Social Distancing and my kids' sanity: what are you guys doing - honestly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My five year old has not seen other kids beyond in passing or zoom since mid March. We haven’t seen any older family members. If numbers stay low she will do one month of daycare before school starts, but no play dates. I imagine we won’t be able to see family once she’s on school which is bummer.

You think daycare is OK but play dates aren’t?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously feel bad for some of you. The level of anxiety disorder you must have to be borderline shut ins must be hard to live with.

All these kids I know hanging out and no one has corona yet. Lol

I have a friend who is a nurse at INOVA. She is exhausted. I think it’s insanely rude to our local medical staff to take silly risks. My older kid is allowed to bike with the neighbor kids, but nothing indoors, or within six feet. When we go on
hikes, we wear masks when within six feet of others. We have double bubbled with my parents, so we don’t wear masks around them. Yes, it’s sad for my kids. But it would be sadder if my nurse friend caught Coronavirus and suffered major organ damage.

I am a nurse at Inova Fairfax. I am not exhausted. Our case load is way down and treatment with the antivirals is effective. Not sure what’s going on with your imaginary “friend”, but my coworkers and I all want back to full time in person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously feel bad for some of you. The level of anxiety disorder you must have to be borderline shut ins must be hard to live with.

All these kids I know hanging out and no one has corona yet. Lol

I have a friend who is a nurse at INOVA. She is exhausted. I think it’s insanely rude to our local medical staff to take silly risks. My older kid is allowed to bike with the neighbor kids, but nothing indoors, or within six feet. When we go on
hikes, we wear masks when within six feet of others. We have double bubbled with my parents, so we don’t wear masks around them. Yes, it’s sad for my kids. But it would be sadder if my nurse friend caught Coronavirus and suffered major organ damage.

I am a nurse at Inova Fairfax. I am not exhausted. Our case load is way down and treatment with the antivirals is effective. Not sure what’s going on with your imaginary “friend”, but my coworkers and I all want back to full time in person.

This. My friend's hospital hasn't had any COVID patients in a month. She's getting ready to go on vacation with her husband, daughters and parents to a resort for the 4th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously feel bad for some of you. The level of anxiety disorder you must have to be borderline shut ins must be hard to live with.

All these kids I know hanging out and no one has corona yet. Lol

I have a friend who is a nurse at INOVA. She is exhausted. I think it’s insanely rude to our local medical staff to take silly risks. My older kid is allowed to bike with the neighbor kids, but nothing indoors, or within six feet. When we go on
hikes, we wear masks when within six feet of others. We have double bubbled with my parents, so we don’t wear masks around them. Yes, it’s sad for my kids. But it would be sadder if my nurse friend caught Coronavirus and suffered major organ damage.

I am a nurse at Inova Fairfax. I am not exhausted. Our case load is way down and treatment with the antivirals is effective. Not sure what’s going on with your imaginary “friend”, but my coworkers and I all want back to full time in person.

This. My friend's hospital hasn't had any COVID patients in a month. She's getting ready to go on vacation with her husband, daughters and parents to a resort for the 4th.

Bullshit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously feel bad for some of you. The level of anxiety disorder you must have to be borderline shut ins must be hard to live with.

All these kids I know hanging out and no one has corona yet. Lol

I have a friend who is a nurse at INOVA. She is exhausted. I think it’s insanely rude to our local medical staff to take silly risks. My older kid is allowed to bike with the neighbor kids, but nothing indoors, or within six feet. When we go on
hikes, we wear masks when within six feet of others. We have double bubbled with my parents, so we don’t wear masks around them. Yes, it’s sad for my kids. But it would be sadder if my nurse friend caught Coronavirus and suffered major organ damage.

I am a nurse at Inova Fairfax. I am not exhausted. Our case load is way down and treatment with the antivirals is effective. Not sure what’s going on with your imaginary “friend”, but my coworkers and I all want back to full time in person.

This. My friend's hospital hasn't had any COVID patients in a month. She's getting ready to go on vacation with her husband, daughters and parents to a resort for the 4th.

Bullshit.

Sorry reality isn't agreeing with you. Absolute truth. I'm in the Midwest now, though.

[Anonymous]

A friend’s child was seriously ill with COVID, my friend’s sister with no underlying conditions died of COVID in her mid-30s leaving behind 2 DCs under the age of 5, several friends parents have COVID and two of them had parents who died. Until it touches you or your family, you’ll likely continue to slide down the slope of socializing and risk but I urge you not to for the sake of the rest of the community.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My five year old has not seen other kids beyond in passing or zoom since mid March. We haven’t seen any older family members. If numbers stay low she will do one month of daycare before school starts, but no play dates. I imagine we won’t be able to see family once she’s on school which is bummer.

