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[quote=Anonymous]If a relative came to Thanksgiving with a cold I would be annoyed and probably leave. I would have felt like that even before the pandemic. Several years ago, a coworker walked in late to a meeting and sat down right next to me. After sitting there quietly for about a half hour, he apologized to the group for being late, saying, "sorry I'm late, I think I have the flu." I was livid and got up and left the meeting. The pandemic has made people forget that it has always been rude and selfish to come to work, or parties, or events when you are sick. Even if it's "just" a cold, or "just" RSV or "just" the flu, etc. people don't want to get sick. No one wants your germs. Your relative made very a selfish choice, particularly if there were elderly people at the get together, but also because he doesn't know who among your family (or your family's co-workers or others forced to be around them) are vulnerable to complications. Or maybe have something major happening at work and don't want to spend the next week in bed. Or miss school. Or whatever is happening in their lives -- just so your brother-in-law can eat turkey for one day out of the year.

Also most Covid infections present as colds at first, and you can be reinfected in as little as 4 weeks, particularly with a different variant, so the fact that your relative was recently infected isn't really reassuring. Testing frequently doesn't catch early Covid, as we found out recently with our son.  We sent him to school a few weeks ago even though he had a horse voice and was sneezing a bit. No fever, so unlikely to be flu or RSV. He otherwise felt fine, and we tested him for Covid like 3 times over the weekend before sending him to school. By then he was on day 3 of barely perceptible symptoms so we assumed that tests would be accurate.  After all the testing and the very minor symptoms, it felt like overreacting to keep him home from school, especially because we had kept him home many times over the last 2 years for minor colds that never turned into anything. So we sent him to school for 2 days, and on the evening of the 2nd day he tested positive for Covid. He actually got quite ill, with a fever of 103, and then I got very sick and I'm still dealing with debilitating complications from the infection. I hate to think that he infected other people at school during those 2 days. [/quote]

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