Who are we making these sacrifices for?
A mostly online minority who comes out of the woodwork to shout down the idea of any risk acceptance as equivalent to murder, or any restrictions as no big deal (see the replies to your comment). These people don't even exist in real life, but somehow they are now setting the tone of public discourse and policy. It is literally like if policymakers started reading through the unmoderated comments on news sites in 2005 and started using them as a basis for what we all need to do. We really just need to ignore these people.
She has chosen to make this sacrifice for herself. Perhaps this is an artifact of how we discuss science and risk.
Impact for the immunocompromised is high, as it is for people who have lived full lives. Social distancing works for them. I do not think it works for children, despite being told by the proverbial “science” that it would have no impact on kids.
I’m not going to continue asking my child to make sacrifices for a minority of people who can adapt and respond better than he can. As a two year old, he has missed out on enough.
Who is forcing your wife to shut down her day care, and how? If a subset of parents are uncomfortable sending their kids to day care for the foreseeable future, just tell them to come back when they're comfortable. Did your wife forget that it's her daycare?
You mean like, they did not wanted to get sick themselves and that is somehow horrible from them?
Open daycare is less work for parents.