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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the poster who suggested a separate thread for “regular” parenting during COVID woes rather than the specific difficulties faced by those in the medical community.  So here’s mine:

1. Daycare closed all week this week because there’s an outbreak in the teaching staff. [b]I am thisclose to a promotion this is not the moment I wanted to take Yet Another week off.[/b] 
2. My niece and nephew (vaccinated) have COVID right now and my SIL is incredibly blasé about exposing her parents when it comes to free childcare, which means another month without grandparents for my unvaccinated toddler. 
3. We weren’t comfortable with swim lessons this weekend— a rainy weekend where we really wanted to get her out and some exercise.
4. We are looking at a third year running of cancelling my husband’s birthday in March… which just sucks. 
[/quote]why can’t DH take a week this time?[/quote]

Because he took off *last* Weds-Fri when the *first* teacher got sick  :?  :?  :? and he has less sick leave than I do.

She only has two more teachers this can only happen twice more?!!?![/quote]i m confused because you implied that you took a week in your OP. “Yet another week”- so in reality it was two days.[/quote]

No, it’s other weeks from the fall (stayed home with a cold that wasn’t covid) and the spring ([b]stayed home for five days in order to visit a relative with cancer[/b]) not just this event. I took this week and my husband took last, just bad timing for me to be taking another week. [/quote]

With all due respect, that was a choice. [/quote]

oh, well, if PP got to exercise any element of choice in the decision, she definitely does not get to have misgivings or regret or frustration about it. Great point. /s

You're using the word "respect" and I think you have lost all track of what "respect" is. People are full human beings. We have lives that include many factors. Recognizing that is respectful. Barking that someone made a choice (therefore does not get to observe any  negative impacts of that choice?) is not respectful.

Why the hell is DCUM like this?[/quote]

It’s not. DCUM, it’s the US in general.

People cling to any semblance of control in late stage capitalist decline. So, choosing to visit a relative with cancer is your “choice” that’s going to derail your career. The idea that these choices equals any sense of autonomy is a way to cling to control in an environment where childcare is uncertain, the health care system is crumbling and  parental leave is nonexistent.  Really, none of us have any autonomy but people like  PP love to pretend that we do and that the US is the greatest place on earth. “Choice” is the opiate of the American masses. It’s sad.

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