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Our Plan to Distance from Our Returning College Student Survived 20 Seconds
To distance or not to distance? That is the question when college kids come home this year.
It took less than 20 seconds for our carefully crafted safely-bring-the-college-student-home-for-the-holidays COVID risk mitigation plan to fly right out the opened-for-airflow window.
For weeks prior to the long-awaited arrival of our daughter, we had discussed how best to handle her reintroduction into our safe as we can bear to make it little bubble. This was the topic of many a dinner conversation between her dad, her sister, and I.
How much separation and isolation is achievable? How much separation is realistic? How much hassle and heartache are we willing to go through to try to avoid potentially infecting each other before 14 days pass and we are a new tight bubble again until she leaves for the second semester in late January.
It is also a hot topic on all my various parent of college student's FaceBook groups both public and private. Opinions run the gamut from I’m going to welcome my baby back with a giant hug and a kiss and if we all die so be it, to I’ve rented an Air BnB nearby for him to stay in for two weeks before we let him back into the house.
