Covid rise - when to withdraw from day care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have extra money at all and have been sending your kids to daycare, consider tipping each worker in cash before the holidays. Put your money where your mouth is on all the appreciation you have for these people who are also most likely black and female and well underpaid with no sick leave and crummy health insurance if any.

We always give each teacher a full months pay. Not sure we can do more but we can try.

You give each of your child’s teachers $1800????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd be wary of sending your kid the week after Thanksgiving. It seems like plenty of people are still going to be gathering, despite the warnings, and I'd almost count on an exposure in the weeks that follow. Of course, it's not a guarantee.

But I did just have a friend test positive after getting it from her kid who got it at preschool. So it is possible.

The statement you made infers that other kids in the preschool had it. How many additional kids in the class have it? Did you ask? If the child got it from preschool he/she would have had to get it from a teacher or student right?

[Anonymous]

Bumping this thread to keep it alive. This is getting to be such a hard decision and I'm lucky to even have it to make. We've had DD back since the beginning of July and they've had one case, a teacher in September, with no spread to anyone else.

I was convinced that they wouldn't make it a month after the opened in June, but they've had just that one case.

of course now the numbers are getting bad, and while I don't even know what I'm looking for, it seems like we are pushing our luck. My hope is to get through this week and half of next and probably have that be it for awhile.

DD does so well at her daycare and I know being at home with her parents trying to work, unable to really go anywhere or do anything, due to COVID, is not fun.

I'm just really second-guessing myself this week.

[Anonymous]

We're staying put. I've got two kids in daycare right now. Both my husband and I are essential workers. We rely on childcare in order to keep our jobs. Our daycare is doing a great job of keeping everyone safe and I trust that they will continue to do that. I also trust the other families. We know lots of the families in both my kids classes and most share the exact same concerns that we do, and they're being socially conscience and smart - not traveling, always wearing masks, not holding large family gatherings, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're staying put. I've got two kids in daycare right now. Both my husband and I are essential workers. We rely on childcare in order to keep our jobs. Our daycare is doing a great job of keeping everyone safe and I trust that they will continue to do that. I also trust the other families. We know lots of the families in both my kids classes and most share the exact same concerns that we do, and they're being socially conscience and smart - not traveling, always wearing masks, not holding large family gatherings, etc.

+1. Similar situation. I think most of us are just very grateful to have childcare right now and don’t want to jeopardize that. We aren’t traveling for the holidays and it seems most of the others aren’t either.

[Anonymous]

Never pulling kids out. We both work and are shitty employees and inattentive parents trying to work and watch kids. Benefits are huge and include being happier and less stressed and in hubs case maybe getting promoted. Risks are tiny. We aren’t going places other than daycare but if kid gets COVID from daycare and we do too so what? Honestly. We are young and healthy. We will be fine. Statistically speaking it’s a bet I’m willing to take.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just started our one year old in day care a few weeks ago after hobbling along without childcare for months and realizing we can't do this. (No, we're not sick of our kids, we just don't have endlessly flexible jobs.) Now covid cases are rising, before DC has even adjusted to the new environment. We're in MD but not MoCo, so I don't think day cares will be shut down again, no matter how bad it gets. At what point will you pull your kid out, if any? What metrics or decision making process will you use?

I can't repeat the madness of having a 4 year old home every day. Out of pure necessity to do my job, I will use daycare through temporary shutdowns, and until shutdowns become too frequent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just started our one year old in day care a few weeks ago after hobbling along without childcare for months and realizing we can't do this. (No, we're not sick of our kids, we just don't have endlessly flexible jobs.) Now covid cases are rising, before DC has even adjusted to the new environment. We're in MD but not MoCo, so I don't think day cares will be shut down again, no matter how bad it gets. At what point will you pull your kid out, if any? What metrics or decision making process will you use?

A child tested positive at our daycare, after parent tested positive. The parent had the foresight to keep child out while waiting for results and of course home after testing positive. I was still scared that the child might have been able to spread it during the period before parent got a reason to get tested. I was surprised daycare didn't close but they said local authoritiescalculated the relevant and said they didn’t need to close. I trust the director. Anyhow, no one at daycare ended up getting infected from that parent or the 4 year old child.

[Anonymous]

Now. Outbreaks galore in this area's preschools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now. Outbreaks galore in this area's preschools.

