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.

No.

My Christmas was low key anyway - seeing my parents on Christmas Day, my sister’s family on Boxing Day - but I’m waiting for PCR results, so they might be even less than I imagined!

Yes.
Cancelled a lunch with relatives.
Cancelled lunch with friends.
Cancelled DM's visit to us this Christmas as she is frail and very vulnerable.
Three family members, including one DC have tested positive.

@HumunaHey

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 does sound like you are using covid as an excuse not to go to MILs. If you wanted to cancel going to MILs then you shouldn't go to your mums either really because having windows open and having a bit more space won't help if someone has it.

They weren’t very scaled up to start with!

No, regular testing here, everyone's jabbed. Lifes too short anyway, I'm not cancelling another Christmas, fuck that.

I haven't cancelled anything, but I've had quite a few people or events cancelled by others, so have to go with their decision! I'm still meeting up with close family, the odd friend.

No - we'll be carrying on with what we had planned which is actually very little.

It was pretty obvious that the time around Christmas was going to be a risk of high infection so we'd already intended to keep our heads down and avoid big crowds.

I planned to do what was important to me and that will not change.

Yes we have cancelled my mum’s stay because she looked after my very vulnerable grandparents and it just isn’t worth the risk. Several cases in my area at the moment, a lot of whom I know, which hasn’t been the case before this wave.

Nope but feeling a bit cocky because we had covid a couple of weeks ago so immunity isn’t very high in this house even if it wasn’t omicron!

We’re still continuing with our plans and very excited.

Looks not looked!

I meant to say immunity is very high obviously!

I wasn't able to go out for dinner with friends because others were anxious. I would have been happy to go, but we changed it to an outdoor walk instead. Otherwise I haven't changed any plans and hope I don't have to.

We haven’t cancelled anything yet but we are supposed to be at the theatre this afternoon and they have cancelled the performance.

Yep family from overseas have had to cancel. Now considering not going to winter wonderland with my daughter this week. She will be gutted but too risky as we live with my elderly mum.

Nope.

One thing has been cancelled because other people dropped out, but we would have quite merrily gone ahead.

I don't care if I catch it. No plans to go spreading it around to anyone else, but from a personal point of view I do not give a shit (have had it and was not ill, neither were any of my family members).

It is essentially isolating yourself you avoid having to isolate - I'd rather live my life as fully as possible and do the 10 days if I have to.

This morning just cancelled the whole lot as positive tests in the house so will be isolating across the whole period, super

Gone to a couple of parties where everyone lateral flowed and triple jabbed (except kids). Cancelled meal with colleague s as two of then refused vaccines and don't trust them to lateral flow as they are sceptics. Thankfully don't have to physically work with the numpties!

Yes everything cancelled

DC tested positive for Covid this weekend so self-isolating.

Not cancelled anything. We've got a meal out on Wednesday, Christmas light show on Thursday and panto Friday. Yesterday we went to a Christmas market. I've got no Christmas day plans with wider family though so won't make a difference if I catch Covid.

I had no outings or events planned because I don't like crowds anyway. Have cancelled adult DC visiting while I watch how infections are going over the next 2 weeks.They understand and it's one less journey they have to make during their time off work!

We had Covid 2 weeks ago so are not changing or cancelling the plans within our control.

However an older relative was meant to be hosting 25 or so on boxing day and has cancelled.

Cancelled everything other than Xmas Day itself at my parents' house.

No we've not cancelled anything.
If anything, we're making the most of being able to do things and see people while we can!
We're all doing LFT every day and obviously wouldn't go out if we had any symptoms.

Yes, my mum dad and brother won't be coming for Christmas now.
I'm a close contact. My mum and brother are having to be particularly cautious.
On the last day of term a person in the class I work in tested positive. If it's delta I'd probably be fine. If it's Omicron though...
Very disappointed, but will have a lovely time so long as we don't actually catch Covid.