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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has your AP been working with your family through the pandemic, away from family through this shitshow?  Taking care of your kids and enabling you to work [b]while must people had their caregivers stay away when risk was so high in March and April[/b]?

Really, I would support an AP in any way you can given how fortunate you are to have a caregiver in your home, and how unfortunate she has been to be living in her employer’s home through all of this. [/quote]

Where are you getting this information that MOST people did this? [/quote]

I would argue that less than half of people with APs, nannies or single-family sitters did without care.  Some did sure, but not 50%; many of us saw hours change, most decreasing while some increased.

I’ve heard of more families who decided to end AP care and switch to an alternative or rematches with an AP with more compatible views surrounding covid than families who just sent the AP to rematch or home and are taking a break.

Most daycare families kept sending their kids, as long as their center was open.  Not that it’s relevant since PP phrased it as caregivers staying away, implying that they were in-home caregivers.

Most preschools have been dl or closed.  Again, not relevant, because caregivers weren’t staying away from the home.

The only in-home caregivers that stayed away for months (and then returned) had one or more of the following reasons:
1. Mismatch with family regarding exposure
2. High risk, family or nanny
3. Caregiver used public transit and couldn’t afford private; family couldn’t or wouldn’t subsidize or do pick up/drop off

Finally, risk was actually lower in March and April.  However, the pandemic was newer, so fear was higher, and we knew less about the virus, which also drove fear higher.  If you look at current numbers and the spread across the country, it was a lot safer in March and April, as long as you weren’t in one of tge big hotspots.[/quote]

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