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Anonymous wrote:Our daycare has had to quarantine 2 classrooms — one over the summer and one in the last week.

Sounds like your daycare isn’t taking good precautions.

They have rules they have to follow. Will depend on the clients/staff they have and how good they are at enforcing them. Maybe your daycare is overlooking things.

So you’re saying my daycare has tons of outbreaks that aren’t being reported? Yeah, not happening. Contact tracing is good in MD — they’d be picked up.

My previous comment was probably unfair — the daycare is probably being careful. The families are being idiotic.

NP. It's not that your comment was "probably" unfair. It's that it WAS 100% unfair and untrue. There are many studies that show it isn't transmission happening in schools or day cares, but rather families taking risks and making bad choices. You may retract your erroneous and baseless statement now. We'll wait.

... I did retract it, when I said “it was probably unfair.” I revised it and said the daycare was probably being careful and that the families are being idiotic.

It wasn't "probably" anything. It was definitely and certainly off-base and inaccurate. Demonstrably so. Are you a politician or a Real Housewife with that wishy-washy, no-responsibility taking "admission"? Are you the type to say "I'm sorry IF I hurt your feelings..."?

DP. You sound unhinged and insane, time to let it go. Are you a daycare worker? Lol

Definitely look for a smaller daycare and in a smaller building. Ours has been open since August and so far so good (fingers crossed!).

People learn to answer the question asked, do not understand the question? OP had ask about solutions not you unwanted judgment.

We took our DC out of daycare because as you can see from the answers above people lack the basic intelligence to answer a question. It's not about you and your issues, it's about helping others. DUH!

Anonymous wrote:Why are you shouting when of course they should and must shut down if there is even a suspected case? Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew more shutdowns would happen during cold and flu season. What used to be "oh no, Little Billy has a cold, let's let them know we'll be out today" has turned into "let them know that Billy is coughing so we're getting him tested and they can shut down Room 5 until we have results."

Duh. If you had thought this through, you would have lined up a nanny by now if it is so important to you to have daily care.

Duh LMAO get over yourself Nancy!

Why are you shouting when of course they should and must shut down if there is even a suspected case? Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew more shutdowns would happen during cold and flu season. What used to be "oh no, Little Billy has a cold, let's let them know we'll be out today" has turned into "let them know that Billy is coughing so we're getting him tested and they can shut down Room 5 until we have results."

Duh. If you had thought this through, you would have lined up a nanny by now if it is so important to you to have daily care.

I work in daycare and from my unscientific Poll, about 15 in-home daycare‘s have been affected by Covid but only two of them were triggered by the provider. The rest of them were families bringing it in to the daycare. The ones triggered by providers were because their spouses had come in to contact with somebody with covid. Masks are affective if you are out grocery shopping or only having quick interactions with people. In a closed setting like a daycare, school or office, the CDC says you were considered exposed, even if you are wearing masks, if you have been near a person for at least 15 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:Our daycare has had to quarantine 2 classrooms — one over the summer and one in the last week.

Sounds like your daycare isn’t taking good precautions.

They have rules they have to follow. Will depend on the clients/staff they have and how good they are at enforcing them. Maybe your daycare is overlooking things.

So you’re saying my daycare has tons of outbreaks that aren’t being reported? Yeah, not happening. Contact tracing is good in MD — they’d be picked up.

My previous comment was probably unfair — the daycare is probably being careful. The families are being idiotic.

LOL. Contact tracing is not "good" in the US or in Maryland. People are not reporting exposures because they don't want to be inconvenienced. There are no teeth behind contact tracers who DO try to make contact and people blow them off with no consequences and continue to go out every day in public because "OMG WE HAVE TO LIVE OUR LIVES!"

Contract tracing where I live (NC triangle region) is a joke. Someone at work got covid and it took the health department ten days to notify the people she exposed at work. Luckily for us, she was forthcoming about the exposure and told everyone herself, even though she had no obligation to do so.

