StephDRebel
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Post by StephDRebel on Apr 16, 2020 17:37:39 GMT
Nope. We are in close quarters up in here.
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brandy327
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Post by brandy327 on Apr 16, 2020 17:45:01 GMT
It's me, DH, a 16yo, and 2 15yo's. In February, 16yo had the flu and even though he was in the living room and used the main bathroom(which is the 3 kids' bathroom), no one else got it. While he's not great with washing hands typically, he did great and I made him all his food and sanitized the bathroom every time he went in. We were lucky.
Our upstairs is about 1400 sq ft. Dh and I have a bathroom off of our bedroom so if either of us got it, we'd quarantine there. The girls would quarantine in their room but would have to use the main bathroom.
It might work... but it'd be iffy.
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Post by Blind Squirrel on Apr 16, 2020 17:50:37 GMT
I don't see how. Won't everyone have been exposed by the time symptoms present? Both of my kids have a separate bathroom to use. And we have another room for sleeping if DH or I get sick, but will have to share a bathroom with one of the boys. But the sick person will need to be cared for. How do you do that without exposure? My kids are old enough and independent enough that they could take care of themselves if DH or I or both were ill. One could even go buy food if it came down to that. But he's the one who is most at risk if we do contract the virus. It sucks all the way around. We are working on the assumption if one gets sick we all get sick. That's what I'm thinking. By the time we knew, we'd all have it. |
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Post by bc2ca on Apr 16, 2020 18:06:33 GMT
DH and I have talked about this a lot. We can block off the guest room and main floor bathroom for the sick person and have everyone else live upstairs. Only one family member would have kitchen privileges on the main floor (other side of house from guest room/bathroom). Our stumbling block is the laundry room is across the hall from that bathroom. We probably could put up a tarp to create a temporary wall.  We would run into trouble if more than one person is sick. |
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Post by huskermom98 on Apr 16, 2020 18:16:40 GMT
We have a small house with one bathroom and no extra bedrooms. If DH or I would get it we'd have to either still share a bed or kick one of the boys out of their room to commandeer it for one of us. We'd still have to share a bathroom among the 4 of use so that would up the chances of spreading.
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rickmer
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Post by rickmer on Apr 16, 2020 18:19:50 GMT
one bathroom here as well.
i guess i would have to send anyone not affected to their dad's.
i try not to think about it, honestly. no easy answers.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 16, 2020 19:55:17 GMT
We have the space, but with a younger child in the house it would be harder to do. I’ve always been DD’s primary caregiver and if I got it she would have a hard time staying away from me. If she got it, I would be the one taking care of her so I would probably end up getting it. If DH or I got it, the sick one could stay in the master with the ensuite but the non-sick one would still have to prepare food, wash dishes/silverware and wash clothes for the sick one. Odds would be good that we would all end up getting it even though we have a bigger house with a separate bedroom and bathroom.
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Post by khaleesi on Apr 16, 2020 20:03:55 GMT
Just 2 of us here and we have talked about this exact scenario and whoever is ill will get the master suite since it has a full bathroom and that person will live in the suite. The other will bring food, beverage, etc to the door. If necessary, we can move a mini fridge from the basement bar up into that bedroom to have cold water and beverages. We would try and follow what the CDC recommends as best as possible.
The person not isolated would be in charge of the dogs and sanitizing everything else in the house. If we needed grocery items, we have some friends who could drop things off for us.
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Post by uksue on Apr 16, 2020 20:06:55 GMT
My son split from his girlfriend and moved home almost 3 weeks ago - luckily there’s are two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs where he’s been staying, and two bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen downstairs where I’m living and working . As he’s still going to look after his son most days he is staying upstairs to protect both households as best he can - he’s been really responsible bless him .
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Post by christine58 on Apr 16, 2020 20:17:35 GMT
But even though Chris Cuomo was quarantined in his basement, his wife still contracted the virus darn...must have missed that |
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Post by shevy on Apr 16, 2020 20:21:56 GMT
Kind of. Our bedroom is upstairs and the kitchen, extra bathroom and living area is downstairs. But for a shower, the person would have to come upstairs and all laundry is upstairs.
We'd do the best we can with what we have, because that's all anyone can do. |
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PLurker
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Post by PLurker on Apr 16, 2020 20:29:51 GMT
Although I think it'd be too late by the time either of us knew DS and I could probably do it.
He's mainly upstairs (2 beds and a bath) and my room is downstairs along with living room, bath etc and kitchen.
There are exits in my bedroom, off the kitchen and upstairs small deck in one bedroom, with stairs down. Door can close off kitchen. So whoever was "well" could feed and leave infected one food outside the bedroom exit, I suppose. And me isolate downstairs, him up stairs.
Each in own level, with kitchen area closed off and "run" by well one.
Hope it never comes to that, but I guess "doable".
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Post by betty on Apr 16, 2020 20:30:16 GMT
No I don't think we could very effectively in our house
Chris Cuomo violated his quarantine and was seen out away from his home (and basement) with his wife and kids on Easter weekend. So who knows how much real quarantining he was doing. It may have just been for TV.
