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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you all annoyed at the vaccine approval process when you need to be mad at the CDC and local authorities who recommended and imposed unwarranted restrictions on children? It was stupid to do it before vaccines were available and it’s insane now the actual vulnerable population (adults) has been vaccinated and the restrictions have been lifted on them. The vaccine trials are just proving what we knew already — children were never at risk. [/quote]

I am. I’ve wrote countless emails. No one cares.  Meanwhile our daycare (and likely the other parents there) thinks I’m a horrible parent for not continuing to mask my 3yo “until they can be protected.”[/quote]

The die-hard maskers aren’t going to stop masking their kids once they’re vaccinated anyway. I have one DC in a preK program where at this point all the kids in the class are 5 (it’s the older of two preKs at the center) and I know from talking to parents that most if not all of the kids are vaccinated, yet all except 2 are still masked. Similar with my older DC in MCPS although slightly more seem to be unmasked.  I’m honestly not sure what will be enough for these people. [/quote]

Lots of 5 year olds have younger siblings. Maybe the vaccinated household members mask to increase protection for the unvaccinated in their home.[/quote]

In that case [b]I’m curious what the long term strategy will be[/b] if an effective vaccine schedule for under 5s is never authorized. Every household member masks until the youngest turns 5?  Kids under 5 very rarely need treatment to begin with so even though I know of sone adults who are hoping for better treatments before they ditch masks I’m not sure how this would work for kids. [/quote]

I think (some) parents and (some) daycare directors will not come up with that strategy until it is clear that the vax for <5's is not happening "soon".  We've been about 2 months away from a <5 vax since ~sept/oct now.  (I realize the timelines aren't promises and things change, often for good reasons, just saying that there are people out there still waiting for this.)  I'm not saying that is correct, but without clear communication from public health leaders saying that we should NOT be waiting for a vaccination to unmask the <5s and let them do most normal activities - this mindset is not going away completely.  I really don't expect the CDC to make such a statement unless fully backed into a corner (i.e. FDA declines to approve EUA for <5s) - their charter is to control disease.  They can't even clearly communicate that they don't recommend masking in childcare when transmission is low.  [/quote]

Yes, this has been my biggest gripe. I agree with all the posters upset about the poor communication from our public health officials. Because the under five vaccine is always happening “soon,” it means no one has come up with a viable long term, or even medium term, public health strategy for children this age. So parents are left to scrape together a strategy themselves, with more and more limited leave and understanding from the rest of society.

If we all really understood that this isn’t happening soon, it would be a lot harder to tell parents to just keep holding on. [/quote]

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