No it’s not safe and I wish we had less stupid people ignoring all the advice. I guess my wish might come true but endangers others too.
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POLL Do you think it would be SAFE to go over to a relative's house?
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Well, we're ok with having our son come over. He's a bachelor, and has been working from home for almost a month. I've been doing the same for 2 weeks, and my wife has been out of school for 3 weeks. She does our grocery shopping, our son does his own. That's all the regular outside contacts we have. If there's a risk, I think it's very low, but I realize it would not be impossible for one of us to get COVID and pass it to each other.
I don't understand why people would think it would be any safer to go to a relative's house than a stranger's during a pandemic.
On a related note, my son lives in the city and we want him to come "home" to the 'burbs. He won't come home due to fear of infecting us, although he has been in self-quarantine since Mar 13, as have we.
We told him we are willing to take the risk, because we are concerned he will not get proper medical care being where he is, if he becomes infected.
While I'm not really asking for the party line here, as a parent I am really concerned for him.
We told him we are willing to take the risk, because we are concerned he will not get proper medical care being where he is, if he becomes infected.
While I'm not really asking for the party line here, as a parent I am really concerned for him.
Rather a tunnel vision question. I certainly did not infer whether it is safer or not, nor did I say anything like that at all. I just wanted to see if anyone felt anything different about possibly visiting a family member versus a friend (or as another person with tunnel vision asked, a mistress).
It is a fair distinction - and a necessary one, when one takes the silly premise of the other, deceptively similar, thread into account - but has given rise to a different, and more nuanced - discussion on the topic.
To be candid, if my parents were still alive, I could see myself very worried and pretty stressed about this, and deeply torn about about the possibility of seeing them, if I was not actually residing with them.