Our live in nanny has been sick for a few days. Got a positive yesterday. She goes home on weekends, I can't control what goes on there obviously. I am also sick - waiting for test results. I am 8 months pregnant.
- should I tell our school right now or wait for test results?
- she got us all sick. people, if you think this wont happen to you - well, it might. we are as safe as you can get - and now this. i am literally revising my will now, terrified.
You have to tell the school now. Even if you get negative results, I am sure your school will not let you come back if you were in that close of proximity to a positive case. Our school makes you stay home for that. Not worth the risk of making others sick.
I am sorry that you age going through this. I really hope everything is okay for you and your family. Take care!
one of your kids might have gotten her sick, lots of people are positive with no symptoms
my kids go nowhere except for school where they sit in masks 6 feet apart and where not one case has been reported. we havent been to a playground or a grocery store since march. we work from home. we go in our own car to the middle of nowhere once a week.
You’re an idiot if you think the kids couldn’t have picked this up at school
@Anonymous Ah, now it feels just like my beloved UB.
I'm sorry you're sick, but how is having a live-in nanny who goes home on the weekends as "safe as you can get?" Seems much riskier than having your kids visit an outdoor playground!
I would let her go and tell her you aren't having anyone outside the family in the house from here on in. Then hire an au pair to live in and not leave.
amazing advice considering au pair programs are basically shut down
Too late now. The good news is, 99% chance you'll be fine, and immune.
Then hire someone and tell them they can't leave. or hire no one?
I’m so sorry, OP. Most people are okay and you may even have a mild case. I don’t doubt that it is terrifying. Call your OB and make a plan Worst case, it’s a false alarm and you have a plan. But you do have to contact the school. They need to contact trace. At a minimum, your DCs cohort will go remote through Christmas. Put yourself in the shoes of the other parents and the admin. What would you want to have happen if the live-in nanny and possibly mom in your
Doesn't the school make you fill out an online form every day asking specific questions about exposure to people who have COVID? Ours does.
so sorry you are sick and it is stressful. For the record i agree with other posters - having a live in nanny who goes home on weekends i would consider much higher risk than playgrounds. I am sure you will be fine - i am sure.
Well - I didn't say that- I agree with you 100%.
Who on earth thinks this can’t happen to them? That’s crazy. You can send kids to school, you can hire the help you need and you can go to playgrounds or whatever bc you feel kids need it bc it’s been almost a fucking year. But you know you’re taking risks and might get Covid. duh.
Of course you tell the school! Don't you take a survey everyday before you send children? One of the questions is "if you've been directly exposed to someone with co-vid?" Your whole family is likely positive. BTDT (when my children got colds consecutively). You inform and wait for negative test results . . . or quarantine for 14 days. You either have "help and risk" or "no help and highly control your own risk." You can't have both.
I’m really curious why you hyphenate Covid.
@anonymous Good question. Bad habit.
Yes- Covid stands for COronaVIrus Disease. No hyphen needed!
Allowing a nanny in is NOT SAFE, btw. So, no.
One of the most fascinating things about all this to me is reading the various knots people tie themselves in to convince themselves what theyre doing is “safe”. Like traveling, but staying in an Airbnb. Or playing indoor kids’ sports, but w masks. Or Europeans all traveling to Greece for summer vacation. Etc etc. There was a great Swiss-cheese diagram in NYT, bc pretty much everyone’s strategy has holes in it. The least you can do is have some awareness of that
This is pretty much spot on. Some of us relaxed our guard a bit - going to the store for quick pick-ups, DC plays in outdoor (masked) soccer league with sign-ins for contract tracing and attendee limits, in-person masked school with testing, etc. it’s ultimately a numbers game. Most of us on this board live in places that were hit the worst in the beginning and as a result masks are de rigueur so we feel okay, but nothing is fail safe.
@anonymous i disagree that people are tying themselves in knots and convincing themselves things are safe. I actually am shocked at this point in the pandemic that people are not better versed in the science. For example: why would staying in an airbnb give you covid? It would not. Why would playing soccer outdoors masked give you covid? It almost certainly wouldn't. Being with other humans, inside, will give you covid. end of story. It's weird to me that people are still so mystified by this.
I‘m sorry I hope you feel Better soon. You (everyone) can not have non family members in your house. Can’t trust people to do the right thing