Relative came to thanksgiving with a cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why people need to mask and eat outside. SO many thanksgiving superspreader events that are going to overwhelm the already overwhelmed hospitals. You don't *need* to have big parties for every holiday. So selfish. Good job y'all.

Uh, are you still trying to contain and eliminate covid19? Or the flu? Or RSV? The rest of the US is not trying to do such things. Get vaccinated and then don't go places when you are running a fever. You will catch pneumonia and die from eating outside in 30 degree, rainy weather FFS.

People on this board are so weird. Did you not risk the dreaded flu in 2019 during the holidays and dare eat Thanksgiving dinner inside a home?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is why people need to mask and eat outside. SO many thanksgiving superspreader events that are going to overwhelm the already overwhelmed hospitals. You don't *need* to have big parties for every holiday. So selfish. Good job y'all.

Uh, are you still trying to contain and eliminate covid19? Or the flu? Or RSV? The rest of the US is not trying to do such things. Get vaccinated and then don't go places when you are running a fever. You will catch pneumonia and die from eating outside in 30 degree, rainy weather FFS.

People on this board are so weird. Did you not risk the dreaded flu in 2019 during the holidays and dare eat Thanksgiving dinner inside a home?

It’s not just people on this board, it’s the DMV in general. I just got back from spending a couple weeks in my hometown- midsize city in the NE, more purplish politically than here but hardly Trump territory. I saw a handful of masks the entire time, including in crowded places. It’s like an alternate universe here with everyone wearing KN95s in TJs, most of the toddlers masked at daycare, neighbors taking masked walks alone. And heaven forbid you fly somewhere or go to the theater- make sure your social media post includes a disclaimer that you wore masks, or better yet, a selfie in masks. I couldn’t believe how many thanksgiving posts like this I saw from Facebook friends in the DMV. It’s like everyone’s scared of being judged for engaging in “risky” behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why people need to mask and eat outside. SO many thanksgiving superspreader events that are going to overwhelm the already overwhelmed hospitals. You don't *need* to have big parties for every holiday. So selfish. Good job y'all.

Uh, are you still trying to contain and eliminate covid19? Or the flu? Or RSV? The rest of the US is not trying to do such things. Get vaccinated and then don't go places when you are running a fever. You will catch pneumonia and die from eating outside in 30 degree, rainy weather FFS.

People on this board are so weird. Did you not risk the dreaded flu in 2019 during the holidays and dare eat Thanksgiving dinner inside a home?

It’s not just people on this board, it’s the DMV in general. I just got back from spending a couple weeks in my hometown- midsize city in the NE, more purplish politically than here but hardly Trump territory. I saw a handful of masks the entire time, including in crowded places. It’s like an alternate universe here with everyone wearing KN95s in TJs, most of the toddlers masked at daycare, neighbors taking masked walks alone. And heaven forbid you fly somewhere or go to the theater- make sure your social media post includes a disclaimer that you wore masks, or better yet, a selfie in masks. I couldn’t believe how many thanksgiving posts like this I saw from Facebook friends in the DMV. It’s like everyone’s scared of being judged for engaging in “risky” behavior.

It's become a cultural behavior in the DMV. I was in Manhattan for the holiday in a crowded theatre and maybe a handful of masks. I didn't catch a virus either. Shocker.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe we’ve been through a pandemic and still most people haven’t learned how gross and rude it is to be around other people when you’re sick. Stay home. And when you do need to be out, wear a mask. I don’t care if it’s a cold, the flu, Covid, or RSV. If you’re wiping your nose, sneezing, have a sore throat, coughing, fever- whatever. Stay away from other people or mask. Don’t eat dinner with them, breath all over them, and touch everything in their house. So. Gross.

[Anonymous]

Mask and eat outside?! Umm it was close to freezing in half the country, there was snow on the ground. And how can you mask and eat at the same time?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is why people need to mask and eat outside. SO many thanksgiving superspreader events that are going to overwhelm the already overwhelmed hospitals. You don't *need* to have big parties for every holiday. So selfish. Good job y'all.

