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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s a drawback:  you are potentially spreading the virus and endangering your family and the college kid.  Take care of your own children and stay away from other people!

Why can’t people understand this?  [/quote]

We’re creating smaller social circles.   Some parents have to work.  Better to have one young person in the house providing care, than having the child go to a large group environment.   Some of our changes have to be incremental.   We can’t all be quarantined for the next two months or however long this will take.  [/quote]

Incremental? That defeats the whole purpose of social distancing at this time. Incrementalism will not be fast enough to flatten the curve of infections. Just today (according to my college kid who is here at home) there are reports that stopping contacts this week, right now, today, is crucial to preventing a rapid spike in cases that is coming down the road rapidly and which probably will overwhelm hospitals. By the time you locate and hire a college student so you can keep working, the situation may already be to the point that no one should be bringing employees into their homes at all.

If you think that's alarmist, OP, fine. But your incremental approach fails to comprehend what's going on. [/quote]

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