Relative came to thanksgiving with a cold.
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Anonymous
| Anyone who is ill is rude not to mask indoors, other than while eating. That's it. |
Anonymous
| This is why we don't really like getting together with people these days. So many people with loose ideas of hygiene morals. |
Anonymous
First, PP, you seem terrible. Second, the sick person should leave (or better yet, not attend). Other people shouldn't be expected to leave to avoid the sick person. That's obviously nonsense. It's crazy how tribalism has so completely overtaken the brains of the stop-acting-like-Covid-exists people. Sick people were expected to stay home even before the pandemic. No one wants your germs. |
Anonymous
| Colds are so common. You can't expect everyone to stay home while they have a cold. That was never an expectation pre Covid and it shouldn't be one now. Flu, RSV, etc are different. |
Anonymous
OP, colds have existed forever. No one needs to stay home for a cold that was true pre-pandemic and is still true post-pandemic. If you’re uncomfortable being around people with colds, you stay home. |
Anonymous
Absolutely. |
Anonymous
| OP Our older kids were home along w/SO and my 6 and 2 yo nieces. On the gorgeous day yesterday a group of 5 including my 14yo drove together down to ice skate in Georgetown, we had dinner and stayed up late playing games and visiting. Close quarters all day. At very end of day 14yo asked for tea, woke up asking for COVID test and advil. Tested positive for flu instead (luckily ped open today. Tamiflu prescription and refills on arbuteral. Your relative may have infected you - or anyone else at the dinner without any notable symptoms. Our responsible choices are to - sure test for COVID as your relative did and as then weigh whether they’re likely well enough to visit and likely not actively ill. Choosing to attend these social events is a risk everyone takes. My kid was the picture of health and vitality yesterday. Guess we’ll know in 2-3 days if anyone else gets the flu but there was no apparent reason to expect they were a vector of germs. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Take some elderberry syrup, the old kind |
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There was a thread on here a few weeks ago that basically said that people have become terrified and hateful toward people who are sick and that's what this is.
People get colds! People have been catching colds in November and spreading them around at Thanksgiving and other holiday gatherings basically since the beginning of holidays. The idea that a person with a head cold should confine themselves to their home and not leave the house unless wearing a K95 and sweatshirt that says "INFECTED, KEEP YOUR DISTANCE" is new and due to the rampant health anxiety from the pandemic. If you don't want you family to risk getting sick during Thanksgiving, go ahead and stay home. And then your kids can get their colds three days later when they catch it form people at school who did attend Thanksgiving gatherings. No one wants to get sick but mild illness is a part of life unless you want to become a shut in. Best of luck with that. |
Anonymous
Where are the "stop acting like Covid exists" people? OP said this person took a Covid test and was negative. Presumably if they were positive they would have stayed home. So this is a world where Covid exists but ALSO no every illness is Covid or requires the same level of precaution. This isn't tribalism and no one here is a pro-Trump, MAGA touting, anti-vaccine, anti-mask, Covid denier. I know it's hard to wrap your head around this, but you are actually the one behaving in a tribal way by assuming that all "right thinking" people agree with you even though you have taken an extreme position. |
Anonymous
| People who show up to things sick are selfish a-holes. |
Anonymous
| Its crummy but you have to expect selfish people to do that. |
Anonymous
Getting someone sick for a week is really crummy. Guess we have you to thank. |