To clarify my expectation
Oct. 24th, 2009 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hel_ana..as outlined in my hardass vaccination post:
The reason I expect you to inform me of your vaccination status if you want to hang out with the baby is *not* so that I can ban you summarily. It's so that we can then discuss, rationally, what infection vectors you've been exposed to.
Someone who's primarily been alone in their apartment for three days before coming over (and who hasn't been exposed anyone who's sick in over a week) isn't likely to pose a risk; the disease is contagious for a day before symptoms show up and for 7-10 days afterwards.
Someone, OTOH, who works in an office with 3 people out with the flu would be someone who I'd consider to have a high chance of being an infection vector.
So, yeah. It's a prelimary screening tool, not a final or summary judgement.
The reason I expect you to inform me of your vaccination status if you want to hang out with the baby is *not* so that I can ban you summarily. It's so that we can then discuss, rationally, what infection vectors you've been exposed to.
Someone who's primarily been alone in their apartment for three days before coming over (and who hasn't been exposed anyone who's sick in over a week) isn't likely to pose a risk; the disease is contagious for a day before symptoms show up and for 7-10 days afterwards.
Someone, OTOH, who works in an office with 3 people out with the flu would be someone who I'd consider to have a high chance of being an infection vector.
So, yeah. It's a prelimary screening tool, not a final or summary judgement.
