Then again, she works in a children's health clinic. I know what vector is probably going to bring COVID into our house.
Distancing arguably should create evolutionary pressure towards a weaker, asymptomatic, more contagious virus. And reckless behavior in the segments of population unaffected by the virus may put evolutionary pressure to make it a stronger, but not as contagious virus.
(an uninformed opinion of a software engineer / researcher)...
This doesn't make sense to me. Distancing reduces number of cases and chances to spread infections, reducing chances for successful mutations.
It seems that instead of having multiple strains you will end up with most resilient strain in the end. But that's probably better as you have to fight a single strain then.
From my observations, the people who are most flippant about this seem to be boomers and young adults 20-25. I still see groups of young adults on the sidewalks, clearly not roommates, even though our state is in lockdown, and we're right next to a state that's starting to overwhelm their hospitals because of this kind of behavior.
Does she not have another place she can stay? I'm assuming she is aware of the risk to you?
Never met you before, but as a fellow human being that situation sounds very high risk for you.
I'm very glad that none of my dad's five kids boomeranged right now. I had to cancel visiting him. Terrible situation.
Someone once gave me a definition of family... "If you have to go there, they have to let you in".
On the flip side, I think we're all going to get exposed sooner or later, over the course of the next year or so. I'll just get exposed sooner than ideal.
On the plus side, she may be moving entirely to work from home in the near future, as they'll be closing inpatient services at her clinic. On the minus side, her brother just got a job at a grocery store after losing his retail job at the mall (mall closed), so now he's probably an even worse vector than she is.
I spoke with my mother recently and we were lamenting how people were completely ignoring the "JUST STAY HOME" guidance. As the call was ending she mentioned how she was about to have her sisters and friends over for wine the next day. To which I replied that she was doing exactly what she was lamenting others doing.
I think most people just assume they are the exception and can be trusted to do this correctly, when in fact the guidance is the way it is explicitly because that is not the case.
Infecting others who have no option to completely isolate or are just plain unlucky. Some of which will have possibly life-long lung damage. And some will die who would have otherwise survived.
Responsible people isolate, because they don't want to harm or worse, kill others.
Personally, I'm more in fear of having some non-coronavirus related emergency and not being to get good healthcare.