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Do either of you have parents nearby? Our scenario is very similar and my parents are like "we can still hang out with the kids, right" and I'm struggling with how to respond.
My mom is 83 been having a lot of knee pain and back pain. She's been down lately. We normally see her a few times a month or she'll come over for a night or 2.
In theory yes. But these images make me feel almost as ill as those shots of O'Hare over the weekend.
Look, all of us have to make our own decisions about our tolerance for risk, but we decided on Friday to cancel our plans to drive over to my parents and celebrate Dad's 79th birthday. He didn't understand at first at said, "We can't stop living." I said, "You literally can, and that's why we're not coming."
I wouldn't go to a packed Spring Break beach. It really just depends on the density of people there.
I mean, that's also the case for me when there's no pandemic. Also, someone who's stupid enough to be at a packed beach right now is also probably someone stupid enough to be doing other things that might spread the virus
California has been far from warm this month. Noah’s Ark type rain. Never out of the 50’s
My in laws stopped by two days ago. FIL sticks out his hand to shake mine. MIL tries to give me a hug. Immediately gives my toddler a hug and kiss.
Please send some up here. Northern CA hasn't had much this rainy season. I'm in the city but am concerned about the summer fire season.
I live in a small beach town on FL's east coast. Ever since the amusement parks and schools got closed and with no sports, we have been inundated with people from Orlando coming to the beach. Lines on the road to the beach backed up for miles. At least the bikers seem to be starting to go home. No bueno.
On the one hand, I've heard that brief interactions are less likely to result in transmission. If you have to interact with a clerk, wash your hands immediately before and after, try to keep distance, put money down on table and ask him to do the same with change, etc. (or use ApplePay if they're set up for it.)
That seems to be taking it too far with the mail. We’re just opening it and then immediately washing hands afterwards.
Corona or not, I wouldn't go to the beach if it was cold and raining. However, I am sure the beach is very safe as the virus goes. A windy beach with a full on downpour isn't exactly hospitable for a virus.
We've been taking our dog to the beach during not busy times...easy to socially distance. Still surprised to see old people out there though...some people just wont give up their routine
I pretty much cant take any of these declarations from mayors and governors seriously when they dont include serious restrictions for the elderly and detailed plans to make sure they stay fed while they are restricted.
Probably. My family is a pretty reasonable bunch. We’re all avoiding, and keeping our kids away from, our parents in their 70s. And my parents are staying in. They have workers finishing a job at their house and are allowing that to complete, but otherwise they’re on lockdown. My dad got stir crazy the other day and came by to sit out back and have a smoke with me, but the kids and we stayed 6-10 feet away at all times. Better safe than sorry.
This thing hasn’t even really hit in the US. Ohio has closed schools for 3 weeks but I don’t think the schools open again for this school year. This new, strange world with social distancing as a way of life is probably going to last until June.
Same here. I've been on Garmin Connect and Strava forever, but recently discovered Endomondo. Endomondo tracks everything and has a calendar that, to me, is an incredible motivator (as gaps in the calendar #### me off). My current goal is to see just how many activities and I can "plot". We are lucky to have a treadmill, spin bike, bike trainer and multiple TRX set ups. Along with all of this, YouTube has Yoga, among other things. I'm in MI too and hoping they keep the state parks and metroparks open. If they do, when things warm up I hope to bike and run Belle Isle, MetroBeach and the like (all while maintaining social distancing).
Happy St. Patrick's Day 
What’s weird to me is you would think the older people would actually know to take this serious and know how to handle it.
We did the same yesterday. We wobbled on it this weekend and let our kids have a friend over, felt like we shouldn't have though.
Yeah, it's tough. Everyone has to draw their own line, but I think it's better to err on the side of caution. But as I mentioned in a previous post, there is no binary decision where this is definitely OK and this will definitely get you infected. Everything is about risk mitigation. In theory, it would probably be best if we all separated ourselves completely from other people, including our family, but that's simply not realistic. So we all make our various concessions and try not to be stupid about it. If you can get by without in-person playdates, that's better. If you think your kids will go all "Shining" on you, then try to limit it to one-on-one, outdoor playdates that don't involve close contact (I know, it may be hard to check all those boxes.)
There's just this weird thing where they're in denial or want to downplay it. I'm sure there's some psychological explanation, but I'm seeing this everywhere among the elderly.
We have a kid turning 5 this weekend and we axed her party. Grand parents aren't too happy, but hopefully they understand. My parents are just in their 70's but not great health. I've urged them to take this seriously, but they really haven't. They still interact with my sisters kids every afternoon.
First of all, whether or not she should be seeing clients right now, tell your wife she is doing God's work and thank her for me.gf insists on still seeing her clients ... she does behavioral therapy with kids (mostly between 4-8 yrs old) on the spectrum.
great majority of this is usually done at their respective schools, but all are closed now - so the parents have asked for her to keep seeing their children because they rely on her so much - home visits were shot down, so the compromise was two hr seassions at the office.
her dedication to these kids is something i deeply love and admire about her, but i did request at least a two week break here so we, as a family, could lock the #### down - we're fully stocked for the apocalypse, or the next two months, whichever comes first.
i don't fully expect to keep myself bunkered any longer than April 1st, lest it's government mandated ... and this is what i asked of her - JUST GIVE IT TWO FULL WEEKS and let's see how we come outta it on the other side.
but, nope ... she's prepping to leave, has a 10 - 12 client this morning ... TWO hours, but she assures me those two hours are so crucial to these kids.
so, off she goes ... and i gotta swallow it for now - sending her to and fro using Uber, but that still doesn't ease my agita enough.
i feel kinda selfish and cold telling her to put this #### on the back burner for a bit, and i may have to get harder core in slapping the kibosh on this.
Saw people celebrating a kids' birthday party at a public park this weekend, with grandparents present. Had to resist the urge to yell at them.
I took the dogs on a run Sunday and saw a baby shower at the neighborhood clubhouse. Probably 50+ people.
