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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]is this 2020? I don't have a kid in daycare, but it seems like daycares are keeping these draconian policies because it is financially beneficial to them (you have to pay, but they don't need staff to watch your kid).[/quote]

This is such a stupid take, and of course you are saying it while having no experience with daycare. If they are short staffed, that’s far more likely to be due to workers catching covid from kids than due to some scheme to keep kids out of the daycare for fun and profit. [/quote]

If OP's child has been exposed and she wasn't notified (she says her child was not exposed so she clearly has not been notified), that's a huge failure on the part of the child care provider. If the workers are "catching covid from kids" then OP's child would have been exposed, and the child care provider needs to disclose that if they want to be responsible. [/quote]

Oh dear lord.  If the daycare had 2-3 workers test positive for covid over the weekend, does it not seem remotely within the realm of possibility to you that they caught it from kids at the daycare, in which it would make sense to have anyone who has shown symptoms in the past week so a PCR test to confirm they don’t have covid before coming back?  Sure, they could require everyone at the daycare to do that, but that just means excluding more kids. [/quote]

AGAIN THE CHILD CARE PROVIDER NEEDS TO DISCLOSE COVID CASES TO THE FAMILIES. You are acting like COVID prevention is a one-way street. It's all on the families, the provider has no responsibility whatsover? jfc.[/quote]

OP hasn’t shared what the policy is.  It may be that notifications of cases go out to only classes where the known case occurred, and maybe OP’s kid isn’t in one of those classes.  The at can be true and yet at the same time there can also be enough cases all at once that the daycare feels it needs to do a widespread case check in case the outbreak is worse than they realize. [/quote]

What is stopping the provider from saying, "Due to a high number of cases in our center, we are requiring XYZ"? If there are cases in my child's center, I would like to know about it. I would like to know if I should skip Monday night dinner with my elderly, vulnerable parents this week (who want all the time with their grandchild they can get, since they missed so much in the first year of the pandemic). Is that so much to ask? Why would a provider NOT explain that COVID cases are the reason for a policy that prevents families from accessing child care and puts a major strain on their livelihoods?[/quote]

Are you OP?  OP hasn’t posted the text of the notice so no one but OP knows what was or was not included in the email.

But either way, if you are that concerned about your elderly, vulnerable parents and had a sick kid in the house, the prudent thing would be to get PCRs before seeing them just to make sure, regardless of what’s happening with the daycare. [/quote]

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