DC rules for daycare openings
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Anonymous
This. Pp is so wrong. My toddler is in a class of 12 with three teachers. I can’t even calculate all the potential for exposure through parent’s workplaces, siblings schools, and all of the places they all go. |
Anonymous
| Just because the risk is higher in a daycare setting than with a nanny doesn’t mean the PP was so wrong. Nanny isn’t necessarily safe either. Better than multiple potential exposures, but still a potential exposure. |
Anonymous
Exposure to one person and their life circumstances is very different than exposure to a multitude of people and their life circumstances. |
Anonymous
| Are people upset about the guidelines? Seems to me they are reasonable and the daycare DC attends takes many of these precautions anyway (pre-COVID). A lot of panic comments but this guidance isn't controversial and we don't even know when daycares will be allowed to reopen to the masses. |
Anonymous
| PP here- if your nanny takes public transit to and from your home she is bringing in germs. One person is not a failsafe. |
Anonymous
| I have two kids (3 and 9) and know ZERO preschoolers who would be able to keep a mask on consistently over the course of a day. |
Anonymous
Different poster than the one you’re not replying to, but I’m also going the nanny route instead of daycare. It will be a stretch financially and was not the plan, but plans change. I don’t think anyone is arguing that a nanny is without risk. But for our family, we believe it is less risk to have one childcare provider come to us than to send a toddler and an infant to daycare. We’re also taking into account the fact that there might be occasional closures of daycare for the next year (and would love to be wrong in that prediction). Anyways, there’s no risk free way to do it unless you can work from home and watch the kids, which I’ve learned over the course of the last six weeks is not sustainable long term for us. |
Anonymous
Nothing is a perfect scenario. If you need a perfect scenario, you need to sequester a live in nanny. |
Anonymous
| We are already practicing with masks at home with my 2 and 3.5 year old. Every day we add one more hour. Now they wear them 9-2. I want them to be prepared to go back because I have to go back to work or I lose my job. |
Anonymous
They were never required to close. It was optional. |
Anonymous
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There snack, lunch and nap time, how do they navigate that?
Makes sense that the adults wear masks not the children |
Anonymous
| That makes me feel ill. I don’t want my child going back to a setting like that. |
Anonymous
How does that make sense? The masks do not protect the one wearing them, they protect others. The kids are much more likely to be ill and asymptomatic than the adults. Adults aren’t coughing and sneezing in the kids faces. It’s the other way around. The teachers are the ones at risk of getting sick and experiencing severe illness. The vast majority of kids recover well. |
Anonymous
| I went to the store earlier for about an hour with a cotton mask on and it was so uncomfortable by the time I was leaving. At first it was fine, but then it got hot and uncomfortable. I had to fight the urge to remove it or adjust it. No way kids will keep masks on for a sustained period of time, especially kids who are sensory sensitive. |
Anonymous
| Where do you even find masks for children this age? |