Please choose the option that you feel best describes your family's current situation/practices and mindset/comfort level in relation to covid19 and keeping safe. It’s OK if not every sentence is accurate of your situation. Just choose the level that you feel best describes your family’s covid caution level overall.
*Highest Level of Caution* ⚠️ ⛔️ ⚠️ — Nearly full physical isolation. You likely have an unvaccinated vulnerable person in your family. Working from home entirely or almost entirely. Not a frontline worker. You tend to avoid contact with people outside of household members. You tend to minimize trips outside the house — except going outdoors alone or with household members. If visiting a park or taking a walk outside, you would be masked AND physically distanced. If you have children, they are NOT currently attending in-person school, daycare, sports, or other programs. You tend to avoid indoor spaces outside your home (example: you don’t dine indoors at a restaurant, maybe not even outdoors either; you might also avoid takeout.) You tend to disinfect surfaces that you come in contact with outside your home. Having a top quality mask is important to you.
*Medium-High Level of Caution* ⚠️ ⚠️
You are primarily working from home. (Or, you might be fully vaccinated and work in the office taking all covid precautions while there.) You are not a frontline worker. You may have an unvaccinated higher-risk person in your household. You are fairly isolated, though you may be socializing with 1-4 other (carefully vetted) families, in a covid “bubble” or pod. When visiting a park or taking a walk outside, you tend to be EITHER masked or physically distant (6+ feet), but not both. If you have children, they are NOT currently attending in-person school, daycare, sports, or other programs; though you may have a nanny or regular babysitter or pod teacher. You are selective with indoor spaces outside your home, and you make sure to be masked, wearing the mask properly, socially distance, and sanitize frequently during and after the visit. Having a good quality mask is important to you.
*Medium Level of Caution* ⚠️ You might work in the office taking all covid precautions, or you might work from home. (You might be a fully vaccinated essential / frontline or healthcare worker taking all covid precautions.) You may be having playdates or regular social visits with a small number of families. You are generally comfortable with outdoor socializing (smallish numbers, open spaces — not big crowds or very crowded spaces). If you have children, they may be attending in-person school, daycare, sports, or other programs at this time (with covid precautions). You are comfortable with being in indoor spaces, as long as they aren’t super crowded, and people follow covid precautions (masked, wearing masks properly, social distancing, hand sanitizer, etc.). Following all covid protocols continues to be important to you.
*Medium-Low Level of Caution*
Perhaps all members of your household/family are vaccinated, or are low-risk individuals. Thus you are not very worried anymore about the risk of getting covid — but for public health reasons, you continue to support precautions and CDC guidelines during the pandemic. If you are vaccinated gathering with other vaccinated people, you may not be taking any special precautions. If you are vaccinated gathering with unvaccinated people, you may still mask or social distance or meet outdoors (some or all the above). You continue to wash / sanitize hands and mask up when needed (crowded spaces, indoors in public, etc.), but otherwise you are going about your life pretty much like it was before — getting back to normal now.
*Low Level of Caution*
Perhaps you were never very concerned about the pandemic. Perhaps you never thought it was real. OR, perhaps all members of your household/family are now vaccinated OR are low-risk individuals. Thus, you are not very worried about the risk of getting covid. You think of it like getting the flu. Additionally, you don’t feel that covid precautions in public are necessary at this time (maybe they never were, or maybe they aren’t anymore, given the vaccination rollout this year). OR, maybe you would say that you just value your family’s mental health more than physical health at this point. Choosing this option would imply that your family has an attitude something like: "if we get Covid, we get it", "we aren't going to stop living our life because of this" or "we are living pretty much like we did before".
This data will be useful to help facilitate grouping people together based on similar covid safety mindset for things like playdates / play pods and other events.