OP, I'm in a different situation because I can telework, but just dropping in to say please remember to use the FFCRA sick leave if you can. That's the one at 2/3 pay, for covid-related use only, and it expires at the ens of December.

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Anonymous wrote:Our daycare has had to quarantine 2 classrooms — one over the summer and one in the last week.

Sounds like your daycare isn’t taking good precautions.

They have rules they have to follow. Will depend on the clients/staff they have and how good they are at enforcing them. Maybe your daycare is overlooking things.

So you’re saying my daycare has tons of outbreaks that aren’t being reported? Yeah, not happening. Contact tracing is good in MD — they’d be picked up.

My previous comment was probably unfair — the daycare is probably being careful. The families are being idiotic.

LOL. Contact tracing is not "good" in the US or in Maryland. People are not reporting exposures because they don't want to be inconvenienced. There are no teeth behind contact tracers who DO try to make contact and people blow them off with no consequences and continue to go out every day in public because "OMG WE HAVE TO LIVE OUR LIVES!"

This is reality of parenting while working in America. Yes, right now the daycares are closing because of pandemic, but, even without the pandemic, your kids catch bugs from other kids and they are forever sick at home. Then the same issue starts - who will be home with a sick child.

This is inherent in daycares with lackadaisical parents who do idiotic things. You have several options.

1. Look into the law. If your childcare closes, you’re entitled to up to 12 weeks off.
2. Look for another large center which has only had a few brief closures, and make sure they can clearly explain the quarantine from other classes.
3. Look for an in-home daycare, and ask to speak to other current parents. Get the closure rate from them, NOT the owner.
4. Look for an agency, to provide backup card last minute, and stick with your center.
5. Look for a part-time nanny (shoot for a minimum of 15 hours per week) who is willing to go full-time+ last minute (it will likely be extremely expensive) when the daycare closes.
6. Bite the bullet and switch to a full time nanny, live-in or live-out.
7. If you have the space, consider an AP. If you are upfront with them, explain that you will schedule them for full hours every week, but as long as daycare is open, they will only need to do pick up, drop off and minimal help at home? You should have several interested.

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare has had to quarantine 2 classrooms — one over the summer and one in the last week.

Sounds like your daycare isn’t taking good precautions.

Or maybe yours isn't.

It’s so hard! We get the call the night before the two week shutdowns. Impossible.

We have a nanny starting next week. Seriously we could take the sudden shutdowns anymore and the weeks of subsequent testing.

We’ve been at the current inhome daycare since July and they haven’t closed a single time. We had to keep DC at home for a week due to a virus but no one else was affected. They have taken a 3-week break for Christmas and New Year though.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s that, or complete closure, or constant exposure risks by keeping it open.

You need to have plan as if daycare could be closed at any time, any day. Yes, it’s terrible. No, it won’t be resolved any time soon.

Get the vaccine as soon as you can and encourage others to do the same - it’s the only way to shorten your purgatory.

We have the option for vaccination, the other families how are the uncertain variables. Great advice, looking for more of a schedule based personal viewpoint.

Thanks for not being an emotional unhinged person. This thread was for constructive creative options not to bash each other. Everyone is going through hard times but tearing each other down will no help anyone. Why are we not pulling together and providing helpful tips on what you found to work for your family which other may be eternally grateful for?

NP. If you want an unemotional, supportive thread, you might want to take the caps lock down instead of shouting in your title. You might want to be rational, thoughtful and reasonable yourself instead of blaming day cares which clearly can literally not operate normally and predictably during an abnormal and unpredictable time.

You trying to shout and irrationally blame and then backpedal and whine for reasonable and supportive responses is laughable. Do better.

Sorry OP, the only women on here are overwork and unsexed. Who wants to be around these negative women constantly? Not their husbands LOL. Keep up your positivity!

To answer your question... We have hired a part time nanny along with daycare. This allows us to ensure there is away care at all times. Good luck.

Show me how OP did not literally set the tone of this thread, then complain about the tone.

But hey, don't let a little thing like logic throw you off your baseless, mysoginistic narrative.