People don't prefer taking taxpayer funds, but if you can't find affordable daycare you can't go to work. Right now, daycare centres can't find anyone to work @ $12/hour so few daycare spaces are open or available.
Schools aren't safe for children who aren't vaccinated because there are few mask mandates in the US. In Canada, both masks and vaccines are now required everywhere.
In Canada, everyone in the schools are masked. No one complains about this stupid shit, and we all go about our business. Vaccine passports are being introduced this week, and I'll download mine to my Apple Wallet. Easy peasy. I don't have to worry about what the vaccine policies or requirements are. There are masks in my purse, and my vaccine passport on my phone.
You people spend more time and energy complaining about useless "freedoms", like mask wearing, instead of helping your friends, neighbours and family to stop the spread and get life back to normal, or what will pass for normal for the next while.
In this "evolve or die" era we're going through now, conservatives seem to prefer death.