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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This seems to be a very controversial issue.

We just did it for my parents - drove to the midwest. I didn't want to do it, but my parents were basically begging.

We have been home for 7 days now and I think we all made it through ok.

Worst part was the bathrooms/food on the journey-- but we wore masks, used a lot of hand sanitizer and wipes and were as careful as you can be without not doing it.

I know other grandparents that really don't want the risk, and I'd respect that too.[/quote]

Ditto to all of this.  I just did this with my kid.  DH stayed home.  My dad lives alone (my mom died a long time ago) and was pretty much begging us to come and I expressed my concerns (for him, most of all) over and over and he said he wanted us to come – so we did.  We have been very careful all along and were full-on quarantined at home in the 2 weeks prior to the trip.  We minimized stops along the way and brought our own food, but used masks and a LOT of hand sanitizer and wipes when we absolutely had to stop (13 hours straight there, when you've gotta go, you've gotta go).  Once we arrived, we didn't leave his house/yard.  We didn't interact with anyone else at all.  He'd gotten a grocery delivery before we arrived.

We have now been back home for 10 days and everything seems ok.  We're all self-quarantining for a few more days before we go back to our previous schedule of going nowhere.

I cannot pretend there were no risks involved, because there were.  But I tried my very best to minimize the risks that we did choose to take.  [/quote]

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