When I was younger I remember occasions when I (or one of my siblings) was ill with flu, diarrhoea or something else but gatherings in our house ALWAYS went ahead. I was just confined to my bedroom and food/medicine was brought to me. My parents would never ever cancel plans over minor ailments like this.
If we had to go somewhere and we were ill, one of my parents would go and take remaining siblings with them, or sometimes (my mums aunt would always do this) everyone would prepare food and bring it to ours and we’d have Christmas at our house.
Even now, if I’m not feeling up to it, I get picked up by family member and get given a blanket at their house and I sit and rest whilst they fuss over the kids, but enjoy time with my family.
I don’t understand why people are prepared to cancel plans over a cold or something else minor and not be willing to swap things around? Colds and winter bugs aren’t contagious if you follow appropriate basic hygiene and confine the ill person to a room.
The only exception is if someone in the family is immunocompromised, then keeping away is completely understandable.
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