Anonymous wrote:My elderly parents had 5 over yesterday for the same. At first I saw the photos and gasped but then I realized they are sending smiling photos of them and their friends and they are all having fun. Previously they had all been in their homes alone for three months. I think that is safe. Personally my family is not getting together with anyone in groups indoors or outdoors yet.

I’m curious, OP, what do you think of the hundreds and thousands gathering all over the country for protests? Is that okay because they are outside and some have masks?

Those protests really trigger you. What are you REALLY more worried about spreading rapidly: corona or anti-racism?

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Anonymous wrote:Pretend that I don't have access to your Facebook account. What is massive?

OP here, I’m guessing about 20 people - 10 couples. I guess what struck me is that all the photos were indoors and people had their arms around each other and were standing close in the photos - like we used to stand in all photos.

I’m not locked in my house, we’ve seen a few friends and neighbors on porches and such, it was just the indoors and closeness part that struck me.

Reckless, but there will be classrooms with 20+ students at a time in a couple months. DCUM thinks that density is completely safe.

My elderly parents had 5 over yesterday for the same. At first I saw the photos and gasped but then I realized they are sending smiling photos of them and their friends and they are all having fun. Previously they had all been in their homes alone for three months. I think that is safe. Personally my family is not getting together with anyone in groups indoors or outdoors yet.

I’m curious, OP, what do you think of the hundreds and thousands gathering all over the country for protests? Is that okay because they are outside and some have masks?

Hopefully Tom Cotton sent in the military to shut it down.

Anonymous wrote:Wake up people - the rest of the country has opened up and is going about their lives. Only in this area are people still buying into the stay at home orders and shaming people who don't (except for the protesters).

Also going on in these parts of the country: increasing case counts, increasing numbers of hospitalizations.

Wake up people - the rest of the country has opened up and is going about their lives. Only in this area are people still buying into the stay at home orders and shaming people who don't (except for the protesters).

Anonymous wrote:Pretend that I don't have access to your Facebook account. What is massive?

OP here, I’m guessing about 20 people - 10 couples. I guess what struck me is that all the photos were indoors and people had their arms around each other and were standing close in the photos - like we used to stand in all photos.

I’m not locked in my house, we’ve seen a few friends and neighbors on porches and such, it was just the indoors and closeness part that struck me.

Pretend that I don't have access to your Facebook account. What is massive?

Anonymous wrote:How many people can their possibly be at an indoor dinner party? A dining table is only so big.

This. I too feel like we're living in parallel universes - the people who are still super anxious and hardly leaving home, and others who are resuming normalcy. I'm not throwing indoor parties, but had a picnic w/ friends last weekend with about 15 people. We all certainly touched each other's things. We're all finding out that Covid is not really that bad for people who aren't elderly or vulnerable.

If you are really vulnerable, then take the precautions to protect yourself. The rest of the world is getting back to normal. I can't wait to go to the gym next week!

There are parallel universes. I noticed some people are deeply cautious and not leaving their homes often, and many more people going about there lives albeit with masks (or sometimes without one).

It is what it is. Will covid transmit more? Yes, of course. But there isn’t any other viable option. I just wish folks would wear masks.

Anonymous wrote:How many people can their possibly be at an indoor dinner party? A dining table is only so big.

+1

If it really was a dinner party, how many people could it possibly be?

I’ll also note that in reopened states (mine is) one of the recommendations has been to limit yourself to a small group and hang out with only that group for now...we are following that, pretty much. We hang out with 2 other families with similar aged kids. The kids play together during the week, we do bbq etc in the weekends. Not perfect but vastly preferable to constant mixing and large groups...

In a photo we’d look like a bigger group than we are, possibly- if any kids are included...

Then again it could huge party of fandoms, sure. But if you don’t know the whole story it is hard to say.

How many people can their possibly be at an indoor dinner party? A dining table is only so big.

Anonymous wrote:We are all in this together, some more then others.

We are all in this together, some more then others.

No social distancing, tagged a bunch of people, and a bunch of comment on how much fun it was.

I feel like this is a parrallel universe.