Changing Jobs Need To Quarantine For Two Weeks In Between

[Anonymous]

So what does that mean? I know I need to basically stay away from pretty much everybody (which I have been doing other than my current employers) but can I grocery shop? I know I can go for walks but there are a few folks I've seen socially distancing of course during the past few months. Should I refrain from that for the two weeks? I want to be practical as well as ethical here. No suggestions of doing shit they won't know about so don't go there. I need advice on what the reasonable parameters are here.

[Anonymous]

I’m starting a new job soon. They are renting a hotel room and bringing me food, and I am not be going outside of the room for 2 weeks. That’s what quarantine is. Nobody in, nothing and nobody out.

[Anonymous]

Yes, you can grocery shop as infrequently as possible (I go just once a week but I’m a fresh fruit and vegetable nut). See no one else in person. Wear a mask every time you step outside for a walk and stay 6 ft away from anyone you happen to cross paths with.

Good luck! It’s not that bad! You can even take a Early Childhood Education class online or reap your CPR training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m starting a new job soon. They are renting a hotel room and bringing me food, and I am not be going outside of the room for 2 weeks. That’s what quarantine is. Nobody in, nothing and nobody out.

What about the hotel maid? Your room is going to stink!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what does that mean? I know I need to basically stay away from pretty much everybody (which I have been doing other than my current employers) but can I grocery shop? I know I can go for walks but there are a few folks I've seen socially distancing of course during the past few months. Should I refrain from that for the two weeks? I want to be practical as well as ethical here. No suggestions of doing shit they won't know about so don't go there. I need advice on what the reasonable parameters are here.

If I were you, since it's only two weeks:
-grocery immediately before, not at all during
-no social distancing visits

[Anonymous]

^I totally agree w/the advice above.

[Anonymous]

You should be able to go out for groceries and occasional carry out with drive up or drive through. No social visits, no shopping, no activities except exercise outside, etc.

[Anonymous]

You need to ask your employers what their expectations are.
If you are truly "quarantined" then you would NOT go grocery shopping and NOT go outside, even for exercise.

[Anonymous]

OP thanks folks this is helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m starting a new job soon. They are renting a hotel room and bringing me food, and I am not be going outside of the room for 2 weeks. That’s what quarantine is. Nobody in, nothing and nobody out.

What about the hotel maid? Your room is going to stink!

Why would my room stink? My dirty clothes won’t be sweaty, and they’ll go into a clothes basket. I’ll have two sets of sheets with me. And I’m an adult, perfectly capable of cleaning my own room. The hotel has already been notified of the situation and is perfectly fine with it.

[Anonymous]

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/social-distancing.html

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/quarantine

Ask older relatives about quarantine for polio, measles, scarlet fever, or similar diseases. Most of us under 40 years of age have never had to quarantine or even heard of anyone we know needing to quarantine (during our lifetimes) prior to covid. My mother had to scarlet fever, my grandmother had measles and polio, and I don’t remember how many communicable diseases my great-grandmother had. They also quarantined if someone else in the household had something (my grandmother never caught scarlet fever, but the whole household quarantined when my mother had it).

The opposite happened when I was a child. There were chicken pox parties! As a nation, we had successfully eradicated community spread of the worst diseases through vaccination. Now, we have vaccines even for chicken pox. Naturally, our society has forgotten the need to contain disease (which is how the measles and smallpox outbreaks happened), vaccination waned as society forgot. We’re at a high point for vaccination again, and we’ve forgotten that everything stops when it comes to life and death.

Covid has a 2-14 day incubation. 2 weeks of quarantine is warranted. Quarantine is simple: nothing out, nobody in or out. You can have food delivered to your porch. That’s it.

[Anonymous]

The hotel seems like overkilll but I would say you never leave your house -- everything is no-contact delivery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The hotel seems like overkilll but I would say you never leave your house -- everything is no-contact delivery.

I’m a live-in, moving in with the family, so it’s reasonable. For a live-out nanny, staying in their own home is reasonable. The point is that there is zero contact, zero travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what does that mean? I know I need to basically stay away from pretty much everybody (which I have been doing other than my current employers) but can I grocery shop? I know I can go for walks but there are a few folks I've seen socially distancing of course during the past few months. Should I refrain from that for the two weeks? I want to be practical as well as ethical here. No suggestions of doing shit they won't know about so don't go there. I need advice on what the reasonable parameters are here.

You don't understand what "quarantine" means? You stay inside, never go out even to your back yard. Lord, you're too stupid for anyone to hire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what does that mean? I know I need to basically stay away from pretty much everybody (which I have been doing other than my current employers) but can I grocery shop? I know I can go for walks but there are a few folks I've seen socially distancing of course during the past few months. Should I refrain from that for the two weeks? I want to be practical as well as ethical here. No suggestions of doing shit they won't know about so don't go there. I need advice on what the reasonable parameters are here.

You don't understand what "quarantine" means? You stay inside, never go out even to your back yard. Lord, you're too stupid for anyone to hire.

Stop embarrassing yourself. In quarantine you can still go into your own backyard alone. Lord, your inane comment just makes you look bitter and ridiculous.