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Would you go to a wedding next weekend?

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weddingguesttbc · 01/12/2021 19:01

Am vaccinated and RSVP'd yes. Not old or CEV but I am wary.

Would you go? They've likely paid for me already. I have booked a hotel etc.

Doubts over whether it will even happen at this rate.

Do you think it will happen? (if it doesn't, I guess I wait for now and do nothing) and if it does, would you go?

OP posts:
AnnieSnap · 02/12/2021 17:37

No, I wouldn’t go. We have £70 tickets for a concert on Sunday, but sadly, we won’t go. We’re in our 60s though and my husband is a diabetic. We’re being more cautious until more is known about the Omicron variant.

notanothertakeaway · 02/12/2021 17:41

I'd probably go to Wedding and meal

But I wouldn't want to be around people dancing, hugging and shouting over the music

Lasair · 02/12/2021 17:44

@weddingguesttbc no I don’t think so. Why are you so negative? Do you not get in cars for fear of them crashing?

trumpisagit · 02/12/2021 17:44

I think we are all in a wait and see position OP.
Things may change very quickly in the next couple of weeks, or they may not.
At the moment, I would go, but things may look very different this time next week.

Gilld69 · 02/12/2021 17:44

I'd go, I'm sure it will go ahead and if your worried take a mask.

AnnieSnap · 02/12/2021 17:45

@MrsHastingslikethebattle what a patronising and silly post yours is 🙄 For your information, some people who have been fully vaccinated, including some young adults with no pre-existing health conditions, do become seriously ill and are sometimes life with long term life changing health problems! Also, based on your post, I guess passing it into to someone vulnerable doesn’t matter at all to you. I think it’s you who should, as you say “give your head a wobble” (stupid, immature thing to say)!

FootieMama · 02/12/2021 17:57

If under 30 or thereabouts and healthy I would go. Low risk of serious illness even if you catch it.

FootieMama · 02/12/2021 18:04

I wouldn't go because I am over 50 and not in great health. In life we are managing risks all the time and for younger people the risk of covid IS low. You can always minimise the risk further by seating by a window, wearing a mask, etc.

Timeforwinterclothes · 02/12/2021 18:07

Definitely. It's my DD's long anticipated wedding and I can't wait.

Jackburger · 02/12/2021 18:25

Go. Wear a mask if it makes you feel safer and just turn off the news.

mumof2exhausted · 02/12/2021 18:29

Yes of course I would.

Mandyjack · 02/12/2021 18:43

Yes I'd go and yes I think it will go ahead

TSSDNCOP · 02/12/2021 18:45

I would go.

You could get Covid there, at a workplace, at a supermarket at a anywhere.

The main ballache will be the new guidance (issued yesterday) that if someone tests PCR positive and you are contacted you have to isolate (which you didn't if you were double vaxxed) until you get a PCR. This is so they can try to ID omicron specifically.

Oblomov21 · 02/12/2021 18:46

Yes. Why would you not?

takenforgrantednana · 02/12/2021 18:47

@weddingguesttbc

Am vaccinated and RSVP'd yes. Not old or CEV but I am wary.

Would you go? They've likely paid for me already. I have booked a hotel etc.

Doubts over whether it will even happen at this rate.

Do you think it will happen? (if it doesn't, I guess I wait for now and do nothing) and if it does, would you go?

i would only go if they made sure only those with a neg test where allowed into the wedding. and before anyone says anything im double jabbed plus booster. i am very strict about where we go, we do not go to pubs/restaurants etc and only mix with immediate family
vickyc90 · 02/12/2021 18:47

Yes I would go, if it's as infectious as they reckon this might be the final variant that we all get every year. Had COVID the cold we are still getting over (3 weeks!!!!) was worse!

Chocolatewheatos · 02/12/2021 18:50

God yes! I'd love it!

RobinPenguins · 02/12/2021 18:52

Yes I would go.

I absolutely wouldn’t let someone I cared about down by dropping out of their wedding at the last minute unless there were massive extenuating circumstances.

Notahandmaid · 02/12/2021 19:08

@Everanewbie Things like not being able to see relatives in a care home/hospital because one of the workers has tested positive and being bereaved, as I have been this year, does tend to make one be more cautious. In your view, that’s “miserable”. What a different view we have.

mummeeee · 02/12/2021 19:09

Yes, I would go.

You are vaccinated so you have very significantly reduced the risk of serious illness or hospitalisation, even if you caught covid. The only reason I would consider not going, would be if catching covid would mean missing something more important to you in the 10 days of isolation.

I work in a large secondary school so take more risk than this every day at work.

Consider other risks you take regularly without thinking, such as driving on the motorway.

ufucoffee · 02/12/2021 19:21

Of course I would go. It wouldn't occur to me not to.

Pinklemonade1 · 02/12/2021 19:26

Yes!! If you don't want to go can I go In your place? ;)

wentworthinmate · 02/12/2021 19:33

No don't go, just in case you have a car accident on the way there or a plane crashes into the venue.

Mirw · 02/12/2021 20:03

You could get Covid getting your messages! Go and enjoy yourself.

divface · 02/12/2021 21:00

Yes. You must go. Unless you are ill or have covid then you must