Colleen27
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2007
I thought it was odd that our governor specifically mentioned that people were allowed to travel between their residences if they have more than one when she officially announced the lockdown here.
I know a friend and her husband left town last week for their cottage up north when both of them were no longer able to report to work. My inlaws have been tossing around the idea of heading up north to their cottage, despite MIL having a serious medical episode up there earlier this month that the hospital there told her they could not provide continuing assessment or treatment for -- along with my FIL's increasing string of medical issues that have caused him to be hospitalized several times over the past several months. She cannot drive. He really should not be driving any longer. What could go wrong with a four and a half hour drive?
We're at home trying to contend with work and college coursework and hoping this is all a memory as soon as reasonably possible.
I thought it was strange too. But to be honest, we thought about it and if our place up north had reliable internet, we'd be there right now. We'd have self-quarantined a lot longer than 14 days - we usually pack in everything we need for the length of our stay because it isn't in a tourist area, it is miles to the nearest grocery and that's just a tiny IGA - so there wouldn't be a concern about introducing the virus to anyone else up there. And since DH and, at the time, DS were still working, the girls and I would be more isolated there than we are at home. But since they're both attending school online, the internet issue was a deal-breaker.
Since they're shipping COVID19 patients further and further out state as the metro area hospitals are overwhelmed, I wouldn't feel like us going up is an outsize infection risk. It is far more likely to end up spread via heathcare professionals treating those transferred patients than by people following the stay-at-home guidelines in their vacation home rather than their primary residence.