As most college students are back home and will have free time as online classes are ending and government is opening up cities, how are you going to convince them to maintain social distancing?
its all about the contact tracing. And its not just the college kids but older HS kids . I know kids that once they were done with the initial 14 days, created a small circle of friends that do hang out. For now they are doing mostly outdoor activities .So they are only with their families and this small circle. So if any one of them got Covid-19 could they tell a contact tracer whom they had been around. I am not judging right or wrong here How long can people be SD from everyone. Its not realistic. But one has to be in an area where the cases have gone way done, or are almost non existent. also stick to outdoor activities.
Not sure it’s just a college age issue…In my area, which isn’t open yet, I see more high schoolers and adults not social distancing than college students. Not sure I could tell them anything different than what they already know.
I feel fortunate neither of my teens are giving pressure to see friends.
My son will continue to volunteer with the Rescue Squad on their ambulances. How’s that for not social distancing…
Thanks to him for doing that hard work. I hope they have enough PPE, but I think I know better.
Mine doesn’t know anyone here so SD isn’t an issue at all. Now… ask me how we’re doing w/ convincing him not to travel w/ his friends (from CA, OR, PA, OH) at the end of the summer.
Mine starts her co-op in a different state. She’ll be doing whatever social distancing the company requires and then won’t know a soul.
In my neck of the woods, it’s younger students and older adults that seem to be having a worse time socially distancing.
It’s definitely tough on my 25-year-old, who just graduated from college in December (he’s the kid who took 2 1/2 years off after high school, so he’s older than most grads). We’re starting new raised gardens and paying him to do a lot of dirt moving and other outside work. He’s the type who does much better when he’s physically active.
For a rural volunteer rescue squad they appear to be very well funded and equipped. He was fitted for his own hard shell respirator and they have impressive decontamination procedures for both entering and exiting the station. They actually have a dedicated ambulance and crew for just the nursing homes.
Agreed. High schoolers are going through the same experience so this thread should cover them as well.
Creating a well-defined social “bubble” as they are calling it in New Zealand, can be a good thing. Of course the various families involved need to have confidence in each other’s behavior for that to work.
@ChaosParent23 , check the stay at home orders for each state; they likely have quarantine requirements for those entering. For example, my state of Ohio, those entering the state “with intent to stay” (realizing that is very gray, but it comes right after the section of those who cross borders for work so I think by “stay” they mean not coming in for the day to work) are required to self quarantine for 14 days.
As for a small group of non household members or a “bubble”, that is against our SAH orders (gatherings of any size are prohibited). I see the logic of keeping it to a small contained group, but when you consider that any of that group’s parents who are say going to work or shopping and bring the virus home, you now have that whole group, and all of their families, compromised, see how the numbers go from single digit to 20-30+ just like that? Are those 30 people really going to completely isolate now? Stop shopping and going to work? Was that part of the formation of the group, that every family member agrees to isolate if anyone in the whole group has symptoms? And if each sibling in each family has their own small group? Maybe that is a step towards easing social distancing, or maybe not…it seems like the cat gets out of the bag pretty quickly in that arrangement.