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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question:

How does quarantining for 2 weeks ensure that everyone is safe? Lets say you get the virus somewhere right before you quarantine and it takes your body 5 To 7 days to contract it. But you are asymptomatic or have seasonal allergies so you don’t know you have it. Couldn’t you still give it to the grandparents?

My DH wants to do the same thing but I’m also afraid of getting it from the grandparents and all the people visiting them. They have people flying to see them, driving and not quarantining and seeing them, etc. [/quote]

It's not totally no-risk, but it eliminates most chances. There is the slim chance that one of you in the family got it and is asymptomatic and could infect the others. Probably quarantining for 4 weeks would be better because it would mean extremely slim chances of anyone having it and spreading it to others. But if you haven't been doing much even before quarantine, you can probably say with fairly good certainty that you aren't infected. For example, we did a playdate with my older son and a friend outdoors and wearing masks. The chances are already low, but if neither he nor anyone in his friend's family don't become sick in the next two weeks, and neither does my family, I would feel pretty confident that none of us have it.

Personally, we have grandparents who are local and are seeing them. I'm not sure if I could travel, but I wouldn't think it's much additional risk than seeing locally if you take precautions along the way. My parents live near us, and they're grocery shopping, etc., so it's not like there is no risk. We aren't doing anything more than that ourselves, so I don't feel like we're introducing many more germs to them.[/quote]

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