Sorry for the first world issue!
If you usually have a cleaner, whose visits you cancelled owing to Covid-19, have you invited them back to work in your home yet? What is everyone doing?
We live in a country (not UK) that's been badly affected by Covid-19. During lockdown it was against the rules for our cleaners (a married couple) to come to our office and home. The state paid 80% of their wages (as they are employed through a state subsidised agency) and we have made up the other 20%. As I work p/t doing admin for our business, I have been doing all the cleaning in the cleaner's absence (DH working 60+ hrs per wk keeping the business going as all other staff still WFH) and it's a hard job because of the configuration and age of the properties involved. Now restrictions have been lifted somewhat (but not totally) I would like to invite the cleaners back but my DH says it's too risky as they live with their adult daughter who works in a care home. And the husband also has an evening bar job too.
What does everyone else think about the risks involved? Just for context: my daughter is going to secondary school every day and is on public transport twice a week to get to the school's sport centre (this is obligatory). And we live in a country where nearly everyone (including dd's classmates) seem to have gone abroad to visit grandparents in Italy//Spain over the holidays.
DH says the start of the academic year with everyone flying back in from various locations, and schools starting back after six months, is a particularly risky period which we shouldn't add to by adding cleaners back in to the mix and we should watch and wait for a bit?
Does anyone else agree with this? Or is he being over cautious? I would dearly love to stop having to spend so much time cleaning!