Question for you about Coronovirus and public perception.

CurrentlyPissed

CurrentlyPissed

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This isn't really a question for the other thread which is why I am posting it here.

April 4th we were supposed to have my daughters birthday party at a local gym/bounce house. Naturally kid was very excited, 5th birthday trying to do something a little more special.

My concern is based on public perception is we do this, and no one shows up due to the nature of these places having high kid traffic and kids being, well disgusting for the most part. I'm concerned we fork out the money for it and no one shows up.

Am I thinking too far into this?
 
CurrentlyPissed said:
This isn't really a question for the other thread which is why I am posting it here.

April 4th we were supposed to have my daughters birthday party at a local gym/bounce house. Naturally kid was very excited, 5th birthday trying to do something a little more special.

My concern is based on public perception is we do this, and no one shows up due to the nature of these places having high kid traffic and kids being, well disgusting for the most part. I'm concerned we fork out the money for it and no one shows up.

Am I thinking too far into this?
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Honestly, knowing where things are at right now, and not knowing where they'll be the first week of April, I'd suggest exercising caution and just canceling it. It sucks, but I don't think anyone will show up, as much I'm sure all of them would absolutely love to.
 
Don't make it hard, just poll the people you are inviting. At 4 years old, you should know the parents (or at least one of the parents) of the children you are inviting.
 
shrike126 said:
Honestly, knowing where things are at right now, and not knowing where they'll be the first week of April, I'd suggest exercising caution and just canceling it. It sucks, but I don't think anyone will show up, as much I'm sure all of them would absolutely love to.
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Kinda my feeling on it aswell, personally I know I would go to someones invited party, but I know others may not feel as willing.
 
CurrentlyPissed said:
Kinda my feeling on it aswell, personally I know I would go to someones invited party, but I know others may not feel as willing.
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The weekend before last on the 29th I went to a coworker's housewarming party where about 50 people showed up and we all had a pretty decent time and I stuck around for about a half hour. Around Tuesday, I had cold like symptoms and so did about 6 other people from that party who all worked from home the rest of the week. Now, I'm not saying we all had this novel coronavirus, but even a normal flu or cold knocked out a bunch of us, and everyone's not entirely sure it wasn't the coronavirus so it's been a cloud hanging over the get together ever since.
 
A lot of the current public event closures are going to the end of the month, so if people get their **** together and start containing things, maybe.... but something like a bouncey castle is a near worst-case for spreading stuff. It can be disinfected beforehand, but everyone who goes into it in your party will be exposed to everything any of them have.


I'd advise canceling, and I wouldn't be all that surprised if the company would warn you or cancel eventually because of it. That said, I think you could probably postpone it to the summer (for example) and do something nice for her on the right day and maybe it can be smoothed over.




If the number of people is low and you can agree with the parents, maybe it can still work, but kids meeting kids in a vinyl box is a recipe for getting everything they have. :bleh:
 
Well considering my work is in a Industrial Greenhouse near a small town of 13000 people (where I live 1700 people), and Germany has about what 1600 cases?

The "area" where I live Emsland area is pretty open fields, small village, open fields small town, open fields pretty large town, open fields more small villages.

So Considering that, the retail side of my work (1KM from the industrial greenhouse) had a positive case and the weekend shift is in isolation, and the flower side of the industrial greenhouse (I work on Tomato side of the same huge ass building) has someone with symptoms of it, but is being tested in Isolation.

So if this virus with only 1600 confirmed cases in Germany managed to find my place which might as well be Green Tatooine, then I would exercise caution.
 
Yeah, it is a little bit tone-deaf to have a party right now. I think in a couple weeks people will settle in to small group events, but right now people are treating it like an incoming hurricane.
 
I would postpone it. The children will be highly effective at spreading disease from one sick person to the entire group. In addition, the gym/bounce house is a concern. I don't think of such venues as particularly sanitary even under the best of circumstances.
 
Hosting it at a bouncy castle house seems like a risk. The virus can last up to like a week on plastic surfaces. I think postponing it would be a sensible decision.
 
I would cancel it to be honest, right now is not a good time. Also I would suggest not using a bounce house at all unless you can get the parents to sign an iron clad waiver to make sure you don't be held responsible for the kid getting hurt. When I worked for dish, we had a company party and they got a bounce house, 1 kid ended up with a broken arm, another kid ended up with a concussion.
 
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