Anyone changing their Christmas plans now due to Omicron?

[Twobigsapphires]

Starting to panic now. Got friends and their DC coming over to stay 20-21 Dec, another friend coming on the 22nd and hosting family 24-25 Dec.
Is it fair to cancel? Irresponsible to continue with plans?

And I don’t care if Boris sanctioned a party last year. I am not going to cut my nose off to spite my face. My friends in the nhs are very worried.

Just wondering whether a positive test next Wednesday might put the MIL
off from staying ?

Unless they bring in restrictions to stop us mixing, we’re carrying on with our packed schedule of dinners/lunches/parties/drinks.

No but with LFT constantly. We work from at the moment, I’ve got a cold so irresponsible to go in the office. I’m not going out from now until Christmas (besides food shopping). DM does mix but I don’t want to be the one to give it to her.

I have cancelled a meal out with friends. For me its just not worth the risk. We hope to see family but will LFT before and if any illness PCR test.
If rules change we will change plans accordingly and we are expecting further restrictions before christmas.

If there are restrictions they will be brought in because things are very bad so i really dont understand why people would ignore them

@Annotherchange

Yes we are changing plans here, cancelling a NYE party and a pre Christmas get together. Biting my tongue to my friends who think I am over reacting.

I'm with you @Annotherchange

I think you're doing the right thing

Covid has made the choice for us. We have to isolate over the next week, when we had lots of parties, lunches and visits planned. All being well, we'll still get to do actual Christmas with wider family, but who knows?

We were planning on seeing SIL, indoors but distanced. Not going to now, we'll call in the morning and drop off her presents a few days before.

Nope.

My sister has just tested positive. I saw her on Sunday for the first time in a year. 🤦‍♀️ Looks like all our Christmas plans have potentially just gone haywire.

Jesus Christ, no.

Done all we can do. Fully vaxxed, booster pending this week.

Happy to LFT if our guests would like us to, but I plan on socialising, drinking, dancing and celebrating, and I don’t give a shit what that pathetic excuse of a man has to say any longer.

We're meant to be going away to visit family over Christmas so keeping a fairly low profile until then - just a couple of social gatherings with people who've mostly had Covid already.

We're meant to be visiting my husband's family next weekend, but I don't want to go and risk our, and their, Christmases. We were also meant to have the neighbours, only 4 of them, round for a bit of an evening of festivities, but I'm not so sure now. None of us have had it, and I'd be gutted if any of us had a rubbish Christmas because of it.

Already cancelled, my family get together my Mom was an emotional mess when I decided to cancel 10 days ago, she would have been besides herself now, so it was the right decision. No other family, so nothing to cancel. MIL died earlier this year.

Everyone doing LFT on Christmas Eve…if all ok we shall do as normal.

No

No- Christmas Day is me, DH and DCs.
Boxing Day just us at PIL.

DH and DCs are finishing school and nursery (he's a teacher) on Friday so we have 9 days before Boxing Day to be very careful, do LFTs so DH's Grandma who lives with PIL can see the DC safely. She is in her 90s.

Not cancelling Christmas but scaling back other stuff to reduce the chance of not being able to do Christmas.

DH’s workplace has just cancelled their company wide do.

DH’s team had a meal out in November as he felt it was likely that larger or later nights out wouldn’t go ahead one way or another.

@Twobigsapphires

Starting to panic now. Got friends and their DC coming over to stay 20-21 Dec, another friend coming on the 22nd and hosting family 24-25 Dec. Is it fair to cancel? Irresponsible to continue with plans?

What is the point of panicing? Carry on with your plans, if a lockdown is introduced make your choice then.

No, my parents are coming to stay. They had boosters ages ago and barely go anywhere (they haven't been away for a night since 2019). I've done all my group socialising and will be working from home until I finish for Xmas. Short of becoming a social recluse i don't think we can be much safer.

Possibly as not sure having covid already protects against new varient and until I can find out from somewhere other than a newspaper I am a bit unsure, especially when 2 vaccines of AZ give 0 protection against symptoms. I was v poorly with covid.. do not wish to repeat over Christmas.

I have cancelled a few things in the lead up to Christmas. We have booked to go away with my parents and I don't want to miss it due to having to isolate. I'm not worried about getting the virus, but the isolation period is problematic. I was supposed to be out twice this weekend and I've said I won't go to either. Don't want to risk missing Christmas. Once we are back from our hols I will be (carefully) living life as normally as I can.

Do they know you are concerned about it? Do they feel the same way?

I'm sure if you're close enough to be spending the holidays together then you are close enough to know each other's stance on vaccines etc.

I think my parents will pull out of travelling by plane to see us (fair enough tbh).

DH has cancelled a trip to his folks since we go there by public transport.