I haven't seen any headlines about that- do you have any links? Not doubting you, just want to be better informed.

We are pulling now since we were going to 2 weeks before Christmas anyway. Numbers are getting bad and it seems pretty deserted in our Petworth neighborhood- like people traveled/mingled for Thanksgiving. Maybe I'm imagining it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now. Outbreaks galore in this area's preschools.

I haven't seen any headlines about that- do you have any links? Not doubting you, just want to be better informed.

We are pulling now since we were going to 2 weeks before Christmas anyway. Numbers are getting bad and it seems pretty deserted in our Petworth neighborhood- like people traveled/mingled for Thanksgiving. Maybe I'm imagining it

I'm so frustrated that i can't find numbers on prevalence. It seems like they stopped publishing info on outbreaks in childcares over the summer, when they were at restricted capacity.

We were also considering pulling 2 weeks before Christmas but not sure it's reasonable to see family even then. And there is probably a greater risk to our family after Thanksgiving and after Christmas, not the 2 weeks in between. Really not sure what to do. Probably send the kid and pray.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now. Outbreaks galore in this area's preschools.

I haven't seen any headlines about that- do you have any links? Not doubting you, just want to be better informed.

We are pulling now since we were going to 2 weeks before Christmas anyway. Numbers are getting bad and it seems pretty deserted in our Petworth neighborhood- like people traveled/mingled for Thanksgiving. Maybe I'm imagining it

I'm so frustrated that i can't find numbers on prevalence. It seems like they stopped publishing info on outbreaks in childcares over the summer, when they were at restricted capacity.

We were also considering pulling 2 weeks before Christmas but not sure it's reasonable to see family even then. And there is probably a greater risk to our family after Thanksgiving and after Christmas, not the 2 weeks in between. Really not sure what to do. Probably send the kid and pray.

In MoCo, Earl Stoddard basically said they don't want to publish those numbers because he doesn't want to show people the numbers are low. I'm completely serious. It came up when the council was asking him and Dr. Gayles about their failed attempt to reduce childcare capacity to 50%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now. Outbreaks galore in this area's preschools.

I haven't seen any headlines about that- do you have any links? Not doubting you, just want to be better informed.

We are pulling now since we were going to 2 weeks before Christmas anyway. Numbers are getting bad and it seems pretty deserted in our Petworth neighborhood- like people traveled/mingled for Thanksgiving. Maybe I'm imagining it

I'm so frustrated that i can't find numbers on prevalence. It seems like they stopped publishing info on outbreaks in childcares over the summer, when they were at restricted capacity.

We were also considering pulling 2 weeks before Christmas but not sure it's reasonable to see family even then. And there is probably a greater risk to our family after Thanksgiving and after Christmas, not the 2 weeks in between. Really not sure what to do. Probably send the kid and pray.

In MoCo, Earl Stoddard basically said they don't want to publish those numbers because he doesn't want to show people the numbers are low. I'm completely serious. It came up when the council was asking him and Dr. Gayles about their failed attempt to reduce childcare capacity to 50%.

I noticed that. I have friends with kids at all kinds of regulated childcare, and there have been isolated cases but exactly ZERO instances of transmission through the daycare. This just isn’t a risk but people have trouble accepting that for some reason even though the science is pretty clear at this point.

[Anonymous]

We have three kids, one in preschool/daycare, and the older two in a distance learning hub in their school building. All three will keep going to these places until they’re forced to shut down. DH and I don’t go anywhere aside from occasional trips to the grocery store, we both work FT, and our kids need childcare.

Daycares don’t drive COVID transmission. Neither do small groups of older kids, wearing masks, and spaced apart appropriately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never pulling kids out. We both work and are shitty employees and inattentive parents trying to work and watch kids. Benefits are huge and include being happier and less stressed and in hubs case maybe getting promoted. Risks are tiny. We aren’t going places other than daycare but if kid gets COVID from daycare and we do too so what? Honestly. We are young and healthy. We will be fine. Statistically speaking it’s a bet I’m willing to take.

+1 We absolutely are keeping are kid in. Just got word daycare closed thru Monday at least due to a teacher in another classroom testing positive. First such instance since this pandemic started. I wonder if it already went through daycares in Feb. We saw some weird and random "flus" in Feb. at dacyare. At the time, kid had low-grade fever for 7 days with no other symptoms. It was odd.