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Y’all, I read this, and I just about spat out my drink. Priority #1 is apparently to “reopen community settings where children are cared for, including K-12 schools, daycares, and locally attended summer camps” 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/14/cdc-fema-have-created-plan-reopen-america-heres-what-it-says/
Believe me, I get how important childcare is to working parents. But, like, did nobody put this through a basic sanity check? These are KIDS. They don’t wash their hands right and they pick their noses and they literally lick doorknobs. 2/
About once a year, I get an email from some teacher or other that lice is going around the classroom. Think about that: your children are so bad at hygiene and distance that they SPREAD LITERAL BUGS TO EACH OTHER. How many times have your kids brought home lice from school? 3/
Now imagine that instead they’re spreading asymptomatic lice that can kill you.
We know good and damn well that schools and day cares are reservoirs of strep and flu and everything else. And they can’t check fevers/coughs because kids are often asymptomatic. 4/
We know good and damn well that schools and day cares are reservoirs of strep and flu and everything else. And they can’t check fevers/coughs because kids are often asymptomatic. 4/
But sure, let’s start our coronavirus reopening there! Sounds great!
Did they, like, ask even a single solitary working mom about this plan? Because literally every mom I know would tell them this is BATSHIT INSANE.
(Ivanka doesn’t count, nannies != daycare.) 5/
Did they, like, ask even a single solitary working mom about this plan? Because literally every mom I know would tell them this is BATSHIT INSANE.
(Ivanka doesn’t count, nannies != daycare.) 5/
Like, we literally talk about this at parties. “OMG, so sorry I missed the birthday party, the kids all brought home that stomach flu and we were all puking for days”.
We literally go to work sick ourselves so we can save PTO for the crud the baby brings home from daycare. 6/
We literally go to work sick ourselves so we can save PTO for the crud the baby brings home from daycare. 6/
New rule: before you come up with a brilliant idea, ask a mom. Just one mom, any mom you can find.
But apparently this administration can’t manage to do that, so they’re going to kill us all.
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But apparently this administration can’t manage to do that, so they’re going to kill us all.
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Coda, because I'm not done being irate:
The CDC says coronavirus can travel on shoes. We should therefore definitely, definitely start reopening the economy with people who spend lots of time rolling around on the floor. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200414/cdc-covid-19-can-spread-13-feet-travel-on-shoes
The CDC says coronavirus can travel on shoes. We should therefore definitely, definitely start reopening the economy with people who spend lots of time rolling around on the floor. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200414/cdc-covid-19-can-spread-13-feet-travel-on-shoes
Sorry, y’all, still mad.
Tiny humans spew so many bodily fluids that we commonly give monogrammed fluid-wiping cloths as baby gifts. Probably can’t get them to wear tiny monogrammed face masks either.
No way to distance from a baby, so maybe let’s hold off on the daycares?
Tiny humans spew so many bodily fluids that we commonly give monogrammed fluid-wiping cloths as baby gifts. Probably can’t get them to wear tiny monogrammed face masks either.
No way to distance from a baby, so maybe let’s hold off on the daycares?
