Also, fuck Christmas.
I’m slightly confused by this. Did you know everyone would get sick somehow? What made them super-spreader events beforehand?
Perfect choice of gif though lol
It’s more about getting chastised and guilt-tripped about refusing to go yet another holiday family event where multiple people are likely symptomatic and they get mad you opt out, then you’re vindicated later when many people actually get sick
Were these family members also antivaxers?
Did you consider wearing an N95 and washing hands thoroughly upon departure, or was it more a good excuse to not associate with people you don’t love or care for?
I’m not Christian but my family enjoys a paganesque Christmas as a bunch of agnostic and atheists as a good excuse to get together. In fairness, we don’t really associate with anyone anti-vaxx or stupid with hygiene either.
Did you consider wearing an N95 and washing hands thoroughly upon departure
Not OP, but if the main attraction of the “holiday event” is a meal, it’s not like you can wear an N95 mask to eat. I suppose it’d be an option to make a quick appearance and then bow out before the meal, but it sounds like OP’s family’s would just be assholes to OP if OP showed up just to leave early (and was also assholes when OP declined to show up entirely.)
we don’t really associate with anyone anti-vaxx or stupid with hygiene either.
i am so envious. that rules out 3/4 of both my wife’s and my family.
Vindicated, yes, but does seeing your whole family sick actually make you smile?
People will go to family gatherings even if they’re sick, and hide that they are, because faaaaamily. Also, children are little disease factories.
I try hard to avoid family events with school age children. Snotty, and sneeze dripping plague rats are what they really are.
not the op, but i would assume that some of the participants were already verifiably sick before the event…
Couldn’t pay me to deal with large events, especially on a holiday where a whole lot of people who don’t drink often decide to get shit-faced.
At least 1 in 10 people are contagious with an upper respiratory infection at any given time in the month in December. Likely more, according to CDC data.
I’m going to take this as, you’re not so much glad they’re all sick as glad you can say “told you so.”
With a tiny pinch of glad a certain person is sick.
“Opt out of super spreader family events” is just avoiding your family, no need to pretend you have some moral highground XD
Not getting sick is the moral high ground now?
Why not just get vaccinated and laugh with your immunity as everyone else gets sick? My family may be more tolerable also.
Some vaccines don’t really guarantee anything beyond reducing your chance of ending up in a hospital (and they can be less good even at that if the particular strain that you get isn’t the one you were vaccinated for.) For some vaccines, even vaccinated, you can still get the disease you’re vaccinated for and have anything from a couple weeks of being sick to life-long debilitating effects.
All else being equal, unless you have some particular reason why you’re not a good candidate for a particular vaccine, the significant majority of people are much better off vaccinated than unvaccinated, but vaccinated doesn’t necessarily mean safe to go lick doorknobs or, case in point, dine with a dozen relatives, whether those relatives are vaccinated or not. And of course there are plenty of reasons why OP might be at higher risk than most.
I’m not suggesting vaccines are perfect protection, just enough mitigation to allow me to enjoy social events without significant concerns.
That’s like wearing sunscreen and then sitting under a UV lamp all day. It’s better obviously, but still not a great idea.
I like to balance risk and reward.
vaccines do not work that way
Are you familiar with figurative speech?
Where I am, children under 12 have not been vaccinated against Covid since their first so no annual vax. Last shot was start of 2022 so has waned considerably.
How is this political?
That’s Herman Cain - Tea Party activist and businessman active in politics. He famously died after contracting Covid from an indoor political rally in Tulsa at the height of the pandemic before any vaccine was available. E: fixed typo in his name
