@arethereanyleftatall
From any businesses point of view with covid, they're fucked with the huge numbers of people wanting refunds for covid. They're going bust left right and centre.
If you run any kind of business where your costs are the same whether you're full or not, and peouple pull out on the day, too late to replace the sale, the business loses the money.
Yabu. I don't think you should get your money back, it's 1 sale to you, it's happening over and over again to businesses atm.
They're only fucked because covid rates are so high, if they'd been lower then they might not have been.
And part of the reason WHY covid rates are so high is that there's no incentive to isolate if your kid is positive with the sniffles, in fact the opposite if you're going to lose money.
The reason it spreads is because people stand to lose out financially by doing the right thing (to minimise spread) as OP did.
So it's very much cutting of businesses noses to spite their face.
I was going to book the hotel deal I noticed, but I read the small print and decided not to. I would have if they'd had a better policy (and not a refund, an exchange would have been enough for me). So they totally lost my money rather than having to change the dates if my kid got ill the day of the trip. They're losing out by not having proper cover I'm sure to a far greater extent (by people staying away or coming and causing a superspreader event) than if they had cover which properly covered for covid.
In the example of the theatre, if OP had taken her DC who was positive, rather than lose the money, then loads more people including likely theatre staff would catch it, and then they'd have to close and lose more money. It's such short term thinking.