Travel

[Anonymous]

Does your daycare have a quarantine or test requirement post travel. DC DOH guidance now merely recommends a quarantine, but our daycare is requiring 7 days post travel regardless of whether it is by car and to an isolated cabin in the woods of WVA.

[Anonymous]

Yes, ours is the same.

[Anonymous]

Ours requires testing 3-5 days after your return, can come back with negative test

[Anonymous]

Yes, it's for the best for everyone. It's inconvenient but it's more inconvenient to spread COVID in daycare.

[Anonymous]

What counts as "travel"? If we're in one place in MD, and we travel for a week to another place in MD, have we traveled? What if we're in MD and travel to VA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What counts as "travel"? If we're in one place in MD, and we travel for a week to another place in MD, have we traveled? What if we're in MD and travel to VA?

Ours excludes MD & VA, but only those two states.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What counts as "travel"? If we're in one place in MD, and we travel for a week to another place in MD, have we traveled? What if we're in MD and travel to VA?

Ours excludes MD & VA, but only those two states.

Oops - and DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's for the best for everyone. It's inconvenient but it's more inconvenient to spread COVID in daycare.

It’s not really. We want to go visit vaccinated grandparents in Delaware before school starts. We drive, stay in their house, and don’t eat out or do anything risky. We can’t do this. But we could go to kings dominion and eat indoors with hundreds of other people and show up at daycare the next day. That’s why DOH put wiggle room in the guidelines. I think daycare can ask that parents use judgment, but it’s brutal to say you can eat maskless indoors and stay in a hotel in Virginia Beach but don’t get in the car and stay at grandmas for a weekend.

[Anonymous]

Our private school in MoCo requires this too. Quarantine for 7 days AND must bring negative COVID test. I have no issue with the testing. The 7 days seems extreme for the reasons other PP provided. We also want to head to Delaware before school starts and we only eat outdoors and mask at all times and we mainly just sit on the beach away from others. I understand the rationale for putting forth a simple rule that can be applied easily (rather than giving case by case decisions), but agree it’s very frustrating.

So tell me — for others who have experienced this, do you or others you know simply not report your travel whereabouts?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, there is a cost to these requirements. It's not just inconvenient, it means people either have to stay home or lose access to child care (an essential service) for a not insignificant period of time. Of course, traveling is a luxury (even if you are just driving to an AirBnb) but for many it's a way to protect their mental health, and if you are not going out to restaurants or crowded venues it's hard to see the value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our private school in MoCo requires this too. Quarantine for 7 days AND must bring negative COVID test. I have no issue with the testing. The 7 days seems extreme for the reasons other PP provided. We also want to head to Delaware before school starts and we only eat outdoors and mask at all times and we mainly just sit on the beach away from others. I understand the rationale for putting forth a simple rule that can be applied easily (rather than giving case by case decisions), but agree it’s very frustrating.

So tell me — for others who have experienced this, do you or others you know simply not report your travel whereabouts?

One of the daycare families definitely did not report their travel over July 4. Several of us parents found out when the mom posted pictures on FB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's for the best for everyone. It's inconvenient but it's more inconvenient to spread COVID in daycare.

It’s not really. We want to go visit vaccinated grandparents in Delaware before school starts. We drive, stay in their house, and don’t eat out or do anything risky. We can’t do this. But we could go to kings dominion and eat indoors with hundreds of other people and show up at daycare the next day. That’s why DOH put wiggle room in the guidelines. I think daycare can ask that parents use judgment, but it’s brutal to say you can eat maskless indoors and stay in a hotel in Virginia Beach but don’t get in the car and stay at grandmas for a weekend.

Totally agree. Our daycare has the same rule and it's ridiculous. Daycare would get more honesty from parents if they were able to decide on a case-by-case basis. Going to a cabin in WV is 10 times safer than going to Ocean City, MD. I know lots of families from my daycare that have lied about where they were actually going.