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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP what exactly do you want - put your child in daycare.  You could afford it pre-Covid, you can afford it now.  If you don't like the health risks, earn enough to afford a nanny or ask a family member to help you.

Essential workers send their kids to daycare. But you want a special subsidy to help you afford a nanny?  Sorry but that is ridiculous.  Daycares are open - you just don't like the risk.  That risk is only for other people, not your child.

That's fine - then pay for a nanny.  [/quote]

OP here.  And not that it matters, but I'm the dad.  My DW is the health care worker.  Either one of us could qualify as essential personnel.  We're both teleworking, although fairly soon expect to have to start going in in-person.  Staying home doesn't really solve the problem, though.  It's not like we can do telemedicine visits and teleconferences while simultaneously watching infants/toddlers.

To be clear, I'd really like to see them basically just let daycares open up, with parents and providers being allowed to accept the risks based on their own circumstances.  I understand some additional rules may need to go in place, but it shouldn't be nearly as arduous as the regulations and processes they've set up.  As I mentioned in a previous comment, I think a lot of the rules being put on essential personnel daycares are largely for show, with a lot of effort going into cleaning surfaces when that's not even thought to be the primary means of transmission.  The simple fact is that child care will be relatively risk situations, since there's only so much control you have over small kids.  But it's a necessary evil unless you want to devolve into a months-long version of The Purge.

Accepting that the above is probably unlikely, what I'd alternatively like to see is greater flexibility on informal care arrangements.  Right now they've largely deregulated child care for up to 5 unrelated, school-age children.  I'd like to see them eliminate that age restriction in some way.  I recognize you wouldn't want someone watching five infants.  So, if you don't think you can just leave that to parents to deal with, they could say something like 5 kids, with no more than 2 under the age of 3.  Or something like that.

Alternatively, just temporarily lift the 20 hour/month restriction on other forms of unlicensed care already allowed under existing regulations.

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