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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My company is about to move to 100% telework. I want to pull my child from daycare, but I have no idea how I'll get work done if I do. It doesn't feel right to make sure I'm safe at home while she's out there mingling.[/quote]

I mean she'll be fine.  "The WHO-China Joint Mission report also noted that children appear largely unscathed in this epidemic, writing, “disease in children appears to be relatively rare and mild.” From the data so far, they report that “infected children have largely been identified through contact tracing in households of adults.”  https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/

By staying home you are avoiding catching it from work and spreading it to other people, most importantly to vulnerable people who are elderly and/or have underlying conditions. Keeping her home would also help slow the spread, but you have to do what you have to do.[/quote]

[b]but sending a child to daycare completely negates the protection of teleworking.[/b]  Your child is exposed to teachers, administrators, building staff, and a class full of kids each day, all of whom have a house full of people at home that may have been exposed to Coronavirus. Any one of them could currently be transmitting the virus. I honestly think that the kids are the tricky part of the equation. They don’t seem very sick, but they can make other children sick and all of the children can make the adults around them very, very ill. [/quote]

Um, no. By teleworking you are still reducing contact with other people.  Your baby going to daycare doesn't negate that.  Of course the baby is bring exposed to other people but your family, collectively is being exposed to fewer people.  Of course taking the baby out would be better, but until the daycare closes people will still take their kids in, because people have to work. You alone not taking your kid in is not going to significantly slow the spread of the virus, which is really what the vulnerable adults need so when they do get sick, the hospitals have capacity to care for them.  
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What it does is increase the risk for your family[/quote]

Yes, as I mentioned, taking the baby out of daycare would be better.  If that's not possible, you do need to be especially careful around vulnerable people.  But unless those people are quarantining themselves 
completely to avoid catching the virus, they are at risk anyway.  You have to do what you have to do.

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