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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My eldest was out of school for 6 months. We have no childcare for the younger one, who is 3. I’m lucky in that I can flex my hours. But yeah — it’s been a rough year.

If you can try not to care so much about work performance, OP, that will help. I was firing on all cylinders for a few years and this sucks but at the same time I just decided to prioritize family. It’s temporary. In a few months many more nannies will be vaccinated and you can replace yours.[/quote]

It is not a few months. It will be 5-10 YEARS until it evolves to be less deadly. There are already variants that partially evade vaccines that occurred BEFORE vaccines were widespread. With evolutionary pressure from so many vaccinated (plus international travel, which is still occurring) we absolutely will have a bunch of new variants by fall. With new vaccines out all the time it will be difficult to impossible to vaccinate everyone esp. given so many people are already suspicious of the vaccines. [/quote]

PP here. The shutdown was not to prevent people from catching it, but from overwhelming our hospital system and creating a situation where many people who needed care could not get it. Yes, there will be new variants, and since we missed the boat with eradication (unlike NZ and Australia) we are likely looking at a yearly booster for an endemic virus. But that is livable. Therapeutics are improving and one day soon that might also significantly decrease the mortality rate of the virus as well as the rate of severe after effects.

It’s no longer a novel virus, and that matters. We are definitely on the road to it being safe (for both parties) to have vaccinated nannies again, for example, which many people haven’t had the whole year. In another year children will be vaccinated.[/quote]

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