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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our MoCo daycare does not have a recommendation around masking, and I'm glad it doesn't. I know in a child care setting when that recommendation exists parents often feel a lot of pressure to follow it.

It's interesting in other settings there is often a mask recommendation and unless it is a medical setting (where it is a requirement) nobody actually wears masks. For example MoCo nature centers have signs recommending masks and the staff are mostly not wearing them (which I'm glad for). A pet peeve of mine is when they recommend them only for children's programs. Recommend them for all programs or none at all FFS. [/quote]

OP here- I agree, it introduces a sort of pressure that wouldn't be there otherwise.  No public health entity is recommending masking in childcare settings that I know of.  Talking to some of the teachers, they don't want to wear anymore but feel like they have to because management is recommending and so many of the kids still do.  It also makes it hard to take the recommendation seriously when there's no nuance- if they had asked everyone to wear masks for a couple weeks after the holidays due to the spikes and holiday travel, fine.

Anyway, I was just curious because it seems to be a very DMV thing.  We are in MD but my co-worker's kids attend a daycare in DC where masks are actually still required!  That's crazy to me at this point.[/quote]

Yeah it does sound crazy. I would kind of get it if it's a daycare that serves medically vulnerable children, but even then I feel like they are vastly overestimating the effect of masking on young children.

[b]I think at the end of the day people that don't want to mask, including teachers, should bite the bullet and not wear masks despite the pressure they may feel. This is kind of a vote with your feet situation.[/b][/quote]

This.  We were in a similar situation and it was definitely weird at first to be in the minority.  But it made no sense to me to continue the status quo.[/quote]

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