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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked in a daycare. The babies sneeze, cough, and spit up on you. Also, a few times every teacher gets vomited on by a sick child. A few times we had a sick toddler who vomits all over the place before the parents could come and get him, all within 1 hr after we called them, and we have to literally disinfect the entire place. I am more worried about teachers since parents NEVER care and just send a sick child to daycare even if they know he may be sick (like oh, no big deal, he threw up once this morning, must have choked and just threw up once, nothing bad), and then it turns out the child has a stomach virus and all teachers sick next day. So, no, not just diaper change exposure but every single minute teachers are exposed and if parent ignores covid symptoms of their child (oh it's just runny nose, who caress), that's it, the teachers will be exposed no matter what unless they wear N95s all day which is not possible. Why the whole nation does not make weekly tasting obligatory for any child under 12 attending any school, it's beyond my comprehension. [b]We could be out of pandemic in months with weekly testing of all kids in schools[/b].[/quote]

No, we can't test our way out of the pandemic unfortunately, and certainly not by just testing children under 12. The tests are imperfect (even PCR), plus with the delays in results mean the virus still spreads. I don't doubt it would help to do weekly testing but it would not end the pandemic.

Nurses wear N95s all day. There also isn't a shortage of N95s (https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/1009858893/u-s-companies-shifted-to-make-n95-respirators-during-covid-now-theyre-struggling ). The problem is they are uncomfortable and expensive.[/quote]

And they have to be fit tested. Here, the title says it all: 
“ More than half of front-line healthcare workers unknowingly used an N95/P2 mask without adequate airborne protection: An audit in a tertiary institution”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34325537/

Germany mandated medical grade masks in January. Cases have continued to rise.
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