Friend said they're planning to break Covid rules..

[ThoroughlyForumed]

I was visiting a close friend yesterday evening (all fine in my location at the moment). We got to chatting about Christmas plans and what we would do 'if' rules changed or were upped in our area.
Luckily for me my family is a neat 6 so as long as we stay in medium we can celebrate together but obviously would change the plan if anything changed. Her family is a larger 11 and she very candidly just said they were all planning to celebrate together regardless of what rules are in place then. I sort of shrugged it off at the time as I didnt want to start a hypothetical argument but AIBU for being secretly pissed off with her for being so cavalier with Covid rules?

[quote Ilovemypantry]**@keepgoingorstop
It was still a bitchy, horrible thing to say. To wish that someone ends up in the same position that others are in is just nasty. It’s like wishing someone has cancer just because lots of other people have it. I’m sure OP wasn’t sitting happily in her “ivory tower” gloating about the situation as you seem to suggest.[/quote]
It was a horrible thing to say

OP comes over As smug with Her ‘neat 6’

I obviously hope the 6 doesnt go any blinking lower but it is a bit poor form having a go at people who are unlucky and have 7 or 8

(Disclaimer....OP kept her opinion of her friends potential actions to herself and just vented on here which is fair enough, and i still think 11 Seems like a lot)

YABU. After the year we've endured one day won't make much difference. I've stuck to the rules rigidly up to now but I intend on taking my DC to visit family three hours away for Christmas - regardless of what the rules are at that time.They're only tiny but they've been quite obviously effected by the isolation (we live rurally and they went months without laying eyes on another human besides me and DH the effects of which are still lingering) and they deserve a break and a nice time at Christmas. At this stage for me their happiness and well-being comes before other people's. It's that simple. There's limits to the sacrifices I'm prepared to make my DC endure for the greater good.

You do you but you'd be a sanctimonious dick to say anything to your friend IMO. She should do whatever she feels is best for her and her family.

@ReneeRol

Nice for you that your family fits into the right number. You've no right to judge people whose families don't.

Remember what you've said when the hospitals are overflowing or one of your elderly relatives fall ill. We have a responsibility to protect each other and frontline NHS workers who are going to have an extremely hard time this Christmas. Get over yourselves you selfish people.

My DM who is 84 was supposed to have a blood test in March Didnt happen till late August. Last weekend she collapsed at home and was taken to hospital. Shes home now with medication.
Im fucking sick of vulnerable elderly people being used as emotional blackmail on the rest of the public when certain quarters couldnt give a shit the rest of the time.