Currently the CDC allows unvaccinated foreign travelers to skip quarantine here but requires quarantine for domestic travel for children under 5 who cannot be vaccinated here. I can understand there may be some arguments around required testing for international travel or the likely circumstances leading to international vs. domestic travel. I may have also missed something. All that said, this feels like a test case for many themes you write about (1) arbitrary rules that don't reflect a physical world model (2) punishing children excessively (3) punishing the type of people who would follow the rules and quarantine (or who worry about children "outing" them to daycare), etc. In "the war" maybe this could be a test case to see if public attention could drive change? I am biased because my family and most of my friends are currently having to choose between visiting family and having daycare when returning. Perhaps a less motivated reasoning me would wish for consistency in stringency -- though I agree with your 'after times' approach.
Hard to understand how the CDC can say "Based on the potential difficulty that self-quarantine may pose to children under 18 years of age especially when accompanied by a vaccinated parent or guardian who is not required to self-quarantine, CDC has determined that self-quarantine should not be required" but then expect kids to self-quarantine in other circumstances.
Currently the CDC allows unvaccinated foreign travelers to skip quarantine here but requires quarantine for domestic travel for children under 5 who cannot be vaccinated here. I can understand there may be some arguments around required testing for international travel or the likely circumstances leading to international vs. domestic travel. I may have also missed something. All that said, this feels like a test case for many themes you write about (1) arbitrary rules that don't reflect a physical world model (2) punishing children excessively (3) punishing the type of people who would follow the rules and quarantine (or who worry about children "outing" them to daycare), etc. In "the war" maybe this could be a test case to see if public attention could drive change? I am biased because my family and most of my friends are currently having to choose between visiting family and having daycare when returning. Perhaps a less motivated reasoning me would wish for consistency in stringency -- though I agree with your 'after times' approach.
Hard to understand how the CDC can say "Based on the potential difficulty that self-quarantine may pose to children under 18 years of age especially when accompanied by a vaccinated parent or guardian who is not required to self-quarantine, CDC has determined that self-quarantine should not be required" but then expect kids to self-quarantine in other circumstances.