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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of constantly-snotty daycare toddler here, with high (but not crazy) COVID risk tolerance.  Really depends on the situation. Is the adult friend healthy? Are they about to travel overseas and need to test for COVID? Are they caring for an elderly parent? etc.  Personally I don't think you're out of line here but for my personal risk tolerance I still would have attended. Especially outdoors when kid is in bed. But I get why you canceled. I catch everything my kid gets so your assumptions are not crazy.[/quote]

OP again - I didn't even get into asking our friend what the symptoms were or anything. I figured if the friend thought it was worth bringing up, it was probably worth avoiding - at least on the eve of my parents' visit. But my sister, who has two little kids, makes fun of me when we're all together because, like, [b]I do not want to dip my hand in a bag of potato chips after her kids have stuck their hands in there[/b]. I see where those hands are!

I love the kids and spoil them rotten when we're together but I also don't need snot on my food. She thinks that I am being excessively anti-germ, when I do that. (She's nice about it, just finds it funny.)[/quote]

OP, I was the last of my college group to have kids.   While visiting an out of town friend, I did just this (your chips example) as we  had drinks and chatted while her DH was cooking dinner.

Sure enough, there had been a kid ill at daycare that Friday and my friend's little girl was up all night vomiting.  I left the next morning--did not see the girl, go into her room, used a different bathroom etc.   I drove an hour to visit my mom  for the rest of the weekend.   Guess who was in her bathroom vomiting that evening?  Yes.  Me.

In answer to your question, no and no.[/quote]

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