# When are you going to open up your home / accept invitations? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 29, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853 "2020-04-29T22:19:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853/1 "2020-04-29T22:19:10Z")
As we see everywhere right now, there’s few legal reasons you couldn’t have three other people, or even one, over for dinner, but there are medical and moral reasons not to. I haven’t seen my cousin’s new baby or been to board game night in almost two months. If you were that baby’s mother, how would you decide when to let family see the new arrival? When would you accept that invitation to game night? Apply however is most relevant to your life! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853/2 "2020-04-29T22:44:38Z")
I’ve invited over two responsible people. I offered that they could sit on the porch 6’ from us and that I’d have unopened snacks and drinks there before they arrived. Neither has taken me up on it. Meanwhile, my neighbors had several people from their church over recently, and though they sat outside, they were less than 1’ from each other. They spent the time loudly denouncing Pelosi. One coughed a lot. I worked hard to extend compassion to sentient (?) creatures. ---
**Author:** ![Kovitlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kovitlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kovitlac)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853/3 "2020-04-30T14:29:08Z")
I’ve gone to see my parents and order in dinner with them a few times. We’re all working from home, and yeah it’s not 100% safe, but nothing is. I think it’ll be awhile till my next visit, though. Otherwise it’s just my mom dropping off a check for me, or dad stopping by so I can give him my car title to put in the bank. Stuff that really needs to happen either way, but visits are minimized. How long until I have movie night with my friends again? No idea, because everything feels like it’s constantly changing. My area is NOT currently reopening, since the virus hit us late in IA/NE/SD, so I have no idea when I’ll be able to really hang out with my friends again. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853/4 "2020-04-30T14:41:23Z")
I am letting the maid in after a month. I let some neighbor kids come over and make a few bucks doing yard work, and talked outside to their dad for a few minutes. My parents came over for a couple hours, we stayed outside and far apart. I think I will go to my mom’s this weekend, sit in her backyard. But that’s really it. I don’t want to expand that circle any wider for several more weeks, see what happens and if there’s a spike as the state opens up. ---
**Author:** ![MDfive21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@MDfive21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MDfive21)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853/5 "2020-04-30T16:01:36Z")
we (family of 3) have formed a partnership with the parents of my daughter’s best friend, who lives a few houses down. our 10 yr olds were going stir crazy so we have allowed them to play outdoors and swim in the neighbor’s pool a few times a week, but only as long as it’s just contact between the two families and no outside chances of infection are present. i would be fine with indoor play-dates but the neighbor’s mom is skittish about close contact indoors. there are similar agreements throughout the neighborhood. from the beginning i’ve seen groups of kids playing together as normal. i think it’s fine because the kids really need that in-person interaction. it’s cruel to keep them locked down. we’re in TX btw so we’re opening businesses right now thanks to Gov Abbott’s ‘STRIKE FORCE! to open Texas’ who tf named that thing? crazy. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853/6 "2020-04-30T16:22:43Z")
I can’t have people over but there are certainly a few I would visit. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853/7 "2020-04-30T21:09:42Z")
Why would I start now? And get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853/8 "2020-04-30T21:22:20Z")
I have had a few friends over. None of us are in an age/health category that would be statistically threatened by potential infection, and we all live alone away from any elderly parents. The big danger isn’t visiting a friend, the danger is being in an enclosed environment where you are exposed to dozens or hundreds where any one of them could expose the whole bar/restaurant/theatre. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853/9 "2020-04-30T22:48:38Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > I have had a few friends over. > > None of us are in an age/health category that would be statistically threatened by potential infection, and we all live alone away from any elderly parents. > > The big danger isn’t visiting a friend, the danger is being in an enclosed environment where you are exposed to dozens or hundreds where any one of them could expose the whole bar/restaurant/theatre. Aren’t you an Instacart driver? Therefore more likely to come into contact with CV germs than the rest of us isolationists? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-open-up-your-home-accept-invitations/852853/10 "2020-04-30T23:08:46Z")
No one is coming to my house. We have been on a lockdown and lockout. 7 of us in the house. Son and DIL and their 2 kids are allowed because they are on lockout at their house. DIL is the only one out and about. We’ve been very careful when she brings groceries. Washing her hands. Removing her shoes. Wiping all grocery packages and mail down. Nothing comes in the house til it’s sanitized. Our astute governor is opening up some things this weekend. I don’t think anyone here will be going out. They want to. But I’m guilt-tripping them.