Safety precautions for live-in nanny

[Anonymous]

This is intended for people at the more cautious end of the covid specrum. Individuals who have elderly family members or at-risk.
With cases of COVID at a high in VA - how are you all handling live in nannies and their interactions outside of your home?
I don't want our nanny to be stifled to the point of it being ridiculous, but we are currently sheltering at home and working from home, and basically limiting all of our contact.
I realize she is young and it will be difficult to be stuck with us 24/7, but what amount of contact is reasonable but yet very cautious?

[Anonymous]

None. You know this, OP. The answer is no social contact. This isn’t going to last forever and people - all people - simply have to accept this reality.

- Signed, a nanny

[Anonymous]

If your nanny is young and single and you want to limit her to literally no social contact you will lose your nanny. OP, it really comes down to being able to trust her. I am a live-in and I have only gone to stores (masked) on walks alone (unmasked) and been around my dad (local, lives alone and wfh). All my other friends I talk to on the phone or text.

[Anonymous]

If you don’t trust your nanny to distance properly, you need to find someone with a reason to quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Our nanny is not live in, but any time someone is delivering something (Uber Eats) the nanny puts on a mask to receive it, unless it's being left at our front door (Amazon).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None. You know this, OP. The answer is no social contact. This isn’t going to last forever and people - all people - simply have to accept this reality.

- Signed, a nanny

+1. Young, old, rich, poor... people have to start accepting the reality of living during a contagious pandemic.

My feeling is that this young nanny should be smart enough to restrict her own interactions. If she’s not, she’s too dumb to be a nanny.