My daycare did not close
And I pulled my kid out

Only reason was because I had backup care
If I did not, I would still have pulled my child out because there’s no way on Gods green earth that I’m social isolating myself and not my child.

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is staying open for now, with militant cleaning/sanitizing and hand washing and yes, smaller numbers. We sent out kids today as we both must work but agonized over the cecision. Rinse and repeat tonight. Frankly the kids do better with the structure, which I can't replicate. I'm already on the brink with general anxiety and major marriage problems. It's so hard. I don't know what to do.

Ugh, you are not alone!!! This is so hard and I feel so bad but I have to get paid.

Pp- apologies for.typos

Our daycare is staying open for now, with militant cleaning/sanitizing and hand washing and yes, smaller numbers. We sent out kids today as we both must work but agonized over the cecision. Rinse and repeat tonight. Frankly the kids do better with the structure, which I can't replicate. I'm already on the brink with general anxiety and major marriage problems. It's so hard. I don't know what to do.

We did not. My hope is other families also would not, and that would empower the center to close.

I'm not comfortable having my child spread or contract the virus, so we are just making due. I have no idea what will happen 3 weeks from now though, we won't last that long!!

We are not looking at a short-term situation. The outbreak will continue at least 3-months if summer's heat has an impact. It is likely to continue for 1 to 1.5 years until a treatment or vaccine is developed.

At least in my case, it would be very difficult to go that long without pay...

OP here. We took her to daycare. There were only two other infants (usually there are nine infants), and two staff people (usually there are three). The smaller numbers made us feel better. We are betting on the data that shows that it doesn't impact kids too significantly, and her good general health. And if she does bring the virus home, we're in a position to quarantine. Knowing that this is only the start of this, and there may be more draconian isolation measures put in place going forward, we thought it best to preserve our current income in order to better save for what's coming down the pike, and to hold onto what little leave we do have.

For the people who say yes - for how long? This could last months. LWOP for months?

Yes, we did this morning. The school is using all the precautions and they went last week as well.

I’m not sending her, or making any income while not working; 10-99 gig job. Telework is not a possibility. My partner is required to report as a govt 10-99. We are using savings for daycare. They won’t be able to reopen if we all pull our money out. It’s the system, not the daycare.

That’s tough.

Depends on how financially screwed you’d be.

Same situation and Dh and I are debating. We are both feds who should be allowed to telework and aren’t. (Friday is my telework day). I’m hoping to do in tomorrow and beg for telework. Dh is maxi flex and we’d swap who watches the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Not essential employees, both parents teleworking. You’d have to take leave if you watched the kid, and you just don’t have very much. Not enough to last anyways. You can’t afford to lose pay.

NO. It is not worth the risk. Take leave without pay. Cut nonessential costs. Make it work.

For some people that means rent. There's not always nonessential things to cut.

Anonymous wrote:Not essential employees, both parents teleworking. You’d have to take leave if you watched the kid, and you just don’t have very much. Not enough to last anyways. You can’t afford to lose pay.

NO. It is not worth the risk. Take leave without pay. Cut nonessential costs. Make it work.

Not essential employees, both parents teleworking. You’d have to take leave if you watched the kid, and you just don’t have very much. Not enough to last anyways. You can’t afford to lose pay.