When will DC update the travel policy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this really mean that children under the age of 12 cannot travel outside of the DMV without quarantining for 7 days afterwards? How is this not making the news?

Correct. I've heard of a few parents hitting up Council members on this, but there really needs to be a more concerted effort to push back on it and also raise this with the media.

DC is throwing the doors open for tourists to come unvaccinated with no enforcement, but won't let children ride in a car to an Airbnb outside of MD or VA.

This is such a burden on working parents too. The mayor wants every to rush, rush, rush back the office to keep downtown businesses afloat, but no parent can go back to work full-time if they have to quarantine their kid for a week after travel.

It's also ridiculous because some parts of the US have even lower COVID rates than DC. And some people booked travel back when there was a list of states that were exempt like CA - you would think with the expectation that more states would be added to the low-risk list. But instead now ANY travel plans already made are subject to this 7 day quarantine rule.

Unreasonable. I would not blame parents if they refrain from telling the truth and send their kids to school without quarantining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids' school requires us to attest that we are in compliance with the DC travel policy, meaning we can't travel outside of the DMV unless we quarantine for 3-5 days and take a test before returning to school. We'd like to visit family over memorial day in NJ. Rates are down, vaccinations are up and there has been no change to the policy to reflect that. Any sense of when they will change to a different policy?

It’s a lot easier to just tell people what they want to hear than it is to comply with these ridiculous, erroneous policies these morons come up with.

They want to hear you say “no, I haven’t been anywhere”.

So that’s exactly what you should tell them.

Its amazing the ease with which supposed adults tell the world they're liars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids' school requires us to attest that we are in compliance with the DC travel policy, meaning we can't travel outside of the DMV unless we quarantine for 3-5 days and take a test before returning to school. We'd like to visit family over memorial day in NJ. Rates are down, vaccinations are up and there has been no change to the policy to reflect that. Any sense of when they will change to a different policy?

It’s a lot easier to just tell people what they want to hear than it is to comply with these ridiculous, erroneous policies these morons come up with.

They want to hear you say “no, I haven’t been anywhere”.

So that’s exactly what you should tell them.

Its amazing the ease with which supposed adults tell the world they're liars.

*It's, obviously

[Anonymous]

Wait, so this new guidance is more restrictive in that it (1) requires 2 tests and a 7-day quarantine and (2) appears to apply to ALL domestic travel out of DC, including to MD and VA. (The guidance allows travelers from MD and VA to visit DC but not vice versa?)

Really seems like the game here is to expose your kid to COVID and get a positive test and then you can travel for 90 days and return to school/daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to quibble too much but does anyone know what the difference is between the travel restrictions and the new guidance? Is that just semantics or am I right to maybe consider that the guidance is just a suggestion?

The last Mayor's order lifted the travel restrictions. This is just a recommendation by the health department, nothing more. It's no different than a guidance to not eat undercooked meat or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids' school requires us to attest that we are in compliance with the DC travel policy, meaning we can't travel outside of the DMV unless we quarantine for 3-5 days and take a test before returning to school. We'd like to visit family over memorial day in NJ. Rates are down, vaccinations are up and there has been no change to the policy to reflect that. Any sense of when they will change to a different policy?

It’s a lot easier to just tell people what they want to hear than it is to comply with these ridiculous, erroneous policies these morons come up with.

They want to hear you say “no, I haven’t been anywhere”.

So that’s exactly what you should tell them.

Its amazing the ease with which supposed adults tell the world they're liars.

Up to now, we have followed all the travel guidance quite carefully, keeping our kid home from school for two days after a day trip to another state where we only saw people outside and masked and didn't even spend the night. But I have to say that the new policy, which is significantly more restrictive than the old one at a time when more than 40 percent of the entire city's population has been fully vaccinated, makes it very, very difficult to justify complying, especially in light of the fact that visitors TO D.C. from other states only have to quarantine and test if they develop symptoms while they're here.

If the policy is intended to be a nudge toward vaccination, great; we'd happily vaccinate our kids if we could, but they're under 12.

The city ought to either clarify the rules, if they don't actually intend for them to read the way they do, or explain why it's now rolled out a much more cautious policy -- without exceptions for travel to jurisdictions where case rates are low, exceptions that had been in place all along, until Monday -- at this point in the evolution of the pandemic.