Am I the only bad guy? (Keep your teens home!)

[Anonymous]

Mine are home and have been since Friday. We’ve been taking walks in the neighborhood and it’s nice spending time together as a family. That has not happened much lately and it’s terrible it took this to make it happen. We’ve seen groups of their friends and they’ve yelled across the street “you can join us for a walk but you have to walk on the other side of the street” and they all laugh. Some families we know are also keeping themselves in isolation and other kids are still hanging out in groups.

[Anonymous]

Have you seen this? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/considerations-for-school-closure.pdf

[Anonymous]

OP I understand. My younger sister is so oblivious to the entire situation. She traveled to London on the whim and returned two days before the travel restriction. She is hanging out with her friends, going to clubs, and other large social gatherings. I am concerned for my elderly mother. I have told her she is not allowed to come to my house because I have an immunocompromised family member in the house. This also means I can’t visit my mom if needed. She thinks I am being completely unreasonable. Better safe than sorry...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My teen is meeting with the same group of friends to hang out routinely it’s 4-5 and they don’t go in public. Not ideal, but it seems like what most people I know are ok with

So if all their friends jumped off a bridge you would be ok with that?

Stop. This is not helping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Groups of kids are riding up and down our street all day until dark

Was there a rumble??

Sharks and the Jets?
Greasers and Socials?
Warriors and Rogues?

[Anonymous]

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Jesus christ you guys are overdramatic.

Im a public health nurse. As long as you teach your kids to wash their hands well (and regularly), to keep a respectable distance, and avoid personal contact they are perfectly fine to go out and see a few friends. What you need to avoid is large groups particularly in tight spaces.

People are panicing and acting like this is the end of the world. We have these disease upticks literally every 2-3 years. It will last a few months until people learn more about the disease.

Locking your kids up does not do anything to help, denying them any social activities only makes it far more scary then it already is.

Jesus christ, you sound like you only play a “pubic health nurse” on tv (and fyi, your acting sucks).

You come in here and announce that THE “public health nurse” has arrived, first order of business? Throw an insult at concerned parents.
Your blatant lack of sensitivity and understanding may not be a fireable offense, but your careless disregard for spreading misinformation & falsehoods during a crisis definitely would be (and from what I hear.. ignorant, apathetic, sanctimonious “public health nurses” aren’t in very high demand nowadays).

You should print out your post and ask one of the doctors that you work with to peruse it on over for you, then ask them for constructive criticism.
I imagine it playing out like this... you’d be sent to sensitivity training STAT, admonished for your blatant lack of knowledge in your field of EXPERTISE (shouldn’t a “public health nurse” be well informed in silly little things like global pandemics?) and lastly, sent back to RN school for a refresher course on how to be a kind, compassionate, well informed nurse.

Oh, and while you’re there, take a course on how to be a decent human being, because uh, DAMN.

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Anonymous wrote:My teens have been pretty good about it but one of them desperately wants to see her boyfriend. I'm holding my ground on it but it's not easy. Sigh.

I would let her see her boyfriend. That seems like a step too far.

Agreed.

Keep in mind there are teens on here too pretending to be adults. If she sees her boyfriend there is no 6 feet apart. There is making out at mildest and other bodily fluid exchange possible. Virus city.

Are u staying 6 ft from your spouse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you seen this? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/considerations-for-school-closure.pdf

Seriously. Read the guidelines. I think we are making a mistake.

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Anonymous wrote:Those people are idiots.

They are the same idiots that are going to be extremely upset when their DC have to sleep outside in tents with no respirators.

I know the rules do not pertain to them. UGH

I think you people are also going to be upset when we are in a depression, not a recession. It sucks.

I understand this argument but do we think that a crashed medical system and unchecked pandemic is not going to be a much much worse economic situation???? Doesn't short term pain seem more economically prudent?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My teen is meeting with the same group of friends to hang out routinely it’s 4-5 and they don’t go in public. Not ideal, but it seems like what most people I know are ok with

So if all their friends jumped off a bridge you would be ok with that?

Stop. This is not helping.

All of my friends with elementary aged kids say there is "no way to avoid" them playing with neighborhood kids and it's only 4-5. I hope they are right and it ends up not being a problem for most. But I'm also just scared after seeing that it's still pretty serious for people that are in 30s and 40s, we aren't immune

[Anonymous]

Seriously, people. This is a big deal. Take it seriously. It's not even been a week. You can't keep your kids at home for a week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, people. This is a big deal. Take it seriously. It's not even been a week. You can't keep your kids at home for a week?

Did you read the CDC guidelines? Of course we can keep our kids home for a week. But where will this end? After 4 weeks? 12 weeks? 20 weeks?

[Anonymous]

Mine has gone out fishing solo, but no group hang outs.

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Anonymous wrote:My teens have been pretty good about it but one of them desperately wants to see her boyfriend. I'm holding my ground on it but it's not easy. Sigh.

I would let her see her boyfriend. That seems like a step too far.

Agreed.

Keep in mind there are teens on here too pretending to be adults. If she sees her boyfriend there is no 6 feet apart. There is making out at mildest and other bodily fluid exchange possible. Virus city.

Are u staying 6 ft from your spouse?

Households. Damn.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, people. This is a big deal. Take it seriously. It's not even been a week. You can't keep your kids at home for a week?

Did you read the CDC guidelines? Of course we can keep our kids home for a week. But where will this end? After 4 weeks? 12 weeks? 20 weeks?

I know. But can't everyone try hard for two weeks and see where we are? If everyone took it seriously immediately that's our best hope for it not dragging out 20 weeks. I can't believe all these people who can't do this for even a short amount of time.

Plus they make it harder on those of us who are keeping kids home. my teen KNOWS her friends are getting together. What can i say except I'm sorry but those parents are not responsible?