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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have been doing masked outdoor play dates this whole time.  Haven’t started indoor ones because the weather is so nice, so why risk it?

Vaccinated people will be safe no matter what they do, so relaxing is science based at this point.  [/quote]

Our children are not yet vaccinated. That’s why I’m asking on here.

I am sure adults without kids or adult children can move on. I have 3 kids.[/quote]

My DH and I are fully vaccinated, but we're still being cautious for the moment until our 14yo is fully vaxxed as well. I'm not worried about getting COVID myself, because I know I wouldn't get very sick even in the unlikely event I did get it, but I don't see the point in risking bringing it home to her. Not when she's so close to being vaccinated as well.

For us, "being cautious" now means sticking to indoor dining only in homes with other vaccinated people, not restaurants. We're now going to more indoor places where everyone is always masked, but anywhere you need to take off your mask has to be with only people we know are vaccinated.

Outdoors, pretty much anything goes now, other than large gatherings where we can't reliably maintain a reasonable distance. Before, we'd been doing outdoor dining in restaurants, but with only our household at the table. With other households, we'd stuck to our own backyards, where we could sit spaced and staggered, and not feel like we were breathing directly at each other every time we laughed. I'm not worried about that anymore, now that we and our friends are all vaccinated.

I figure we've come this far, and we know our kid is just over a month from being fully vaccinated, why take chances at this point? There's a lot more we can do now, and the weather is nice so DD and her friends are doing more outdoor socializing anyway, so it makes sense to keep our guard up until we're all vaccinated. We can do this.[/quote]

PP here again: I will say that I might feel differently if I had younger kids. They're much less likely to be very sick, or have longer-term complications, than my 14yo, who is practically an adult, at least physically. And if there weren't a vaccine on the horizon for my kid in the very near future, I might make a different risk/reward calculation going into the summer. [/quote]

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