I’m concerned about covid cases at DD’s daycare following Thanksgiving

[Anonymous]

Would I need to keep her home for 2 weeks if I want to let any infections surface and subside before we go back? Or actually longer?

[Anonymous]

I would be concerned too.

Not sure what the answer is because sometimes people don’t get infected at the same time if someone is shedding virus. Talk to your pediatrician.

[Anonymous]

You could keep her home the week after Tgiving and hope most people if they got it, would have gotten sick already by the time the next week comes around. It’s not 100% though.

[Anonymous]

I mean, two weeks would be the minimum. But it can pass within the family. So theoretically relative gets Dad sick on Thanksgiving. On day 13, Dad infects Mom. On day 13 of that, Mom infects kid who goes to school. And now it’s Christmas.

You might just have to trusts people and the infection control procedures. I don’t mean to sound flippant but you are presumably using daycare because (like me!) you need to actually do work and need to concentrate to do so.

[Anonymous]

You either keep her home or accept that is the risk of child care.

[Anonymous]

It's a valid concern. I saw this article about assessing risk for Thanksgiving.

https://emilyoster.substack.com/p/safety-turducken

I wish private schools and daycares could make families do a risk inventory and encourage them to either skip travel and risky gatherings or opt to embrace the holiday but quarantine for 14 days. It would make everything so much easier. Can you consider getting a babysitter for the two weeks after Thanksgiving?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You either keep her home or accept that is the risk of child care.

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Families that are ok with daycare are likely already socializing. It is just not advertised like the holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You either keep her home or accept that is the risk of child care.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You either keep her home or accept that is the risk of child care.

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Families that are ok with daycare are likely already socializing. It is just not advertised like the holidays.

I don't think you can conclude that families using daycare are already socializing. Lots of people do daycare to be able to work and could be as careful as others in other settings.

Having said that, I do think that you just have to accept the risk as part of daycare. Keeping out for a week or two after Thanksgiving will probably cause more difficulties for you than it is worth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You either keep her home or accept that is the risk of child care.

+1

Families that are ok with daycare are likely already socializing. It is just not advertised like the holidays.

I don't think you can conclude that families using daycare are already socializing. Lots of people do daycare to be able to work and could be as careful as others in other settings.

Having said that, I do think that you just have to accept the risk as part of daycare. Keeping out for a week or two after Thanksgiving will probably cause more difficulties for you than it is worth.

Yeah we use daycare and beyond that, are pretty cautious- no one wants to be *that family* that causes an outbreak! But yes, we accept the risk. Probably more likely DH will bring it home from work since his colleagues are not particularly cautious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You either keep her home or accept that is the risk of child care.

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Families that are ok with daycare are likely already socializing. It is just not advertised like the holidays.

This is a little unfair. We are sending a kid to day care because we can't keep up with work and this is no longer a short term thing our employers are giving lots of leeway for. That means LESS seeing anyone we actually want to see, like the grandparents, because we would be introducing too much risk. We're not "ok with day care" because we're careless, we are because the alternative is one of us leaving the workforce. That's a pretty huge deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You either keep her home or accept that is the risk of child care.

+1

Families that are ok with daycare are likely already socializing. It is just not advertised like the holidays.

This is a little unfair. We are sending a kid to day care because we can't keep up with work and this is no longer a short term thing our employers are giving lots of leeway for. That means LESS seeing anyone we actually want to see, like the grandparents, because we would be introducing too much risk. We're not "ok with day care" because we're careless, we are because the alternative is one of us leaving the workforce. That's a pretty huge deal.

Same here. We’ve seen local grandparents on occasion, but there’s absolutely no other socializing, dining out, or extra activities going on here. Daycare is it. I’m fairly confident in our daycare’s policies (one confirmed case in the past 5 months), but my family certainly isn’t carefree about all of this just because we are using daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You either keep her home or accept that is the risk of child care.

+1

Families that are ok with daycare are likely already socializing. It is just not advertised like the holidays.

HAHAHAHAHA. No. You're missing PP's point. We're not doing daycare to socialize our children, we're doing it out of desperation. Anyway....

We've had three outdoor, fully masked playdates with a family whose only child is in my child's preschool class and who we are confident are being as cautious as we are (both parents work from home, groceries and food delivered, no other socialization, etc.). That is far less than the families we know who have a nanny or SAHM and are heading out to pumpkin farms, apple orchards with groups every week and weekend. Frankly, we don't have time for socialization!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You either keep her home or accept that is the risk of child care.

+1

Families that are ok with daycare are likely already socializing. It is just not advertised like the holidays.

HAHAHAHAHA. No. You're missing PP's point. We're not doing daycare to socialize our children, we're doing it out of desperation. Anyway....

We've had three outdoor, fully masked playdates with a family whose only child is in my child's preschool class and who we are confident are being as cautious as we are (both parents work from home, groceries and food delivered, no other socialization, etc.). That is far less than the families we know who have a nanny or SAHM and are heading out to pumpkin farms, apple orchards with groups every week and weekend. Frankly, we don't have time for socialization!

Yeah, I have to chuckle a bit at the people who seem to assume that just because our children are back at daycare, we are perfectly ok with ALL the social activities right now. Far from it, actually. Having them at daycare has made me much more cautious!

[Anonymous]

Our daycare policy is if you go to any state on the DC list, you need to self-quarantine for 14 days before coming back to school.