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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is probably more venting than an actual question...  But I'd still love to hear others' thoughts on this.

While Maryland is (sort of) loosening restrictions on who can use the essential personnel daycares, it's still being heavily regulated and restrictive.  Daycares can't open without going through a fairly complicated process, so people's regular daycares are often not open.

Yet, many of us are expected to work- if not going into work, at least working from home.

What exactly does the county/state expect people with infants and toddlers to do?  [b]Do they really think we should be sending our kids to the opened daycares that are now filled with only high-risk kids?  And now that the state is no longer paying for daycare, that might mean paying for daycare twice: 1) paying your "regular" daycare to reserve your spot, and 2) paying the temporary essential personnel daycare.

They're putting parents in an impossible situation by not giving parents more (paid) child care options.  The least they could do would be to completely deregulate providers caring for children in a single family (or perhaps even 2-3 families).[/quote][/b]

OP,

There are a lot of different issues going on in your post.

1. If daycare is open and you feel it is not safe, that's your decision. There is some data on infections in centers for essential workers and the vast majority of centers have been able to safely operate. When two centers in CO have to close temporarily due to cases, that is what we hear rather than the fact that hundreds or maybe thousands of facilities that reopen had no incidents.
2. Paying daycare while they are closed is up to the center. For better or worse, they are businesses that need to survive and government is not going to bail them out.
3. Deregulating day care temporarily is a terrible idea.

I have an infant and a toddler and think we need to prioritize getting daycares open with protocols recommended by CDC. Even more dire will be then they open at half capacity and many people can't get care.

Our society's reaction to COVID is mind boggling. On the one hand, we have shameful fools in the white house stoking controversy of mask wearing. On the other hand, we can't seem to put risk in perspective and figure out how to open an essential service like child care. In one weekend we shut down the country and I fear it will take years to unravel this mess. Yes, there is risk, but the risk to young children and parents is very low, and the benefits (indeed the necessity) of opening child care far outweighs the risk.
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Also understand that many of the daycare workers are getting big money in unemployment (significantly bigger money than their standard paychecks.)  Getting daycare workers to come back and put themselves and their families at risk
to care for your kid while they are getting the big money from unemployment will make staffing at daycare centers problematic.  Why would you go back to work as a daycare worker when unemployment monies are significantly larger
than your standard paycheck and why risk going back to work where the kid you are caring for might infect you and then your own children.[/quote]

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