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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the woman with the two sisters. And the people talking about husbands doing their fair share are exactly the problem.

You are assuming that both parents have the luxury to stay home. Well, their husbands are both contractors who made the bulk of the household income. You know what can't be done from home? Contracting. I'm not sure how you expect them to manage childcare during the day while they have to be out of the house. Someone had to be home, and my sisters both made less money than their husbands. Quitting was the only logical thing to do.

You clueless, callous people. Not everyone has some perfect life where both parents can work from home and manage small children during the day. I am doing fine, but they are struggling, and I am so mad to see these comments suggesting that their relationships or bad or that there's an easy fix. They are STRUGGLING.

You live in a teleworking bubble.

I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out you were one of the people I had to stop talking to.

I would also not be surprised if you responded in some way blaming my sisters for not making enough money to afford childcare or suggesting that their husbands stay home from work more. [/quote]

I don’t know why we are fighting with each other.

We are on the same side.

The problem is that the pandemic has been a disaster for the American economy because Donald Trump and the Republican Party screwed up massively. They allowed the pandemic to run rampant. They didn’t fund schools so they could reopen. Or restaurants.
They didn’t support parents.

Republicans did this to us and it’s ok to say that.[/quote]

Um, no it's not "ok" to say that. It's ignorant. An incompetent mayor and schools chancellor, an amoral teachers union that used children as human shields to increase their power, and parents who bought into the fear mongering is what "did this to us," as many other states and private schools here in DC that figured out how to reopen safely while our kids languished proves.  As for the pandemic, Trump bungled a great deal, and I couldn't be happier that he's out, but his administration gets credit for Operation Warp Speed (which got us the vaccine) and it's not as if the Biden Administration has been crowning itself in glory. They revised their guidelines on distancing and schools not because of any scientific evidence but because the teachers unions demanded it and they caved. All politics is local in this situation -- and our local politicians are a ship of fools.[/quote]

This, all of it.[/quote]

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