Families will not be allowed in. Mom is 80 and has been talking about how she is looking forward to coming to my house for turkey. I'm just sick about disappointing her. How do we make the holiday special for her when she can't come out and we can't come in?
Do you see your mom during the week? On weekends? Why not make one of the visits a bit more "special" than another? Bring her a favorite meal that you can share.
I understand the facility and telling people that residents are not going to be permitted out.
If for example there are 100 residents and 50 of them leave. If they are picked up by just 1 person that is 50 walking germ pools entering the facility. (If they are picked up by more than 1 person double or triple that germ pool.)
Now they go home and kids, grandkids, aunts, uncles are all there. Even if we limit it to 10 people in the house that is another 9 germ pools.
Now everyone comes back to the facility and now you have 50 people entering the facility carrying the germs of 500 people.
Now the facility will have to quarantine these 50 people for the next 2 weeks. And that will put a strain on the staff.
Oh, the staff they all went home as well and they are going to come back carrying the germs of all their relatives .....
And you wait to find out if your mom passes the COVID test
And we do this all again in 1 month for Christmas, or in about 3 weeks for Hanukkah
The goal of this is to keep residents safe, keep staff safe. Sure it is disappointing but if your mom is one that gets sick because they did not do this, or if your mom is the one that brings COVID back to a facility and makes someone else ill...