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Anonymous wrote:Even if you tell your au pair to follow CDC, state, and local guidelines, I guarantee you that you will still be feeling very uncomfortable with what the au pairs are up to if you and your family have been cautious. Au pairs basically will act like COVID doesn't exist but occasionally wear a mask (not always properly).

Bars? Hey, they're open at reduced capacity, so au pairs can go, right?
Restaurants and drinking? Same as above and definitely maskless because they're consuming food/drink. Are the wait staff going say something to their customers if their chairs aren't distanced? Nope.
Tinder and other apps? Well, that's not the same as a "gathering" so why would this not be ok?
Travel? Also open, so why would you have a problem with it?

Then, the vaccine also makes them COVID-proof, right? Why would you have any restrictions if they're vaccinated. So what that they *might* transmit the virus still... some evidence says vaccinated people likely don't too... therefore this shouldn't impact how au pairs are living their "best life" here...

All of the above (PP is a rockstar!). And guess what? If your family does get COVID our your au pair is not adhering to your rules, your agency and your LCC will give you the trope, "well, maybe you are not right for the program". I am beyond disgusted by our agency and LCC at the moment

Your house, your rules! If your LCC thinks that your rules are unreasonable (vis-a-vis other HFs) then the program may not make sense for you, at least not right now.

Your AP will never tell you what they're up to because they want their "privacy." Or they'll lie to your face that they're going out to dinner (a liquid dinner at an establishment not known for its food...) You can have all the rules that you want to, but APs are young adults and at an age where they're largely selfish about their own desires.

If you're not comfortable with an AP acting like it's 2019, then pretty much all of us are "not right for the program." The days of kicking an AP out into rematch for high-risk activities are over and about 50% of them have already managed to obtain vaccines (according to our LCC).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if you tell your au pair to follow CDC, state, and local guidelines, I guarantee you that you will still be feeling very uncomfortable with what the au pairs are up to if you and your family have been cautious. Au pairs basically will act like COVID doesn't exist but occasionally wear a mask (not always properly).

Bars? Hey, they're open at reduced capacity, so au pairs can go, right?
Restaurants and drinking? Same as above and definitely maskless because they're consuming food/drink. Are the wait staff going say something to their customers if their chairs aren't distanced? Nope.
Tinder and other apps? Well, that's not the same as a "gathering" so why would this not be ok?
Travel? Also open, so why would you have a problem with it?

Then, the vaccine also makes them COVID-proof, right? Why would you have any restrictions if they're vaccinated. So what that they *might* transmit the virus still... some evidence says vaccinated people likely don't too... therefore this shouldn't impact how au pairs are living their "best life" here...

All of the above (PP is a rockstar!). And guess what? If your family does get COVID our your au pair is not adhering to your rules, your agency and your LCC will give you the trope, "well, maybe you are not right for the program". I am beyond disgusted by our agency and LCC at the moment

Your house, your rules! If your LCC thinks that your rules are unreasonable (vis-a-vis other HFs) then the program may not make sense for you, at least not right now.

Your AP will never tell you what they're up to because they want their "privacy." Or they'll lie to your face that they're going out to dinner (a liquid dinner at an establishment not known for its food...) You can have all the rules that you want to, but APs are young adults and at an age where they're largely selfish about their own desires.

If you're not comfortable with an AP acting like it's 2019, then pretty much all of us are "not right for the program." The days of kicking an AP out into rematch for high-risk activities are over and about 50% of them have already managed to obtain vaccines (according to our LCC).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if you tell your au pair to follow CDC, state, and local guidelines, I guarantee you that you will still be feeling very uncomfortable with what the au pairs are up to if you and your family have been cautious. Au pairs basically will act like COVID doesn't exist but occasionally wear a mask (not always properly).

Bars? Hey, they're open at reduced capacity, so au pairs can go, right?
Restaurants and drinking? Same as above and definitely maskless because they're consuming food/drink. Are the wait staff going say something to their customers if their chairs aren't distanced? Nope.
Tinder and other apps? Well, that's not the same as a "gathering" so why would this not be ok?
Travel? Also open, so why would you have a problem with it?

Then, the vaccine also makes them COVID-proof, right? Why would you have any restrictions if they're vaccinated. So what that they *might* transmit the virus still... some evidence says vaccinated people likely don't too... therefore this shouldn't impact how au pairs are living their "best life" here...

All of the above (PP is a rockstar!). And guess what? If your family does get COVID our your au pair is not adhering to your rules, your agency and your LCC will give you the trope, "well, maybe you are not right for the program". I am beyond disgusted by our agency and LCC at the moment

Your house, your rules! If your LCC thinks that your rules are unreasonable (vis-a-vis other HFs) then the program may not make sense for you, at least not right now.

Anonymous wrote:Just demand they arrive with proof of having been fully vaccinated.