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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s fine IMO. Our nanny is still coming over. We trust her to limit her social contact and we don’t have any elderly people in the house. College students parents are what - late 40s to mid 50s? [b]I read an article that it’s okay to maintain contact with one other healthy family if you trust them to follow the rules[/b]. So if you do this, pick someone trustworthy and paranoid.[/quote]

What you and so many here are not understanding is this: Even if you limit contact with this "one other healthy family" whom you "trust to follow the rules," that may not matter at all, and you cannot know.

Your healthy family or their healthy family might have been exposed already and not yet showing symptoms. People can transmit the virus while they are not symptomatic.

There is another thread on DCUM about having playdates while schools are shut. Of course many posters said to go for it. Then one noted that her family was limiting contact and playdates to one other trusted family. And now someone in that other family turns out to have been exposed earlier so, quarantine, I guess. The poster noted that just assuming everyone is fine and limiting yourself to seeing/interacting with one other household does not necessarily work.

By the way, re: other posts above: I do get that some people must go to work outside the home. But the posters coming here to cry, "would you deny child care to physicians and nurses?!" so indignantly KNOW that is not what anyone here is saying. We are not talking about those kinds of truly urgently needed jobs. We're talking about DCUM parents who come here to say things should be done "incrementally" and they can't work at home with their kids running around. Unless their jobs are vital health and safety work -- which they would not be doing at home anyway -- they can deal. A poster somewhere said she and her husband will take shifts, she's getting up extremely early to work until the kids are up,, she works when they go to bed, etc. It can be done and IS being done by the non-whining people. And YES, before someone leaps in to say, "But what about single parents trying to work at home? They should get outside help to come in" etc. -- This. Is. Not. Forever.[/quote]

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