I'm sorry but given the situation with Covid I really don't agree with sixteen year old going to pop concert this weekend. It's rubbish.

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Shoot me down.
It's all wrong.
It is indoors, it is what teenagers normally do, but I don't think it is safe and to be honest I just don't want someone who has been to a concert shouting and singing with a few hundred or thousand people coming back into my house.

I would rather stay alive than put myself at risk of covid.

Why do you think you’d die of covid? Are you unvaccinated? ECV?

Are you particularly at risk?

I hope you’re not projecting this irrationality onto your poor teenager.

Are you the same about all viruses?

Over 80% of the adult population is fully vaccinated.

If not now, when do you want to get back to normal?

Unless you are unvaccinated and in a high risk group your extreme anxiety is irrational. I suggest you seek help for your mental health and in the meantime try not to pass your feelings on to your child.

I've currently got a virus that's given me worse symptoms than Covid and I've had more days off work than when I had Covid!

Yes, it's possible you'll catch it (your kid is more likely to bring it home from school tbf) but if you're double jabbed you shouldn't be badly affected.

Lockdown has been really rough for young people. Limited socialising and chances to start becoming independent. Give your child a break and let them go.

I'm guessing the 16 year old is going to school/ college though? Mixing with hundreds of others who may have been up to who knows what.
You cannot control everything and it's not fair to try to imo.

OP, I feel similarly, but I'm an anxious person and the pandemic has exacerbated that. I totally get why you feel that way, but I can also understand why your 16yr old wants to get back to a normal social life. I struggle to wear masks as my face overheats and my nose runs, but despite that I still wear one every time I go shopping, even though they are no longer mandatory. So, I've no useful advice, but just wanted you to know you're not alone in the way you feel.

I went to a pop concert I had a great time, I didn’t catch covid, it happens hope they have fun!..ok so you will not know what fun is but just tell them this new strange word they will understand!!!

Is this your own child OP? It’s a very detached way of talking about them if it is- you don’t seem overly concerned about the teen themselves. I understand being anxious about a return to normality, but I’d let them go. We have to learn to live with it, not stay hidden away in fear.

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Are you the same about all viruses?

Yup, can't go and see Justin Bieber in case I catch ebola.

When will they be allowed to live their life? I guess when they move out- which I'm sure will be as soon as they possibly can and them I doubt you'll have to worry too much about having much contact with them at all.

I hope it's worth destroying your relationship with them over this.

I went to a concert two weeks ago, it was wonderful. I’m 37 and not dead yet.
Anyway, you sound more bothered about yourself than about this ‘teen’, is it your child?
I just don't want someone who has been to a concert shouting and singing with a few hundred or thousand people coming back into my house seems like a strangely detached way of talking about your own child, if so.
Your house your rules I guess, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they moved out at the first opportunity.

If they are 16, they've had restrictions since they were 14. That is a HUGE chunk of being allowed to grow up missed already.

Why are you sorry?

And who are you apologising to?

Is this your own child?

You don’t think they’ve sacrificed a lot of ordinary teenage fun already and deserve a bit of normality? No?

I don't think it is safe

Nothing in life is totally safe and it’s a bizarre expectation that it would be

Ffs why should life be suspended for an age group who aren't at risk?!

I currently have Covid, am double jabbed. I've got to be honest, it's nasty. Not quite as nasty as when I had Flu though.

I've been to around a dozen gigs in recent weeks. There are zero mitigations.
We had a great time.
I think you should let her go. My son caught Covid at school and unless your child isn't in an education setting then I feel banning her from this gig is pointless.

My dd has been to two concerts and Leeds festival she had the time of her life. We were aware she could bring something back and she did but it wasn't covid. We all have a nasty bug at the moment in this house. PCR tests negative, my dd's are more ill now than they were when they had covid.

Remember who will be choosing your nursing home OP

If you are double jabbed, why are you worried?
Life has to go on. Your 16y year old was 14/15 when the pandemic started. This is their formative years. Let them go.

It has always been a joke in my family, but it is true.. just like @MercyBooth said... remember who will be choosing your care home.

Total bait....