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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It either needs to actually happen in June or Both companies and the CDC need to tell people to stop waiting. Literally preschools are basing their guidance on this vaccine being right around the corner and have been for months. Schools are even still talking about masking in the fall if the vaccine isn't ready yet. This is just getting insane. They either need to commit to it or tell people it's basically not happening anytime soon/ever. [/quote]

Totally agree- this is my big issue with it too. If an effective vaccine for the under 5s just isn’t going to happen anytime soon, so be it!  But the CDC needs to actually update its childcare-specific guidance to eliminate quarantines and not recommend masking.  I’m convinced that the people making these decisions must be a bunch of old people with no recent experience of having to use daycare.  Just a total lack of recognition with what parents have been dealing with for two years, especially in super-blue areas that interpret any guidance the most literally/cautiously.[/quote]

I thought this article - https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/why-are-preschoolers-subject-to-the-strictest-covid-rules-in-new-york-city - offers a useful perspective on why our society as a whole is subjecting the lowest risk group to the most restrictions. I think the drivers are:
- The idea young children can't get vaccinated, social distance (how much do older kids really social distance???) and can't wear masks properly makes people feel less safe, and makes public officials more hesitant to drop restrictions, despite the low risk to children
- A refusal to acknowledge that if adults faced the same hospitalization and death rates from COVID as young children do (very low), lockdowns, universal masking, quarantines, etc. would never have been considered for anybody
- The fact that families with young children in daycare are not very politically powerful - most of us are too tired to make a stink about it and families that send their children to daycare are not wealthy. The article's point at the end about the people protesting the preschool mask mandate in NYC being White fails to note that most people who are protesting restrictions for all ages are White, but only adults and school-age children's restrictions have been lifted. This is a baldly political calculation among Democrat lawmakers who can claim they are "listening" to BIPOC populations by ignoring the least powerful White people but kowtowing to the larger, more powerful group of White people. Nevermind the fact that public health measures should be based on SCIENCE, not public opinion.[/quote]

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