Friend sent her kid to daycare after close covid contact

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If her daughter has no symptoms and had a negative test she can go to daycare and doesn’t need to quarantine. I’m very cautious but give me a break w this. If everyone quarantined every time they were near someone who had covid, no one would ever go to work/school.

+1

At this point, people getting angry about someone who sent her exposed but asymptomatic kid who had a negative rapid test are a bigger problem than those who send their kids in under these circumstances. Move. On. This level of hostility and divisiveness are worse for society than any possible risk from said asymptomatic kid.

Everyone agrees to the policies set by the daycare when they signed up. Of course other parents can be frustrated if people aren’t following the rules they agreed upon.

Not everyone agreed to this. The rules changed for many who were enrolled pre-pandemic and we are obviously not in a strong place of negotiating power. And whoever runs the organizations making public health recommendations clearly don’t have young kids or understand the survival behavior of people who need their paycheck. Parents of young kids who can’t afford to quit their jobs or hire nannies are about to go into year #3 of this pandemic and cannot sustain staying home for extended periods of time just in case their kid might get sick in the next 10 days. It’s actually time for a little civil disobedience so health departments and daycares are forced to create rules based in reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you OP. We were just a close contact and I kept both my kids ages 3 and 10 months home from daycare for the full 10 days and tested negative 3x

how nice you are able to do so.

DP, but of course keeping your kids home is inconvenient. But that’s something all of us have to deal with sometimes, it’s part of having kids. If your claiming you or others would be “unable to do so” - what would you do if the kid actually had Covid? Or rsv or the flu or anything else? You’d keep them home, of course. So the issue isn’t that you’re unable, it’s that you don’t want to bother and you don’t view it as your responsibility to help limit the spread.

Or perhaps they’re saving their leave for the instance in which their child actually becomes ill instead of burning through all their leave caring for a perfectly healthy child who tested negative. If the rules were more reasonable (e.g. test to stay) parents may be more honest, but many of us aren’t going to voluntarily report and end up in a situation that risks our job. Tell Biden to pass more Cares Act leave if you want parents to stay home. But expecting individuals to bear the brunt of a societal problem (even if you firmly believe they should) isn’t going to play out in actuality the way you want it to.

[Anonymous]

I didn't read the whole thread, but this is essentially what a test-and-stay program would accomplish. So assuming the mother did not lie and actually tested DD that morning, I'd be ok with it. I'm a big supporter of test-and-stay.

It does likely circumvent local heath quarantine guidelines (since it doesn't sound like the center actually has a test and stay program), but as other PPs have noted, this kind of thing is happening left and right. No one knows they are a close contact until days after exposure, when it might be too late. I assume that school/centers are full of kids and staff just hours away from being notified that they are contacts. I'm confortable with that risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If her daughter has no symptoms and had a negative test she can go to daycare and doesn’t need to quarantine. I’m very cautious but give me a break w this. If everyone quarantined every time they were near someone who had covid, no one would ever go to work/school.

+1

At this point, people getting angry about someone who sent her exposed but asymptomatic kid who had a negative rapid test are a bigger problem than those who send their kids in under these circumstances. Move. On. This level of hostility and divisiveness are worse for society than any possible risk from said asymptomatic kid.

Everyone agrees to the policies set by the daycare when they signed up. Of course other parents can be frustrated if people aren’t following the rules they agreed upon.

Not everyone agreed to this. The rules changed for many who were enrolled pre-pandemic and we are obviously not in a strong place of negotiating power. And whoever runs the organizations making public health recommendations clearly don’t have young kids or understand the survival behavior of people who need their paycheck. Parents of young kids who can’t afford to quit their jobs or hire nannies are about to go into year #3 of this pandemic and cannot sustain staying home for extended periods of time just in case their kid might get sick in the next 10 days. It’s actually time for a little civil disobedience so health departments and daycares are forced to create rules based in reality.

This. The primary reason that essential services are being shut (including schools) is because of absurd requirements for people to stay home who are NOT EVEN SICK! The secondary reason is adults REFUSING to get themselves and/or their children vaccinated.

Yes, Omicron is contagious…. Everyone is going to get it!!! These policies are insane.

[Anonymous]

Burn the witch!