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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We will send ours kids when they open. The data in the US is showing it is very low risk for kids, DH and I don’t have any risk factors so it is also very low risk for our household. We are still not going to be visiting grandparents, which would be the reason I would keep them out.

I don’t understand what everyone is so fearful about with their kids, unless you have a high risk person living with you. At this point, I think Hogan is being responsible about closing things down to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed. If they open the daycare, I feel that they will be following the scientific/medical guidance on managing the community spread, and will close again when they need to. 
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I’m asthmatic and have other autoimmune issues, my son has reactive airways and has needed nebulizer treatment before, my husband has exercise induced asthma.

About 8% of adults and 8% of children in America have asthma. At this point obesity and high weight are also looking like risk factors - 42% of Americans are obese (not just overweight). The point isn’t that children are likely to get a serious case (although some can), it’s that they are very likely to spread it to others and people like to think THEY aren’t high risk but what about everyone else you would come in contact with? People not related to you? High risk co-workers who have no choice but to go back to work or lose their job? Low-wage workers who must work to survive? [/quote]

We are in the same boat here (I'm asthmatic, as well), but, if DH and I both have to go back to work, we have no choice other than sending the kids to daycare.  I'm paranoid as hell about it, but neither of us can afford to lose our jobs.  I suspect there are far more people like us in this country than those who can afford to just stay home for a year, hire a nanny, etc.[/quote]

I totally get that, my response was more about the person who didn’t understand why others are “fearful” - to that person I say wake up - almost half the country is high risk from obesity alone. Acting like it’s weird for people to be “fearful” is extremely self-centered. [/quote]

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