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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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Agreed.  Unless something changes with the quarantine rules, and covid exposure is treated the same as exposure to flu and RSV and HFM (we've never encountered classroom shutdowns for those, despite high levels of transmission), this is still rough on families with young children in daycare.  But PP is right...it is almost as if some people have forgotten these kids and their families exist, and we should all just be back to normal by now.[/quote]

Yes.  We've been super lucky with few disruptions due to COVID exposures, but do struggle with the super strict illness policy (almost all symptoms require PCR+dr note to return, which takes time even if kid is better).  I'm make it a point to say outloud when my kid is home sick with a minor runny nose, but I have to get a PCR, so I'm going to be out.  But I can do that because I have a job that wont penalize me for it.  My husband too.

And if I'm one of the only ones masking in a meeting, I tell people that me getting COVID would be a pretty big disruption in my childcare, and therefore my work, so I'd rather just mask in larger groups.  (I think it is still a 10 day quarantine for me, then my kid's 10 days starts after my 10 days is up since they could have been exposed any time.  OR I isolate from my husband/kids for 10 days and I guess her quarantine would also be just the 10 days. This is daycare policy, not necessarily CDC, the CDC probably doesn't spell it out so clearly, because why would they bother to cover this extremely common scenario for working families?)

I do think it is getting a little better for me since we've started doing stuff again and accepted &lt;5 vaccines may be a long way out - but the burnout... I just can't get over it.[/quote]

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