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Originally Posted by NP_Complete
In my state the order is no gatherings of more than 25 people I think. My therapist has a private practice. He's the only person I see when we meet. He's taking extra precautions at the moment like wiping things down in his office and taking a longer break between clients. He's changed his Square settings so I don't have to sign on his phone when I pay. We sit several feet apart. Neither of us is sick. If one of us were to become ill, we'd switch fully to Zoom. We're actually doing Zoom now for some of our sessions, but he's told me that for now he'll be in office at least once a week. He may be in office twice this week, so 2 in person and one Zoom is likely for this week.
The last time I went to the grocery store, which I don't usually do as I prefer to order online and pick up, I passed by dozens of people. You can't always keep 6 feet of distance because the aisles aren't wide enough. Who knows what I touched in there after someone else touched it. Plus everything the previous poster said also.
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Agreed (though just doing online sessions now with my T and D's T). The big issue with grocery stories to me is, they're talking about how coronavirus can live in the air for up to 3 hours and be transmitted by breathing it in. So if lots of people walk by, say, the milk aisle in the grocery store in that time frame, then you walk by there, you have the chance of getting infected. With a T's office, there's only 2 (well, unless couples/family therapy) people there at a time, so at most, 4 people (therapist plus 3 clients) there over the course of 3 hours. While a grocery store could have, say, 50 or more pass through the same spot in that time. Plus, people touching everything, as mentioned.
One potential risk could be a waiting room in a practice of T's, but that could be fixed by, say, T's texting clients when they're ready, and they wait in their car (or outside) till then.