Pods need basic rules about how members interact when they are together and when they are separated. Some sockets may be comfortable with a higher risk than others. The most important thing is that everyone agrees. The 2020/2021 school year promises to be different. COVID-19 forces families across the country to make decisions about how they will care for their children during the pandemic. In response, some families opt for pods. However, these families need a guide on how to join a pod to reduce the risk of COVID-19 for their children and families. We are a group of three infectious disease epidemiologists, a pediatric epidemiologist and a medical anthropologist, who are also working parents. We have developed a framework that will help your family make decisions about the formation of a pod, as well as a detailed discussion guide that will help you and your fellow schotes develop your own pod agreement. This requires moving towards movement in the world, with much more responsibility in our behaviour, in respecting our agreements, in the search for truth and in the consideration of the well-being of others than we are accustomed to. But in the face of an infection as harmful as the new coronavirus, nothing will do less.

The safety agreement between families and educators is one of the most difficult elements in creating a home learning capsule or pandemic pod. While it is overwhelming to consider all possibilities and variables, an isolation bubble agreement will give your pod clear guidelines for your safety threshold and help avoid misunderstandings. Before discussing the details of setting up a pod, identify families that typically use similar approaches to protect themselves from Covid-19. Together, all families should agree on strategies that work for your pod. Pod`s success depends on honest and frequent communication, so think about how you`ll continue to talk about the risks and adapt your pod strategies. You can develop a written pod agreement containing the specific strategies you have identified. Compliance with the Pod agreement will allow families to trust each other and reduce the risk Covid 19. Give each other as complete a picture as possible of what you are doing.

And be honest. It`s the simplest thing in the world to skate on something, because you think they may not like it or it`s too small to talk about it. Keep in mind that mistrust is always worse than disagreements. If you know each other`s habits, you can always discuss it and find a compromise, but if you or she are caught hiding something, the whole relationship can break up. If you want to move ethically in society, knowledge of science is essential, as understanding the spread of the disease is an important step in assessing your own risk profile (i.e. the risks you expose to others) and your risk tolerance (i.e. the risks you are willing to accept). Part of the objective of each responsible pod should be to exchange new information and agree on the impact it will have on the decisions of the members of the pod. When developing a security agreement, it is important to negotiate together and accept the terms as a pod unit, so do your best to discuss these topics before designing anything! My bladder comrades and I have all been pretty strict in our precautions so far, but everyone is doing things a little differently, and I`ve told other friends that consent to bubbles (or is it a bubble down?) with people is like negotiating an open relationship: What is allowed? What`s not? What do we need to communicate about? How to resolve disagreements? Here are some proposed guidelines on how to have conversation based on nothing more than my own experience and that of friends and colleagues.

It is important that you discussed these options when creating the pod. You can`t expect everyone to be perfect; You need to get home