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Anonymous wrote:Nearly every parent I know with young children across multiple states has had covid in the last few months and every single case they (in their own words) have traced back to their kids' daycare.

That isn't because the daycares or the employees are at fault, though they might have been. It's not because of other parents, although that's a factor too. It's the nature of this illness. It's contagious. It spreads. Even in the best of times, kids are germ factories. Put a bunch of them together and they get sick, they pass along illness, etc.

I hope none of you have to see what mis-c does to a five-year-old's heart like my friend in New York. I wish more of you were concerned.

I suspect a lot of you, like the woman who keeps advocating for daycares to drop mask requirements, are used to living in a world that you control. Parenting will never completely be that world. Neither will a global pandemic. You're going to have to let go of that and acknowledge that everyone is struggling to keep their family safe and their children developing. Sometimes there are no good choices, there is only doing the least harm to the most people. Please try and keep that in mind.

Masking is optional in Northern Virginia. What they're asking for is nothing radical.

More uneducated fear mongering. Try this. Do some real research and give us the number of 5 year olds that get COVID that develop lung damage. I am not talking about acute bronchitis or asthma. I mean real damage and out a link here for us all to see. I am going to prognosticate and say that you will not do that because that link does not exist. What you will likely do and respond in a negative way and make false representations.
Little Johnny's parents don't care if he gets permanent lung damage because they live in Virginia. It's not radical if everyone else is jumping off a cliff too. Why don't you sign my petition? People are saying it's a good idea!!

Melanie, I suspect, lives in Virginia. Wonder if she's connected to the disrupt the Loudon schools crowd?

Anonymous wrote:Nearly every parent I know with young children across multiple states has had covid in the last few months and every single case they (in their own words) have traced back to their kids' daycare.

That isn't because the daycares or the employees are at fault, though they might have been. It's not because of other parents, although that's a factor too. It's the nature of this illness. It's contagious. It spreads. Even in the best of times, kids are germ factories. Put a bunch of them together and they get sick, they pass along illness, etc.

I hope none of you have to see what mis-c does to a five-year-old's heart like my friend in New York. I wish more of you were concerned.

I suspect a lot of you, like the woman who keeps advocating for daycares to drop mask requirements, are used to living in a world that you control. Parenting will never completely be that world. Neither will a global pandemic. You're going to have to let go of that and acknowledge that everyone is struggling to keep their family safe and their children developing. Sometimes there are no good choices, there is only doing the least harm to the most people. Please try and keep that in mind.

Anonymous wrote:BCDC closes if there is a stiff wind. They are opening an hour late tomorrow too.

Anonymous wrote:Nearly every parent I know with young children across multiple states has had covid in the last few months and every single case they (in their own words) have traced back to their kids' daycare.

That isn't because the daycares or the employees are at fault, though they might have been. It's not because of other parents, although that's a factor too. It's the nature of this illness. It's contagious. It spreads. Even in the best of times, kids are germ factories. Put a bunch of them together and they get sick, they pass along illness, etc.

I hope none of you have to see what mis-c does to a five-year-old's heart like my friend in New York. I wish more of you were concerned.

I suspect a lot of you, like the woman who keeps advocating for daycares to drop mask requirements, are used to living in a world that you control. Parenting will never completely be that world. Neither will a global pandemic. You're going to have to let go of that and acknowledge that everyone is struggling to keep their family safe and their children developing. Sometimes there are no good choices, there is only doing the least harm to the most people. Please try and keep that in mind.

Anonymous wrote:My daycare is doing test to return and is not closing down classrooms even when there is a direct covid exposure in the classroom. I wish they would. I wish they would take more precautions for our kids under 5 who can't get vaccinated. And by the way, I'm a single mom, so I have no one else to tag team with. And yes I also have used up my leave. But I agree with the PP who said this is parenting. And we are in a pandemic. And maybe it is a mild case for you or your little one, but others have risks. Not caring about others' risks is how we got to this point in the first place -

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daycare is doing test to return and is not closing down classrooms even when there is a direct covid exposure in the classroom. I wish they would. I wish they would take more precautions for our kids under 5 who can't get vaccinated. And by the way, I'm a single mom, so I have no one else to tag team with. And yes I also have used up my leave. But I agree with the PP who said this is parenting. And we are in a pandemic. And maybe it is a mild case for you or your little one, but others have risks. Not caring about others' risks is how we got to this point in the first place -

You can always pull your own child out for every exposure, and figure out what that means for your job/finances since you have no leave yet. We pulled our kids out during the peak of the delta wave and avoided one exposure. But, this year, now that we are vaccinated, it does not seem worth it. My child's risk is lower than my own (vaccinated & boosted) risk.

With original COVID in spring 2020, I was 100% with you in trying to stop COVID spread, to flatten the curve, to give us time to get vaccines and treatments. But eradicating COVID is not going to happen at this point, and Omicron is beyond contagious. If you are very concerned, you may want to pull from daycare until vaccines arrive for <5 set.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, we are two years into covid now. Facilities should have contingency plans in place to handle three cases without having to shutdown the entire facility. Just close the impacted classrooms.

In case you haven’t been following the news, daycares are facing a severe staffing shortage. It’s not so simple to have a contingency plan in place because they can’t find staff. There are risks associated with choosing daycare during a summer pandemic. You can always get a nanny, but then if your nanny gets Covid, you’ll be out of care as well.

Anonymous wrote:Also, we are two years into covid now. Facilities should have contingency plans in place to handle three cases without having to shutdown the entire facility. Just close the impacted classrooms.

Anonymous wrote:My daycare is doing test to return and is not closing down classrooms even when there is a direct covid exposure in the classroom. I wish they would. I wish they would take more precautions for our kids under 5 who can't get vaccinated. And by the way, I'm a single mom, so I have no one else to tag team with. And yes I also have used up my leave. But I agree with the PP who said this is parenting. And we are in a pandemic. And maybe it is a mild case for you or your little one, but others have risks. Not caring about others' risks is how we got to this point in the first place -