Close down the daycares

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speaks to the entitlement of DCUM that folks don't understand why some child care providers need to remain open, especially if they serve health care workers. The whole point of social distancing is to avoid overwhelming the health care system. If half the nurses are home with their kids, guess what happens to the health care system?

This is why we frankly should be opening up daycares--or repurposing existing ones--for the children of health care workers. Everyone who doesn't work in these "essential" sectors should be staying home with their kids. Unfortunately, our system doesn't allow for that.

Agreed, though putting myself in the shoes of a health care worker I don't know that I would be willing to leave my child with a provider I don't know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daycare in NW DC just announced closure until the end of March, following the lead of schools in MD and DC. Will be an interesting few weeks at home "working from home" for DH and I with twin toddlers ...

You’re fortunate. Many employees cannot work from home.

Most doctors and nurses have kids, as do pharmacists and grocery store employees. They have no choice but to work. If all daycares are closed, who will watch their children?

I see both sides.....it’s a very difficult situation and decision. The failure of our president has made it much worse. There should be funding available to pay workers, who are not essential personnel, to stay home with their children. Essential personnel should get hazard pay in addition to regular pay, funded by the government. If we could just slow 3/4 of the country down, keep them isolated, I believe things would turn around before we become Italy.

[Anonymous]

I work in child care in DC and we (and the children's families) are all waiting to get guidance from OSSE on whether we should be open, closed, whatever. We've not had any communication from them since March 2nd, before there were any cases in DC. I am so disappointed in them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daycare in NW DC just announced closure until the end of March, following the lead of schools in MD and DC. Will be an interesting few weeks at home "working from home" for DH and I with twin toddlers ...

This is what I'm not looking forward to. I have the option to telework, but staying at home with a toddler means that I can only really work while she's sleeping, so I'll have to cut back on my hours. I'm trying to hold onto as much leave as possible, because I'll be on maternity leave this summer, and I don't trust that paid family leave will still be available through my employer given the current state of things.

Ok princess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are quick to say shut this, close that ....as long as it doesn't really inconvenience them. If they can work from home, then they advocate shutting businesses, if they have kids in daycare, they want the daycares open. People just want their lives to be

People who work aren't going to want their inconvenience of figuring out childcare for young kids so their desire to flatten the curve stops where their inconvenience starts.

Everyone is going to want to keep open the things that fit with their life and lifestyle and needs. If you have a job where you can't work from home, then you don't want your job to lay you off and shut down. If you are a SAHP then shutting daycares sounds like a good idea.

But when parents have to find other childcare to replace the closed childcare, it kind of defeats the purpose of shutting it down in the first place. Only now they are paying twice.

It could be inconvenient for you if emergency responders, health care workers, etc. stop doing their jobs, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m terrified mine will close. I still have to work and don’t have a choice in the matter. What am I going to do with a 3 yr old?

Im sorry PP. Do you have sick leave?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speaks to the entitlement of DCUM that folks don't understand why some child care providers need to remain open, especially if they serve health care workers. The whole point of social distancing is to avoid overwhelming the health care system. If half the nurses are home with their kids, guess what happens to the health care system?

This is why we frankly should be opening up daycares--or repurposing existing ones--for the children of health care workers. Everyone who doesn't work in these "essential" sectors should be staying home with their kids. Unfortunately, our system doesn't allow for that.

Agreed, though putting myself in the shoes of a health care worker I don't know that I would be willing to leave my child with a provider I don't know.

I don't mean to sound snarky here, but you clearly don't understand the shoes of most frontline health care workers. I'm not talking about the dermatologist with a SAHM wife, but rather the critical care nurse or paramedic married to a firefighter or cop (a common combination). In an emergency, they don't have a choice whether to go to work and to pick and choose if Larla down the street can watch their kid... and if they are exposed to the virus, their child is safer with licensed providers they don't know than with them.

[Anonymous]

PP here. Or someone like a nursing assistant at a nursing home married to someone who also works where they can't leave. They need childcare.

[Anonymous]

Ohio Governor DeWine just confirmed that daycares will remain open, but recommended those who can keep kids home do so. He also said that parents should start looking at substitute childcare plans and that they may close them.

[Anonymous]

Shutting down the daycares sounds like a good idea if you are a stay at home parent. But, as others have noted, it’s not that easy. Many of us still need to work. Daycares are basically critical infrastructure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daycare in NW DC just announced closure until the end of March, following the lead of schools in MD and DC. Will be an interesting few weeks at home "working from home" for DH and I with twin toddlers ...

You’re fortunate. Many employees cannot work from home.

Most doctors and nurses have kids, as do pharmacists and grocery store employees. They have no choice but to work. If all daycares are closed, who will watch their children?

I see both sides.....it’s a very difficult situation and decision. The failure of our president has made it much worse. There should be funding available to pay workers, who are not essential personnel, to stay home with their children. Essential personnel should get hazard pay in addition to regular pay, funded by the government. If we could just slow 3/4 of the country down, keep them isolated, I believe things would turn around before we become Italy.

Its not jost those folks. State and county governments, social workers, police, any of the helping or service professions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m terrified mine will close. I still have to work and don’t have a choice in the matter. What am I going to do with a 3 yr old?

Im sorry PP. Do you have sick leave?

If the person isn't sick, they cannot use sick leave. It would be annual and only if approved.

[Anonymous]

New research shows that children get coronavirus but they don't get that sick. So they can spread the disease (bad) as opposed to just not getting sick. This difference is big difference for the conversation about if daycares should close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New research shows that children get coronavirus but they don't get that sick. So they can spread the disease (bad) as opposed to just not getting sick. This difference is big difference for the conversation about if daycares should close.

Why?
Kids will carry the virus home to parents
Kids will infect day care providers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New research shows that children get coronavirus but they don't get that sick. So they can spread the disease (bad) as opposed to just not getting sick. This difference is big difference for the conversation about if daycares should close.

Why?
Kids will carry the virus home to parents
Kids will infect day care providers

Parents will spread it to coworkers...
Day care providers will spread it to their family...