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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fire her. She's obviously stupid. I wouldn't trust her judgement around children.[/quote]

I'm quoting myself before anyone thinks I'm being harsh. She's going to the 2nd biggest hot spot in the country during a global pandemic. I mean, her critical thinking skills are lacking.[/quote]

PP, that's exactly my issue. She is going there and then coming back and was planning to work with my kids again. I mean, we were supposed to travel to Atlanta to visit my friends; obviously, we are not going....[/quote]

New poster. OP, as someone said earlier, her judgement is so extremely poor that I would fire her. If she thinks it's acceptable to travel and be around who knows how many people on this trip that she has told you about, what behaviors is she not going to mention to you? How can you ever trust afterward that she wouldn't think it acceptable to visit with her friends back here, then come into your home? To go to the store for non-essential reasons? To take your kids to the park and rather than keeping them on the grass, letting my them clamber all over playground equipment right alongside other kids "because everyone knows kids don't get this virus"?

This is a huge red flag about her judgement and her comprehension, or rather lack of comprehension, about the gravity of this situation for everyone, including your entire family.

I think it's you saying earlier you're a single parent trying to work from home with 2-3 hours help to get work accomplished, and that is massively tough. But if she brings in this virus with her terrible judgement--your kids will possibly be stranded with a sick parent. She won't be there to help because she'd be sick herself, or you'd be suspicious that she was a symptomatic but contagious and would infect the kids. What is the plan if you are sick? How could you isolate yourself if you're the only adult in the house? What if you end up hospitalized? Your staying uninfected is especially vital. She is not just blithely risking herself, she's risking your kids having to go -- where? How long? -- if you, the only parent in the household, get sick. 
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