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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend/neighbor has a daughter in the same daycare class as my son.  The kids are too young to be vaccinated.

Friend told me Monday that she found out they had a close contact with a positive COVID case on Saturday (1/1).  It was her brother, who visited them inside for the afternoon and ate dinner with the family, then developed symptoms and tested positive for covid on Monday (1/4).  She told me this because we had hung out together on Sunday (1/2) - so the day after she and her daughter had the close contact - and she wanted us to know about the potential exposure.   We hung out outside only and were not very close to one another, although the kids did play together on the playground.

Neither my son or I developed any symptoms and since we did not actually have a close contact with a positive covid case, I took him to daycare today (1/5), which is the first day it reopened after the snow.  I  was shocked to see her there dropping her daughter off at school.  Their close contact was on Saturday so even by the most liberal standard, they should be quarantining at least through tomorrow, right?  I didn't say that directly but I think she could tell I saw surprised, and told me that her daughter had a negative rapid test this morning.

I feel like she is being irresponsible and potentially exposing my son and the rest of the kids at daycare.  I get that keeping her kid home another two days is a pain but that's kind of just what you have to do, right?  Technically according to our school's policy she needed to notify them of the close contact as well, which obviously she did not.

Would you be annoyed by this?  Or I am being too much of a stickler?

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You are just as irresponsible as your neighbor and both of you should be kicked out because you have deliberately exposed other children to Covid.  However, I would bet a lot of money that 95% of DCUM parents have done, or will do, exactly the same as you.  In no way does this excuse your behavior.[/quote]

I assume you're trolls at this point but I'll say for the last time - I (OP) did not do anything irresponsible here.   Unless and until her daughter test positive for covid (or at the very least develops symptoms), my child did not actually have a covid exposure.  It's not a never ending chain of potential exposure - only the close contacts of the actual covid case need to quarantine. [/quote]

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