Anonymous
Post 03/19/2020 16:28     Subject: Re:Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Anonymous wrote:I don't have an AP right now, but with the new Level IV travel warning that Americans should not travel anywhere internationally, what happens when their visas run out, if they are staying? Seems like they would be extended, or they would all become illegal.


I have not heard of any home countries not allowing citizens or permanent residents back in.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2020 15:59     Subject: Re:Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
I don't have an AP right now, but with the new Level IV travel warning that Americans should not travel anywhere internationally, what happens when their visas run out, if they are staying? Seems like they would be extended, or they would all become illegal.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 23:10     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Anonymous wrote:Our German au pair tells me one of her friends from
training school has already gone home, and several of the other local German au pairs are discussing stay/go. (We are in the Midwest but in a pretty significant social distancing situation with pretty much no social anything). I think she wants to go home. They’re afraid of not being able to get out of the US.

Also - what about their health care if they get sick? They have no real insurance!


We have a German AP and she just did something that upped her health coverage.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 22:13     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Our German au pair tells me one of her friends from
training school has already gone home, and several of the other local German au pairs are discussing stay/go. (We are in the Midwest but in a pretty significant social distancing situation with pretty much no social anything). I think she wants to go home. They’re afraid of not being able to get out of the US.

Also - what about their health care if they get sick? They have no real insurance!
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 18:57     Subject: Re:Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
For those of you whose APs are leaving, are they finding it difficult to find flights? Our Ap’s flight home for next month was just cancelled.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 16:19     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Anonymous wrote:My AP has been going to the gym still. She says it is mostly empty.


haha this is GOLD. Apparently you are immune from COVID19? Or you have a secret vaccine? You know people in their 20s/30s/40s also get sick, right? Gyms are breeding grounds for germs, including COVID19, which lives in surfaces for up to 3 days. Tell your au pair to download one of the million free in-home workouts like the rest of us. A 4-year-old could do a better risk/benefit analysis than you've done here.

It’s not only the elderly and people with underlying health complaints that are being badly affected by COVID-19. Dr Ignace Demeyer, who works at an Accident and Emergency department in an Aalst hospital (East Flanders) warns that people with no history of illness are getting very ill. “We’re not only talking about the older generations. We’re talking about people aged between 30 and 50, who come in here. Frankly speaking lung scans of these patients are scary”.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 10:30     Subject: Re:Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?

Ours is staying too. Anyone with ideas of nice things we can do for our au pairs who are sticking it out? They can't really go out and spend money now and who knows when they will be able to travel. Anyone with a pulse on things that would help a teenager get through this isolating period?
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 10:28     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Our BP is leaving, two months early. We discussed it last night. He will likely go on Monday. We completely support him. It’s hell being stuck in our house right now. Both kids are nightmares for different reasons, DH is extraordinarily stressed about the market, and I’m stressed out about work and my kids. I would flee too, and I told him that.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 09:30     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Anonymous wrote:Is anyone’s Au pair staying? My au pair said most of her friends are going home. And she is going back and forth.


Ours is staying and so are all of her friends. I think she is happy to stay and earn some money since there will be no jobs anyway.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 08:35     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am carrying on with normal life. You people are nuts.


You’re nuts. Are you not watching the news? Italy is a disaster because people “carried on with life” like you are and it spread like wildfire. If you don’t care about getting into a situation where medical workers literally have to choose which lives and dies because there aren’t enough respirators, then go on carry on with life like we’re not in a global pandemic.


You are nuts and apparently do not read. Italy has the oldest population in Europe and has the highest level of generational mixing in Europe as well (grandchildren, parents, grandparents living together and socializing). It spread like wildfire because with intact multi-generational families living in close proximity and a really old population, you will have more spreading of any disease. It is not because people dared to go into a Starbucks. China, a dictatorship, forcibly removed children from their parents, etc. in order to break up the family transmission rate. The US is younger, spread out more, and full of dysfunctional families/incels who practice social distancing as a rule are not wantonly disregarding public safety if they have a playdate. Get a grip.



It's fine if you have a different risk calculation for you and your family. But I don't think it is reasonable for anyone to be expected to have unwelcome exposure because their AP has a different risk tolerance. This is the sort of thing that either HFs and APs need to agree on or part ways. I would not continue to host someone who didn't willingly agree to social distancing at this time.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 08:08     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Anonymous wrote:Is anyone’s Au pair staying? My au pair said most of her friends are going home. And she is going back and forth.


Our AP is staying. Would need to be quarantined if she goes home and everything is closed there, too.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 07:22     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Is anyone’s Au pair staying? My au pair said most of her friends are going home. And she is going back and forth.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2020 00:16     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am carrying on with normal life. You people are nuts.


You’re nuts. Are you not watching the news? Italy is a disaster because people “carried on with life” like you are and it spread like wildfire. If you don’t care about getting into a situation where medical workers literally have to choose which lives and dies because there aren’t enough respirators, then go on carry on with life like we’re not in a global pandemic.


You are nuts and apparently do not read. Italy has the oldest population in Europe and has the highest level of generational mixing in Europe as well (grandchildren, parents, grandparents living together and socializing). It spread like wildfire because with intact multi-generational families living in close proximity and a really old population, you will have more spreading of any disease. It is not because people dared to go into a Starbucks. China, a dictatorship, forcibly removed children from their parents, etc. in order to break up the family transmission rate. The US is younger, spread out more, and full of dysfunctional families/incels who practice social distancing as a rule are not wantonly disregarding public safety if they have a playdate. Get a grip.


NP. It is really bad when even FOX News get it and you don't!


Your grammar is horrid. Yikes.
Anonymous
Post 03/17/2020 22:55     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am carrying on with normal life. You people are nuts.


You’re nuts. Are you not watching the news? Italy is a disaster because people “carried on with life” like you are and it spread like wildfire. If you don’t care about getting into a situation where medical workers literally have to choose which lives and dies because there aren’t enough respirators, then go on carry on with life like we’re not in a global pandemic.


You are nuts and apparently do not read. Italy has the oldest population in Europe and has the highest level of generational mixing in Europe as well (grandchildren, parents, grandparents living together and socializing). It spread like wildfire because with intact multi-generational families living in close proximity and a really old population, you will have more spreading of any disease. It is not because people dared to go into a Starbucks. China, a dictatorship, forcibly removed children from their parents, etc. in order to break up the family transmission rate. The US is younger, spread out more, and full of dysfunctional families/incels who practice social distancing as a rule are not wantonly disregarding public safety if they have a playdate. Get a grip.


NP. It is really bad when even FOX News get it and you don't!
Anonymous
Post 03/17/2020 22:43     Subject: Au Pairs leaving because of coronavirus?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am carrying on with normal life. You people are nuts.


You’re nuts. Are you not watching the news? Italy is a disaster because people “carried on with life” like you are and it spread like wildfire. If you don’t care about getting into a situation where medical workers literally have to choose which lives and dies because there aren’t enough respirators, then go on carry on with life like we’re not in a global pandemic.


You are nuts and apparently do not read. Italy has the oldest population in Europe and has the highest level of generational mixing in Europe as well (grandchildren, parents, grandparents living together and socializing). It spread like wildfire because with intact multi-generational families living in close proximity and a really old population, you will have more spreading of any disease. It is not because people dared to go into a Starbucks. China, a dictatorship, forcibly removed children from their parents, etc. in order to break up the family transmission rate. The US is younger, spread out more, and full of dysfunctional families/incels who practice social distancing as a rule are not wantonly disregarding public safety if they have a playdate. Get a grip.