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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don’t understand why people are jumping to dismiss this possibility. You are masking two year olds without any clear data that it is reducing cases in daycares, so why are you so quick to dismiss other concerns without concrete data.

It makes me really sad that if you even raise the topic of masking two year olds, you’re jumped all over as a dramatic, terrible parent. Parents seeking assistance for speech- delayed toddlers has risen during the pandemic. That is a fact. Jury is still out on what is causing it (masks, isolation, attachment parenting, whatever). Why are you dismissing masks in daycare as one possible cause for some children?  Because it’s easy to dismiss these kids when its not you kid?[/quote]

Parents may just have more time to deal with it. [b]I know many families that just ignored it to hope their kids caught up[/b].  Others even delayed school a year vs getting them help.  [/quote]

School and daycare closures make this more possible.

I think anyone faced with this decision needs to factor in that if you're not sending your child to daycare and you're not socializing in person much, is your child only interacting with their parents or nanny? That's not normal. A daycare with masked caregivers is probably better than no socialization at all. If the nanny can do playgroups that's different.[/quote]

It's actually pretty normal. Playgrounds are a recent phenomenon.

The amount of spam this Melanie person has been doing on different listerves is raising a lot of alarm bells for me. There's a petition she's circulating to *demand* that various jurisdictions take away the rights of daycare workers to be masked at work. Obviously, such a demand is completely unenforceable as well as being absurd... But it's the scope of her extremism that makes me suspect there's no Melanie behind this at all. Just another bot argument, meant to sow division.

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I don't know, I think there is a real need for advocacy on behalf of daycare/preschool parents, and I appreciate the effort.    I completely disagree with changing masking requirements for caregivers - those should be at the discretion of the individual or the daycare center, if not required by public health agencies.  But making masks on the under 5 crowd optional (maybe after this surge dies down) seems like something of a no-brainer.  using Test to Stay also seems sensible.[/quote]

Who is advocating for changing mask requirements for caregivers? All I see is stuff about making masks optional for kids.[/quote]

The PP before me accuses the petition of doing so.  It does not.  It does talk about "developmental harms", and this thread here is about harms from masked caregivers.  There is arguably (but really no data either way!) more harm from masked caregivers, but it is unreasonable to argue for them to be unmasked at this stage of things (unless they and public health wants them to be).

Anyway, just trying to say I'm happy there are people like melanie advocating for daycare kids.  I'm more interested in test to stay, with off ramps for masks after omicron wave, but really, just want public health to be thinking about the <5s.  [/quote]

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