Thanksgiving with a side of COVID

[NU_WTF?]

one of the older women I play tennis with just had her first grandchild a few months ago but she has yet to hold the kid.

she has driven down to North Carolina (from MD) to see this kid...but basically just made faces at him in the driveway.

that's just sad.

My mom has given up, you can see it broke her heart when it happened and my mom was still on the following all the rules and what not (her buisness was ground to a halt by covid anyway so she didnt have contact there anyway) but she was getting N95 masks from my brothers practice and getting groceries delievered and only doing the early old fart special time grocery shopping hours

 

[ill]

My mom has given up, you can see it broke her heart when it happened and my mom was still on the following all the rules and what not (her buisness was ground to a halt by covid anyway so she didnt have contact there anyway) but she was getting N95 masks from my brothers practice and getting groceries delievered and only doing the early old fart special time grocery shopping hours

I 100% agree that this whole thing sucks ass.

but I also think it would be a lot worse if I were to lose a close family member to it.

 

[RubinRock]

I don't know...

my mom is in her late 60's and I told her I don't want to get her sick. It's as much my decision as it is hers.

everyone suffers if she passes away.

Its her life that she is putting at risk. Not yours. Its her decision. And for the clearly elderly (like an 80 year old), maybe its a morbid way of looking at things, but they probably don't have many years left in them anyways. I wouldn't want to waste some of last few years seeing family growing up by sitting at home during the holidays. Again, it the elderly and at-risk peoples decision. They know the risk.

 

[NU_WTF?]

I 100% agree that this whole thing sucks ass.

but I also think it would be a lot worse if I were to lose a close family member to it.

100%

That is the argument i made at the beginning of this and then when our schools opened and they rightly allowed optional remote learning vs in school we opted for remote learning (mom thinks im crazy but my youngest has been on nebulizer then inahler since birth with seroids and albuterol) i told her i would never forgive myself or anyone else if i didnt do everything possible and something terrible happened, it woudl destroy relationships with people who also put him at risk. I dont know if i could forgive someone if something terrible happened to my youngest when negligence was there

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

I usually spend every Thanksgiving at deer camp in south GA. With the South Dakota trip though, I doubt I will this year. Might have Thanksgiving with my family for the first time since before I was a teenager

 

[ill]

Its her life that she is putting at risk. Not yours. Its her decision. And for the clearly elderly (like an 80 year old), maybe its a morbid way of looking at things, but they probably don't have many years left in them anyways. I wouldn't want to waste some of last few years seeing family growing up by sitting at home during the holidays. Again, it the elderly and at-risk peoples decision. They know the risk.

they may know the risk, but not considering the consequences is pretty selfish.

 

[Guy Incognito]

My sister had her first child in april and still has not let anyone (grandmas or grandpas) even come within 6 feet (she is a nut job though)

We couldn't have gotten to where we are right now without help. We kind of got together with a few of our families, and set some basic rules:
1) Try not to do dumb shit.
2) Please tell us if you've been popped for contact tracing or test positive.

Right now, our "circle" is us (I've been working from home since March, wife isn't working, 5-year-old daughter is homeschooled, is in dance, and plays soccer), my parents (both retired), the in-laws (both retired), and my sister's family (she worked in a minimal-exposure retail setting until this week, when she went remote; her husband works on airplanes so he can't be remote but he's got limited exposure; his kids are in high school but they're full remote because sis and BiL were concerned about having to take time off work if their girls had caught it).

We have done a lot less than we normally would have done, but I think we've been able to keep it normal-ish. What's going to be really weird is that we've got my son's baptism scheduled for the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Will be really small, attendance-wise. Basically, just the circle outlined above, and the godparents.

 

[RP-29]

I usually spend Thanksgiving at my parents' house. Even though I haven't yet received word from my mother that she's hosting, I fully expect she will; she's the biggest "fuck virus fear & masks" person I know. A company-mandated quarantine or medical emergency could change things, but that's pretty much the only things that could. I live less than 10 miles from them, so there's no concern about travel regulations for me.

 

[RubinRock]

they may know the risk, but not considering the consequences is pretty selfish.

Knowing the risk is understanding the consequences. Everyone at this point should clearly know there is a disease going around. At risk and elderly, if they contract the disease, there is a small chance the consequence is death. Its a shitty situation, but that decision is on them to weigh. Not me.

