Are you letting your teen have a friend over to hang out for a bit?

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Anonymous wrote:No. You need to make hard choices and sacrifices for the greater good. You also need to protect your children.

I’m proud that my family is making the harder choice to social distance. Some people don’t have the option to do the right thing (health care aides in nursing homes with families at home; nurses, doctors, hospital staffs; grocery store workers, mail carriers, cops...) Those of us who have the option should stay home and away from other people because essential workers can’t. It’s the only way to flatten the curve.

No hysteria here. Just social responsibility.

THIS

+2 Why can’t people understand this? More importantly, why don’t they care?

Sorry, not living like the Bubble Boy. Look at what is actually happening and you will see that there is zero need for that.

Stop being an idiot. You’re making excuses for yourself. There is not one expert in the country who thinks that your teen/tween seeing friends is a good idea. End of discussion.

Lots of DCUM parents of teens have lost control or are afraid to spend time with their kids. Letting them see friends is easy. Sad but so true.

There is pretty much zero risk in having a couple of neighbors over to sit outside and chat.

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OP- I’m letting my teen take walks with one friend Whose family is seeing only us.. Or bike. That seems ok to me. DCUM will probably erupt with horror now.

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Anonymous wrote:No. You need to make hard choices and sacrifices for the greater good. You also need to protect your children.

I’m proud that my family is making the harder choice to social distance. Some people don’t have the option to do the right thing (health care aides in nursing homes with families at home; nurses, doctors, hospital staffs; grocery store workers, mail carriers, cops...) Those of us who have the option should stay home and away from other people because essential workers can’t. It’s the only way to flatten the curve.

No hysteria here. Just social responsibility.

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+2 Why can’t people understand this? More importantly, why don’t they care?

Sorry, not living like the Bubble Boy. Look at what is actually happening and you will see that there is zero need for that.

Stop being an idiot. You’re making excuses for yourself. There is not one expert in the country who thinks that your teen/tween seeing friends is a good idea. End of discussion.

Even the damned experts are getting together in not so small groups. Why aren't they teleconferencing from their own isolation tanks? Nancy Pelosi is turning 80 in a few days and she is not maintaining any illusion of social distance.

They are essential personnel. Your teen is NOT.

Those essential personnel are doing nothing to reduce their risk of contracting this virus. If they all get sick at the same time what do you think is going to happen to this country?

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I’m letting my teen take walks with one friend Whose family is seeing only us.. Or bike. That seems ok to me. DCUM will probably erupt with horror now.

It is FINE. And the only people saying it's not fine are some crazy OCD germaphobes on DCUM who think opening their mail is "risky".

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Anonymous wrote:No. You need to make hard choices and sacrifices for the greater good. You also need to protect your children.

I’m proud that my family is making the harder choice to social distance. Some people don’t have the option to do the right thing (health care aides in nursing homes with families at home; nurses, doctors, hospital staffs; grocery store workers, mail carriers, cops...) Those of us who have the option should stay home and away from other people because essential workers can’t. It’s the only way to flatten the curve.

No hysteria here. Just social responsibility.

THIS

+2 Why can’t people understand this? More importantly, why don’t they care?

Sorry, not living like the Bubble Boy. Look at what is actually happening and you will see that there is zero need for that.

Stop being an idiot. You’re making excuses for yourself. There is not one expert in the country who thinks that your teen/tween seeing friends is a good idea. End of discussion.

Lots of DCUM parents of teens have lost control or are afraid to spend time with their kids. Letting them see friends is easy. Sad but so true.

Way to rationalize your hysterical overreaction.

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Your teen/tween is not essential personnel. Their schools and sports are closed for a reason. They do not need to socialize.


Everyone knows it. We know who is just too lazy or scared to enforce it.

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I’m letting my teen take walks with one friend Whose family is seeing only us.. Or bike. That seems ok to me. DCUM will probably erupt with horror now.

The experts on TV are basically engaging in a negotiation with the rest of society. The most stringent social distancing measures are their opening bid, basically. But they know that they’ll probably get society to agree to 70% of that opening bid.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like there are two camps on this thread:

People who are following all current recommendations and laws currently in place in their respective jurisdictions.

People who want to scold the first group into engaging in some more stringent social distancing behavior, based solely on their own personal opinions.

I live in DC, and the current recommendations allow socializing in small groups. Talk to the Mayor if you want that to change.

I live in CA and we are on shelter in place. If people had followed the recommendations to begin with maybe we wouldn't have had to do this.

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My friends' kids are seniors. They are just leaving the house and sneaking out if their parents try to crack down.

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Of course not.

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Anonymous wrote:My friends' kids are seniors. They are just leaving the house and sneaking out if their parents try to crack down.

Yup

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It’s fairly obvious that a handful of people are stoking the overwhelming majority of the hysteria on DCUM right now. SF Bay area poster, I’m looking at you.

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Anonymous wrote:My friends' kids are seniors. They are just leaving the house and sneaking out if their parents try to crack down.

Another example of poor parenting.
“My kids won’t listen, so I just let them do whatever.”
What????


I have jokingly threatened to take my moms keys if she doesn’t stay home. I wouldn’t be joking with my kids.

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Anonymous wrote:My friends' kids are seniors. They are just leaving the house and sneaking out if their parents try to crack down.

Yup

Parents who lost control of their teens and their teens lost respect for them. My parents were big on teaching us connection and societal responsibility. I know we wouldn’t have snuck out during a pandemic. I’m teaching my 13 and 11 year old the same. It’s not just about them not getting the virus but about lowering the risk to for everyone.

Yes they hate it. Yes they complain. I don’t like it either but it is what it is.

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This threat is the most contradictory thing I have ever seen. Are you guys really saying small groups are fine because Trump said so but making fun of people for being cautious about grocery stores and deliveries like the CDC recommends?