If you love your family and you have some sense of responsibility your duty is to stay where you are for a while. You can embrace your family in the near future.
It is expected that even with thorough reliable testing and rapid clearance of the non-contagious from confinement, the spread among previously unexposed confinees would be vastly greater than among the unconfined, or further the _isolated clean_.
People should stay where they are. Lockdown is not a disaster. People fleeing lockdown are literally the carriers of this disaster.
Stay where you are, wait. Don't travel. Don't fight the locdown. Lockdown is the current, appropriate course of action. A very effective lockdown can eliminate the infection in, well, however long it took to eliminate it in Wuhan.
Fleeing the lockdown now is just going to another area that is going to be on lockdown later on anyway.
There will be test of this thesis in Poland soon. As government closed down universities, some of them told students that they have to vacate their dormitories and go back home (dormitories are usually occupied by students from countryside and smaller cities), and it caused massive migration. It is already confirmed that students in my city were infected for two weeks, but is not known yet how widespread it was. To make situation worse, some dormitories are now being turned into quarantine hotels, so students are told to come back and take their belongings with them (initially they were told they can leave their stuff behind).
I hate to put this harshly but... She may well be fleeing with a life threatening virus that will kill her family. This has happened already, even documented, in China.
We can't look to our own comfort at this point. All my family visits are postponed and my food is mostly stocked up.
And it's a hard situation where we won't all make the best choices but still want to pressure everyone to make the appropriate choices.
True.
>She may well be fleeing with a life threatening virus that will kill her family.
And true.
This is readily recognized.
And this can be motivation enough to relocate to a chosen area for upcoming lockdown, while some choice is still possible.
Similar anecdote here.
My SO texted me earlier this week saying how she will be taking the train from Madrid to Barcelona to go back to her family. She figured it will be empty on Sunday at 6 am.
I have been following the situation evolve in Italy and told her to get on the train right away and leave immediately before it gets worse.
Luckily, the next day she was on the train. The lockdowns started happening shortly afterwards.