Airbnb that will allow a Babyshower

[Todahtiyah0]

Hi everyone!

My name is Todahtiyah. I’m originally from Los Angeles but currently live in Charlotte, North Carolina. 
I’m currently looking for an Airbnb that will allow me to host my baby shower. I understand times are definitely different right now with a pandemic going on. But this is my first child, and finding a venue that accommodates my budget has been a nightmare. I have family as well as friends coming to visit from Los Angeles, so I would like this to be a very intimate moment for all of us. The guest list is around 50 people along with a caterer. I’m willing to help clean up as well.

If anyone has an suggestions or will allow this special event to occur at their location, I would greatly appreciate it. Please let me know !! Thank you 

[Ute42]

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Hi @Nick 

in Your post above You have notified 3 Community members. How do You exacelty do that?

Do You hit the space key once to separate the members mentioned? Or do You hit it twice? Or don't you hit the space key at all? A comma obviousely is not required. Does it hurt to put in a comma between the names?

[Nick]

Hi @Ute42 

Yes, I'd just leave a single space in between tags -  by using a comma you are risking taking the tag out without even realising (has to do with how the platform works).

Hope this helps 🙂 

[Sarah977]

@Ute42  I don't leave a space at all. 

[Huma0]

@Todahtiyah0 

I agree with @Sarah977 and @Debra300 . Hosting any kind of party right now with 50 guests, let alone with people travelling from different localities is crazy and irresponsible. Even if you are not worried about your guests and the hundreds of people they could end up endangering, are you not concerned for your unborn child?

I understand it is very difficult, as this is a big moment in your life, but many of us are having to forgo big moments.  I know people who have had to postpone their wedding or were not able to see their parents on their deathbeds because of COVID-19. They had to make that sacrifice, sad as it was.

Having a baby shower is obviously a nice thing that you would like to remember for years to come, but it's not a NECESSITY. Having a healthy baby and safeguarding yourself and your loved ones during this time is.

[Yadira22]

@Todahtiyah0 agree with the above points and major congratulations on your pregnancy! Please do stay safe 🙂

[Alexandra316]

Lots of moralizing here, but just across the border we're allowed to host groups of 100 in an outdoor setting. We have no idea when this event is to take place; maybe the guidelines will have changed by then. People can make their own choices, surely, without people scolding them like naughty children. 

[Sarah977]

@Alexandra316  "Just across the border" is a big difference. In case you're not aware, Canada has been quite pro-active in keeping the number of virus cases down, and Canadians have largely been compliant with directives to mask and social distance. Hence, Canada has a far lower infection rate than the US. I just read an article yesterday where many Canadian long-distance truckers are refusing to transport into the US- they say it's shocking and scary because so many Americans are acting like they never heard of coronavirus. 

 The whole reason why so many places that reopened or never stopped business as usual have had to re-lockdown is because of people making their own choices- poor choices that endanger others. This is a public health crisis that has killed over half a million people- not a matter of getting to choose whether to spread a highly contagious disease around because you want to have a party.

[Debra300]

@Alexandra316,

Yep, and Canada keeping the border closed for at least another month is the reason why you can have groups of 100 people outdoors (although I believe @Todahtiyah0 wanted her baby shower indoors). 

Just curious, have there been reported spikes since Canada Day?  There has been a significant increase in confirmed cases since Independence Day.  We are stuck down here seeing too many noses, mouths and chins when we shouldn't be.

[Anonymous]

@Alexandra316  Moralizing or localizing?

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/medical-advances/507810-leaked-white-house-document-...

Irrespective of messaging from the court jester, the White House Coronavirus Task Force has identified North Carolina among 18 states in the "red zone."

"This means that they have recorded more than 100 new cases per 100,000 state residents over the past week, as well as a diagnostic test positivity result over 10 percent. ...

Public health recommendations for states in red zones feature familiar messaging, including wearing a mask while in public, closing locations like bars and gyms, limiting gatherings to 10 people or less and social distancing."

North Carolina (pop. 10.5 million) is currently reporting only slightly fewer cases than the entirety of Canada (pop 37.8 million), with infection rates on a precipitous upward slope toward a breaking point for hospitals - which, when overwhelmed by Covid hospitalizations, have deeply diminished capacity to treat other health emergencies. And which are frequently lacking in the means to protect health workers - hundreds of whom have already died in the US as a direct result of their working conditions. 

I'm all for people making choices for themselves about what they do with their own bodies, but under these conditions, an outbreak caused by a gathering like this poses a mortal threat to untold numbers of people who did not choose to go to a totally frivolous party (which I presume will be within the next nine months, none of which are looking good for the US). 

But lucky us in Canada and Germany...it would be entirely plausible to hold this kind of baby shower where you and I live, but neither of our countries will let an American in at the moment.

[Debra300]

Now hold up, wait a minute @Anonymous,

There are always workarounds if you have the time.  I can take the circuitous route of flying back to St. Lucia, complete the required 14 day quarantine, eat some grilled fish and drink some rum on the beach, fly non-stop to the land of Canucks, watch a Cirque du Soleil show and go to Niagara, and take another flight to Germany.  Hmm, let's see, that 14 days plus 2 (or 3, if I drink too much), plus 3, and then carry the one...I could be having a beer, sausage and sauerkraut lunch with my friends in Nuremberg in about 20 or so days.😄

[Sarah977]

@Debra300  No, you'd have to go into another 14 day quarantine when you returned to Canada, regardless of whether the flight was non-stop. That's one reason I can't go back to Canada for a month this summer, as I normally do. I go to see my daughters and grandkids, but if I can't see them for 14 days of a month long trip, it doesn't make much sense.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like quite a long trip. Two weeks of rum, two weeks of maple syrup, and finally beer, wurst, und sauerkraut. Hope you've packed a lot of antacids.

[Debra300]

@Sarah977,

Okay, let me pull out my abacus, and add 11 more days to my travel time to Germany.  I just checked, and traveling from Canada doesn't require a quarantine upon arrival to the EU.  It would take a little over a month to get to Nuremberg.  If I stayed  in the EU for a few weeks, I could make it back to Canada in time for Labor Day, and go to Niagara (didn't get to go during quarantine). Hopefully, the wineries would be open. 🍷

[Sarah977]

@Debra300  Nope- you'll have to add another 14 days- you'd have to do another 14 day quarantine when you got back to Canada from the EU. EU may not require quarantine for arriving Canadians, but Canada requires quarantine if you are entering the country from anywhere.  Your trip is getting so long.

[Nanxing0]

@Sarah977 Lol the most strict quarantine rule is actually in China. Starting from early this year everyone enters China has to do a double 14-days quarantine. The first 14-days is basically trapped in designated hotel in the city that the plane lands at. And then the next 14 days quarantine at home. My father in law went through this in March.