Order from Northam for licensed centers in Virginia

[Anonymous]

“If you are not an essential personnel that you stay home with your children like we are doing with schools to make available for capacity for childcare centers to provide the necessary care to essential personnel,” said Storen.

The order says no more than 10 people in a room and that includes staff.

What does this all mean?

[Anonymous]

There was also articles posting that children should be 6 feet apart. how is that possible?

[Anonymous]

Northam is proving to be a true idiot. And he's a doctor! How did he get a medical license?

[Anonymous]

France implemented this measure on Monday:
Schools/daycares are open just for healthcare personnel's children.

It's very important for others to stay home, to avoid cross-contamination. Healthcare personnel and their families are at higher risk of exposure, but they have to go to work nonetheless, and cannot take care of their kids.

[Anonymous]

Is there an actual danger to sending kids to child care? Just looking for help in making sense of it all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there an actual danger to sending kids to child care? Just looking for help in making sense of it all.

Children, who love to touch things and don't wash their hands, are great spreaders of germs. The USA has not implemented the right protective measures, because we should all be socially isolating right now, like Italy, France and Spain. Households should stay home and not send their kids to daycare. People should work from home or, for those essential personnel, exercise great caution in working (6 ft rule, wash hands, sanitize after touching potentially contaminated surfaces, etc).

[Anonymous]

He's trying to create capacity to allow kids of first responders and other essential personnel to be in preschool while maintaining no more than 10 people per room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
France implemented this measure on Monday:
Schools/daycares are open just for healthcare personnel's children.

It's very important for others to stay home, to avoid cross-contamination. Healthcare personnel and their families are at higher risk of exposure, but they have to go to work nonetheless, and cannot take care of their kids.

Restricting it solely to healthcare personnel is ridiculous.

What are firefighters, police officers, etc. supposed to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
France implemented this measure on Monday:
Schools/daycares are open just for healthcare personnel's children.

It's very important for others to stay home, to avoid cross-contamination. Healthcare personnel and their families are at higher risk of exposure, but they have to go to work nonetheless, and cannot take care of their kids.

Restricting it solely to healthcare personnel is ridiculous.

What are firefighters, police officers, etc. supposed to do?

Consider that most healthcare personnel do not have spouses that are also healthcare personnel, and also consider that most first responders also do not have spouses that are healthcare personnel or first responders. The other parent can care for the child in most circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
France implemented this measure on Monday:
Schools/daycares are open just for healthcare personnel's children.

It's very important for others to stay home, to avoid cross-contamination. Healthcare personnel and their families are at higher risk of exposure, but they have to go to work nonetheless, and cannot take care of their kids.

Restricting it solely to healthcare personnel is ridiculous.

What are firefighters, police officers, etc. supposed to do?

Consider that most healthcare personnel do not have spouses that are also healthcare personnel, and also consider that most first responders also do not have spouses that are healthcare personnel or first responders. The other parent can care for the child in most circumstances.

I'm not sure this is accurate. It's certainly true that a certain percentage of essential workers have spouses that are non-essential, but there are also plenty of families where both partners are essential (e.g. one police and one nurse, two doctors, a doctor and a nurse, etc.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
France implemented this measure on Monday:
Schools/daycares are open just for healthcare personnel's children.

It's very important for others to stay home, to avoid cross-contamination. Healthcare personnel and their families are at higher risk of exposure, but they have to go to work nonetheless, and cannot take care of their kids.

Restricting it solely to healthcare personnel is ridiculous.

What are firefighters, police officers, etc. supposed to do?

Consider that most healthcare personnel do not have spouses that are also healthcare personnel, and also consider that most first responders also do not have spouses that are healthcare personnel or first responders. The other parent can care for the child in most circumstances.

I'm not sure this is accurate. It's certainly true that a certain percentage of essential workers have spouses that are non-essential, but there are also plenty of families where both partners are essential (e.g. one police and one nurse, two doctors, a doctor and a nurse, etc.)

It happens, but it’s not the norm, and I’m sure center directors could have conversations with those families. There doesn’t need to be a blanket policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
France implemented this measure on Monday:
Schools/daycares are open just for healthcare personnel's children.

It's very important for others to stay home, to avoid cross-contamination. Healthcare personnel and their families are at higher risk of exposure, but they have to go to work nonetheless, and cannot take care of their kids.

Restricting it solely to healthcare personnel is ridiculous.

What are firefighters, police officers, etc. supposed to do?

Or military or national security staff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
France implemented this measure on Monday:
Schools/daycares are open just for healthcare personnel's children.

It's very important for others to stay home, to avoid cross-contamination. Healthcare personnel and their families are at higher risk of exposure, but they have to go to work nonetheless, and cannot take care of their kids.

Restricting it solely to healthcare personnel is ridiculous.

What are firefighters, police officers, etc. supposed to do?

Consider that most healthcare personnel do not have spouses that are also healthcare personnel, and also consider that most first responders also do not have spouses that are healthcare personnel or first responders. The other parent can care for the child in most circumstances.

A huge number of doctors are married to other doctors and nurses. And a lot of firefighters and cops and military are married to nurses. I also know a lot of nurses who are single moms.

In normal times, it isn't too hard for a firefighter-nurse couple, for example, to stagger their schedules, but what happens now that they may be asked to work extra shifts? And it isn't hard in good times for a military spouse or single mom to find backup care, but now many of those backup options are off the table.

[Anonymous]

For centers that stay open, is it likely that there teachers will get the virus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For centers that stay open, is it likely that there teachers will get the virus?

It’s impossible to answer a question like that in the abstract. It’s possible but not guaranteed.