 

[CaptainStubing]

We weren't meant to exist like this. Existing without being human serves no purpose. Eventually everyone will realize this.

 

[NU_WTF?]

We couldn't have gotten to where we are right now without help. We kind of got together with a few of our families, and set some basic rules:
1) Try not to do dumb shit.
2) Please tell us if you've been popped for contact tracing or test positive.

Right now, our "circle" is us (I've been working from home since March, wife isn't working, 5-year-old daughter is homeschooled, is in dance, and plays soccer), my parents (both retired), the in-laws (both retired), and my sister's family (she worked in a minimal-exposure retail setting until this week, when she went remote; her husband works on airplanes so he can't be remote but he's got limited exposure; his kids are in high school but they're full remote because sis and BiL were concerned about having to take time off work if their girls had caught it).

We have done a lot less than we normally would have done, but I think we've been able to keep it normal-ish. What's going to be really weird is that we've got my son's baptism scheduled for the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Will be really small, attendance-wise. Basically, just the circle outlined above, and the godparents.

That was another dagger in my moms heart, They had a virtual baptism, with nobody there but a pastor(somehow a pastor was acceptable to touch the child but not the grandparents)

Cant wait til this shit is over!

 

[ill]

We weren't meant to exist like this. Existing without being human serves no purpose. Eventually everyone will realize this.

how are you not being human?

 

[RubinRock]

We couldn't have gotten to where we are right now without help. We kind of got together with a few of our families, and set some basic rules:
1) Try not to do dumb shit.
2) Please tell us if you've been popped for contact tracing or test positive.

Right now, our "circle" is us (I've been working from home since March, wife isn't working, 5-year-old daughter is homeschooled, is in dance, and plays soccer), my parents (both retired), the in-laws (both retired), and my sister's family (she worked in a minimal-exposure retail setting until this week, when she went remote; her husband works on airplanes so he can't be remote but he's got limited exposure; his kids are in high school but they're full remote because sis and BiL were concerned about having to take time off work if their girls had caught it).

We have done a lot less than we normally would have done, but I think we've been able to keep it normal-ish. What's going to be really weird is that we've got my son's baptism scheduled for the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Will be really small, attendance-wise. Basically, just the circle outlined above, and the godparents.

We've done the same thing since I moved closer to my brother. Part of the reason I moved was to see my nieces more often. So our inner circle is them and the broads mom. They don't want their kids to get sick and be the reason that it spread thru school. So we agreed to not do dumb shit in order to see them more often. We basically eliminated going out to eat. Stopped going to the gym. Cookouts. Etc. I think this Thanksgiving will only be the second time we've all been together with my parents since the beginning of it all.

 

[Me]

We've done the same thing since I moved closer to my brother. Part of the reason I moved was to see my nieces more often. So our inner circle is them and the broads mom. They don't want their kids to get sick and be the reason that it spread thru school. So we agreed to not do dumb shit in order to see them more often. We basically eliminated going out to eat. Stopped going to the gym. Cookouts. Etc. I think this Thanksgiving will only be the second time we've all been together with my parents since the beginning of it all.

No gym? Makes sense now. I could sense the weakness

 

[RubinRock]

No gym? Makes sense now. I could sense the weakness

It fucking blows. I don't even have room for any at home gym stuff

 

[ill]

It fucking blows. I don't even have room for any at home gym stuff

just get yourself a 35 lb kettlebell and learn some new stuff.

you can do a lot with that and body weight exercises.

 

[RubinRock]

just get yourself a 35 lb kettlebell and learn some new stuff.

you can do a lot with that and body weight exercises.

Yeah i thought about it but its just a let down and I know im going to get real tired of it shortly.

 

[ill]

Yeah i thought about it but its just a let down and I know im going to get real tired of it shortly.

I have been really lazy when it comes to working out lately...

I am going to have to change that for the winter months once it gets too cold out

 

[Me]

I have been really lazy when it comes to working out lately...

I am going to have to change that for the winter months once it gets too cold out

Getting all the gym in that I can before they take it away

 

[ill]

Getting all the gym in that I can before they take it away

I need to pull the trigger on this spin bike...or maybe go rent one from the local spin studio