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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which daycares are making kids wear masks all day? That’s insane.[/quote]

Our chain center based daycare is asking kids ages 2 and older to wear masks. Our kids have not yet returned but I'd like to know how that piece of it is going. I believe in mask wearing but it seems a bit difficult and possibly unpleasant for 2 or 3 year olds and maybe even preschoolers to be wearing a mask all day. There is a also a hand washing protocol before taking on/off the mask for meals and snacks. I think it has questionable efficacy because kids are going to be touching/fussing with the mask all day. I have trouble not adjusting the mask when I'm wearing it. The center's language (and the state's/CDC's) is somewhat loose around it--saying if the kid won't wear one in can be discussed with the director and a possible exception granted.

In general I'm not sure whether I want to send my kids back to center care. I do believe most of the modifications are the right thing to do and am not particularly worried about COVID. But I worry it is an unpleasant and scary environment. Masks, parents not allowed in the center (which means you can't get to interact with the teachers or maybe even know who they are), "socially distanced play" (whatever that means), three times a day "health checks" for kids and "health monitors" going from classroom to classroom throughout the day looking for coughs and runny noses, etc. Again, most probably the right things to do, just doesn't seem like a fun place to be. But kids are adaptable, I guess.

We have friends at one chain center where a child or family member with a fever, cough, and apparently vomitting and diahreeah is required to remain out of the center [b]for 14 days[/b], unless a doctor's note is provided. I can't see how this is going to work. First, no doctor is going to want you to come into the office with symptoms. And no doctor is going to give you a note saying it's OK to return to daycare unless they test you for COVID, and that's not going to happen because they don't want you in the office and have no tests. So many of the ailments with which kids suffer in the fall land winter like the common cold or rotavirus will incur a economic huge cost to parents in doctors bills, work leave, and care that was paid for and unused.

I think 50 percent of the policies will be deemed unfeasible by October and modified significantly or dropped.

There is a home daycare in my neighborhood which serves 6 children and does health/temperature checks, more frequent cleaning, etc. No masks for kids (but for adults), no distanced play, etc. So there is going to be a lot of inconsistency.

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I agree with much of what you wrote.  The center my older DC normally attends is planning to implement mask wearing, among other things, and I just don’t understand how it’s all going to work with preschoolers.   My younger DC is normally at a home daycare that is already open and pretty much like the home daycare you described.  Cautious, but more developmentally appropriate. Older DC loves the center but we will have to see how it goes. May end up taking both to the home daycare.[/quote]

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