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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A recent DCUM thread was from a preschool teacher that wants to quit in January because people keep sending their kids in sick during the pandemic and it is stressing her out. Daycares pay terribly. PP, you are lucky that anyone wants to work at/run these germ cesspools. Add more burden to them and see how it goes.[/quote]

+1 to all this.  Daycare workers are massively underpaid and have had a hard job during the pandemic.  And you're demanding their employers remove protections for them? [/quote]

+1[/quote]

OP's post is tone-deaf, and I think she's wrong that shortened quarantines and test-to-stay are more politically charged than ending masking of young children. I will say that:

- There has not been enough attention paid to the issues faced by families with young children. While certainly most of the posters on DCUM that use daycare are probably UMC and lack sufficient empathy for child care workers, many low-income families use daycare (that's why there are subsidies for it) and desperately need it in order to stay employed. Currently, if a parent tests positive for Covid, an unvaccinated child needs to quarantine for 24 days (14 days past the parent's 10 days) unless the positive adult is able to isolate from the family, which requires having space and therefore money. That is a massive burden that's going to fall on a ton of families in the next couple of weeks. Can my family handle it - yes, we both WFH and have understanding employers. But for most families it's a massive, massive ask.

- You assume the only parties involved here are parents and teachers. But there are also the interests of the kids to think of. Their development matters. I find it extremely hard to believe that masking young children for half the day makes one bean of difference in preventing transmission of Covid. Why has this not been studied yet? Because parents have not wanted to rock the boat, most of us (unlike OP) respect our children's teachers and don't want to do anything to make them feel less safe. But it's time to step up for our kids.[/quote]

I don’t think I implied quarantines and isolation are more politically charged than masks. I was trying to say the opposite. It should be easier to put political pressure on county/state health departments to align isolation/quarantine policies with other unvaccinated kid than it would be to push for an end to mask mandates in young kids.[/quote]

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