the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, This was released yesterday from NJDOH at a Q&A session regarding whether or not daycares can remain open:
Childcare/Daycare centers should make the call to close themselves. Centers should contact the Department of Children and Families (DCF), who licenses childcare/daycare centers in NJ, for guidance and work with their local health department to assess level of risk in the community. Health Departments do not license childcare/daycare centers.
Shut it down
sure…
Shut it down…
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Stoke the Hysteria.
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Well then what should we do smarty-pants .
“Well then what should we do smarty-pants .”
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The same thing we do at other times when someone gets the flu or has a fever.
Isolate that individual. Don’t let that child come to school for 2 weeks.
Also isolate those at high risk – which in this case is the elderly, not the very young.
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On balance it is not worth destroying peoples lives by causing them to lose their jobs or radically restricting their freedoms for an overreaction to a serious, but not catastrophic medical outbreak.
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