Best practice protocols for those very cautious about covid ONLY (please).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so frustrated and scared by how people are acting like COVID is over. It's especially unfair to kids who can't be vaccinated yet and people who are immunocompromised.

We were extremely cautious throughout the earlier stages and have only recently begun to move into what I would call medium-cautious. We sent our oldest to elementary school when the public school opened up because the cost-benefit analysis for him showed it was the best thing - he was struggling way too much at home with virtual learning and being isolated. I felt he could do it safely with the protocols they had in place.

Younger son started an all-outdoor preschool where they were fully masked all day in and out at the same time (in spring). That was great, and I felt very safe about it being outdoors with masks, even though they are young kids.

Both are doing summer camp - the youngest all at preschool, same profile. The oldest is in a camp where they are outdoors most of the day, but the camp has allowed them to go without masks outdoors. This makes me extremely nervous, and it is not what I would choose, but I feel it is acceptable as a risk for two more weeks since they mask indoors when they have to go in due to weather/bathroom.

We do not bring the kids into stores or restaurants. We do not do indoor playdates. We do outdoor playdates with masks. We are traveling to visit grandparents later this summer and will do so without masks.

I don't get posts like yours complaining about others but you really aren't extremely cautious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so frustrated and scared by how people are acting like COVID is over. It's especially unfair to kids who can't be vaccinated yet and people who are immunocompromised.

We were extremely cautious throughout the earlier stages and have only recently begun to move into what I would call medium-cautious. We sent our oldest to elementary school when the public school opened up because the cost-benefit analysis for him showed it was the best thing - he was struggling way too much at home with virtual learning and being isolated. I felt he could do it safely with the protocols they had in place.

Younger son started an all-outdoor preschool where they were fully masked all day in and out at the same time (in spring). That was great, and I felt very safe about it being outdoors with masks, even though they are young kids.

Both are doing summer camp - the youngest all at preschool, same profile. The oldest is in a camp where they are outdoors most of the day, but the camp has allowed them to go without masks outdoors. This makes me extremely nervous, and it is not what I would choose, but I feel it is acceptable as a risk for two more weeks since they mask indoors when they have to go in due to weather/bathroom.

We do not bring the kids into stores or restaurants. We do not do indoor playdates. We do outdoor playdates with masks. We are traveling to visit grandparents later this summer and will do so without masks.

I don't get posts like yours complaining about others but you really aren't extremely cautious.

I think the point is that if everybody was moderately cautious, things would be safer for everybody. Instead, there are those who think covid is over and those that feel like they are taking a big risk to send their kids to masked preschool. If everybody were moderately cautious, masked preschool wouldn’t t feel like a big risk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so frustrated and scared by how people are acting like COVID is over. It's especially unfair to kids who can't be vaccinated yet and people who are immunocompromised.

We were extremely cautious throughout the earlier stages and have only recently begun to move into what I would call medium-cautious. We sent our oldest to elementary school when the public school opened up because the cost-benefit analysis for him showed it was the best thing - he was struggling way too much at home with virtual learning and being isolated. I felt he could do it safely with the protocols they had in place.

Younger son started an all-outdoor preschool where they were fully masked all day in and out at the same time (in spring). That was great, and I felt very safe about it being outdoors with masks, even though they are young kids.

Both are doing summer camp - the youngest all at preschool, same profile. The oldest is in a camp where they are outdoors most of the day, but the camp has allowed them to go without masks outdoors. This makes me extremely nervous, and it is not what I would choose, but I feel it is acceptable as a risk for two more weeks since they mask indoors when they have to go in due to weather/bathroom.

We do not bring the kids into stores or restaurants. We do not do indoor playdates. We do outdoor playdates with masks. We are traveling to visit grandparents later this summer and will do so without masks.

I don't get posts like yours complaining about others but you really aren't extremely cautious.

I think the point is that if everybody was moderately cautious, things would be safer for everybody. Instead, there are those who think covid is over and those that feel like they are taking a big risk to send their kids to masked preschool. If everybody were moderately cautious, masked preschool wouldn’t t feel like a big risk.

Covid is very high risk for older adults - double the risk they take driving a car. It was important to protect older adults when the vaccine was not available to them. Now they have had ample time to get vaccinated. The risk of a severe outcome from a Sars Cov 2 infection in healthy children is low. Lower than everyday risks we take.

Life is too short for me to order my kids’ lives around a virus that poses less threat to them than other viruses they encounter each winter. You are welcome to keep your kid home until they can be vaccinated. But it’s not reasonable to expect everyone else to have such a low risk tolerance.

IMO immunocompromised kids can stay home a bit longer until they are vaccinated. Yes, staying home sucks. But Sars Cov 2 poses a real threat to them. And they are the ones who will create variants if infected, so it’s also a risk to society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so frustrated and scared by how people are acting like COVID is over. It's especially unfair to kids who can't be vaccinated yet and people who are immunocompromised.

We were extremely cautious throughout the earlier stages and have only recently begun to move into what I would call medium-cautious. We sent our oldest to elementary school when the public school opened up because the cost-benefit analysis for him showed it was the best thing - he was struggling way too much at home with virtual learning and being isolated. I felt he could do it safely with the protocols they had in place.

Younger son started an all-outdoor preschool where they were fully masked all day in and out at the same time (in spring). That was great, and I felt very safe about it being outdoors with masks, even though they are young kids.

Both are doing summer camp - the youngest all at preschool, same profile. The oldest is in a camp where they are outdoors most of the day, but the camp has allowed them to go without masks outdoors. This makes me extremely nervous, and it is not what I would choose, but I feel it is acceptable as a risk for two more weeks since they mask indoors when they have to go in due to weather/bathroom.

We do not bring the kids into stores or restaurants. We do not do indoor playdates. We do outdoor playdates with masks. We are traveling to visit grandparents later this summer and will do so without masks.

I mean, re-read your post. You decided to send your kid to school because it was best for him, so you decided the benefits outweighed the risks to you. You decided to send your other kid to preschool for the same reason. Same thing with camp. So you made a whole bunch of decisions based on your own risk assessment but you act like you can judge other people for their decisions. Why is that? Also, you're doing camp and playdates without masks and visiting grandparents without masks (and traveling to do so). I really think you need to step off your high horse.

[Anonymous]

The discussion is about extremely cautious. None of this is extremely cautious.