If you're having playdates, do youn also not believe in vaccines?

[Anonymous]

Seriously trying to understand the level of stupidity of my neighbors having people over. We live next door, we're obviously going to notice the multiple times you're having people over - including toddlers playing with each other.

I'm not a strictist - we go outside in the open are 2x a day, don't freak out over an occasional pass less than 6 feet outdoors. But having playdates and people over to your home is next level stupidity. Do you also not believe in vaccines? That the earth is flat? That Jesus will protect you? Trying to understand the unbelievable stupidity here.

[Anonymous]

Simple answer : People don’t care. They don’t believe it will happen to them.

[Anonymous]

Other people make bad choices all the time. They don't wear seatbelts, eat bad diets, take drugs. You can't control other people, only your own reactions to them.

[Anonymous]

I get the not wiping stuff down, not using hand sanitizer, and that sort of thing. But continuing to have "secret" playdates with your kids/parents = dumb as a box of rocks.

[Anonymous]

We've been having playdates with the same family for a few weeks now. We don't go anywhere, they don't go anywhere so we feel pretty safe. I would not have playdates with multiple kids and yes, I believe strongly in vaccines and that the world is round.

[Anonymous]

can someone explain to me the functional difference between daycares being allowed to be open and kids playing outside while parents work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:can someone explain to me the functional difference between daycares being allowed to be open and kids playing outside while parents work?

Oh, and my kids are fully vaccinated on schedule except I delayed the Hep B one for a month or so for all of them instead of having them receive it in the hospital as newborns. No doctors had concerns with that one since I didn’t have it and had the vaccine myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've been having playdates with the same family for a few weeks now. We don't go anywhere, they don't go anywhere so we feel pretty safe. I would not have playdates with multiple kids and yes, I believe strongly in vaccines and that the world is round.

+1

Same except the kids only play outside, never inside.

Same kids, both families are SD with exception of once a week trips to grocery store.

We weighed the minimal risk of that to the huge mental health benefit of the kids still getting to see two friends in person.

[Anonymous]

Daycare should only be used by essential personnel. This is what other countries, such as France, have implemented. France also made it free for these families.

Playdates with neighbors should not be happening. I agree that the risk is very low if both families work from home and only go to the grocery store or pharmacy very occasionally, using careful precautions.
However your risk of becoming infected rises very fast with each additional person you bring into your circle of confinement.
You need to trust that every person will exercise consistent good judgement 100% of the time. That's a HIGH bar, and therefore, you really don't want to add more people to your circle than you absolutely have to.
This is why governments around the world have ordered (or suggested) that social interaction be limited to one's own household.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Daycare should only be used by essential personnel. This is what other countries, such as France, have implemented. France also made it free for these families.

Playdates with neighbors should not be happening. I agree that the risk is very low if both families work from home and only go to the grocery store or pharmacy very occasionally, using careful precautions.
However your risk of becoming infected rises very fast with each additional person you bring into your circle of confinement.
You need to trust that every person will exercise consistent good judgement 100% of the time. That's a HIGH bar, and therefore, you really don't want to add more people to your circle than you absolutely have to.
This is why governments around the world have ordered (or suggested) that social interaction be limited to one's own household.

In Virginia for daycare, childcare providers are urged to prioritize services for children of essential personnel, but others are allowed to attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Other people make bad choices all the time. They don't wear seatbelts, eat bad diets, take drugs. You can't control other people, only your own reactions to them.

True, but these behaviors only affect the individual, whereas social distancing and vaccines affect others, as well.

[Anonymous]

Just an n=1 but the family in my neighborhood that’s allowing play dates is also anti-vax and homeschools their kids over the vaccine issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Simple answer : People don’t care. They don’t believe it will happen to them.

+10000

My sister is having play dates. She’s posting IG videos of her kids playing with 5-8 kids on porches, inside, twister, etc. She said “we aren’t worry we’ll catch it. And I’m a working mom my kids need XYZ (working parents reasons she assumes I don’t understand).

[Anonymous]

We are allowing our kid to play with one neighbor kid- they are both onlies and I trust the parents. For us, the mental health of our kiddos balances out the small risk to us as parents. Maybe I would feel different if she had a sibling 🤷‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other people make bad choices all the time. They don't wear seatbelts, eat bad diets, take drugs. You can't control other people, only your own reactions to them.

True, but these behaviors only affect the individual, whereas social distancing and vaccines affect others, as well.

I deliberately included drugs because they absolutely do affect others. Look at the crime rates associated with the cocaine epidemic for example.