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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My preschooler had very few illnesses between spring 2020 and spring 2021. In summer of 2021, the constant colds started coming back. Fall of 2022 was a nightmare as it was not just colds but also RSV which got us all really sick. 2023 was much better. We pretty much got through September through February unscathed.

Two factors that had absolutely no impact as these periods of illness were not remotely correlated with these policies being taken away?:

- Masking requirements in daycare
- Quarantine or isolation requirements recommended by CDC and implemented by daycare[/quote]

I’m a daycare worker and I posted about this before especially when we were in the thick of it during Covid. Masking was always theater with little kids. They were eating together, napping together, the masks never, ever fit well. They were always falling off, or they were taking them off. We eventually dropped masking even though it was still a requirement because the masks were all a joke and theater. We had zero Covid cases and transmission within the kids in my care. Any child who did get sick caught it from their parents.

IMO, seeing firsthand with many families, why the kids were not sick is because of the isolation requirements and CDC exclusion guidelines which pretty much covered colds and many viruses. We had the CDC backing to tell families to keep their kids out for 10 days with no pushback. So if somebody had a cough and a runny nose, even if it wasn’t Covid, they still had to be out until they tested negative, and their symptoms have resolved which prevented spread within the daycare. I recognize how difficult that was for parents, but during that time we had very little illnesses, and when they were ill, it was not Covid. It was not the masking, it was the exclusion.

Fast forward to post pandemic and I observe that kids are sick at the same rate that they were pre-Covid. As you see above, we follow the CDC guidelines and so we no longer require any testing and it’s 24 hours fever free just like any other illness. Honestly, even prior to that we stopped asking parents to test their sick kids because it was a burden and parents cannot afford to miss work for every sniffle.

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