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[quote=Anonymous]Reviving this thread to see what people's opinions are on this now, as states are starting to move to phase 1 opening. I've mostly been doing my work at night and on weekends and tending to our two little kids during the days while my husband works. I am about to have my busiest 2 weeks at work and will not have a choice but to get work done during the day. I was thinking about seeing if my parents, who are social distancing as much as we are (going nowhere other than 1 person making brief trips into a grocery store once every other week), might want to come visit for a couple days and hang out with the kids while we work. They have offered but I haven't wanted to put them at increased risk.

Now I am worried that the risks will only go up come June, when people start going out and about again, and will be elevated for months to come. If we don't see them now while we are all hunkered down, who knows when it will be? I read an article that broke down the situations where COVID is most likely to be transmitted, and it basically said that short trips into a large grocery store where you don't talk to anyone else are a pretty unlikely transmission scenario. Even if there are some droplets in the air, you aren't breathing in that air long enough to get enough of them (especially if you're wearing a mask). It's the people who work there and have to stay in the store for hours who are at risk. Even getting groceries delivered would seem to be a non-zero risk, as you have to handle the bags and food touched by someone else and it's hard to truly wipe down/clean everything perfectly.

There are no easy answers here. Just curious what others are thinking about the reality that right now might be the lowest risk period we will have for many months.[/quote]

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