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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. The thanksgiving dinner is hosted at grandparent house. It is grandparents telling us not to come if any of us have symptoms. They did not say exactly why, but they imply it is for the sake of 8 months old baby during the conversation. And, my brother has texted and checked on us how we are doing so far. Just a lot of pressures on me to act like a great aunt. We have voluntarily skipped family dinner at grandparent house a few times when the baby was younger. None of us has seen the baby yet except on video chat.[/quote]

Okay, if it's the hosts saying you can't bring symptomatic guests, you can't bring them.  Given that in my experience elementary kids are pretty much always sick, I would plan for Thanksgiving at home and it'll be a nice treat to go to the grandparents' if everyone magically wakes up sniffle free Thursday morning.  It sucks your ILs are more concerned about sharing germs than you but it is what it is.  The flu shot is still irrelevant since 90% of the symptoms you've mentioned aren't even flu symptoms.  Sounds like grandparents just don't want colds/Covid/RSV to spread.[/quote]

Of course they don’t! Stop acting like COVID is the one and only thing that can make other people miserably sick, or disrupt work and school. Colds, RSV, HFM, bronchitis, flu, pneumonia also exist, and no one wants that. If you’re sick or your kids are sick, STAY HOME. DUH. That isn’t unreasonable for grandparents or hosts or anyone else to ask or expect. If you think it’s OK to bring symptoms to any gathering, you suck. And yes, that means you’ll miss out on stuff. That’s better than giving a baby RSV or an old person pneumonia.[/quote]

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