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Anonymous wrote:If you're keeping your kids home, will you send back the second week of january or wait for case numbers to go back down? if case numbers are still spiking is there really any benefit to waiting if it's just waiting for several days?

People are suspecting that travel/visiting family will cause exposures, detected in the first few days.

I'm with you, though. Unless I can keep home until ~February or whenever a Moderna kid vax shows up, I don't really see the point. (I cannot keep home until February.)

Exposure do show up in the first five days according to the CDC (if I’m understanding it correctly).

Thinking about it but I do need the child care (I could probably make it work if I had to but it’s very very hard) and I’m not convinced it will help us avoid the surge.

Anonymous wrote:If you're keeping your kids home, will you send back the second week of january or wait for case numbers to go back down? if case numbers are still spiking is there really any benefit to waiting if it's just waiting for several days?

People are suspecting that travel/visiting family will cause exposures, detected in the first few days.

I'm with you, though. Unless I can keep home until ~February or whenever a Moderna kid vax shows up, I don't really see the point. (I cannot keep home until February.)

We are going to wait at least a week and then see how numbers are. We do need the childcare but WFH and both have flexible enough hours that we can make it work by pushing a few hours of work to the evening. I hate screwing up DD’s schedule and having to work late but I’m hoping South Africa’s decline means the peak will be over relatively soon. I am okay with taking reasonable risks but the number of cases now just makes it seem inevitable that she’ll get it from daycare if we go back now. Given increasing hospitalizations and unknown longterm effects I’d still like to avoid that if possible, though I recognize that may be a pipe dream.

Anonymous wrote:If you're keeping your kids home, will you send back the second week of january or wait for case numbers to go back down? if case numbers are still spiking is there really any benefit to waiting if it's just waiting for several days?

my reasoning is allowing the kids and teachers who traveled and over-socialized over the holidays a chance to "bloom" with covid and other illnesses. Four days should do it. But yes, if the numbers in our area spike we'll take DC out of preschool again.

If you're keeping your kids home, will you send back the second week of january or wait for case numbers to go back down? if case numbers are still spiking is there really any benefit to waiting if it's just waiting for several days?

Yep. This variety of covid seems to burn fast. So a week out will really let you know what’s happening at the school. So many people traveling. These same people will send their kids in sick.

Yes. We’ll be keeping DD home for the first few days to a week. If colleges are doing it (and those kids are vaccinated) I think it prudent with kids under five.

No but my kids preschool is all outside with masks. I would consider if it was indoors.

We were just talking about this today since one family in DD’s preschool just texted the class to say the all tested positive for covid.

We decided to hold back for several days after preschool reopens on Monday. We have a nanny and don’t need preschool for childcare so it’s not a problem.

I didn't consider it but now I am. School goes back on Wednesday the 5th. I may keep my kid home that week.

Mine doesn't reopen until the 5th anyway. I'm sending back. My work resumes the 3rd.

I am now! I hadn’t thought about kids returning from traveling...

Yes. We’re keeping DC out of preschool for a couple days too but mostly to spend time with visiting grandparents and I’m off work. But more than illness concerns, my 3 yr old is very sensitive to kids crying and there’s always crying for the first few days after a long break.

DS, 3, has a two week break at preschool. I know lots of families traveled during the holidays and DH ants to keep DS home for the first couple days when school reopens. I’m as worried about colds as covid! DS has four colds last semester and all involved doctors visits and covid tests.

We don’t need the childcare as we have a nanny and my mom.

We’re thinking three days.