I don’t understand parents taking unmasked children out

[Anonymous]

I mean very young kids exposed in large crowds. I understand it is unsafe for young children to wear a mask. I would not want my small baby or toddler exposed. I have seen so many young children touching and gnawing on high touch surfaces and parents seem not to care.

I just would want to keep my little ones safe.

Why expose them unnecessarily?

[Anonymous]

They are not as good parents as you are and probably don't love their kids that much.

[Anonymous]

In large crowds, or out at all? We don't really go anywhere with large crowds, but I don't keep my toddler away from anything he could "touch and gnaw," i.e. the entire world outside our property. He'd go crazy. I'd go crazy. Winter is hard enough already! Just hoping we won't actually get covid from surface transmission on empty playgrounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are not as good parents as you are and probably don't love their kids that much.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand why you are going into large crowds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why you are going into large crowds.

+1. And where are these large crowds??

[Anonymous]

Define "large crowds."

The risks of COVID in children is quite small. Particularly past 6-12 months. Would you have taken a 1yo out during flu season?

I avoided large crowds with my toddlers, but I wasn't going to keep them locked up at home, either, just because they refused to wear masks. So we did things like going to the national zoo.

[Anonymous]

I was doing a curbside pickup at Target and out walks a mom with two kids unmasked. Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was doing a curbside pickup at Target and out walks a mom with two kids unmasked. Why?

Ok?

[Anonymous]

I still take my “too young to wear a mask” toddler (age 18 months) everywhere. Sorry not sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was doing a curbside pickup at Target and out walks a mom with two kids unmasked. Why?

Maybe she needed something (like food items you can't order for curbside) and had nobody else to take care of her kids? I mean, I am lucky my husband and I can divide and conquer so our kids don't go into stores, but i can EASILY think of reasons someone might take them in. Did you try?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was doing a curbside pickup at Target and out walks a mom with two kids unmasked. Why?

Maybe she needed something (like food items you can't order for curbside) and had nobody else to take care of her kids? I mean, I am lucky my husband and I can divide and conquer so our kids don't go into stores, but i can EASILY think of reasons someone might take them in. Did you try?

This. My DH and I were able to split up tasks like this until our child was old enough to wear a mask, but it was actually really hard -- it is so much easier when you can take a child with you to the grocery store or whatever because it gets them out of the house and also gives the other parent a much-needed break. But single parents or people with spouses who are essential workers or who work long hours out of the house might not have that option.

[Anonymous]

op sucks.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand parents being so panicked over their young otherwise healthy kids catching COVID compared to other diseases/activities which statistically pose a greater risk to children of that age but to each their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:op sucks.

I suck because I cringe at seeing young kids without masks being exposed to a lot of people?

I am not talking necessities. We are currently on vacation. We drove and I see people out with young kids.

I also see kids in Fairfax and Arlington at the grocery store and target gnawing on shopping carts and high touch rails. It just makes me cringe. It would probably make me cringe even if we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic.