Are You Worried About Coronavirus?

[LittleExplorers]

I am more concerned with others freaking out. We need masks for working on our project property and are no longer able to find them. It's annoying, but I understand why some have fears. It's new and media is hyping it up.

I worked outside the home during the h1n1 stuff. I was on a comittee to prepare our buildings etc. We had a huge budget for hand sanitizer and the like. A year later, all that sanitizer expires unused except for a few bottles.

[sahm1225]

Does anyone have a clause in their contract about what happens if there is a pandemic and we have to close? Would love to see how it’s worded..
If we were forced to shut down that would be a big financial hit

[Cat Herder]

This link should just about cover any prepping daycares need to do. I do want to point out number 8, here. Cough. Cough.

"Use seasonal influenza as an opportunity to practice preparedness and response efforts."

https://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/Children-and-Disasters/Pages/Preparing-Child-Care-Programs-for-Pandemic-Influenza.aspx

[MomBoss]

No. Theres something new every year.
H1n1, Zika, ebola....

[Valerie928]

No. Theres something new every year.
H1n1, Zika, ebola....

Yep, exactly. And there will always be "something"

[Snowmom]

I'm freaked.
I'm freakish about a lot of viruses though. I've gotten the nastiest of the nasty from being in daycare Then being that it's a respiratory illness, it makes it even tougher to deal with since I have severe asthma.

If it comes down to a state of emergency here, I will close.
I don't care if I lose families over it. I may just stay closed anyway.
Yes, hand washing and simple preventative measures go a long way in avoiding viruses... but we all know how little daycare families care about preventing the spread of illnesses.

[DaveA]

To the same extent I’m worried about colds, influenza, strep,etc. Otherwise not really. At the point this is probably the 50th “OMG were all gonna die!” thing in the last few years.

[Second Home]

That's kinda extreme. I mean the virus has been around for 1 month and there are only 15 infected/ quarantined/ almost all recovered US persons. .

15 plus the 45 that came off the cruise ship / flown back to the U.S. So there are currently 60 people infected.

[Valerie928]

15 plus the 45 that came off the cruise ship / flown back to the U.S. So there are currently 60 people infected.

Those 45 are not infected.

[BumbleBee]

Honestly, no.

[e.j.]

I'm not panicking but I am concerned. I think it's fear of the unknown: How will it play out here in the US and will I or anyone I know be personally affected by it.

It'd be nice if we could expect everyone to do their part to stem the spread but after being a day care provider for as many years as I have been, I'm not counting on it. Wash your hands? Cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough? Stay home when you're sick? Don't try to stay and chit chat at pick up time when your hacking and coughing all over my playroom and kitchen? Yeah...sure.

[Ariana]

I think people hear the word "Pandemic" and panic thinking it means something it does not. It does not mean immediate global infection, hide in your basement, bring out your dead.

It simply means "the worldwide spread of a new disease."

CoV19 is just that, new. Novel. Novel means new. Novel COVID-19. New coronavirus from bats 2019, mutated from new coronavirus from bats 2002 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS= severe acute respiratory syndrome.

MERS= Middle East respiratory syndrome. But it came from camels. Also a novel=new virus. (2015-ish)

YES!! Every year we have a “flu pandemic” but the flu is not new so they don’t call it that!

[flying_babyb]

swine flu, h1n1.... This happens every year. Am i little concerned? Yep cause if i get it, ill be the one to get Pneumonia. But Ive had Pneumonia before and lived. I'm more worried about taking time off being sick!

[Josiegirl]

I wouldn't be normally except my dh works at the high school with a dorm program where kids go overseas all the time. They offer trips abroad and some kids were on a trip to Italy recently that got brought back after only a couple of days(after there was a case detected in Italy). They're taking extra measures to ensure all the health precautions that they can but honestly, who's to say 1 germ somewhere isn't going to create the scary havoc that seems to be unfolding. And my dh loves to talk about stuff like that so now he's bringing up things like who's disinfecting the buses, the planes, used for transport, what about all the drivers, etc., etc.
So I sit here, trying hard not to worry, and listen to him go on and on.
I think this will make its rounds like every other virus of the year, they'll develop a vaccine, and people need to treat it like every other sickness that they could contract and possibly die from. Stay as healthy as you possibly can and use all the smart precautions we've been taught in dealing with children all these years.

Meanwhile, I'll just stay under my blankets with my nose in a book.

[CeriBear]

Concerned yes, but not freaking out worried or stressed. I’m simply going to take the same precautions that I do for influenza A and B.