Un-welcomed hug

[Anonymous]

Sunday I attended a socially distanced fund-raising event with many people that I haven't seen in person for some time. One woman hugged me, without asking! She was wearing a mask, but I don't want to be hugged. I have an auto-immune disease and almost did not attend this event. I think I'm going back to hiding in my basement...

[Anonymous]

You choose to go to something that never should have happened and are complaining... uggg

[Anonymous]

Yeah, shit happens. I went to a socially distanced birthday party for my niece and one guy's company had just gone public two hours earlier and he hugged me. That was in mid-September. I'm still okay.

I saw him go to hug someone else and she quickly backed away and said, "Air hug, air hug! I can't wait to hug you again for real!" and I realized that's what I'll say if it comes up again.

[Anonymous]

5 second rule. You’re good.

[Anonymous]

GTFOI

Get The F?$k Over It - You didn’t get Covid. If you’re that worried about catching Covid or getting sick, stay home and live in an oxygen tent. Live in fear the rest of your life.

[Anonymous]

You should have stayed home.

[Anonymous]

Exhale. You were caught off-guard and didn’t know how to react in the moment. PP’s “Airhug!” suggestion is great if you’re ever in a similar situation.

[Anonymous]

I understand the fear. I am on Chemo with several other comorbitites. And while an individual action is only dangerous if the other person is infectious, we have NO WAY OF KNOWING THAT. THEY HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING THAT.

We had a super spreader event where everyone was tested prior to attending right here in DC.

To the people that say NBD. You ar covidiots. You may be willing to take the risk, but maybe I am not.

As an example of the risks, lets say there were 10 people at the event that you had close interactions with...the odds of one of them having a infectious COVID 19 person is about 0.15%. Since you had 10 interactions, there is a 1.4% chance of one of them being infected.

1.4% chance of getting COVID is not a big deal if you are healthy: the risk of a bad case is about 0.15% from the interaction set -- for an average person my age (mid 50's). For me, though that one set of interactions produces about a 1% chance of a bad case and about a 0.2% chance of death.

Risk is personal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, shit happens. I went to a socially distanced birthday party for my niece and one guy's company had just gone public two hours earlier and he hugged me. That was in mid-September. I'm still okay.

I saw him go to hug someone else and she quickly backed away and said, "Air hug, air hug! I can't wait to hug you again for real!" and I realized that's what I'll say if it comes up again.

She has an autoimmune disease. You are being a real jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, shit happens. I went to a socially distanced birthday party for my niece and one guy's company had just gone public two hours earlier and he hugged me. That was in mid-September. I'm still okay.

I saw him go to hug someone else and she quickly backed away and said, "Air hug, air hug! I can't wait to hug you again for real!" and I realized that's what I'll say if it comes up again.

She has an autoimmune disease. You are being a real jerk.

then she (OP) should have stayed home. she made a choice to put herself potentially at risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, shit happens. I went to a socially distanced birthday party for my niece and one guy's company had just gone public two hours earlier and he hugged me. That was in mid-September. I'm still okay.

I saw him go to hug someone else and she quickly backed away and said, "Air hug, air hug! I can't wait to hug you again for real!" and I realized that's what I'll say if it comes up again.

She has an autoimmune disease. You are being a real jerk.

then she (OP) should have stayed home. she made a choice to put herself potentially at risk.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, shit happens. I went to a socially distanced birthday party for my niece and one guy's company had just gone public two hours earlier and he hugged me. That was in mid-September. I'm still okay.

I saw him go to hug someone else and she quickly backed away and said, "Air hug, air hug! I can't wait to hug you again for real!" and I realized that's what I'll say if it comes up again.

She has an autoimmune disease. You are being a real jerk.

then she (OP) should have stayed home. she made a choice to put herself potentially at risk.

+1

+1000

This shouldn’t even be a discussion.

[Anonymous]

Don’t go to large events. You will have no control over other people’s behaviors. Lesson learned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, shit happens. I went to a socially distanced birthday party for my niece and one guy's company had just gone public two hours earlier and he hugged me. That was in mid-September. I'm still okay.

I saw him go to hug someone else and she quickly backed away and said, "Air hug, air hug! I can't wait to hug you again for real!" and I realized that's what I'll say if it comes up again.

She has an autoimmune disease. You are being a real jerk.

then she (OP) should have stayed home. she made a choice to put herself potentially at risk.

+1

+1000

This shouldn’t even be a discussion.

+1 I hate the term snowflake, but....*shrug*

stay home

[Anonymous]

As a person who does not like unwanted hugs ever, even during non-Covid times, I'm 100% with OP on this one. The woman shouldn't have hugged you. It's amazing to me that people STILL are doing this even with Covid. It's not that hard to check in with people before touching them.