SOUND OFF: Why the province must close child care centres during the COVID-19 pandemic
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(NOTE: Karolyn Hendra initially published this post to Facebook, and has given CFJC Today permission to share it here.)
THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME MEDIA ATTENTION for the real dilemma of whether to close child care centres or work to find safer alternatives for our essential public health frontline professionals. If you want to be involved in this discussion please do so. ECEBC and the CCCF have great talking points to help us unify around some key issues. I and others had a chance to speak on CFJC News Friday and shed some light on the issues from our perspectives. I know in my case I said much more than was shown but we are out there asking to be heard and that’s important work right now. My talking points in support of our associations are below. Use them to talk to people in your sphere of influence if they are helpful.
ECEs I have heard from are saying clearly that they want to do what Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry are asking all British Columbians/Canadians to do “100 per cent; 100 per cent of the time until we are told we can stop” to stop the spread and threat of this pandemic we are all facing.
ECEs can’t do this while centres continue to be open. We feel the pressure and need for our frontline healthcare practitioners to have access to childcare but we also know that centres currently open have the very real potential of contributing to the problem, not solving it.
