out there mingling.

I mean she'll be fine. "The WHO-China Joint Mission report also noted that children appear largely unscathed in this epidemic, writing, “disease in children appears to be relatively rare and mild.” From the data so far, they report that “infected children have largely been identified through contact tracing in households of adults.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/

By staying home you are avoiding catching it from work and spreading it to other people, most importantly to vulnerable people who are elderly and/or have underlying conditions. Keeping her home would also help slow the spread, but you have to do what you have to do.

but sending a child to daycare completely negates the protection of teleworking. Your child is exposed to teachers, administrators, building staff, and a class full of kids each day, all of whom have a house full of people at home that may have been exposed to Coronavirus. Any one of them could currently be transmitting the virus. I honestly think that the kids are the tricky part of the equation. They don’t seem very sick, but they can make other children sick and all of the children can make the adults around them very, very ill.

Um, no. By teleworking you are still reducing contact with other people. Your baby going to daycare doesn't negate that. Of course the baby is bring exposed to other people but your family, collectively is being exposed to fewer people. Of course taking the baby out would be better, but until the daycare closes people will still take their kids in, because people have to work. You alone not taking your kid in is not going to significantly slow the spread of the virus, which is really what the vulnerable adults need so when they do get sick, the hospitals have capacity to care for them.

What it does is increase the risk for your family

Yes, as I mentioned, taking the baby out of daycare would be better. If that's not possible, you do need to be especially careful around vulnerable people. But unless those people are quarantining themselves
completely to avoid catching the virus, they are at risk anyway. You have to do what you have to do.

[Anonymous]

I can't work with my kid at home. I'd burn through my leave in a couple weeks. I can't afford to take LWOP.

If the daycare closes I might be able to negotiate with my employer. But while it's open, that's not going anywhere.

[Anonymous]

I'd be interested in more responses to this. We are still sending DD to daycare, we are both teleworking. I think if DCPS closes I'd keep her home, assuming it is even open. But I just don't know

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd be interested in more responses to this. We are still sending DD to daycare, we are both teleworking. I think if DCPS closes I'd keep her home, assuming it is even open. But I just don't know

I don’t understand how you can telework with your kid at home with you? How old is your DD? My son is 1.5 and while we might be able to work our a schedule of part time teleworking (each of us take half the day for him, half the day for work) there’s no way we could keep up F/T schedules without some childcare.

Ours is going to continue going to daycare until it closes, but I think it will close when DCPS does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd be interested in more responses to this. We are still sending DD to daycare, we are both teleworking. I think if DCPS closes I'd keep her home, assuming it is even open. But I just don't know

I don’t understand how you can telework with your kid at home with you? How old is your DD? My son is 1.5 and while we might be able to work our a schedule of part time teleworking (each of us take half the day for him, half the day for work) there’s no way we could keep up F/T schedules without some childcare.

Ours is going to continue going to daycare until it closes, but I think it will close when DCPS does.

I'm not teleworking with DD at home, she is still in daycare now. If she were at home DH and I would do something like you propose

[Anonymous]

We have an ES kid and a pre-K kid. I have spent this evening calling in “the village” - all parents are in planning mode here. A small group of kids, moving from one house to the next, will give them the socialization they need, each house has parents with different strengths, and it’s basically turning into a rotating homeschool/playdate setup. I am happy to give tour kids letters to trace if you’ll read with my kid. Etc.

[Anonymous]

I’ll still need to take some time off, but not all day every day.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I can’t telework so I have to conserve leave while her preschool is still open.

[Anonymous]

I pulled my almost two year old yesterday. The daycare is closed until further notice as of today. We are televising and are doing our best to keep up. My husband bills his time, so he is working. 6-12, two hours during my child’s nap, and some at night. Not ideal, but our babysitter contacts are already nannies, so they’re not available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pulled my almost two year old yesterday. The daycare is closed until further notice as of today. We are televising and are doing our best to keep up. My husband bills his time, so he is working. 6-12, two hours during my child’s nap, and some at night. Not ideal, but our babysitter contacts are already nannies, so they’re not available.

Your daycare closed already? Where are you located?

[Anonymous]

What will daycares do now that DCPS is closing? Ours sent out a communicable disease policy this week that didn't mention following DCPS. It seems unnecessary to put DD in daycare if schools are closed, but I just don't know. I think I might keep her home because I don't want her bringing anything back that knocks DH and I out at the same time. Not even coronavirus, just anything. DH thinks I'm being paranoid, but he also wasn't the one that had a 2 week bout of the flu this winter.

[Anonymous]

Take all kids out of group situations.

They are low-symptom carriers and group settings exacerbate viral spread.