Long story short we were supposed to be going to a Christmas party night for my friend’s belated 40th birthday. She’s had a really tough time this year between her dad dying, her relationship breaking down then her 40th birthday holiday she had booked to cheer herself up being cancelled. I was looking forward to the party night until a week or two ago when it became more obvious that the timing of it was terrible, just a week before Christmas. My dad has just had covid really badly and I obviously want to avoid it but not only that, I have a baby and really don’t want to miss his first Christmas due to having to isolate or worse still, pass it onto him.
I’m in Scotland so the advice from the FM today was to limit socialising to max 3 households. There are lots of people in our group that I don’t even know but I think around 12 people are supposed to be going to the party night. Common sense would say don’t go, it’s not worth the risk just for the sake of one night out when now even the government are warning against it. On the other hand though we’ve paid for it in full, no one else has pulled out so I might appear to be dramatic and the main reason is the fact I think we’re all only still going because she needs cheering up 😕 I feel that by going I’d be putting her needs above those of me and my little family though but I can’t bring myself to text her and say I’m cancelling. AIBU to want to cancel on her?