Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even vaccinated you need to be cautious.

Exactly - what does cautious mean? Are we suppose to quarantine again? Stay at home in perpetuity? How long will this go on? My almost 2 year old (who was 4 weeks old when the pandemic hit) has barely left the house.

That’s entirely on you. Why have you kept your child indoors so long? Do you not read the news or talk to other people?

Anonymous wrote:Same situation.

I have decided that if we are coming up on a time where quarantine would prevent us from big plans, we will pull back to limit exposure. We are doing this for a week leading up to travel to see family for Christmas. Pulling early from daycare, not going in stores, etc. We will just do outside and our house for that one week.

But in day to day life, no. Toddler comes to the grocery store and Target and still will going forward with Omicron. Things like that. They wear a mask imperfectly. We try our best. But I'm not worried about the risk of them catching Covid. Just the disruption of quarantine.

+1. This is me too. Reasonable approach.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even vaccinated you need to be cautious.

Exactly - what does cautious mean? Are we suppose to quarantine again? Stay at home in perpetuity? How long will this go on? My almost 2 year old (who was 4 weeks old when the pandemic hit) has barely left the house.

We don’t how/when it will end, but we know that it will. It will end. We know that toddlers with boosted parents are fairly safe. We know that masks help but are actively dangerous for kids under 2, so don’t mess around with that. You don’t need to, or want to, isolate. No expert is suggesting that. Boosters keep us safe.

I found this helpful: “If that continues to be true, it will mean that Omicron — like earlier variants — presents only a very small risk of serious illness to most vaccinated people. It is the kind of risk that people accept every day without reordering their lives, not so different from the chances of hospitalization or death from the flu or a car crash.”. From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/briefing/omicron-update-spread-vaccines.html

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even vaccinated you need to be cautious.

Exactly - what does cautious mean? Are we suppose to quarantine again? Stay at home in perpetuity? How long will this go on? My almost 2 year old (who was 4 weeks old when the pandemic hit) has barely left the house.

But…the experts have told you from the beginning that being outside was safe. So go to the playground. Go walk around your neighborhood. Get your kids a baseball glove and a ball and play catch. Go hike on some of the trails around here. When the weather is decent go and sit outside at a restaurant and eat.

Anonymous wrote:Even vaccinated you need to be cautious.

Exactly - what does cautious mean? Are we suppose to quarantine again? Stay at home in perpetuity? How long will this go on? My almost 2 year old (who was 4 weeks old when the pandemic hit) has barely left the house.

Even vaccinated you need to be cautious.