Christmas Covid

[Stellaris22]

How many people know families that are now testing positive after 'making their own risk assessment' and spending Christmas together?

My family (parents, sisters, niece, grandmother) spent Christmas together. Now my 96 year old grandmother is in hospital with Covid with various other health issues. Rest of family are testing positive now.

Fuming. I doubt my grandmother will ever leave hospital and they've effectively killed her.

Don't think you are capable of making your own risk assessments, you aren't.

We escaped a potential nasty situation this christmas. My daughter tested positive on a lateral flow test just an couple of hours before we were meeting up with family, including my mum with COPD. She was completely symptom free at the time of the test and even the symptoms that have emerged since are still not really what we'd have worried about until she lost her taste/smell today - five days after her positive test! I think it's spreading so much because in most healthy people the symptoms are so mild or vague, at least for long enough to have passed it on. The rest of our household are still symptom free even after isolating with her since Christmas Day.

I should add though it was my mums choice to meet with us for Christmas and we would have gone ahead without the tests my daughter does for work.

My mum is currently very ill with covid and it's an anxious time right now waiting to see if she will get better or worse. She's 74, very overweight with high blood pressure and heart problems.

As a single adult she had chosen to bubble with my sibling's family - the two adult children in the household are out at work in public facing roles and one has been seeing a partner as well. They all caught Covid at a small family wedding (ceremony only) of my mum's eldest grandchild and are now very ill.

I would have preferred my mum to have stayed shielding until she had received the vaccine but ultimately it was her choice. She regrets it now though and I just hope she improves soon.

@Spodge

If a 96 year old is compos mentis they have every right to make their own difficult decisions

Surely if you think a member of your family is making a decision you consider to be unwise as it could put their health at risk you would try and persuade them so that they reconsider?

Otherwise I see it as just washing your hands of the situation

I think it would be different if there was a very strong indication that this was going to be their last Christmas due to ill health, but otherwise no

I know of another family who tested positive Christmas Day, so had the test prior to arriving at the family home - still went - then got the results!

Now has many family members awaiting results.