People should not be out for long enough to need the restrooms to be open. Kids shouldn’t be at the park for 8 hours. Stay home. Stop spreading disease.

Honestly, closed bathrooms help keep the crowds down at playgrounds. It means you need to time your arrival and only stay a short time and then pack it up and go. Sorry OP, I know the parent life of spending 2-3hrs at the playground on long days. It is hard.

To quote Walter sobchak, has the world gone crazy?

Public bathrooms are a great success story for public health. I cannot believe it is suddenly socially acceptable for people to go “in the woods.” Which is a nice euphemism for spreading all kinds of diseases—from ecoli to hepatitis—and yes, Covid, in the environment. Yuck, y’all.

Anonymous wrote:If masks work, bathrooms should be open.

Masks reduce risk. They don't eliminate it. Bathrooms also need to be cleaned and monitored. I can understand why places with playgrounds don't have the money to spend or the desire to put their staff at risk.

Anonymous wrote:What's the point? That there are many families that can use the playground for an hour or two without needing a bathroom and those families can use the playground.

There is no safe way to have a public unattended bathroom be opened without a higher risk of Covid transmission than the playground. So, rather than leaving the playground closed, they open it for those who can use the playground without the indoor bathroom. Sorry that you are not one of them, but they aren't going to risk public health to open the bathrooms.

My spouse is high risk, so we don't do risky behavior. I also don't worry about things that are available to others that are not available to me. I place a priority on my family's particular circumstance and realize that I have to be the final arbiter of what is safe for us to do and not blame others for not making things safe or accessible for us.

Exactly. And, this also helps limit the number of people using a space, as people who don't live close enough to go home to use their own bathroom are less likely to go. Similar reasoning to the closed parking lots at a lot of parks this spring; people who were within walking distance could still go in but it discouraged crowds from farther away.

wear a skirt, pee in the woods

I’m glad to hear that the bathrooms are closed. They are indoors. So someone could go in and breathe in them and then someone else could go in and catch Covid from the previous person. The other risk is that toilets aerolize the virus. The virus can be in fecal matter and when flushed it goes into the air.

You’d be crazy to use a public restroom eight months pregnant.

What's the point? That there are many families that can use the playground for an hour or two without needing a bathroom and those families can use the playground.

There is no safe way to have a public unattended bathroom be opened without a higher risk of Covid transmission than the playground. So, rather than leaving the playground closed, they open it for those who can use the playground without the indoor bathroom. Sorry that you are not one of them, but they aren't going to risk public health to open the bathrooms.

My spouse is high risk, so we don't do risky behavior. I also don't worry about things that are available to others that are not available to me. I place a priority on my family's particular circumstance and realize that I have to be the final arbiter of what is safe for us to do and not blame others for not making things safe or accessible for us.

If masks work, bathrooms should be open.

I just pee behind a tree or shrub, problem solved.

I’m sorry op tough time to be pregnant. Don’t know why covid brings out so much haters for people struggling in extraordinary times. I have peed in the woods more than I ever thought I would and I’m not even pregnant. I think we all just have to adapt.

Anonymous wrote:No one gets everything they want in a pandemic. This is one thing you don’t get.

Nicely said.

We bought something like this.

https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Toilet-Bags-Compostable-Absorbent/dp/B078X3TCRG/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=toilet+bucket&qid=1594667826&sr=8-8

Stay home.

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Anonymous wrote:Playgrounds are the best example. You open the playgrounds in moco but the bathrooms are locked. It doesn't matter if my kids go to the bathroom right before we leave the house-one of them is going to have to go.

Also, I'm 8 months pregnant and have to pee approximately every 20 minutes. So now I pretty much can't take my kids anywhere due to the lack of open bathrooms.

So please explain to me how we are opening things but not opening the bathrooms????

So everything should stay closed because the rare adult who has to go every 20 minutes may have difficulty going to the park?

No the bathrooms should be open. And most toddlers/preschoolers often have to go as well.

They can pee in the woods.

Bathrooms present a greater risk than outdoor play space. So, for now, the choice is all closed or play space open but not bathrooms.

Do you think they should shut it all down if the bathrooms can’t also be open?