What are your family and kid COVID19 protocols/restrictions?

[Anonymous]

As for my background: PhD in a biomedical field, and I work in research, but currently WFH full time. My DH is working outside the home 5 days per week. Kids.
are elementary age.

My personal opinion is that we need to be more cautious than current phase 2 allows for. For instance, you couldn't pay me to eat inside a restaurant right now, even at half capacity. I am less cautious about outdoor situations.
Our goal should be to keep cases down so that school can be more in-person this fall.

1) sending them to camp if it opens--no.
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing--yes, we are doing this, but staying only with family in a relatively isolated beach house.
3) considering outdoor playdates--my daughter has done socially distanced walks with friends outside. But mostly she does facetime.
4) playground visits-no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As for my background: PhD in a biomedical field, and I work in research, but currently WFH full time. My DH is working outside the home 5 days per week. Kids.
are elementary age.

My personal opinion is that we need to be more cautious than current phase 2 allows for. For instance, you couldn't pay me to eat inside a restaurant right now, even at half capacity. I am less cautious about outdoor situations.
Our goal should be to keep cases down so that school can be more in-person this fall.

1) sending them to camp if it opens--no.
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing--yes, we are doing this, but staying only with family in a relatively isolated beach house.
3) considering outdoor playdates--my daughter has done socially distanced walks with friends outside. But mostly she does facetime.
4) playground visits-no.

Wait so you’re more ok with outdoor situations, but a playground is a no? What if there’s no one else there? You allow outdoor play dates and visits to family, but not playgrounds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for my background: PhD in a biomedical field, and I work in research, but currently WFH full time. My DH is working outside the home 5 days per week. Kids.
are elementary age.

My personal opinion is that we need to be more cautious than current phase 2 allows for. For instance, you couldn't pay me to eat inside a restaurant right now, even at half capacity. I am less cautious about outdoor situations.
Our goal should be to keep cases down so that school can be more in-person this fall.

1) sending them to camp if it opens--no.
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing--yes, we are doing this, but staying only with family in a relatively isolated beach house.
3) considering outdoor playdates--my daughter has done socially distanced walks with friends outside. But mostly she does facetime.
4) playground visits-no.

Wait so you’re more ok with outdoor situations, but a playground is a no? What if there’s no one else there? You allow outdoor play dates and visits to family, but not playgrounds?

Playgrounds are the definition of high touch surfaces - NP

[Anonymous]

1) sending them to camp if it opens: only outdoor and depending on the camp details and precautions they are taking. Would t send for indoor activities.
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing: yes
3) considering outdoor play dates: yes already doing them regularly with another family.
4) playground visits: the second they open.

[Anonymous]

I likely live in OP's neighborhood.
No adult goes anywhere besides the checkout screen on the computer.
We cannot afford to travel.
We're rational enough to decide that camps, outdoor playdates, and playgrounds are not going to happen for our family until 2021.
We can't really go outside too often, because OP's kids and our mutual neighbors' kids, are running and scootering around without masks, with their distancing vaguely managed from afar with a wave of the wine glass because times are tough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
1) sending them to camp if it opens
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing
3) considering outdoor playdates
4) playground visits

We have three kid, ages 3-7. We are both attorneys. I'm working from home and DH is working from a private office. We are seeing DH's parents, plus his sibling and her kids without any restrictions. Also, we have a babysitter from a family that is being relatively careful. We do curbside pickup for groceries and for takeout when possible. We socialize outdoors only, at 6+ feet.

1) No. Hence the babysitter.
2) No. The only family we might visit this summer are in a more tightly locked down state.
3) Yes, but talking and playing only at a distance with adult oversight.
4) No.
3)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
1) sending them to camp if it opens
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing
3) considering outdoor playdates
4) playground visits

We have three kid, ages 3-7. We are both attorneys. I'm working from home and DH is working from a private office. We are seeing DH's parents, plus his sibling and her kids without any restrictions. Also, we have a babysitter from a family that is being relatively careful. We do curbside pickup for groceries and for takeout when possible. We socialize outdoors only, at 6+ feet.

1) No. Hence the babysitter.
2) No. The only family we might visit this summer are in a more tightly locked down state.
3) Yes, but talking and playing only at a distance with adult oversight.
4) No.
3)

Self contradictory in true lawyerly fashion. Your kids are already having play dates with their cousins!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are a physician and a biomedical researcher. We are both going to work, wearing masks as required. Our kids play with children from 2 other families in the neighborhood. We’ve been to one cookout with a third family (outdoors but not distanced). We go to the store whenever we need something, wearing masks and washing our hands when we return. We exercise outdoors without masks. We will probably visit family out of state soon as we have an ill family member who may not be around much longer. We decided to skip camp this summer but will send our kids to school in the fall if it’s in person.

