covid delta variant rules for au pair

[Anonymous]

Hi - we are hosting an au pair - she arrived in early July and is eager to travel and meet and hang out with other au pairs and make new friends. She has already planned overnight trips to NYC and wants to plan more trips. What kind of rules are families putting in place now that Delta variant is found to be so much more dangerous ? We have one vaccinated child and one unvaccinated child. We hosted an au pair once in non covid times and didn't have to deal with this issue so was wondering what kind of guidelines people are following. TIA !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi - we are hosting an au pair - she arrived in early July and is eager to travel and meet and hang out with other au pairs and make new friends. She has already planned overnight trips to NYC and wants to plan more trips. What kind of rules are families putting in place now that Delta variant is found to be so much more dangerous ? We have one vaccinated child and one unvaccinated child. We hosted an au pair once in non covid times and didn't have to deal with this issue so was wondering what kind of guidelines people are following. TIA !

You need to sit down with the AP and LCC asap. Either she will agree to whatever covid precautions you feel you need or you rematch, now not later.

[Anonymous]

Is she vaccinated? Our au pair has been vaxxed since spring as have her friends, and we are fine with her spending time with them and taking public transportation while wearing a mask (which is the law anyway). We live in nyc and she’s done a number of fun things outside this summer and it’s been fine. And we have 3 unvaccinated children because they’re too young.
Delta isn’t more dangerous, it’s more contagious.

[Anonymous]

I agree with PP - assuming she is vaxed, I would talk to her about the D variant, ask her to mask up when in riskier situations and explain that once the younger kid is vaxed things will worry you less but in the mean time ask her to be more careful

[Anonymous]

Do you have high risk household members? That is key.

And unpopular opinion, but those who want to galavant in another country to have "their greatest adventure" really aren't thinking and I wouldn't trust that level of intelligence with my kids

[Anonymous]

Is she vaccinated?

What did you agree to in advance? I think that if you hadn't indicated that you were taking precautions at all during the interview, that suddenly expecting her not to do what she expected is unfair. I think that if you had indicated that you were cautious, and expected precautions that adjusting those as the virus changes is reasonable.

I agree that having your LCC facilitate a conversation is a good idea.

[Anonymous]

I don't believe most au pairs took the covid restriction thing well in 2020. I doubt you will be able to explain it to them now and expect it to go over well.
Your children have always been unvaccinated. Vaccinated people have always been able to bring covid home even if they weren't sick.
It would be difficult to rationalize why the delta variant would mean someone would need to stop traveling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't believe most au pairs took the covid restriction thing well in 2020. I doubt you will be able to explain it to them now and expect it to go over well.
Your children have always been unvaccinated. Vaccinated people have always been able to bring covid home even if they weren't sick.
It would be difficult to rationalize why the delta variant would mean someone would need to stop traveling.

Delta is far more transmissible than 2020 COVID. There's some scientific rationale for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't believe most au pairs took the covid restriction thing well in 2020. I doubt you will be able to explain it to them now and expect it to go over well.
Your children have always been unvaccinated. Vaccinated people have always been able to bring covid home even if they weren't sick.
It would be difficult to rationalize why the delta variant would mean someone would need to stop traveling.

Delta is far more transmissible than 2020 COVID. There's some scientific rationale for you.

Our experience is that it doesn't matter to the age group which au pairs are in. It was miserable trying to convince and monitor our au pair from September to December of 2020 until she finally caught covid from a party. It will be difficult to rationalize with an au pair that your family now has more lockdown rules when there are not any in the community and the adults are vaccinated.

I wish everyone luck in trying to keep an au pair who made travel plans from going and explaining that suddenly this covid is more contagious than the last covid strain. The state is not locked down and schools are opening. It's confusing and an au pair will rematch if kept home.

Frankly, your biggest risk during a pandemic will always be a 20'ish year old young person who isn't related to you living in your home. We host a different au pair until September through the pandemic who took it seriously but she was even going stir crazy and going shopping and seeing friends.

I don't envy anyone with an au pair who is vaccinated that cannot trust the vaccine enough to keep the family from being hospitalized from covid19. With unvaccinated children in my home, I'm not risking it a second time around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't believe most au pairs took the covid restriction thing well in 2020. I doubt you will be able to explain it to them now and expect it to go over well.
Your children have always been unvaccinated. Vaccinated people have always been able to bring covid home even if they weren't sick.
It would be difficult to rationalize why the delta variant would mean someone would need to stop traveling.

Delta is far more transmissible than 2020 COVID. There's some scientific rationale for you.

Our experience is that it doesn't matter to the age group which au pairs are in. It was miserable trying to convince and monitor our au pair from September to December of 2020 until she finally caught covid from a party. It will be difficult to rationalize with an au pair that your family now has more lockdown rules when there are not any in the community and the adults are vaccinated.

I wish everyone luck in trying to keep an au pair who made travel plans from going and explaining that suddenly this covid is more contagious than the last covid strain. The state is not locked down and schools are opening. It's confusing and an au pair will rematch if kept home.

Frankly, your biggest risk during a pandemic will always be a 20'ish year old young person who isn't related to you living in your home. We host a different au pair until September through the pandemic who took it seriously but she was even going stir crazy and going shopping and seeing friends.

I don't envy anyone with an au pair who is vaccinated that cannot trust the vaccine enough to keep the family from being hospitalized from covid19. With unvaccinated children in my home, I'm not risking it a second time around.

Precisely why we are quitting the AP program. Too many LCCs looking the other way. Too many scientifically illiterate HFs.

[Anonymous]

Agree, we quit too, plus the au pairs just rematch at the drop of a hat with people offering so many perks on fb groups. Not worth it anymore!

[Anonymous]

Good luck convincing vaccinated aupairs that they have to stay home from a party. They weren't staying home when they weren't vaccinated.

I know that you would have to be a horrible person to purposely get a child sick with covid19, but many do not understand that you can pass it along even when you are vaccinated and not ill yourself.

It looks like adults will get boosters before kids get their first shot. Our first aupair was great with lockdown but our second wasn't and caught covid19. She wasn't educated enough to even understand how a virus works.

I don't envy any family who is hosting right now.