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Well, just spoke to my mom, and she's trying to decide whether or not to get together with my brother and his family for T day. The problem is he's also invited my mom's sister in law and two of our cousins (plus the husband of the one who is married) as well as my brother, sister in law and their three teenage daughters, one of who is home from college, one of whom plays sports, and one of whom has a boyfriend on the football team.
Since it's in southern CA, they should at least be able to eat outside and spread out and supposedly will all be masked except when eating. But there will be exactly ten people. According to this risk calculator for their county (Riverside), this is about an 12% chance someone there will have Covid. My mom is one of those people who could easily die if she gets it.
It's her call, of course. She's an adult. But I'm kind of frustrated my bro is having a get together at all, let alone is also inviting four extra people from two different households to join them as well. I hope this doesn't mean I get the guilt treatment (from him) for not coming down at Christmas. I suspect Covid is going to be raging here by then. My MD says they still don't have a lot of cases where she practices (A KP in Sacramento), but the numbers are increasing.
My husband hasn't made any inroads with his dad and step mom, who will be getting together for a weekend rental with one of their daughters and her family, as well as a couple of friends of hers. They live in Oregon, where it is unlikely they can eat outside, and anyway, if they are staying in the same house for several days, minimizing contact will be nearly impossible. According to my husband's sister, these friends of hers have "already had covid," but there are a lot of folks walking around convinced they've had it who probably haven't.
And to be clear, no one in either of our families are covid deniers or people who are typically flagrant risk takers. If I weren't so close to these situations, it would be "interesting" how people rationalize away the not-so-clever choices they make.
And the thing that seems especially crazy to me about taking these risks now is that there may be light at the end of the tunnel. If these vaccines become generally available in Spring and are as effective as the early data suggest, a summer visit to family may be in the cards.
Since it's in southern CA, they should at least be able to eat outside and spread out and supposedly will all be masked except when eating. But there will be exactly ten people. According to this risk calculator for their county (Riverside), this is about an 12% chance someone there will have Covid. My mom is one of those people who could easily die if she gets it.
It's her call, of course. She's an adult. But I'm kind of frustrated my bro is having a get together at all, let alone is also inviting four extra people from two different households to join them as well. I hope this doesn't mean I get the guilt treatment (from him) for not coming down at Christmas. I suspect Covid is going to be raging here by then. My MD says they still don't have a lot of cases where she practices (A KP in Sacramento), but the numbers are increasing.
My husband hasn't made any inroads with his dad and step mom, who will be getting together for a weekend rental with one of their daughters and her family, as well as a couple of friends of hers. They live in Oregon, where it is unlikely they can eat outside, and anyway, if they are staying in the same house for several days, minimizing contact will be nearly impossible. According to my husband's sister, these friends of hers have "already had covid," but there are a lot of folks walking around convinced they've had it who probably haven't.
And to be clear, no one in either of our families are covid deniers or people who are typically flagrant risk takers. If I weren't so close to these situations, it would be "interesting" how people rationalize away the not-so-clever choices they make.
And the thing that seems especially crazy to me about taking these risks now is that there may be light at the end of the tunnel. If these vaccines become generally available in Spring and are as effective as the early data suggest, a summer visit to family may be in the cards.
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