Daycare to Reopen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think some need to be open, and essential workers who need care should be directed there, but it seems like many are trying to open for economic reasons which could be disastrous.

Agree.

Or because the state of MD deemed them part of critical infrastructure, but sure. Keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think some need to be open, and essential workers who need care should be directed there, but it seems like many are trying to open for economic reasons which could be disastrous.

Agree.

Or because the state of MD deemed them part of critical infrastructure, but sure. Keep telling yourself that.

I’m not in MD. go rage troll elsewhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is too. I’m really upset. Fairly certain none of the parents are considered essential. We are not sending our child back in. It’s an enormous financial hardship for us too as one of us is out of work entirely until this is over. I’m hoping to appeal for 50-75% fee. It a pandemic for the sake of Pete.

And you know that for sure?

You’ve surveyed all the parents and you know their professions?

Ridiculous.

Yes, your attitude is significantly ridiculous. Agree!

We know most of the parents. Other people have opinions that are different than yours and that’s ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is too. I’m really upset. Fairly certain none of the parents are considered essential. We are not sending our child back in. It’s an enormous financial hardship for us too as one of us is out of work entirely until this is over. I’m hoping to appeal for 50-75% fee. It a pandemic for the sake of Pete.

And you know that for sure?

You’ve surveyed all the parents and you know their professions?

Ridiculous.

Yes, your attitude is significantly ridiculous. Agree!

We know most of the parents. Other people have opinions that are different than yours and that’s ok.

And some of us can’t telework and are essential and that’s ok, too. See how that works?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think some need to be open, and essential workers who need care should be directed there, but it seems like many are trying to open for economic reasons which could be disastrous.

Agree.

Or because the state of MD deemed them part of critical infrastructure, but sure. Keep telling yourself that.

I’m not in MD. go rage troll elsewhere

Pointing out official state guidance is rage trolling? It’s the same in NY, CA, and every other state that has instituted stay at home orders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think some need to be open, and essential workers who need care should be directed there, but it seems like many are trying to open for economic reasons which could be disastrous.

Agree.

Or because the state of MD deemed them part of critical infrastructure, but sure. Keep telling yourself that.

I’m not in MD. go rage troll elsewhere

Pointing out official state guidance is rage trolling? It’s the same in NY, CA, and every other state that has instituted stay at home orders.

That’s nuts!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think some need to be open, and essential workers who need care should be directed there, but it seems like many are trying to open for economic reasons which could be disastrous.

Agree.

Or because the state of MD deemed them part of critical infrastructure, but sure. Keep telling yourself that.

I’m not in MD. go rage troll elsewhere

Pointing out official state guidance is rage trolling? It’s the same in NY, CA, and every other state that has instituted stay at home orders.

That’s nuts!

There's little reason for any of us to be staying home if daycares are open. It's ridiculous and a slap in the face to all of us trying hard not to spread disease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is too. I’m really upset. Fairly certain none of the parents are considered essential. We are not sending our child back in. It’s an enormous financial hardship for us too as one of us is out of work entirely until this is over. I’m hoping to appeal for 50-75% fee. It a pandemic for the sake of Pete.

And you know that for sure?

You’ve surveyed all the parents and you know their professions?

Ridiculous.

Yes, your attitude is significantly ridiculous. Agree!

We know most of the parents. Other people have opinions that are different than yours and that’s ok.

And some of us can’t telework and are essential and that’s ok, too. See how that works?

Certainly. Let’s endanger all of our children for you. I cannot telework, and will be unable to,generate any income til this is done. But let’s let our kids suffer because your employer is unable to support your family needs adequately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is too. I’m really upset. Fairly certain none of the parents are considered essential. We are not sending our child back in. It’s an enormous financial hardship for us too as one of us is out of work entirely until this is over. I’m hoping to appeal for 50-75% fee. It a pandemic for the sake of Pete.

And you know that for sure?

You’ve surveyed all the parents and you know their professions?

Ridiculous.

Yes, your attitude is significantly ridiculous. Agree!

We know most of the parents. Other people have opinions that are different than yours and that’s ok.

And some of us can’t telework and are essential and that’s ok, too. See how that works?

Certainly. Let’s endanger all of our children for you. I cannot telework, and will be unable to,generate any income til this is done. But let’s let our kids suffer because your employer is unable to support your family needs adequately.

Are you serious?!

I’m a nurse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think some need to be open, and essential workers who need care should be directed there, but it seems like many are trying to open for economic reasons which could be disastrous.

Agree.

Or because the state of MD deemed them part of critical infrastructure, but sure. Keep telling yourself that.

I’m not in MD. go rage troll elsewhere

Pointing out official state guidance is rage trolling? It’s the same in NY, CA, and every other state that has instituted stay at home orders.

