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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A recent DCUM thread was from a preschool teacher that wants to quit in January because people keep sending their kids in sick during the pandemic and it is stressing her out. Daycares pay terribly. PP, you are lucky that anyone wants to work at/run these germ cesspools. Add more burden to them and see how it goes.[/quote]

+1 to all this.  Daycare workers are massively underpaid and have had a hard job during the pandemic.  And you're demanding their employers remove protections for them? [/quote]

+1[/quote]

OP's post is tone-deaf, and I think she's wrong that shortened quarantines and test-to-stay are more politically charged than ending masking of young children. I will say that:

- There has not been enough attention paid to the issues faced by families with young children. While certainly most of the posters on DCUM that use daycare are probably UMC and lack sufficient empathy for child care workers, many low-income families use daycare (that's why there are subsidies for it) and desperately need it in order to stay employed. Currently, if a parent tests positive for Covid, an unvaccinated child needs to quarantine for 24 days (14 days past the parent's 10 days) unless the positive adult is able to isolate from the family, which requires having space and therefore money. That is a massive burden that's going to fall on a ton of families in the next couple of weeks. Can my family handle it - yes, we both WFH and have understanding employers. But for most families it's a massive, massive ask.

- You assume the only parties involved here are parents and teachers. But there are also the interests of the kids to think of. Their development matters. I find it extremely hard to believe that masking young children for half the day makes one bean of difference in preventing transmission of Covid. Why has this not been studied yet? Because parents have not wanted to rock the boat, most of us (unlike OP) respect our children's teachers and don't want to do anything to make them feel less safe. But it's time to step up for our kids.[/quote]

Oh, well, if some unqualified rando on a mommy message board “finds it extremely hard to believe,” that settles it then.  :roll: [/quote]

By all means, shower me with your misogynistic jabs. The fact remains that:
- Experts like Mike Osterholm are saying cloth and surgical masks are useless against omicron
- Children in child care take their masks off during at least half the day
- Well fitting masks for young kids are not easy to come by which means a fair number are wearing ill fitting masks
- Young kids frequently wear masks incorrectly

So, you know, you be the judge, I'm just an unqualified random on a mommy message board and you know anything associated with "mommies" and women in general is dumb so..

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It literally IS a mommy message board, you massive drama queen (though I’m sure you’ll clutch your pearls at “drama queen” too, because you love to play the victim).

Cloth and surgical masks don’t work? Cool. We’ll require child sized 94 and 95s. Problem solved.[/quote]

I appreciate you found more ways to make yourself look like a sexist POS. Do you get that quality respirators need to be fitted and worn correctly in order to work? You want families to spend significant amounts of money and produce significant amounts of waste for a face covering that only works if a 2-4 year old wears it correctly? And even if they.can keep it on the teachers have to put it on every child correctly after the 4-5 snacks/meals/Naptime periods where they take them off? That's ridiculous and not going to happen.
 
I have yet to see

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