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I don't know any healthy people literally holed up in their apartments. But most people I know have kids. We still take our kids to school. We still go to th
by bcrosby95 7y ago
I don't know any healthy people literally holed up in their apartments. But most people I know have kids. We still take our kids to school. We still go to the grocery store. We still take them to soccer practice. Even the most paranoid person I know is not holed up in their apartment.
What I'm not doing is flying my kids, with my 74 year old mother, so we can go to Disneyworld in Florida. I'm not taking my young children to Disneyland, which is local, because it's an international destination and if we run across a bug they will catch it because young children have no ability to not constantly stick their fingers in their mouth.
We could just say "we aren't going to see grandma anymore" but my sister in law also just had a baby. Should I tell my wife she can't see her newborn nephew because we could transmit it to the grandparents through visits? Or maybe we can just not go to Disneyland for a little bit? I understand that the odds of this chain of events playing out is low. But I would feel really, really stupid if it happened to.
I also talked my mom out of going to Vegas. Why? Because the US has tested damn near no people. If we had been testing aggressively like South Korea I could justify saying "there's been no found cases in Vegas, you should probably be good". Instead I have to say "No found cases in Vegas, no fucking clue what that means".
FWIW, most parents I talk to think this is a big nothing. One is keeping their trip to Italy this month. Another is immune compromised and as of yesterday, still flying into Seattle for some reason. I think it's a poor choice.
- cma 7y agoOne county in Washington is already recommending no one over 65 (or is it 60?) go outside.