To be fair, I’ve not stuck with only reading stuff in the US. Due to our government being so bad at telling us what to do, I’ve looked at stuff from the UK as well. It wouldn’t surprise me if there are terminology differences.
Oh, and for the record, we’re still working things out. Currently it’s 2 (Dad and me), but we might pod up with my sister and her roommates (whose mother disowned them and whose father is in a nursing home, and so have become our adopted family).
Sorry to confuse, all of the news outlets were recommending celebrating T-day with only your “pod.” I think BigT nailed it as I understand it.
Just my Wife and I. I’m working full time from home, she has a kind of modified schedule where she works from home some days, and goes to the office on others. They can distance in her office that way, but I don’t understand why they don’t just have them work from home full time.
I love working from home, and hope I can until I retire in about 5 years.
We have seen one friend that also works from home, and she lives alone. Seen her twice since March.
I see my Mom to buy her food and take her to doctor visits about twice a month, not sure if that counts as my Pod. She lives alone.
We already live quite isolated, so it’s not been that big of an adjustment.
Technically five - Two in my immediate household (me and my partner), but we have a similarly-minded friend couple with a child we’ve adopted as our “okay to hang out with” people. We live in a relatively rural area with a lot of parks and trails, and they have a huge screened-in back porch, so it works out. Not sure what we’re going to do over winter.
Four, if I understand the definition correctly. Me, Wife, Adult Kiddo and her BF. These are the people frequently in the house.
Since Kiddo’s BF lives with his Mom (just the two of them) we figured it was OK to have her over for Thanksgiving. Just one additional person who, if not in our Pod, was in our vector space. We ate spread out in the LR on individual tables. Kinda strange but we figured much better than gathered around a table talking.
I don’t know if this counts, but occasionally (once/month) my Eldest is in town and joins us for a meal. Since he travels constantly and internationally, this increases the pathways dramatically, but we decided we’ll risk this sometimes. There’s a point where I accept the risk to see my kids, and he spends so much time alone in hotel rooms I hate to leave him in one when he’s in our town.
Just me.
I have a question for those of you who’s pods or bubbles (Pobbles?) include your kids’ classmates’ families: how sure are you that those families aren’t in other bubbles as well?
From the Washington Post:
But public health officials nationwide say case investigations are increasingly leading them to small, private social gatherings. This behind-doors transmission trend reflects pandemic fatigue and widening social bubbles, experts say…
and
“We’ve all gotten used to our bubbles, but I don’t think we’ve really asked whether someone who’s in our bubble is also in another person’s bubble,” Shah said. “People’s bubbles are getting big enough to burst.”
My wife and I live alone, but there is one other couple we see about every two weeks. Masks, and social distancing, and perhaps a meal outdoors are the parameters.
Our sons both live in another state, and we haven’t seen them for over a year now. So our hearts and minds are tugging in different directions.
Just my wife and me. We order groceries either for delivery (from a local rooftop garden farm) or for curbside pickup from the supermarket. We did go to our drugstore for flu shots, but otherwise get meds delivered too.
My son spent nearly 4 weeks visiting us, but he preceded it by spending 2 weeks in an apartment hotel near the airport (as required by Canadian immigration) and then one week in a voluntary quarantine before returning home. He is fortunately able to work from anywhere with an internet connection.
We have a once-a-week Zoom meeting with all three kids. During the summer we met in a park with friends twice but kept at least 10 feet away with masks.
4 here: me, my spouse, the friend who rents the basement, and now my son since he’s home from college until January. He’s been home over a week, so we’re just about to give up on everyone wearing masks in the house.
We basically go nowhere. A grocery pickup about once a week. Rarely one of us will pop out to a local restaurant to get takeout. Everything else gets ordered online and delivered.
There’s a street that’s very near our house: one mile south on that is one grocery store and a few restaurants (plus the CVS). It’s pretty much the only road we drive on. I have not left the house in 10 days.
We do have some risk factors: Typo and I are > 60, I’ve got some of the comorbilities; our friend is 50+ and has a couple of them. So we’re pretty paranoid. The only incursions are the occasional service person, and we finally started having our housecleaner back in (we wear masks when she’s around, and we know she’s very careful on her own).
One. I do visit my parents on occasion and have occasional visitors. But I space out any inter-pod contact by two weeks so as not to transmit anything between pods. I’m low risk but my family is not.