Grandparents day at school as flu season kicks off

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It was grandparents day at primary school last week and all the grandparents that could come were invited into school for a celebration.

Right at the start of flu season & just as covid cases were rising.

Aibu to think it’s a teensy bit irresponsible to invite elderly and vulnerable people into the germ pit that is a school in autumn?! 🫣🤦‍♀️

Both my kids have been off with terrible colds this last 2 week’

Everyone over the age of 65 are offered covid and flu vaccinations automatically, as well as those who are immune suppressed. So there is no point in not offering these events and people hiding away anymore.

Because Grandparents Day is in October. It was an Age Concern campaign from
the 1990s, I think.

You can’t celebrate an October thing in July.

How ridiculous you sound! Adults with mental capacity can do what they like.

How old are these grandparents anyway? Probably in their fifties and sixties? Ancient!

I imagine OP would be shocked to meet my mum (my children’s grandmother) who is a 60yo school secretary, which means she’s in a school <gasps> five days a week.

You are the one who called the people organising the event stupid and daft. Nobody agrees with you, doesn’t mean people are personally attacking you. They just don’t see the massive problem with it.

Would you rather we locked them all away until the summer just incase? When is preferable for the event do you think?

Yes let's just lock all grand parents away for flu season and let them back out once it's done.

I am genuinely surprised at these responses, I thought for sure I'd be in the minority voting YABU. What a difference a couple of years can make. Very glad to see that people aren't afraid of leaving their sterile bubbles to live their lives anymore.

Grandparents should stay inside until spring and have zero contact with anyone why do they need joy in their lives?

Half the school would not ‘be down with something’. In primary school there is always something going about, in all weathers and seasons. Adults can make their own decision to attend or not. Schools really can’t win can they?

Agree with this OP.

One of my friends attended a similar event at their granddaughter's primary school last week. I know this as she told me in the Pilates class we both went to. She had been to another class immediately beforehand. She was commuting into London the next day as she is required to be in the office twice a week. This week, she is on holiday somewhere in the Med, no doubt staying in a hotel.
If she does get a cold or Covid, I'm not sure she's going to be able to pin it down to spending an hour or so in a classroom!

You’re being ridiculous OP. People can choose to go or not.

All the grandparents providing childcare should say nope, can't do it, too many germs.

Then go off and enjoy themselves visiting pubs and restaurants and other germ laden places.

My mum is 60 and would be horrified to be called elderly and vulnerable. As others have said, they are adults and they know children are germ factories, if they were that concerned they wouldn't have gone.

To be fair that comment was in response to being called a "weak individual" because her children have had time off school recently with colds. Which is a bit much.

Maybe the demographics of the school would make a difference. A school where the majority of parents had children at 35+ is going to have older grandparents than one where the parents were early to mid twenties. Even so, few would actually be octogenarians.