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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at a daycare center in NoVA.  Daycare’s policy is to shut down a classroom for 10 days upon a confirmed positive case (either student or staff) in that room.  Policy is dictated by the county health department.  Our daycare doesn’t require masks for children under 5, and there’s no test to stay option.
We just completed our 6th shutdown since Nov 2020 between my 2 kids.  Each shutdown has been due to a positive staff member.  None of those cases resulted in further spread within the school.  That’s 60 days’ worth of juggling childcare and work between my DH and myself, cobbling together a mixture of leave, WFH, working late at night, etc.  it is untenable.
Meanwhile, we had an RSV outbreak in both the infant and toddler classrooms last summer, yet no classroom shutdown was required. [/quote]

This. Parents with kids under 5 are really struggling and it seems like everyone else is oblivious to this fact because the policies and procedures for EVERY other age group have been updated.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a future study that shows huge economic impacts for these parents— it is negatively impacting the work life balance for this cohort of parents and will have lots of negative outcomes in terms of earning potential - some parents will be forced to leave workforce, many others will lose out on promotions /advancement opportunities as they are unable to compete with workers who don’t have to unexpectedly take week upon week of vacation time.  I am really scared for my own family- we have two kids and have had at least 5 multi week shutdowns between the two of them over the past year… this is not good for our professional life and puts our family at a huge disadvantage.

Young children are proven to have practically zero chance of negative health outcomes but they are being impacted negatively in a multitude of other ways.

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+1 Our family was home most of the month of May because DD was quarantined for 5 days, then caught COVID from a non-quarantined child when she was back for 3 days, then we got COVID 5 days later. It was exhausting because nobody can cover for me or DH at our jobs so we were still working, though we're fortunate to be able to work from home. It would be so much harder with two kids. As it is I feel overwhelmed, behind and not great about myself with regards to my job.

The sad thing was I was glad DD got COVID because I knew the quarantines could be neverending. At least she is exempt for 90 days.

The CDC just doubled down on 10 day quarantines for unvaccinated kids, no idea what our daycare will do with that, but it just feels so obvious at this point that this has always been about making sure there is an incentive for parents to vaccinate their kids, with absolutely ZERO regard for the impact of this on families while we're waiting for the vaccine to become available. I've come out of this with a DEEP hatred of our public health authorities. These people do not have young children and they absolutely SUCK.[/quote]

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