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Original poster

To ask my dd not to meet up with her friend for the next week

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Kaylasmum49 · 18/06/2021 23:52

I fully expect to be told iabu! My 17 year old dd has a close friend that she meets up with regularly but he mixes with a lot of other people, we have a holiday booked for next Friday with my other daughter and her family and I'm concerned about my dd possibly having to isolate if her friend was to catch covid. I would lose a lot of money and we would miss our holiday.

I suggested that it might be an idea not to meet up over the next week so that there's no risk of having to isolate, she wasn't overly happy with the idea but agreed that she wouldn't but now I feel very guilty about saying anything about it.

OP posts:
romdowa · 18/06/2021 23:56

How about saying that everyone in the house will keep their contacts low in the run up to the holiday. That way your dd won't feel like it's just her who is being asked to make a sacrifice.

Scarby9 · 18/06/2021 23:57

So are you all isolating at home together as far as humanly possible for the week? That would seem fair.

Original poster
Kaylasmum49 · 18/06/2021 23:59

We have to work but that's unavoidable. I just feel so bad to ask her this. Our cases are rising very quickly, currently 150 cases per 100000.

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PineappleMojito · 19/06/2021 00:00

YABU unless you’re all isolating/minimising contacts with others for the week.

Lollypop4 · 19/06/2021 00:02

YABU if you arnt all isolating too.

StCharlotte · 19/06/2021 00:02

Is she not going to see them at school/college?

Original poster
Kaylasmum49 · 19/06/2021 00:04

She has left school this week. They were still wearing masks in school.

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Elverybaby · 19/06/2021 00:06

Can they meet up outside and stay 2 metres apart?

Original poster
Kaylasmum49 · 19/06/2021 00:08

I did say that it would be better if they stay outside rather than inside, she didn't seem too enamoured about that.

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TriangularPrism · 19/06/2021 00:15

Why would you miss the holiday? If your DD is isolating then she'll miss it, you can all still go.

Sounds like you're more likely to catch it at work than her visiting just one friend though.

Original poster
Kaylasmum49 · 19/06/2021 00:23

I would hate to without her! I have worked all through the pandemic and not caught covid, maybe I've just been lucky.

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roobicoobi · 19/06/2021 00:42

My DD would be happy to do this, if anything she is the one on at me about isolating before plans just to make sure we don't end up stuck. I don't see much wrong with it tbh, it's a week.

Mrbob · 19/06/2021 00:53

She is an adult. She makes her choice. If she catches COVID she doesn’t go on holiday

CircleofWillis · 19/06/2021 01:51

@Mrbob

She is an adult. She makes her choice. If she catches COVID she doesn’t go on holiday
If she catches COVID no-one in the household can go.
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