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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are ok with your kids possibly infecting your parents go ahead. If you love your parents you probably don’t want to do that. [/quote]

STOP.

It’s fine.[/quote]

NP here.  YOU STOP THE CRAP.  Covid infections are on the rise and elderly people are still dying.  It’s so fricking far from “fine”.  [/quote]

Yeah. I don’t understand why people don’t understand this. If you are working outside the home and you take the kids to stay with or visit their grandparents, you could kill them. Why don’t people get this??[/quote]

NP. Also, to OP: You're involving BOTH sets of grandparents; two parents who both work outside the home; and more than one child. You need to do the math. The exposures go way beyond the eight of you, assuming four grandparents, two parents and two children. Add in everyone you come in contact with at work, everyone your spouse is in contact with at work, everyone each of the four grandparents comes in contact with at the store, the drugstore, anywhere they go. All of those people are exposed to you and you to them and your kids to them. And your kids are exposing everyone to their classmates and teachers.... It's how a virus spreads.

I get that you and DH both must work outside the home. It seems insurmountable. But ANY solution that reduces the spread is better than bringing four other adults iinto the mix unless they all four commit to serious "family bubble" procedures and practice strict distancing, get their groceries delivered, get covid tests regularly (which can be hard to get)....

Altering work shifts? Has either of you asked about it, or do you both have very strict unchangeable hours? Some families on these boards talk about one parent starting work very early and ending midday or early afternoon while another starts late and works late, so there is kid coverage. But that depends on the jobs and if you must have in-person core hours, it may not work, I understand that. Regular sitter whom you can at least contact trace on if that sitter gets infected? I would explore every other option rather than involve four more adults who are older adults. [/quote]

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