Which option would you pick for summer

[Anonymous]

We have a house on the Jersey shore and will probably go there for the summer and work from our house. We won't be a drain on the health care or otherwise as we'll stay in the house and social distance except for bike rides and some beach time and trips to the grocery store. However, we'd have to go to the grocery store here in DC and we're either going to be exposed to germs here in DC (and in term expose people here in DC) or in NJ. We've only been shopping once every 2-3 weeks so we're not kicking up a major amount of virus by our grocery shopping. I don't think that 2 or 3 grocery store trip by one parent over the course of a summer in NJ is going to drastically alter their disease burden.

I expect the beaches to be very quiet. Even during normal summer we don't usually go to the beach until 5pm as we work full time from home. By 5pm the beaches are cleared out. There is easily 50 feet between beach goers.

If we have any sign of getting sick we'll get the heck out of the beach and go south. We're a doctor and nurse and are fairly savvy about monitoring our own health. Covid patients are not going from asymptomatic to ventilated in 5 minutes. Even the ones who decompensate quickly have a few day of aches, fatigue, etc. Any signs of this and we'll head home. We have no desire to be hospitalized
at Shore Memorial in South Jersey.

[Anonymous]

If the lockdown lifts, I don't see the Jersey shore beaches being "very quiet" after this long in quarantine and with so many people owning homes there.

[Anonymous]

We have a shore house and aren’t expecting things to be normal until July.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a shore house and aren’t expecting things to be normal until July.

Also our town and a lot of others have disallowed short-term leases.

[Anonymous]

we are renting a lake house. No close neigbhors and we plan to be on a boat most of them time so def social distancing. We will split the time between telework and vacation. The VRBO owner was offerin some really good discounts. Might as well quarantine someplace pretty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stay put and stick with your choice to live in cramped quarters. I dont understand living somewhere you dont wannt to be in a pandemic or shelter in place. If you were poor and weren't talking about spending a summer in another state I would have another response. You have xhoices, made a choice so stay home and make it work. When things improve reevaluate your decision and mske a decision that you can stick with in a pandemic.

With this logic, I hope you never ask to teleworking during bad weather, when traffic is bad, metro or trains are under maintenence, you have to stay home because the roof is being replaced, etc. You bought a house far from work, live with your choices! And your kids should not apply for financial aid, live within your means. And don't go on vacation. You should enjoy your house enough to stay there all the time!