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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with you OP. We were just a close contact and I kept both my kids ages 3 and 10 months home from daycare for the full 10 days and tested negative 3x[/quote]
how nice you are able to do so.[/quote]

DP, but of course keeping your kids home is inconvenient.  But that’s something all of us have to deal with sometimes, it’s part of having kids.  If your claiming you or others would be “unable to do so” - what would you do if the kid actually had Covid? Or rsv or the flu or anything else?  You’d keep them home, of course.  So the issue isn’t that you’re unable, it’s that you don’t want to bother and you don’t view it as your responsibility to help limit the spread.[/quote]

Or perhaps they’re saving their leave for the instance in which their child actually becomes ill instead of burning through all their leave caring for a perfectly healthy child who tested negative. If the rules were more reasonable (e.g. test to stay) parents may be more honest, but many of us aren’t going to voluntarily report and end up in a situation that risks our job. Tell Biden to pass more Cares Act leave if you want parents to stay home. But expecting individuals to bear the brunt of a societal problem (even if you firmly believe they should) isn’t going to play out in actuality the way you want it to.[/quote]

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