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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]curious what this mental health condition is that developed suddenly at age 2?  as a mental health provider, we have always had huge waitlists unfortunately.  More of my patients (older than daycare) are nervous about schools going mask optional than about wearing masks.

and fully agree the 3 hours of unmasked lunch/nap is a recipe for covid spread.  that's why I know many people picking their kids up at lunch/nap time. [/quote]

I don’t know anyone at our daycare picking their kids up for lunch/nap.  That’s like half the day- how would parents work?  We’ve had one case in my kids’ daycare classes in 1.5 years, so despite this “recipe for spread”, the doomsday scenario hasn’t materialized.

It’s amazing that in such a highly educated area that parents are nervous about getting rid of useless cloth face coverings that are going off and in all day.[/quote]

People reveal their privilege when they make statements like this about childcare as if the typical family has that kind of flexibility.

Unfortunately the pandemic has normalized parents transferring their anxiety onto their small children.  It has also normalized making broad-ranging assumptions about the needs, temperament, and abilities of other people's children.  We accept a wide range for potty training but expect mask compliance at 24 months. :roll: [/quote]

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 For low-income parents, no day care often means no pay[/b]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/22/child-care-covid-inequality/

If poorly worn cloth masks are reducing the spread of Covid in daycare they should keep the masks.[b] But that seems highly, highly unlikely.[/b][/quote]

It's variant dependent. The masks on kids worked well for alpha and delta strains. Didn't work great on omicron.

There's also the case of the teachers/caregivers - you can't force them to take off their masks. I expect them to keep on the masks a lot longer than the kids. [/quote]

I'm sorry, but there is barely any good data (from randomized studies, not the garbage study on masking that the CDC is pushing) on masking in general and what we do have raises serious questions about how well cloth masks worked in the general population pre Delta. As worn by toddlers in child care settings it just doesn't even remotely possible to me that they have played any significant role in preventing Covid spread. [/quote]

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