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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 3 kids - 1 in preschool and 2 in elementary. It is hard enough getting these older kids to get to their live classrooms and do their assignments. Our preschool doesn’t want to return our tuition so they also have live instruction and assignments and activities. It is such a pain to do. There are parents where their preschool child is their only child or they have an infant and a preschool child. They do all these elaborate art projects and activities. I feel like absolute crap. I’m on the brink of a nervous break.

I need the world to open back up. I cannot handle being stuck at home. I will take the risk of getting coronavirus.[/quote]

"I will take the risk of getting coronavirus."

That's the problematic thinking. If you really could risk only yourself, fine. But if you get infected you can still infect others even if you have no symptoms. So you're OK with infecting your family, with your infected but asymptomatic kids infecting teachers and classmates, with you and your spouse infecting total strangers as you go back to stores and kids' activities and back to school events. If you're about to argue that you will avoid infection and practice distancing etc.--really? If you can't deal with being at home, are you truly going to maintain mask and glove and distancing protocols for months to come?

This is why we will have a second wave of infections. Because of the "I can't stand being home" people and the "I can't take dealing with homeschooling plus job" people. We get that you are frazzled and overwhelmed. Why do you not get that there is a much bigger picture beyond the walls of your house? Take control of what's inside your home. Drop the preschooling and ramp back the elementary to whatever works -- plenty of parents on these threads have done just that. But please don't think that it's OK to say "I will take the risk of getting the virus" and that you are only risking yourself. You aren't. Can you see past your own cabin fever to understand that? [/quote]

This is a very privileged way of thinking. You clearly have not taken a financial hit.  You clearly do not know anyone who has taken a significant financial hit.  You clearly do not read up on all the starving people in third-world countries throughout the world who are dying now and for a long time to come, because you are sitting in your house and yelling for everyone to stay home.  You are telling other people that there is a much bigger picture when you yourself are not seeing the actual big picture.  Our reaction to the virus can cause the collapse of our entire society.  You just don't understand that because it is not affecting you.  [/quote]

NP, but we have taken a large financial hit. We also know people who have taken large financial hits. However, it sounds like you are thinking that if we reopen that somehow the economy will go back to being fine and only a few people will get sick. So let’s say restaurants are reopened for inside dining. Ok, that means they may be able to start making more money again. But then the diners start getting sick. And the servers start getting sick. And the other staff starts getting sick. So then the restaurant has to close and more people are flooding the hospitals. You need to really think through your plan now. You are being short-sighted in thinking that the economy would go back to normal if we just let it. That isn’t the way it would work. [/quote]

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