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scrappinmama
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Post by scrappinmama on Apr 16, 2020 21:24:40 GMT
We have a large enough home that we could spread out, but everyone will be exposed before the sick person even knows they have it. I do worry about this as I have 2 special needs sons at home to care for.
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Post by padresfan619 on Apr 16, 2020 21:35:22 GMT
It wouldn’t work for us. Our guest room is also my husband’s home office so by the time one of us would be diagnosed, it would be too late to move things around for one of us to quarantine.
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Post by seveerb on Apr 16, 2020 21:43:38 GMT
I have been getting the guest room that hasn’t been used in a long time in shape. It is on a different floor with its own bathroom. My office is up there too. If one of us gets it, I will move upstairs.
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Post by ntsf on Apr 16, 2020 21:44:07 GMT
we have a bedroom on the main floor with an attached bathroom. it is a mess (currently cleaning it out of junk).. but someone could have a bed there and a bathroom. there is always the tent in the backyard... we live in mild climate, then there is also the option of our sailboat at the marina.. you could live aboard it. but our house isn't that big and I'm sure we would all be exposed and locked down together. I could probably feed us for 3-4 weeks, if you didn't care what you ate.
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Post by seveerb on Apr 16, 2020 21:45:13 GMT
I have been getting the guest room that hasn’t been used in a long time in shape. It is on a different floor with its own bathroom. My office is up there too. If one of us gets it, I will move upstairs.
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Post by catmom on Apr 17, 2020 0:11:54 GMT
We have a separate bedroom/family room with full bathroom and a bar area in the basement so one of us could stay there. Meals would need to be brought down though. I was thinking the healthy one of us would stay upstairs and do the cooking, bringing the food down and leaving it for the sickie. But here's the kicker. Our deep freeze with all our quarantine provisions AND our laundry room are accessed through that family room. Sooo... that's gonna be a problem. DH actually suggested unloading and moving the deep freeze into another section of the basement, but I figure the other person would already be exposed before symptoms come up and its not worth the effort. Although from friends who have had it, it would be very preferable to not have both of us be symptomatic at the same time - brutal.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 17, 2020 0:17:50 GMT
No, it will not work. Possibly for my daughter, if she keeps to her room and no one uses the main bathroom.
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Post by gizzy on Apr 17, 2020 1:06:00 GMT
Our house is too small for a quarantine to work, plus we have only 1 bathroom. This truly keeps me up at night. I worry for my 17 year old who has autism.
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on Apr 17, 2020 2:08:31 GMT
We could. It's just the two of us, and we have a spare bedroom and full bathroom downstairs.
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Post by papersilly on Apr 17, 2020 2:10:43 GMT
It’s just DH and me. The problem is we have three bedrooms but only one is an actual bedroom. The other two are offices. The sicky can quarantine in the bedroom but that means the other person takes the couch or blow up bed. That won’t be fun. We are resigned to the other person getting it too because it won’t be a true quarantine.
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Post by gar on Apr 17, 2020 9:52:41 GMT
It's just Dh and I at home. We use separate bathrooms so don't share anything in that area anyway. I guess the sick one of us would stay in the bedroom with the tv, the other would sleep in the spare bedroom and whenever we used the kitchen we'd have to wipe over every surface, handle, tap etc etc or the not-sick person would prep and bring all food upstairs. Would it work? - I've no idea since, as many said, it probably would have spread before we knew we had it.
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miyooper2b
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Post by miyooper2b on Apr 17, 2020 12:47:56 GMT
Luckily it's just me and DH but it would be very difficult to self quarantine in our house. We have a travel trailer so one of us could move in there temporarily but it's more likely we will both get sick so it's likely a moot point.
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Post by auntkelly on Apr 17, 2020 15:15:59 GMT
I feel almost certain my husband had the virus. We took him to the emergency room three times. He tested negative for the flu and twenty other viruses. At the time he was sick, they were only testing people who were sick enough to be hospitalized, so he never had a covid 19 test. The doctors said "He probably doesn't have covid 19, because it's not in our state yet, but you should self isolate." We later learned that the virus was in our state at the time my husband was sick.
We (myself, my husband and my adult son who had just come home for spring break from law school) self isolated in our own home while my husband was sick and a good two weeks after he recovered. We had our groceries delivered and didn't go out of the house for anything. However, my son and I pretty much treated my husband as if he had the flu. I used a lot of lysol and he covered his mouth when he coughed, but we didn't isolate him from us. Neither my son nor I am high risk, so that factored into my decision. Neither my son nor I got sick. (I now think I had a very mild case of the virus and gave it to my husband). My son is young (27) and very healthy, so he may have caught the virus and had no symptoms-who knows.
My 94 year old aunt is living w/ us until our state's shelter in place order is lifted. If someone in our household came down w/ covid 19 symptoms now, I would try to isolate them since my aunt is very high risk.
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