Uh, are you still trying to contain and eliminate covid19? Or the flu? Or RSV? The rest of the US is not trying to do such things. Get vaccinated and then don't go places when you are running a fever. You will catch pneumonia and die from eating outside in 30 degree, rainy weather FFS.

People on this board are so weird. Did you not risk the dreaded flu in 2019 during the holidays and dare eat Thanksgiving dinner inside a home?

NP. What's weird is that you still believe this. That's not how you catch pneumonia.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is why people need to mask and eat outside. SO many thanksgiving superspreader events that are going to overwhelm the already overwhelmed hospitals. You don't *need* to have big parties for every holiday. So selfish. Good job y'all.

Uh, are you still trying to contain and eliminate covid19? Or the flu? Or RSV? The rest of the US is not trying to do such things. Get vaccinated and then don't go places when you are running a fever. You will catch pneumonia and die from eating outside in 30 degree, rainy weather FFS.

People on this board are so weird. Did you not risk the dreaded flu in 2019 during the holidays and dare eat Thanksgiving dinner inside a home?

It’s not just people on this board, it’s the DMV in general. I just got back from spending a couple weeks in my hometown- midsize city in the NE, more purplish politically than here but hardly Trump territory. I saw a handful of masks the entire time, including in crowded places. It’s like an alternate universe here with everyone wearing KN95s in TJs, most of the toddlers masked at daycare, neighbors taking masked walks alone. And heaven forbid you fly somewhere or go to the theater- make sure your social media post includes a disclaimer that you wore masks, or better yet, a selfie in masks. I couldn’t believe how many thanksgiving posts like this I saw from Facebook friends in the DMV. It’s like everyone’s scared of being judged for engaging in “risky” behavior.

I don't know what you're talking about. That's certainly not my experience. But perhaps we live in different parts of the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:I would never leave the house with my kids if we stayed home for every come.

Yup. Families with kids get this. If we stayed home every Thanksgiving or Christmas that one of us had a cold, we would simply never spend another holiday with anyone else. I actually like doing holidays just us at home and only travel for the grandparents, who I’m guessing would not be okay with our forever quarantine.

We’re a “family with kids” who also have manners. We would not attend a family Thanksgiving knowingly making others sick.

+1 c'mon people you know the right thing to do. Sit one out when you're ill so we can all make it through the winter with less illness

No, I will not stay home for a cold and neither will most people.

You want a prize for being selfish?

The prize is getting to spend the holiday with my family ❤️

You go girl! I don’t get these weirdos on DCUM. I don’t know anyone IRL who is concerned or even thinks about Covid anymore. If they want to live their life like it’s March 2020, be my guest, but the rest of us have moved on.

How intellectually curious is your peer group? I think you've found your answer.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why people need to mask and eat outside. SO many thanksgiving superspreader events that are going to overwhelm the already overwhelmed hospitals. You don't *need* to have big parties for every holiday. So selfish. Good job y'all.

Uh, are you still trying to contain and eliminate covid19? Or the flu? Or RSV? The rest of the US is not trying to do such things. Get vaccinated and then don't go places when you are running a fever. You will catch pneumonia and die from eating outside in 30 degree, rainy weather FFS.

People on this board are so weird. Did you not risk the dreaded flu in 2019 during the holidays and dare eat Thanksgiving dinner inside a home?

It’s not just people on this board, it’s the DMV in general. I just got back from spending a couple weeks in my hometown- midsize city in the NE, more purplish politically than here but hardly Trump territory. I saw a handful of masks the entire time, including in crowded places. It’s like an alternate universe here with everyone wearing KN95s in TJs, most of the toddlers masked at daycare, neighbors taking masked walks alone. And heaven forbid you fly somewhere or go to the theater- make sure your social media post includes a disclaimer that you wore masks, or better yet, a selfie in masks. I couldn’t believe how many thanksgiving posts like this I saw from Facebook friends in the DMV. It’s like everyone’s scared of being judged for engaging in “risky” behavior.

I don't know what you're talking about. That's certainly not my experience. But perhaps we live in different parts of the DMV.

