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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is op. I know kid get covid is more slim, but I am more worried about my kid catching covid ( with no symptom) and then transmit to my high risk DH and grandparents that are not got the chance to be vaccinated yet. I will loose up my playground rule once adults are vaccinated.[/quote]

I'm sort of surprised you're still visiting with grandparents if you're that nervous about COVID.  Are unmasked children on playgrounds really your biggest source of exposure to COVID?

I'm the pp with the ASD child. I understand the concern about transmissions. My kids have a couple particularly high-risk grandparents, and my spouse is immunosuppressed. But my spouse is also a healthcare worker who was going in throughout the pandemic.  And our kids were going to daycare and therapy. So playgrounds ultimately only accounted for a small part of our exposure. And accordingly, they wouldn't have been seeing their grandparents at all.[/quote]

This is exactly when we don’t play close to unmasked kids. Your child goes to daycare, has a dad who’s going in to a medical job in person, and your child also doesn’t wear a mask (Does he wear one in daycare? How do they allow him not to?), and you’re letting him go to playgrounds unmasked. [/quote]

And that's a reasonable position to take if you have high-risk individuals in your home and are trying to live in a bubble.  A lot of people can't live in a bubble, though.

Our ASD child doesn't wear a mask at daycare, although it is a a special therapy center for autistic children.  Our other children is at a center. He does wear a mask. Sort of. It's hard to get a terribly good idea how consistently he wears it.  I know they have to readjust it on him regularly, which you'd expect for a three year old.  I don't think you understand the mask rules at daycare, though. There's a hard requirement for masks on staff.  And a fairly hard requirement for kids over 5.   The 2-5 age group has varying levels of wiggle room, depending on the policies of the center, the local jurisdiction, and the state.
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