You think daycare is OK but play dates aren’t?

No. But I trust the daycare to be more mindful than most families are on sticking to the rules and sanitizing. The class sizes for her school are currently 1-4 children. Formal settings seem safer than casual/familiar ones to me right now. We may not send her if the local cases stop going down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My five year old has not seen other kids beyond in passing or zoom since mid March. We haven’t seen any older family members. If numbers stay low she will do one month of daycare before school starts, but no play dates. I imagine we won’t be able to see family once she’s on school which is bummer.

You think daycare is OK but play dates aren’t?

No. But I trust the daycare to be more mindful than most families are on sticking to the rules and sanitizing. The class sizes for her school are currently 1-4 children. Formal settings seem safer than casual/familiar ones to me right now. We may not send her if the local cases stop going down.

Essentially, it seems like staff will be more vigilant than parents catching up while their kids play. It’s too easy to forget distancing when things feel relaxing and “normal”. I’m not enamored with daycare option either, but also aware public school will be tricky and a smaller more contained environment might be all we have if they decide to do distanced learning for 2020-2021.

[Anonymous]

We are doing outdoor play dates but try our best ot social distance. We had one play date where the other family was clearly not social distancing and didn’t seem to care, and I abruptly ended the play date.

[Anonymous]

Kids are allowed to do pretty much whatever with other children. We don’t see grandparents though. They are in their early seventies, which makes them high risk.

[Anonymous]

I’m surprised so many people are seeing older relatives. Are you going to keep seeing them if schools open back up?

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Anonymous wrote:We are following the VA guidelines but that still lets us have Outdoor play dates, indoor play dates with one friend, little league, swim team lap swimming, soccer camp in two weeks, etc.

Same. We are following our state’s guidance - playgrounds are open as is other outdoor activities. They can meet up with individual friends outside. No big groups. Kids are 11 and 9

Look how that worked out on Texas and Florida. Be smart.

Yes, it's that playground-spread that's driving Texas and Florida's numbers.

It's too bad we can't have a mature conversation. If you have information that COVID avoids playgrounds, share it. I've been to parks and playgrounds recently because we have been going stir crazy, and people are idiots. From what I can see, yes, it is likely there will be COVID19 spread at playgrounds.

Kids have been playing at playgrounds for a month. Name all the outbreaks.

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Anonymous wrote:We are following the VA guidelines but that still lets us have Outdoor play dates, indoor play dates with one friend, little league, swim team lap swimming, soccer camp in two weeks, etc.

Same. We are following our state’s guidance - playgrounds are open as is other outdoor activities. They can meet up with individual friends outside. No big groups. Kids are 11 and 9

Look how that worked out on Texas and Florida. Be smart.

Yes, it's that playground-spread that's driving Texas and Florida's numbers.

It's too bad we can't have a mature conversation. If you have information that COVID avoids playgrounds, share it. I've been to parks and playgrounds recently because we have been going stir crazy, and people are idiots. From what I can see, yes, it is likely there will be COVID19 spread at playgrounds.

Kids have been playing at playgrounds for a month. Name all the outbreaks.

But it was outside, surely it should have been ok.. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-virus-didnt-stop-a-washington-socialite-from-throwing-a-backyard-soiree-then-the-tests-came-back-positive/2020/07/01/841041ba-ba19-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised so many people are seeing older relatives. Are you going to keep seeing them if schools open back up?

What’s wrong with seeing relatives at a distance outdoors?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are following the VA guidelines but that still lets us have Outdoor play dates, indoor play dates with one friend, little league, swim team lap swimming, soccer camp in two weeks, etc.

Same. We are following our state’s guidance - playgrounds are open as is other outdoor activities. They can meet up with individual friends outside. No big groups. Kids are 11 and 9

Look how that worked out on Texas and Florida. Be smart.

Yes, it's that playground-spread that's driving Texas and Florida's numbers.

It's too bad we can't have a mature conversation. If you have information that COVID avoids playgrounds, share it. I've been to parks and playgrounds recently because we have been going stir crazy, and people are idiots. From what I can see, yes, it is likely there will be COVID19 spread at playgrounds.

Kids have been playing at playgrounds for a month. Name all the outbreaks.

But it was outside, surely it should have been ok.. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-virus-didnt-stop-a-washington-socialite-from-throwing-a-backyard-soiree-then-the-tests-came-back-positive/2020/07/01/841041ba-ba19-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html

Not enough details to know if they got sick at the party, actually, or if it was all outside. Also, those people are standing right next to each other, and people were sitting at dining tables together.



Good try, though.