Thanks OP! I really appreciate that someone is talking about this and trying to change it.

Anonymous wrote:Please keep in mind that child care workers are put at greater risk of exposure because they change diapers, wipe noses, clean spit up all day. Very different from elementary school teachers.

They always have been for every other malady and your statement doesnt make sense if you break it down. Children under 2 arent required to wear masks. Children 2-3 are suggested. Children over 3 are strongly encourage/required based on most daycares Ive been hearing about. Children over 3 are usually potty trained and can wipe their own noses.
Lastly there are no surges in COVID cases in either providers nor children in daycares that arent masking kids under 5.

Please keep in mind that child care workers are put at greater risk of exposure because they change diapers, wipe noses, clean spit up all day. Very different from elementary school teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are like me and frustrated by the constant daycare closures (that are not backed by evidence) and policies that are harming our youngest children and detrimental to parents' mental and financial health, please consider taking a look at this: https://chng.it/w8ZCRxLgMx and sharing it as widely as possible. Thank you.

Can you produce Peer reviewed scientific journals that back your claim?

There's a whole bunch of links to pubmed articles.

Anonymous wrote:You are insane to be pushing this in the midst of the highest numbers we’ve ever seen.

Keep in mind that many of those working parents are health care workers who need child care to go to work. There are also teachers who need child care to go to work.

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Anonymous wrote:You are insane to be pushing this in the midst of the highest numbers we’ve ever seen.

+1. Read the room, OP.

+2. More than half of our daycare is closed due to covid cases right now.

My daycare is closed with NO cases. Just closed "in case" because of holiday gatherings.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are like me and frustrated by the constant daycare closures (that are not backed by evidence) and policies that are harming our youngest children and detrimental to parents' mental and financial health, please consider taking a look at this: https://chng.it/w8ZCRxLgMx and sharing it as widely as possible. Thank you.

Can you produce Peer reviewed scientific journals that back your claim?

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/womens-labor-force-exits-during-covid-19-differences-by-motherhood-race-and-ethnicity.htm

I know you are comfortable in your UMC Zoom job, but you really need to come out of your bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:You are insane to be pushing this in the midst of the highest numbers we’ve ever seen.

+1. Read the room, OP.

Actually this surge is a perfect example of why what has previously been done hasnt worked. I- a parent under 5- was okay with this for a year until vaccinations came out but no more. It will just keep happening and happening with no benefit to children. I dont have enough leave to have surgery I need due to these restrictive policies. My son has been tested almost 10 times this year due to runny nose/cough/etc. Not ONCE has it been COVID. Rapid tests arent accepted and every single daycare is doing things differently so these are all "recommendations" that are being implemented inconsistently.

When we've asked for more government support or paid leave for quarantines/isolation because this age group is unvaccinated the response is personal responsibility. If thats the way it goes then personal responsibility means my kid is not responsible for protecting anyone else.

Ill be signing your petition OP.

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Anonymous wrote:You are insane to be pushing this in the midst of the highest numbers we’ve ever seen.

+1. Read the room, OP.

+2. More than half of our daycare is closed due to covid cases right now.

I read this petition and do not see anything wrong with it. They are asking for test-to-stay programs in daycares to avoid unnecessary quarantines of healthy children. This is completely reasonable and the direction we need to be going in. The fact that there is a surge of cases does not make it the wrong time to look at this--it is precisely the right time. We do not need to be excluding children and disrupting families based on something unlikely to make them seriously ill and which can be controlled with test to stay.

Our preschool hasn’t closed. In order to achieve this, we have reduced hours, no floater teacher and no classes mixing at all. I have to leave work 90 min early every day and work in the evening. I have no hope of working a full, normal day until my youngest starts kindergarten in 9 months. But - I would take a reliable if annoying schedule over frequent closures.

Maybe your daycare could take steps to limit spread and avoid whole center shutdowns instead of just isolated classroom closures.

Anonymous wrote:You are insane to be pushing this in the midst of the highest numbers we’ve ever seen.

+1. Read the room, OP.

Anonymous wrote:If you are like me and frustrated by the constant daycare closures (that are not backed by evidence) and policies that are harming our youngest children and detrimental to parents' mental and financial health, please consider taking a look at this: https://chng.it/w8ZCRxLgMx and sharing it as widely as possible. Thank you.

Can you produce Peer reviewed scientific journals that back your claim?

You are insane to be pushing this in the midst of the highest numbers we’ve ever seen.

If you are like me and frustrated by the constant daycare closures (that are not backed by evidence) and policies that are harming our youngest children and detrimental to parents' mental and financial health, please consider taking a look at this: https://chng.it/w8ZCRxLgMx and sharing it as widely as possible. Thank you.