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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because a sizeable chunk of us have kids under 5 and we are invisible and forgotten.  No vaccine forthcoming, [b]but the most stringent illness and quarantine requirements[/b], still expected to work like nothing is different, and the rest of the world has largely moved on.

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This 100%.

I am grateful for having young kids during the height of the pandemic and not having to deal with online schooling.....but two years in, our daycare kicks out kids with Covid for 10 days.  And there was always a reasonable sick requirement....but now every slight fever or runny nose or cough (i.e. all winter long) and you are asked to stay home for 48 hours.

Not to mention covid exposure (false) scares and whole classrooms plus sibling classroom shut downs.
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I am the PP you are responding to and this was our experience so we got a nanny last fall.  I am grateful we were able to and it saved our sanity but there are trade offs, too,mainly the isolation.

So we are trying to do a swim class and other things.  Even when DD was in day care two weeks out of the month there was an element of isolation.

I was grateful for no online schooling but the under 5 crowd has just NEVER had good options.  Only not great or not bad options.

And there is just NO END IN SIGHT for this weird Twilight Zone existence[/quote]

Yep, Twilight Zone life is the new Normal. It’s like when they would close schools for polio only no where near as serious.  COVID exposure means testing and waiting periods; COVID illness means at least 5 days at home, multiple times a year. [/quote]

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