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[quote=Anonymous]Just looking for support (or solid information if people have it).

I am absolutely terrified right now that school is either:

(1) going to be very short lived and we will be dealing with a long shut down of at least most of Term 2 due to delta or a subsequent variant
(2) that cases at our school will be so frequent that we will be in and out of cohort quarantine most of the year and it will be almost worse than last year because of how inconsistent it is

I am feeling panicked because I don't have a Plan B and I don't really even know how to craft one for either of these possibilities. How can I plan for a midyear shut down with no known end date, especially when everyone else will be scrambling for childcare at the same time? How can I plan for intermittent quarantines throughout the year, or try and plan for childcare with no notice of when I might need it?

My DH has been forced back into the office 3 days a week so most of this is going to fall on me. I'm already so burned out -- I feel like I'm just barely making it through this summer and one of the only things keeping me going is the belief, now shaken, that schools will be open in the fall.

I don't know what to do, or if there is anything I can do. I just have this horrible uneasy feeling all the time and I feel like this year it really will break me. My DH and I have talked about what we'd do and neither of us want me to quit my job (and it would put us in a real bind financially) but I just don't know that I can be the point person for childcare most of the week and work and still function anymore. Even if he takes time off so he can stay home some days, that's finite -- he still has a job and if they say he has to do it in person, that's what he has to do.

Is anyone else in this place? It's really hitting me this week as I start pulling together stuff for school and I just feel like "What is this even for, this isn't going to happen."

Just me?[/quote]

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