It’s going to happen again, isn’t it?

[Anonymous]

Daycare and schools will shut down again and we’ll be back where we were in March.

Are you guys prepared?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, it looks that way.

Physically, yes - we’re prepared. A great nanny and our old guest room turned into a classroom for older DC.

Emotionally, no - this semi-new-normal respite was nice.

[Anonymous]

I mean I feel like that never really ended.

[Anonymous]

Yes, another shut down is coming. Probably October or
November.

Not ready for the first one and not ready for any others. This is not normal, but a family member was asymptomatic and tested positive. It can happen to anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, another shut down is coming. Probably October or
November.

Not ready for the first one and not ready for any others. This is not normal, but a family member was asymptomatic and tested positive. It can happen to anyone.

Do you think if our cases continue to rise it might happen much sooner than that? I feel like we might have more than one shut down between now and if this ever ends.

[Anonymous]

Do you really think daycares will close again? I thought we finally decided childcare was "essential"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you really think daycares will close again? I thought we finally decided childcare was "essential"

The ones with cases will close. The others might not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you really think daycares will close again? I thought we finally decided childcare was "essential"

The ones with cases will close. The others might not.

I think ones with cases will close temporarily. I hope to God they don’t do a blanket shutdown as they did in the past—they’ve come so far in knowing what it takes to keep them running as safely as possible (as someone who’s had her youngest back for a few weeks).

Childcare is essential, yes. Hopefully people realize it is at the elementary level, too.

[Anonymous]

It is coming. But I am hoping it will be more targeted - all indoor bars and restaurants, but not playgrounds. I still have hope that we can use what we hace learned in the last six months to make smarter policy. In Democratic areas, anyway (and I am including MD despite Hogan because he has a brain).

[Anonymous]

Huh, you all were following just the lockdown rules? You know that the pandemic is still raging, either way. Things never really ended, it just got a little better because now when we go one walks people try to avoid us as much as we avoid them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is coming. But I am hoping it will be more targeted - all indoor bars and restaurants, but not playgrounds. I still have hope that we can use what we hace learned in the last six months to make smarter policy. In Democratic areas, anyway (and I am including MD despite Hogan because he has a brain).

With widespread infection, a playground can't be safe. I'm sorry.

Outdoors is not magic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is coming. But I am hoping it will be more targeted - all indoor bars and restaurants, but not playgrounds. I still have hope that we can use what we hace learned in the last six months to make smarter policy. In Democratic areas, anyway (and I am including MD despite Hogan because he has a brain).

With widespread infection, a playground can't be safe. I'm sorry.

Outdoors is not magic

It’s a lot safer than the indoors. Have you been paying attention?

[Anonymous]

Schools will never open anyway so that point is moot. I think day cares can stay open though, but that will depend on each individual day care’s risk tolerance and if they have parents willing to send their kids. I’m in VA and the only way Northam is moving us back to “everything shut down” or even Phase 1 is if the hospitals are in danger of being overrun.

[Anonymous]

Yes and yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is coming. But I am hoping it will be more targeted - all indoor bars and restaurants, but not playgrounds. I still have hope that we can use what we hace learned in the last six months to make smarter policy. In Democratic areas, anyway (and I am including MD despite Hogan because he has a brain).

With widespread infection, a playground can't be safe. I'm sorry.

Outdoors is not magic

It’s a lot safer than the indoors. Have you been paying attention?

NP. Safer than guaranteed infection isn't good enough when dealing with exponential spread. Safer isn't safe enough.