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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  It doesn’t have to just be daycare.  BTW how many other kids in his class got it? I just don’t believe parents who say they literally have stayed in their homes for the past eight months and never left. Hard to do that with kids and holidays.[/quote]

We regularly go 2+ weeks literally not stepping foot inside a building other than the daycare drop off.  We do not have people inside our house.  You can be careful / wear gloves at the gas station.  Outdoor transmission is unlikely - we stay away from strangers.  We obviously have deliveries (packages & grocery) but if we get COVID, it will almost surely be from daycare.  (At least until I get to a phase of my job where I occasionally will have to go in to meet my responsibilities.)  The way I see it, daycare is my one thing, and since we are taking that risk, we minimize all others.  Daycare is more essential than having a contractor in my home or shopping in person for my grocery.

To the point of this thread:  We pulled our kid from daycare when the daily new cases went above 25 per 100k, on a steep upward trajectory. This was also because they will close for the holidays soon anyway, so keeping the kid home an extra 1.5 weeks before closure seemed worth it.  I would possibly send him back  when cases are something like 30 per 100k if they trajectory seems to be confidently downward.  Or, if numbers are still pretty high after the holidays with no signs of dropping, we'll likely re-evaluate our risk position.  We can take some extra vacation around the holidays and juggle WFH without childcare for a stint, but it is just not possible to do indefinitely[/quote]

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