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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, our AP is coughing this morning. And was coughing a bit last night.

Honestly that alone was enough to make me think “what are doing?!?” with keeping what’s effectively an unnecessary extra vector around. Sounds really cold, but at the same time I think about how we deal with continuing to manage protecting our family when she’s going to want to take as more liberal approach to social distancing.

No idea what we do for childcare over the summer though, but we’d be halfway in that position anyway - she leaves part way though summer no matter what. [/quote]

If your AP is sick with Corona or even just a cough you won’t be able to rematch/send her home now. At this Stage, if she is sick, the safest place will be at your home because it means you already likely all have been exposed to it and obviously as per medical/national advice, she needs to stay put. If she has it by the time she would be safe to travel she would have had the virus and have built up immunity to it so would actually be the safest person in your household then, so there would be no point rematching.

But yes, it’s pretty awful you are willing to abandon a young woman who is sick in an unknown country in the middle of a pandemic knowing she won’t currently be allowed to fly home. [/quote]

OP here. I don’t think she’s actually sick, and especially with coronavirus, because we have been doing pretty extreme social distancing. I obviously wouldn’t kick her out while sick. What I should have said differently: her coughing made me think more about the fact that any extra person in the home is an extra chance at viral transmission, unless that person literally goes NOWHERE and is in contact with NOONE. Right now that may be the case but it won’t be the instant our state lifts its shelter in place order. So while she might be “safe” today, if the order is lifted next week and she begins even minimal social interaction, it’s just another opportunity for virus to enter our home.

And we just don’t NEED care at this point, but we continue to pay for it and house her and feed her and pay phone and insurance expenses. We never would have brought on an au pair if we expected to have two adults home at all times. It’s just an entirely changed dynamic. Our state is starting to roll out predictions for longer term and I see at least 7-8 more weeks of parents at home. Until summer at minimum. And then, she’ll leave before summer is even over anyway (plus she will be trying to squeeze in all of her deferred travel).

I just don’t think it makes sense anymore under current conditions. [/quote]

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