Invited to my cousin's for Thanksgiving. There will be a four NYC households: 14 people total, half kids under 12. All plan to take a Covid test this week or next. Would you feel safe?
Unless there is some earth shattering reason to be there (grandma attending and she might not be with us next year, or kids suffering emotionally and mentally and need to be around family, etc), I would not. It’s one Thanksgiving in a lifetime of Thanksgivings, and we are so close to a vaccine. I wouldn’t want to mess it up now ...
Nope, none of the above. I'm just always the one saying no in my family and I thought maybe, with tests, it would be okay to say yes. But I can't help but feel like it's a mistake. I go back and forth.
Testing is a false equivalence for safety. The only way to reduce the risk of exposure to yourself and others is to properly quarantine before and after.
No way. The Covid test is only reflective of the snapshot in time when they got it. All days after are fair game for contracting Covid. Are these households quarantining after their tests? Do you trust that they will?
if I sound a little alarmist it’s because I just spent an ER shift in rural northern New England where literally half my patients had Covid. We are screwed up here.
This is exactly what I keep running through in my head. Plus the test doesn't really show whether one was exposed in the days just prior to taking it. I just pulled the trigger on the "Sorry, we're not coming" email. I hate for my family to feel like I don't trust them and I would love to be with them, but "indoor dining" like this is just too much for my Covid-conservative nature.
My family wants me to quarantine with my three kids after taking a test. Is it wrong that I don't want to quarantine in our apartment for a week before Thanksgiving? We aren't planning on going to indoor events or anything, but I do take the kids to the park often. I would rather just meetup on zoom.
see? this is why no one can trust anything anyone says about thanksgiving preparations. they want you to quarantine. you will do your version of quarantine, which may or may not meet theirs. (and by "you", I really mean "people"). This is what has all the experts worried about surges after Thanksgiving -- few people will really do what's necessary before meeting up.
Unless there is some earth shattering reason to be there (grandma attending and she might not be with us next year, or kids suffering emotionally and mentally and need to be around family, etc), I would not. It’s one Thanksgiving in a lifetime of Thanksgivings, and we are so close to a vaccine. I wouldn’t want to mess it up now ...
Nope, none of the above. I'm just always the one saying no in my family and I thought maybe, with tests, it would be okay to say yes. But I can't help but feel like it's a mistake. I go back and forth.
So you usually decline but the one time you’re going to say yes is in a deadly pandemic? Ok. :)
@Anonymous No, no. I meant that I've said no to every potential get-together during the pandemic.
Well at least you’re being consistent. The time to change your mind isn’t at an hours long indoor eating extravaganza with people from hither and yon.
Testing is a false equivalence for safety. The only way to reduce the risk of exposure to yourself and others is to properly quarantine before and after.
I wouldn't say it is worthless, but it's just a data point. All you can do is approximate your risk given a series of data points.
No way. The Covid test is only reflective of the snapshot in time when they got it. All days after are fair game for contracting Covid. Are these households quarantining after their tests? Do you trust that they will?
if I sound a little alarmist it’s because I just spent an ER shift in rural northern New England where literally half my patients had Covid. We are screwed up here.
This is exactly what I keep running through in my head. Plus the test doesn't really show whether one was exposed in the days just prior to taking it. I just pulled the trigger on the "Sorry, we're not coming" email. I hate for my family to feel like I don't trust them and I would love to be with them, but "indoor dining" like this is just too much for my Covid-conservative nature.
No just binge watch Netflix and drink some bubbly. It sucks but were all making sacrifices
Add champagne to pretty much anything and I'm happy. Excellent plan.
My family wants me to quarantine with my three kids after taking a test. Is it wrong that I don't want to quarantine in our apartment for a week before Thanksgiving? We aren't planning on going to indoor events or anything, but I do take the kids to the park often. I would rather just meetup on zoom.
see? this is why no one can trust anything anyone says about thanksgiving preparations. they want you to quarantine. you will do your version of quarantine, which may or may not meet theirs. (and by "you", I really mean "people"). This is what has all the experts worried about surges after Thanksgiving -- few people will really do what's necessary before meeting up.
Do zoom and don’t feel guilty about it.