Not PP but I absolutely notice a difference where I live (lower MoCo) vs. where I work (Fairfax). One of those places is like PP describes, the other less so. I’ll let you guess which is which.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe we’ve been through a pandemic and still most people haven’t learned how gross and rude it is to be around other people when you’re sick. Stay home. And when you do need to be out, wear a mask. I don’t care if it’s a cold, the flu, Covid, or RSV. If you’re wiping your nose, sneezing, have a sore throat, coughing, fever- whatever. Stay away from other people or mask. Don’t eat dinner with them, breath all over them, and touch everything in their house. So. Gross.

Work too, too many people come to work visibly ill. It’s funny though because my mom, who works in a service sector job, was b-thing about a college-aged coworker who called in sick claiming to have the flu. Like shouldn’t you be grateful that they didn’t come to work sick? Nope, just a bunch of moaning that now someone would have to work her hours, and doubting she was really sick vs. wanting time off to party.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe we’ve been through a pandemic and still most people haven’t learned how gross and rude it is to be around other people when you’re sick. Stay home. And when you do need to be out, wear a mask. I don’t care if it’s a cold, the flu, Covid, or RSV. If you’re wiping your nose, sneezing, have a sore throat, coughing, fever- whatever. Stay away from other people or mask. Don’t eat dinner with them, breath all over them, and touch everything in their house. So. Gross.

Work too, too many people come to work visibly ill. It’s funny though because my mom, who works in a service sector job, was b-thing about a college-aged coworker who called in sick claiming to have the flu. Like shouldn’t you be grateful that they didn’t come to work sick? Nope, just a bunch of moaning that now someone would have to work her hours, and doubting she was really sick vs. wanting time off to party.

Agree. Yeah, that’s a 70s mindset about work: tough it out and show up. I thought we were evolving past that in the 2010s and for sure a pandemic would seal that into our norms…but no.

[Anonymous]

My relative came to thanksgiving dinner with a cold.

Now we all have Covid, except her. Dick move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a cold. We all get them. We all pass them to others. Three years ago this wouldn't have been an issue. Covid has made everyone afraid of germs.

Relative knowingly spread it, though. People who do that are a--holes of the first order, be it cold or covid. He should have at the very least worn a mask. They work. (And Im not interested in hearing from any Armchair Epidemiologists on the fact.) He's a jerk and I'd be ticked off too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mask and eat outside?! Umm it was close to freezing in half the country, there was snow on the ground. And how can you mask and eat at the same time?

Then stay the F home. Done. Not everyone has unlimited leave and bandwidth to be sick so some a-hat can eat turkey on thanksgiving.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why people need to mask and eat outside. SO many thanksgiving superspreader events that are going to overwhelm the already overwhelmed hospitals. You don't *need* to have big parties for every holiday. So selfish. Good job y'all.

Uh, are you still trying to contain and eliminate covid19? Or the flu? Or RSV? The rest of the US is not trying to do such things. Get vaccinated and then don't go places when you are running a fever. You will catch pneumonia and die from eating outside in 30 degree, rainy weather FFS.

People on this board are so weird. Did you not risk the dreaded flu in 2019 during the holidays and dare eat Thanksgiving dinner inside a home?

It’s not just people on this board, it’s the DMV in general. I just got back from spending a couple weeks in my hometown- midsize city in the NE, more purplish politically than here but hardly Trump territory. I saw a handful of masks the entire time, including in crowded places. It’s like an alternate universe here with everyone wearing KN95s in TJs, most of the toddlers masked at daycare, neighbors taking masked walks alone. And heaven forbid you fly somewhere or go to the theater- make sure your social media post includes a disclaimer that you wore masks, or better yet, a selfie in masks. I couldn’t believe how many thanksgiving posts like this I saw from Facebook friends in the DMV. It’s like everyone’s scared of being judged for engaging in “risky” behavior.

I don't know what you're talking about. That's certainly not my experience. But perhaps we live in different parts of the DMV.

Lots of people still wear masks in Fairfax. Lots, relative to other areas. Def in the stores, malls, fast food I see lots of masks. And I wear them sometimes too. They work. I was recently sick with the flu. Wore mask in the house and no one else in the house got sick. Anecdotal, sure. But, just one anecdote supported by the science.