[quote Eesha]**@booboo24* @musicalfrog* Thank you both. I think he is just seeing how things go with how the covid rates change but I'm hoping the sight of us both bedraggled in a rain each weekend whilst we both have nice homes, will convince him this is crazy![/quote]
He's not crazy, he's being cautious about his health and the health of others he could spread it to. I'm sure like anyone, he would much rather be socialising as normal than following restrictions but he's chosen not to be selfish in that regard.
Setting aside the moral question of spreading covid to others and potentially killing them, on an individual level if you're not in a vulnerable group, then yes it's definitely a lower risk but you have no way of knowing if you're one of the ones who would get a more severe reaction to covid even if you're not vulnerable, or if you will end up with 'long Covid'.
If this was about normal seasonal flu then yes his reaction could be called crazy but covid is NOT flu where you're basically guaranteed that if you're not in a vulnerable group that you will be fine. It is a new virus that can damage not only the lungs but other organs in the body and we're still learning all the time about its medium and long term effects.
Over the next several months, things will be continuing to progress in terms of better treatments and potentially a vaccine. If you're going to get covid, much better to delay to as far in the future as you can, where the virus is better understood and if you're in hospital, you're not in an environment where staff are already stretched by winter related pressures!