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Tomorrow my wife and I are driving to St. Louis to visit my in-laws. I am anticipating an uncomfortable weekend. While we have been pretty strictly

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Jun 11 '20, 07:53

social distancing, my in-laws are much more lax about it. They have a group of friends they've been seeing regularly (I don't know whether that group has been limited to just a sort of quarantine bubble, but I doubt it), they go out to dinner, my MIL has been going to the mall and shopping. I'm not particularly comfortable with any of it. Add to that the fact that my FIL is in what I would describe as beginning the middle stages of Alzheimers and has caregivers at the house, and it's just all going to be uncomfortable (and my wife's stress level will likely be through the roof). Not sure how to deal with the social distancing issues. For example, I don't really want to go to a restaurant, but I'm almost certain they will want to.
This will not be fun.

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I sympathize. That's a bad feeling to have when you're entering a situation like that -- nm - prayformojo Jun 11, 08:15
I am pretty sure I heard you coughing just now. - Spawn Jun 11, 07:56 8
- Problem is my wife is very close to her parents and has basically been freaking out about not seeing them. So I really have to go. -- nm - pmb Jun 11, 08:02 7
  - I would at least refuse the restaurant. 1900 cases for the *city* and close to 5k for the county? No. Way. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 08:04 6
    - See if you can at least get the compromise to go to a place with outdoor seating. I've been out twice since the partial re-open around here and both - JD Jun 11, 08:22 1
      - Looks like 90F Friday but 82 and 80 after that, so yeah, that might work for him. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 08:37
    - We've gone to a couple restaurants and they have been very well prepared for a socially distant meal. nm -- nm - John Murphy Jun 11, 08:13 3
      - Was the AC shut off? -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 08:14 2
        
        um...prolly not. -- nm - John Murphy Jun 11, 08:21 1
        
        I will not be in any facility without masks again until there is a vaccine. -- (link) - Spawn Jun 11, 08:26 [Backboard]

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