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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, be the smart relative, like the aunt and uncle doctors from the family in North Texas.  They were the only ones that did not attend the big 3-0 birthday party of their niece.  And of 25 people that attended, 10 people caught Covid-19 and some transmitted it to others including the grandmother who just stopped to drop off food who contracted it and gave it to her husband who did not go at all.  All told 18 people in this family how have it with 3 hospitalized.

Be the adult, congratulate the happy couple, send a gift and with them well.  Do not go.[/quote]

This is a very dramatic and tragic story in Texas, but you are not being fair in the way that you are telling it.

Yes, 18 people have it and 3 are very, very ill. BUT, as I understand it, [b]the other 15 don't even have symptom[/b]s. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

If all of the people who had gone to the party had quarantined afterwards - and the grandmother had not even stopped by to drop off food - this story would be very different.[/quote]

Different poster. Immediate PP, maybe you don't mean it that way, but your post comes off as if you think it's no big deal that "the other 15 don't even have symptoms." That's not a plus--you get that, right? Those symptom-free people were still possibly contagious to others in their homes, at the grocery store, at work if they work outside home, to their kids' friends families if they think play dates are peachy. And so on. This wasn't just about spreading it to grandma and grandpa who weren't there or who in grandma's case just dropped by quickly. It's about the fact that these idiot guests and hosts probably infected many others too. Last I read, they were still trying to figure out how far the chain of infection spread beyond the party attendees/family members.

People can show NO symptoms and still infect others, who may become very ill or die. The grandparent were both hospitalized and the grandfather in grave condition as of a few days ago.

These brides and grooms going forward with weddings, whether of 150 people or 50, are taking huge chances not only with the lives of the guests who attend but also with the lives of the guests' family members who are NOT even at the events. And the lives of the people those guests sit next to on airplanes, or strangers who use a sink right after them at a highway rest stop, or people they encounter at work, or at the grocery store.

That is HOW. INFECTION. WORKS. These couples need to suck up the fact that their special day so long in the planning can wait. They are focused on the weddings and not on the marriages. And tearful protestations about how "If we don't do it when we planned, our older relatives may not be around if we have an event later!" fall completely flat. Because the older relatives might not be around much longer anyway if they feel they ought to come to your wedding this summer or, probably, this fall either.[/quote]

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