COVID protocols

[Anonymous]

In the process of interviewing nannies and hope to make an offer soon - what kind of COVID protocols, if any, do you have in place for your nanny these days? Eg if they have a close exposure (like someone they live with tests positive), do you require them to test negative before coming to work? I know it's 2022, not 2020, so I'm just curious how others are handling it these days.

[Anonymous]

I'm working unless I'm too sick to work. My employer works out of state, has been delayed for return twice due to covid.

Nanny friends have different levels of willingness/ability to cope with covid. One I know stays home if anyone in her family or employer's family is sick (not exposed, sick). Another friend has several compromised individuals in her family and her employer's family, so they quarantine if there's any exposure in either household. Most of the other nannies are working unless they or the kids are sick, and some are working if kids are sick, but there's no fever, diarrhea or vomiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm working unless I'm too sick to work. My employer works out of state, has been delayed for return twice due to covid.

Nanny friends have different levels of willingness/ability to cope with covid. One I know stays home if anyone in her family or employer's family is sick (not exposed, sick). Another friend has several compromised individuals in her family and her employer's family, so they quarantine if there's any exposure in either household. Most of the other nannies are working unless they or the kids are sick, and some are working if kids are sick, but there's no fever, diarrhea or vomiting.

Thanks for sharing this. I think it's a fine line between wanting to keep us/nanny safe and not wanting to quarantine all the time, because everyone and their mother seems to be getting covid these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm working unless I'm too sick to work. My employer works out of state, has been delayed for return twice due to covid.

Nanny friends have different levels of willingness/ability to cope with covid. One I know stays home if anyone in her family or employer's family is sick (not exposed, sick). Another friend has several compromised individuals in her family and her employer's family, so they quarantine if there's any exposure in either household. Most of the other nannies are working unless they or the kids are sick, and some are working if kids are sick, but there's no fever, diarrhea or vomiting.

Thanks for sharing this. I think it's a fine line between wanting to keep us/nanny safe and not wanting to quarantine all the time, because everyone and their mother seems to be getting covid these days.

That's b/c people have dropped mitigation while allowing for more transmissible variants to circulate.