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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not moving. DCPS DL is going fine for our 3rd grader and 1st grader. 3rd grader is self sufficient. 1st grader just needs some prompts with technology. Both do a couple of hours of virtual tutoring per week with 3 of their friends. The kids love sleeping-in.

We do some targeted outdoor/masked/distanced meet-ups so they get socialization. When I say "targeted" only families that are taking Covid precautions very seriously. Several families we have avoided since early in the pandemic have already gotten Covid, but they pushed the boundaries, seemingly just because they really, really don't like this.

But don't get me wrong -- I can't wait for in-person, so long as it is safe. It just seems like school opening is being forced at the worst time of the pandemic -- highest numbers and vaccine right around the corner. And I hate to say it, but the loudest proponents of "open now" seem to be really, really struggling with their kids being home.[/quote]

Do you consider the 'targeted' family to be taking COVID precautions very seriously if they are meeting with people (your family)? Not meant as a snarky question, but I woudltn'.[/quote]

Not a snarky question at all! Thanks for being socially responsible and taking Covid-19 seriously.

Targeted =

1) No outside child care -- nannies, daycare, babysitters.
2) Both parents work from home.
3) Parents don't go to grocery store -- curbside pickup and delivery.
4) Only meet outside for the kids. No indoor stuff. Always masked. No dinners/drinks, just park playdates for the kids.

It's not risk free, but careful, I think.[/quote]

It’s fine to go grocery shopping.  It’s not fine to have play dates.  [/quote]
Different poster. I don't do either, but I must say, grocery deliveries are great, and I see grocery shopping as a really really bad idea, where the upside of getting a pack of butter on sale for $1.99 instead of $2.60 online is dwarfed by the very real risk of getting covid while shopping indoors with a bunch of strangers.
Meanwhile, I have empathy for those families who decide their kids really need an outdoor well-distanced and well-masked playdate with another family whose covid hygiene is as described by PP. The issue becomes that too few families' covid hygiene is actually as described by PP, hence why we don't do playdates.
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You do realize that when you order your groceries, somebody else, someone probably more at risk for Covid and its potential consequences than you, still has to go to the store. So while you are protecting yourself, you are putting someone else at risk.[/quote]

No. 
I realize that the big picture consequence is that I am helping keep someone employed and I am letting the store be more of a space for staff to prepare orders thereby minimizing spread.

Instacart and Amazon Fresh staff shop more quickly and more efficiently than I would.
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As someone who does all my shopping myself, I can assure you, those shoppers are not efficient at all. They barrell through the aisles, paying no attention to people's personal space, and they don't know what anything on people's lists are, nor where they can be found in the store. They make shopping for everybody else very very stressful.[/quote]

+1. I have observed the same. The people who think ordering groceries through low-paid workers are helping anyone but themselves are fooling themselves. If anything, they are making grocery stores a riskier place for their neighbors.[/quote]

You also have multiple people touching your products depending on how picks up, checks out the food/products and delivers.  If you go to a grocery store at 8-9-10-11 they are generally pretty empty.  I would consider it safer to go myself and less people handling the food.[/quote]

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