Have you cancelled/scaled down plans because of Omnicron?

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Just wondering what the general consensus is. Since the numbers started going crazy, have you cancelled or scaled back plans or carried on exactly as you had planned?

YABU- haven’t cancelled a thing.
YANBU- have cancelled or scaled back some stuff.

Ugghhhh. It all feels very Christmas 2020.

Sending unmumsnetty hugs to anyone struggling.

Cancelled visit from overseas relatives. Well, not quite cancelled yet, but we all know it’s too risky for them. Absolutely gutted.

Yanbu too risky. Too many of us are close contacts and could test positive so not meeting parents. Cancelled a few bits for the kids too

Yes because I have it 😭

We haven't cancelled anything at all. We have a teen and 3 adult kids cooking home for Christmas. One is bring her partner, baby and FIL. That's for Xmas dinner. Xmas Eve is always an open house with hot roast pork and stuffing rolls and a few drinks. Boxing Day is a big family party and that will still be going ahead as he are lucky enough to have a very large sifted terrace in the garden so we won't ask be packed into the house. That's for about 30 people.

So we aren't changing anything and most of us are triple jabbed. Only four members aged 23-28 have opted against vaccination . But we will all be doing lateral flows every day just to be sure. Obviously if anybody got a positive things would change.

Cancelled shopping trip, birthday meal out,, and a supper with friends. My Aunt has cancelled our meet up with her as she is too worried. (Elderly).
Fed up but want to avoid being part of the problem if the situation gets much worse. I worry about anyone needing hospital treatment for a non Covid emergency more than I worry about Covid at the moment. Plus other essential services being affected.

Nope. Won’t do unless of course anyone is ill/tests positive. Doing LF tests before attending things. I’ve got family who have decided to do a self imposed lockdown though, which is their choice of course and DH and I are respecting that, so where other people have cancelled or scaled back obviously we can’t do much about it. But we won’t be cancelling or scaling back ourselves. I’m off out for a pub meal this evening with friends and looking forward to the ease of being served since lots of people are probably not going out!

Yes, Cancelled attending a friend;s 50th.

cancelled attending a lunch with friends.

Cancelled choir practice.

School broke up on Friday and we are not intending to have any social engagements over Christmas now. We have CV DC who is too young for the vax and we thought while we would try and keep him at school for as long as possible then self impose isolation on the family. Thankfully both Dcs are happy to play roblox with each other and watch dvds.

Going to see parents as planned, will be travelling by car, one is ECV so they have been isolating and we're only going out for essentials and work now nursery is closed. Will all do a LFT on the day and will have to cancel if anyone is positive.
We didn't go to a kids Christmas event because no adults had a mask on, people were packed in and it was a positive test waiting to happen! Gladly forfeited about the booking fee if it stops us having to cancel our plans.

No, I haven't cancelled anything.

Thanks to people cancelling I'm now meeting up with my 3 closest friends on Wednesday at the pub for lunch.
We have been out at the weekend the city centre was mobbed.

Family due to fly in from UK have cancelled, DCs not in school for the sake of 3 days, family do that was after Christmas cancelled.

Things I was supposed to be doing have been cancelled, but I haven't cancelled myself. I'd say about 70% of the things I was supposed to be doing in the run-up to Xmas are now not going ahead.

Yes, currently isolating so everything is off. Was supposed to be going to stay with recently-bereaved family to support them (and us). Now scrabbling around trying to pull together Christmas dinner. F*ing sh**show all round.

Nope, and won't.

Well I want to but don't know how it will go down with DH.

We were to go to MIL's for a couple of hours then to my mum's for dinner. I no longer want to go to MILs. She has a tiny, stuffy living room and is due to have quite a few people there. My mum has a large living room directly connected to the kitchen where she will often have the windows wide open while she cooks. It stays warm but airy. It'll just be me, DH, our 2 kids and my sisters plus one partner at my mum's, with plenty of space. Not squashing together like at MILs.

DH will see it as me choosing my family over his but it's genuinely the squashed, packed out living room at his MIL's that's making me anxious. I don't know how to bring it up. My family often seems to trump his in other situations too.

Family no longer coming as it required travelling by plane. Friends no longer coming for drinks.

I haven't cancelled anything but we've moved plans forward in anticipation of further restrictions coming in after Christmas.

No friends Christmas lunch in the run up, no twixtmas party with extended family. Christmas Day was going to be smaller anyway, that will hopefully still go ahead. Fed up that all the work and drudge still happens but the good stuff is all getting cancelled.

We cancelled anything unimportant this weekend onwards including cinema, football etc so we don’t risk Christmas Day as far as possible.

I worry about anyone needing hospital treatment for a non Covid emergency more than I worry about Covid at the moment. Plus other essential services being affected.

Absolutely. Look at the state of Manchester Airport today because of staff absences. I'm wondering if they were Omicron related?

YANBU - yup, scaled back and/or cancelled most things - only mixing with people if we have to. I don’t want to contribute to the covid problems by either getting it badly or passing it on/spreading it. As I have no way of knowing the likelihood of this the sensible thing is not to mix with people.

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Well I want to but don't know how it will go down with DH.

We were to go to MIL's for a couple of hours then to my mum's for dinner. I no longer want to go to MILs. She has a tiny, stuffy living room and is due to have quite a few people there. My mum has a large living room directly connected to the kitchen where she will often have the windows wide open while she cooks. It stays warm but airy. It'll just be me, DH, our 2 kids and my sisters plus one partner at my mum's, with plenty of space. Not squashing together like at MILs.

DH will see it as me choosing my family over his but it's genuinely the squashed, packed out living room at his MIL's that's making me anxious. I don't know how to bring it up. My family often seems to trump his in other situations too.

It’s because it sounds like you just don’t want to go MIL’s! Having windows and space makes no difference

Most of the things I would have been involved in are already cancelled by the people running them, including the church carol singing round the village tonight, which is so sad.
I am still having family staying for Christmas though. We are all triple jabbed.

Cancelled a 3 hour each way trip with a hotel stay to celebrate a friend's birthday - as in we didn't go - event still happened.

We deliberately booked things (work meal out on the 3rd, Santa train on the 10th) in early Dec in case this happened. Christmas Day was always just me, DH and DS but remains to be seen if we will see family at New Year!

I declined to attend a couple of meals out, purely for financial reasons, but everything we have planned for ours and at our family and friends homes are still going ahead. Probably doing more then we usually do.