Anonymous wrote:Yes I would as long as it wasn’t a crazy crowded restaurant.

+1. We eat out with our unvaccinated toddler, but we go so early, the restaurants are always dead. I’ve never felt uncomfortable.

Anonymous wrote:I would in places like California but not here.

Why?

I would in places like California but not here.

Anonymous wrote:I'm the first PP who said no to the restaurant. Frankly and selfishly, it's less about risk of severe illness to the 1 year old and more about not wanting to be excluded from day care for 10-14 days, with attendant impacts on other family members. So unless you have a SAHP that's a consideration logistically.

This is my thing. I don’t fear contagion; I fear quarantine or even symptoms and having to test and losing daycare for a few days.

Also, I have never taken a one year to a restaurant - it’s exhausting.

I wouldn’t. But that is based on the specifics of my family and our risk levels.

Only if case numbers are very low, the restaurant is not crowded and tables are spaced far apart.

We did it four times since the pandemic started, and mostly it was eating at the airport before long-haul international flights to see family, because it was safer to do that than eat on the plane. Not ideal, though. We ate a couple of times inside restaurants once there, because case numbers were low at the time and the restaurants were either empty or tables were spaced out.

Yes I would as long as it wasn’t a crazy crowded restaurant.

How about takeout at your house or theirs?

I'm the first PP who said no to the restaurant. Frankly and selfishly, it's less about risk of severe illness to the 1 year old and more about not wanting to be excluded from day care for 10-14 days, with attendant impacts on other family members. So unless you have a SAHP that's a consideration logistically.

Yeah, I would. Cases here are pretty low, we are triple vaxxed and the risk to the 1 year old is minuscule. I would try to find somewhere not super crowded but yes, I would. For the record I’m pretty conservative about covid generally but I think the vaccines are highly effective especially at preventing severe illness and the risk to the 1 year old is so low that there are a lot of comparable risks that never kept me out of restaurants before. I wear masks wherever required, requested or reasonable (eg stores, airports) but we’re going to go about our lives. Meals with grandparents are important.

Are all the adults vaccinated? If so, I would be fine with it. I’m an elementary school principal. Our students eat unmasked for 30 minutes Monday-Friday. They are less than three feet apart. After doing this since late August, we had our first student case this month, and no one caught it from that positive case.

Anonymous wrote:In a restaurant or at home? I'd eat indoors at home with vaccinated relatives. I wouldn't eat indoors in public.

In public at a restaurant

Indoors at home with people I knew were vaccinated? Sure! Indoors at a restaurant with people I don't know? Nope.

In a restaurant or at home? I'd eat indoors at home with vaccinated relatives. I wouldn't eat indoors in public.

Grandparents say it’s too cold to eat outdoors so only options are stay home or eat indoors.