Are you quarantining your college students?

[easypeasy]

Please don't quote.

DD will be home today. There are 7 *known* cases at her school. They were attending classes, but dd, nor her friends, are in classes with those kids. However, thee are also cases in the very populous county where dds school is located. 

We figure we need to quarantine her to her own room/bathroom when she gets home? 

But my mama heart is miserable. I want to give my girl a huge hug and console her for how much this all sucks!! DH is unhappy. Her siblings aren't happy. 

Is that what we need to do for now? Is it even gonna do any good?

Gah!!! 🤬

[JenneinCA]

No.  I am in Santa Clara county.  The kids are coming from Flagstaff with no cases in the county and near Albany, New York no cases at his school.  It is way more likely that due to community spread they will get it from being home than I will get it from them.  The whole situation is miserable.  There is no way I can deal with the emotional fallout of trying to quarantine the college kids.

[Matryoshka]

Mine all have apartments and are staying there thus far.  They're all driving distance and we've dropped off supplies but maintained distance. 

One dd's roommate is heading back home to South Africa and has apparently found someone to sub-let for April/May, and dd has now said she wants to come home for that time.  Honestly, if she does,  I would like her to stay to room/bathroom for at least two weeks - which may make her want to stay in her apartment after all.  I feel really mean, but we all cannot afford especially for dh61 to get sick.  And if I'm too sick to cook, there's no surplus of already prepared food - I stocked up on ingredients and dh and dd can barely boil water.  And that dd refuses to eat anything I cook anyway, and I don't have her chosen items in quantity to keep her alive longer than a couple of weeks...

[RootAnn]

Mine isn't coming home. If she was, I don't have a way to keep her separate. DH works in a critical infrastructure job & will likely be quarantined at his place of work soon.

You're going to have to figure out if it makes sense for your house & needs as a family to try to quarantine or just deal with it all together if she has it & isn't showing symptoms.

[lewelma]

Yes.  My son got into NZ 12 hours before the mandatory quarantine for all travelers, but we have still quarantined him. Our very close neighbor who lives 3 meters away has diabetes and is 65.  Also I tutor kids in 6 high schools throughout the city, and these kids come to my apartment. Schools have not been shut down here as we still have no community spread.  I will NOT be the person who spreads this virus into the high schools. 

ETA: self-isolation here does not mean family members are isolated nor does it mean he can't interact with us.  He is to have separate plates/utensils, say 1m away from us, and wash his hands a lot. The moment he shows symptoms, then we go into isolation. The chance we are contagious with this time line is very very low, so dh and I are allowed to work. We live in 600 sq feet, so I figure if he has it, we will too. 

Edited March 15, 2020 by lewelma

[frogger]

I really don't know how I could really quartine just my student. I could distance him some but it's not likely we could do it successfully unless we put him in a hotel. So we are are quarantining the whole family. We plan to not leave our property for 4 weeks. 2 for him to develop symptoms and 2 for us to develop symptoms. Luckily, I had earthquake supplies and just happened to buy a bulk t.p. the week before the madness. We don't have a single confirmed case up here except 1 traveler who probably got it somewhere else so it's for the communities benefit that we do so. Luckily, DH only needs to do 2 days work next week and then will be working from home. We are still trying to figure out how to handle Tuesday as my son comes home Monday. He is talking to his boss. Perhaps he will spend the night else where.  

 

I keep hoping this won't ramp up until flu season has calmed down up here.  A lot of medical staff currently has the flu. 

Edited March 16, 2020 by frogger
Added last paragraph

[frogger]

I realized we could do a decent though not perfect isolation by letting him have our room downstairs. He could have his own bedroom and bathroom and I will put a desk in for his online classes. 

 

It is so sad. He will go from studying with friends to being cooped up in a basement most of the time. I should have left him at school but I kept hearing of campus closings which could also leave him stranded. 

[easypeasy]

19 minutes ago, frogger said:

It is so sad. He will go from studying with friends to being cooped up in a basement most of the time. I should have left him at school but I kept hearing of campus closings which could also leave him stranded. 

it is heartbreaking 😞 I am SO GLAD DD is home. Her school has handled this horribly and I was just so relieved to see her sweet face today. 
 

We've set her up in her room and gave her a mask to wear when she comes out to the bathroom next to her room. We are cleaning like lunatics. 
 

We decided on a 5-more-days quarantine. She drove home, which took 3 days. Gonna count those are quarantine time because she only stopped for bathroom breaks and gas and used a digital key/check in at the hotel. She packed her own food to eat. 
 

Two weeks would feel inhumane for someone with no symptoms, but I think we can manage 5 more days.  

Her best friend started having coldlike symptoms the day dd left. Now, it's allergy season and this girl gets like this every spring. So it could be just... that.  So.  We wait. 
 

She's in good spirits, busily sorting through her room and reorganizing for the long haul. 
 

We were planning to buy her a new bed and furniture to surprise her when she came home after graduation! 😔

So many plans out the window. I know they're minor in the great scheme of the world, but it's just so much disappointment all at once. 
 

Hoping for everyone's safety and good health above all. 💛

Welcome to the Twilight Zone! 

[chloefletcher]

No not yet but we may. 

[plansrme]

Nope.  Not a bit.  She came home Tuesday, and I hugged her tightly; I hugged her again when she went back Saturday night; I'll hug her when she picks me up at the airport this week when I go out there to help her move out of campus housing and either back home or into an off-campus apartment so she can stay and train with her college coach after she is booted from her on-campus apartment.  When I leave, I'll hug her again; heck, I might even kiss her forehead.  I just cannot go around assuming everyone has coronavirus all the time.  It is not Ebola, and I am mystified as to we healthy people are all losing our ever-loving minds over it.  I'm not sure whatever happened to the rallying cry, "My body, my choice" and why it's okay for abortion (with its 100% fatality rate) and not corona (with its .001%, or whatever it turns out to be) fatality rate.  But clearly this is not the thread I need to be on to debate this topic, so y'all just ignore it.

[Arch at Home]

My DD1 just returned last night from Spain. Spain is at CDC Level 3 Alert so person coming from there has to self quarantine for 14 days. We are going to wash hands extra and clean extra but we are not going to have her self isolate. If she has it, I assume that the rest of us will get it. We are only going to try to contain it when and if she has symptoms. 

[elegantlion]

I am the "away" college student right now. I'm planning on going home but not sure when. I've been limiting contact since Friday, only out today to grab stuff from my office and get a few groceries. I probably won't go home until next weekend, so I'll have had a week by then. We have active cases near us, but so far none near my mom and son. I'll probably not do a lot of hugging when I get home.