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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, I'm not a troll and I don't mean to start drama (though maybe that's impossible when talking about COVID precautions).

I feel better about the decisions we made over the past year, but still really torn about what to do going forward. We will be doing camp this summer, it'll be starting in 2 months. But as for other things - playgrounds, playdates, outdoor classes, etc, all of that is with unmasked kids (and obviously not distanced). Some posters on here are saying that masks for kids are pointless/ridiculous, but others say they are doing masks. It's crazy to me that after a year of this, there still isn't a clear answer.

And I don't get how everyone is so confident in whatever choice they are making. If I put a mask on my kid and keep her away from the others, I'm freaking out that I'm isolating her. If I let her take the mask off like everyone else and play with someone on the playground, I freak out she's going to get COVID. All the contradictory comments are making my head explode. [/quote]

It's hard OP, it really is.  I have a couple friends who have confided pretty similar feelings of damned if I do / damned if I don't.  The longer this goes on, the harder it is to rip the bandaid.

I think part of the reason we feel fairly confident in our decisions is because 100% isolating was never really an option for us.  DH has worked in person this entire time.  We have two young kids that we could have kept in daycare because he is an essential worker, but we managed to keep them at home until last July.  But I just couldn't manage trying to work and care for a 1yo and 4yo indefinitely.  So back to daycare they went and it's been fine, knock on wood.  And because they were with kids all day at daycare, playing on the neighborhood playground just didn't seem like a big deal either.  Having those outlets made it easier to refrain from other activities, we still aren't really gathering inside with anyone except our vaccinated parents.[/quote]

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