We are not physicians but this is what my family is doing too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for my background: PhD in a biomedical field, and I work in research, but currently WFH full time. My DH is working outside the home 5 days per week. Kids.
are elementary age.

My personal opinion is that we need to be more cautious than current phase 2 allows for. For instance, you couldn't pay me to eat inside a restaurant right now, even at half capacity. I am less cautious about outdoor situations.
Our goal should be to keep cases down so that school can be more in-person this fall.

1) sending them to camp if it opens--no.
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing--yes, we are doing this, but staying only with family in a relatively isolated beach house.
3) considering outdoor playdates--my daughter has done socially distanced walks with friends outside. But mostly she does facetime.
4) playground visits-no.

Wait so you’re more ok with outdoor situations, but a playground is a no? What if there’s no one else there? You allow outdoor play dates and visits to family, but not playgrounds?

Playgrounds are the definition of high touch surfaces - NP

So that’s why there are tons of outbreaks in the preschools, where playgrounds have been open the whole time. Oh wait ... there haven’t been any.

[Anonymous]

I’ve done both indoor and outdoor play dates and have since May. 3 families so far. All of us mostly working at home, but all of us also have to occasionally go into our offices for classified or essential work - anywhere from 2-3 days a month to 2-3 days a week . Visited playgrounds this weekend. Would do a day camp if it was open, not sure about overnight camps though. Would not eat inside a restaurant just yet or attend in-person church services. Would visit relatives in other states.

[Anonymous]

1 lawyer/1 SAHP kids 5-8

1) sending them to camp if it opens - NO
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing - YES, if the family is distancing
3) considering outdoor playdates - YES, currently doing these but keeping kids distant. Only 1-2 families
4) playground visits - NO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
1) sending them to camp if it opens
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing
3) considering outdoor playdates
4) playground visits

We have three kid, ages 3-7. We are both attorneys. I'm working from home and DH is working from a private office. We are seeing DH's parents, plus his sibling and her kids without any restrictions. Also, we have a babysitter from a family that is being relatively careful. We do curbside pickup for groceries and for takeout when possible. We socialize outdoors only, at 6+ feet.

1) No. Hence the babysitter.
2) No. The only family we might visit this summer are in a more tightly locked down state.
3) Yes, but talking and playing only at a distance with adult oversight.
4) No.
3)

Self contradictory in true lawyerly fashion. Your kids are already having play dates with their cousins!

Oh please, it was all written in the same post. I think it's clear what we are doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for my background: PhD in a biomedical field, and I work in research, but currently WFH full time. My DH is working outside the home 5 days per week. Kids.
are elementary age.

My personal opinion is that we need to be more cautious than current phase 2 allows for. For instance, you couldn't pay me to eat inside a restaurant right now, even at half capacity. I am less cautious about outdoor situations.
Our goal should be to keep cases down so that school can be more in-person this fall.

1) sending them to camp if it opens--no.
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing--yes, we are doing this, but staying only with family in a relatively isolated beach house.
3) considering outdoor playdates--my daughter has done socially distanced walks with friends outside. But mostly she does facetime.
4) playground visits-no.

Wait so you’re more ok with outdoor situations, but a playground is a no? What if there’s no one else there? You allow outdoor play dates and visits to family, but not playgrounds?

Playgrounds are the definition of high touch surfaces - NP

So that’s why there are tons of outbreaks in the preschools, where playgrounds have been open the whole time. Oh wait ... there haven’t been any.

opened to a limited number of the same kids who are probably being checked for fevers daily and the equipment is probably wiped down regularly. Very different then sharing with hundreds of different kids assuming a busy weekend playground and no cleaning.

[Anonymous]

We have three kids, 8, 6, and 4. Both parents working from home FT, engineer and social scientist.

1) sending them to camp if it opens - yes
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing - possibly, depending on the family and how careful they are
3) considering outdoor playdates - yes, already doing these these
4) playground visits - yes

We're not doing restaurants or salons or anything indoors beyond once weekly grocery store trips and have no plans to anytime soon.

[Anonymous]

One kid, age 10:

1) sending them to camp if it opens: yes, an outdoor half day tennis camp
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing: maybe later in the summer. Will look at cases and status at that time.
3) considering outdoor play dates: yes already doing that with three families.
4) playground visits: no. He's old enough not to need that. He can go to a soccer field to use the goal with a friend.