How socially isolated was your new housemate in their previous living arrangement? And how hard are you trying not to catch it? I’m thinking about how to minimize risk while swapping housemates in the Boston area myself, and I notice I interpret your example pretty differently if (e.g.) I imagine ‘the housemate was super isolated vs. the housemate was living with an essential worker’ or ‘we’re living with a diabetic and are trying to be ultra-cautious, vs. we’re all low-risk and aren’t personally worried about long-term complications if we get sick’.
The housemate and previous household were being careful, but not as careful as we are. We’re not going in any buildings, sanitizing groceries, always masking off our property, not coming within 6ft of anyone we don’t live with. Their house was grocery shopping in person and I think generally being slightly less cautious about most of these?
One of our housemates has had respiratory issues and is especially worried about catching it. I think if not for that I might have been ok with just having the new housemate move in? Though we did (by chance) happen to have a floor plan that’s very well suited to this kind of thing, so the cost wasn’t as high as if the only way to isolate would have involved someone staying in a single room for a week with no going out.
How socially isolated was your new housemate in their previous living arrangement? And how hard are you trying not to catch it? I’m thinking about how to minimize risk while swapping housemates in the Boston area myself, and I notice I interpret your example pretty differently if (e.g.) I imagine ‘the housemate was super isolated vs. the housemate was living with an essential worker’ or ‘we’re living with a diabetic and are trying to be ultra-cautious, vs. we’re all low-risk and aren’t personally worried about long-term complications if we get sick’.
The housemate and previous household were being careful, but not as careful as we are. We’re not going in any buildings, sanitizing groceries, always masking off our property, not coming within 6ft of anyone we don’t live with. Their house was grocery shopping in person and I think generally being slightly less cautious about most of these?
One of our housemates has had respiratory issues and is especially worried about catching it. I think if not for that I might have been ok with just having the new housemate move in? Though we did (by chance) happen to have a floor plan that’s very well suited to this kind of thing, so the cost wasn’t as high as if the only way to isolate would have involved someone staying in a single room for a week with no going out.