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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like these pods are going to just increase community spread like crazy. They closed schools for a reason folks. [/quote]

So what are parents with two working parents and young kids supposed to do?

Should it just be expected that one of them quite their jobs, possibly have to sell their house to manager kindergarten?[/quote]

What do you want me to say? No one has the answers. This sucks. This is the worst crisis that has happened to us. It is upending everything. But burying your head in the sand and somehow thinking you are the exception - that congregating 6 kids together and a tutor together isn't risky - isn't the answer.

What happens if someone in your pod or someone they live with gets sick? You have to work right, just push through?

Look this is horrible but seems like if we just suck it up it will end. The more people who do things like this, this will keep spreading and spreading. [/quote]

Similarly, you shouldn't bury your head in the sand over the challenges working parents face, either.

You've rather harshly criticized a choice parents are making, yet you've suggested no alternatives that would be practical for working parents.  Pods probably are a bad option for a number of reasons, but that doesn't necessarily mean they aren't the best option, too.[/quote]

I don't mean to bury my head in the sand. I truly sympathize with people. This is awful. But yea, I guess just recreating school doesn't seem like a good idea. I guess if I had to suggest an alternative it would be to keep pods small. 6 families intermingling sounds like a lot. [/quote]

Frankly, sympathy isn't worth much if you're putting them in an impossible situation.  I honestly don't understand what you expect. Most families can't afford losing the income from a working parent, so telling people to quit their jobs to take for their kids isn't reasonable.  Lower-income jobs are less likely to allow for working-from-home, and even if they did, a lot of jobs can't be done while acting as a teacher/caregiver for lower-elementary kids.  And sure, smaller pods are generally going be safer than larger pods, but that's going to get expensive rather quickly.  This is a major expense that families wouldn't have had any reason to plan for, and you're talking about making it even *more* expensive.

And, I'll note, six families doesn't seem crazy.  That's probably roughly on par with what you'd see in a daycare.  A room in a larger daycare center probably has kids from more than six families right now, actually.[/quote]

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