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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP and I am super surprised by the responses on this. The nanny is being paid and has been in communication with the family and doing other work this week. She isn’t on vacation and it is not realistic for her to expect the entire week off for this. I think it is perfectly fine to ask this and think any nanny worth her apt would be fine with it. [/quote]

The nanny does not want to get Covid!  She’s helping out where she can but asking her to be exposed is simply not right.  Jesus, it’s ten days max!  OP can’t keep her kids occupied for one week?!  [/quote]

It's not 10 days max. Whatever time frame the school uses (e.g. 5 days or 10 days) starts counting on the last day of exposure, so the kid needs to stay home until 10 days from their sibling's 10th day.

I would do this unless the nanny has a specific concern, such as living with someone elderly or immunocompromised, or being elderly or immunocompromised.  We're super cautious at our house, but the difference between exposure levels between 5 year olds, one of whom is masking and the rest aren't, indoors, including a meal, and between 2 masked people one of whom can mask 100% (nanny being more mature than 5 year old), outdoors, for a time period that doesn't include a meal, is significant.  Add to that this particular variant of the virus (I wouldn't have done this with pre-Omicron variants), vaccines, and improvements in knowledge of how to treat the virus?  Things are different now.  Not because "science has changed" but because both the virus has changed, and science has found solutions. [/quote]

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