That’s nuts!

There's little reason for any of us to be staying home if daycares are open. It's ridiculous and a slap in the face to all of us trying hard not to spread disease.

Really?

I work in healthcare. If I can’t send my child to daycare, I can’t work to fight this pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is too. I’m really upset. Fairly certain none of the parents are considered essential. We are not sending our child back in. It’s an enormous financial hardship for us too as one of us is out of work entirely until this is over. I’m hoping to appeal for 50-75% fee. It a pandemic for the sake of Pete.

And you know that for sure?

You’ve surveyed all the parents and you know their professions?

Ridiculous.

Yes, your attitude is significantly ridiculous. Agree!

We know most of the parents. Other people have opinions that are different than yours and that’s ok.

And some of us can’t telework and are essential and that’s ok, too. See how that works?

Certainly. Let’s endanger all of our children for you. I cannot telework, and will be unable to,generate any income til this is done. But let’s let our kids suffer because your employer is unable to support your family needs adequately.

Are you serious?!

I’m a nurse.

Ok. I see. Please get some rest. We are not at cross purposes, mostly trying to not become your patients. Or our kids. I’m sorry you don’t have the right supports from employers or community. I wish there was an easier way and so much was not being asked of you or your family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think some need to be open, and essential workers who need care should be directed there, but it seems like many are trying to open for economic reasons which could be disastrous.

Agree.

Or because the state of MD deemed them part of critical infrastructure, but sure. Keep telling yourself that.

I’m not in MD. go rage troll elsewhere

Pointing out official state guidance is rage trolling? It’s the same in NY, CA, and every other state that has instituted stay at home orders.

That’s nuts!

There's little reason for any of us to be staying home if daycares are open. It's ridiculous and a slap in the face to all of us trying hard not to spread disease.

Really?

I work in healthcare. If I can’t send my child to daycare, I can’t work to fight this pandemic.

And if others continue to, it won’t slow down. It’s a terrible situation overall.

Thank you for everything you’re doing, please understand we all have concerns.

[Anonymous]

NP.

Can you all just stop attacking others and realize that this is a complex situation?

Daycares are considered essential for a very good reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many times do I have to say this?! Ok, here goes again:

EVERY state considers childcare an essential service.

Should you keep your kid home if you can? Yes.

But nurses, doctors, and other essential workers HAVE to have a place for their little kids to go. Many are also trying to accommodate school aged kids of essential employees.

Yes but they aren't limiting it to that. My daycare closed but is running emergency locations and transferring personnel there. They also said you can contact and request care if you are an essential employee and still need to work.

That's fine. Flat reopening is not.

I’m curious how they are treating federal employees- as I understand it, they are being treated as essential by the federal govt but not necessarily at the state level?

I'm a federal employee. It depends on how your agency classifies your job. I am an attorney and our work processing disability claim appeals submitted by individual claimants was deemed "essential" so we worked through the 5 week furlough craziness too. For COVID, we worked last week, this week, and will continue to work. The only change was expansion of telework. I have zero expectations that we will stop working under the "nonessential" classification.

I also work at SSA and we were not deemed essential during the last shutdown. We continued to work because our agency had full funding and was not part of the shut down. We’ve been declared nonessential in the past and then recalled as essential. But that was under much different circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is too. I’m really upset. Fairly certain none of the parents are considered essential. We are not sending our child back in. It’s an enormous financial hardship for us too as one of us is out of work entirely until this is over. I’m hoping to appeal for 50-75% fee. It a pandemic for the sake of Pete.

And you know that for sure?

You’ve surveyed all the parents and you know their professions?

Ridiculous.

Yes, your attitude is significantly ridiculous. Agree!

We know most of the parents. Other people have opinions that are different than yours and that’s ok.

And some of us can’t telework and are essential and that’s ok, too. See how that works?

Certainly. Let’s endanger all of our children for you. I cannot telework, and will be unable to,generate any income til this is done. But let’s let our kids suffer because your employer is unable to support your family needs adequately.

Are you serious?!

I’m a nurse.

Ok. I see. Please get some rest. We are not at cross purposes, mostly trying to not become your patients. Or our kids. I’m sorry you don’t have the right supports from employers or community. I wish there was an easier way and so much was not being asked of you or your family.

DP. WTF do you even mean by this? Tons of us have no local family (like we should be exposing grandparents right now anyway). If there is not already a childcare center on-site at your workplace, no employer is going to be setting up a new facility now, that is bonkers. Hospitals, doctors offices have enough to worry about. We as a community can be understanding and support essential workers by understanding that they still need childcare rather than jumping all over them for "endangering all of our children." Focus on yourself and your own children and *try* to understand that everyone is doing their best. Some of you are really a piece of work.