Are you going to stop going to museums and public areas?

[Anonymous]

I'm on the fence. I am not scheduling new activities, and when we have free time, I'm inclined to pick outdoor, or at home activities over museums. But I have some outings pre-planned, and am not cancelling them.

I figure we are going to get this eventually, and while I'm being careful, I'm not putting all of our lives on pause.

Also, part of me is anticipating a larger shut down in the near future, and I'm saving our "arts & crafts" as one poster noted, for those days and getting out and about while we still can.

[Anonymous]

Gave up my entry to the National Children's Museum this weekend and I'll avoid other indoor play spaces. Thankfully, with decent weather finally on the way, we can still go to the park and run around and ride bikes, etc. A little leery of playground facilities, but I'm not ready to give them up completely. I'm avoiding crowds, but still trying to get out of the house and get some fresh air. Monitoring the situation as it evolves.

[Anonymous]

We stoped.

[Anonymous]

If your kid is going to school or daycare, the idea that not going to other public spaces is going to do anything is sort of crazy.

I go to work on the bus and/or metro. I travel through Union Station every day. I work in a field where I interact w/ lots of foreigners and people who travel extensively. The park is not what's going to do my kids in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gave up my entry to the National Children's Museum this weekend and I'll avoid other indoor play spaces. Thankfully, with decent weather finally on the way, we can still go to the park and run around and ride bikes, etc. A little leery of playground facilities, but I'm not ready to give them up completely. I'm avoiding crowds, but still trying to get out of the house and get some fresh air. Monitoring the situation as it evolves.

Why are you wary of playground facilities? The virus doesn't survive very long on surfaces.

[Anonymous]

I won?t deliberately thumb my nose at sensible requests by the CDC to avoid public places if it comes to that, but until there?s a moratorium I?m not doing anything different aside from hand washing and sanitizing as much as possible. And if there is a moratorium, museums and other venues will shut down anyway so there?s no choice to be made. If it?s outside like a park, though, I?m not avoiding it. I just don?t see the sense with this particular virus.

[Anonymous]

I think we are all going to get it unless we stay in our houses for the next few years which I am not willing to do.

So we are carrying on as usual. I always tried for all to wash hands even before this.

[Anonymous]

^^ I do follow the general CDC rules. I won?t go to China / Iran right now

[Anonymous]

Not us. Kids are going to preschool/daycare and so it's not like we have the option of keeping them at home. So why self-quarantined ourselves in other places?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gave up my entry to the National Children's Museum this weekend and I'll avoid other indoor play spaces. Thankfully, with decent weather finally on the way, we can still go to the park and run around and ride bikes, etc. A little leery of playground facilities, but I'm not ready to give them up completely. I'm avoiding crowds, but still trying to get out of the house and get some fresh air. Monitoring the situation as it evolves.

Why are you wary of playground facilities? The virus doesn't survive very long on surfaces.

Is a week not that long?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gave up my entry to the National Children's Museum this weekend and I'll avoid other indoor play spaces. Thankfully, with decent weather finally on the way, we can still go to the park and run around and ride bikes, etc. A little leery of playground facilities, but I'm not ready to give them up completely. I'm avoiding crowds, but still trying to get out of the house and get some fresh air. Monitoring the situation as it evolves.

Why are you wary of playground facilities? The virus doesn't survive very long on surfaces.

It lasts between a few hours and several days according to most research. Definitely long enough to transmit easily from one person to the next.

I've always been wary of playground facilities anyway - no one EVER cleans them, and while yes, many get natural sunlight and/or rain, that's not enough to really sanitize in my opinion.

I don't think this virus is any different. Your kid certainly might catch it from the monkey bars, same as they might a bounce house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gave up my entry to the National Children's Museum this weekend and I'll avoid other indoor play spaces. Thankfully, with decent weather finally on the way, we can still go to the park and run around and ride bikes, etc. A little leery of playground facilities, but I'm not ready to give them up completely. I'm avoiding crowds, but still trying to get out of the house and get some fresh air. Monitoring the situation as it evolves.

Why are you wary of playground facilities? The virus doesn't survive very long on surfaces.

Which is why I'm not avoiding them yet, but I've seen enough green snot-nosed kids using the playground to not be entirely comfortable with it. Of course, I also see green snot-nosed kids showing up in the daycare classroom, but I have to go to work (until told otherwise); we're not absolutely required to be anywhere on the weekend.

[Anonymous]

My friend in Seattle who has it thinks she probably caught it during her weekend volunteer gig at a museum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for staying home so my family can enjoy without crowds!

You won't be so cavalier if your or your kids get coronavirus, will you? Too bad you have no common sense.

It's not about getting coronavirus per se. It's about overloading our hospital system with a too-rapid spread. People do not seem to understand, EXPONENTIAL GROWTH. If the hospitals are full and caregivers are overworked/ sick, then you're not going to be getting the care you need for other medical issues as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we are all going to get it unless we stay in our houses for the next few years which I am not willing to do.

So we are carrying on as usual. I always tried for all to wash hands even before this.

It is NOT about getting it. It's about slowing the spread, since our hospital system will be overwhelmed if we don't do something to prevent this. That means no hospital services for you or your family if you are to need it for other non-coronavirus related reasons. Please educate yourself on the rate of transmission of this virus and what it means for our healthcare system capacity. Public health officials who study this for a living have done the math. Please follow their recommendations.