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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone take a deep breath.  There was at least one agency that told au pairs to look into the child-care provider angle. And... I am sure some jurisdictions are too busy trying to vaccinate people to worry about stipulating every carve out so... many, many au pairs got the shot(s), including my own. I was frustrated at first. Her main goal was to be able to go on her travel month while others are afraid of dying, but... the hope is that is one less person spreading it and closer to herd immunity at large.  The number of shots will be increasing greatly in the coming weeks.  We'll have more worries about people deciding not to get it because of a political stance.

It doesn't matter if they are a "foreigner" or not. They are here on a visa, pay taxes and can spread it like everyone else. They saw a loophole and jumped through it.  [/quote]

Not a really a loop-hole. Are you arguing nannies and au pairs are NOT providing child-care? Nutty. [/quote]

So are stay at home parents?  Shouldn't they be on the list equal to APs, if not higher?[/quote]

It is a loophole.  Allowing teachers and child-care providers to get the shot was meant to help open schools and daycares.  Au pairs are at home with one family and not at the same risk as a teacher in a classroom with 15 kids or a daycare provider working with kids so young they may not be required to wear masks.  Theoretically, there is nearly little need for my au pair to leave the house.  I do the food shopping so her risk level is low. The clerk at the grocery store or bus driver certainly should have had priority over a typical au pair. HOWEVER, I understand that the county/state didn't want to have to deal with exemptions and thus left it on the honor system. Just focus on the next month and hopefully more vaccines in the system.  [/quote]

Absolutely not a loophole. Nannies and APs are dealing with a population that cannot be vaccinated (children). Nannies and APs go to parks and outdoor activities where other children congregate - and children are not reliable mask wearers. States could have excluded nannies - and did not - because they realize that they are at risk or b/c nannies/APs are at higher risk b/c of factors associated with skin color/ethnic origin.[/quote]

Nannies are APs are dealing with children as are ALL PARENTS.  But they didn't put us higher on the priority list.  The difference is nannies are going home to their "own" families while APs are living with the same family.  There is zero … ZERO... reason for APs to get a vaccine ahead of someone more vulnerable.  The regulations may make it legal, fine.  But everyone arguing that their AP needed it so they can go travel or whatever...that's juts BS.[/quote]

A lot of these stereotypes about APs are rooted deeply in racism and sexism. So gross. [/quote]

Last time I checked, many au pairs are White European???[/quote]

What does this have to do with racism?  If anything, nannies around here are more likely to be from countries that experience racism and I fully support them getting the vacciine!
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Well, APs are statistically coming from the same or similar countries as most nannies. And, yes, a lot of the rhetoric/rage against APs is b/c most of them are WOC. [/quote]

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