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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course we didn't. We're not selfish a-holes like most people apparently are.[/quote]

Your arm must be exhausted from patting yourself on the back.  You found an excuse to not visit your parents and grandparents.  Yay, you!  I'll bet they feel so loved.....[/quote]
Yep. The excuse was I don't want them to die. [/quote]

You really don’t have a firm grasp on statistics, do you?[/quote]
You don’t seem very smart. There’s a pandemic. My parents are elderly. I have young children who could be asymptomatic. I go to the grocery store and DH has to go into the office every now and then. This thing is spreading like wildfire despite social distancing. My parents weren’t comfortable with me coming to their home anyway and neither was I.  Is that strange? Are you all really hanging out with your elderly parents? Presumably the CDC is better at statistics than you, PP, and they are recommending against this. Why are you so mad that your fellow citizens are doing their part? Are you feeling bad about your inability to follow guidelines for the greater good?[/quote]

I am following social distance guidelines. Of course the CDC will recommend staying at home. But once again, statistically the risk is very very VERY low. Your dramatics about not wanting your parents to die show me that you really don’t grasp that. [/quote]

[b]Is it really spreading like wildfire? I don't know anyone who knows anyone that's been infected...no one! Not a family member, friend, coworker, neighborhood, old college friend...not a single person that I know.[/b]
DP but the risk of dying from covid in my parents’ age group is 13.4% using case fatality rates for their age group so far. Yes, that assumes they could even get the virus from us (highly unlikely since we’ve been isolating ourselves well) but if they did manage to get the virus from us somehow, they’d have a 13.4% chance of dying from it...and an even higher chance of getting seriously ill. That is not a risk I’m willing to take.[/quote]

You can mitigate your risks to near zero.  But you are not willing to do that for your own parents.  [/quote][/quote]

NP.  I have a relative abroad who died from it, and a friend's parent died from it near DC--both in their 60s.  My mom doesn't live in the area, but will not be putting her at risk from exposure to my family during this pandemic.  My mom is a retired nurse, so she gets it.  [/quote]

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