Family Covid Spreader

We spent the Christmas in Glenville NY at the home of Sean and Ashley. We had a wonderful time with our 9 month old grandson Andrew. On Christmas Eve we were invited to a holiday dinner party at Ashley's mother's house which normally would have been fine but this is a time of another pandemic surge and health officials were recommending limited family gatherings and especially making sure everyone attending was fully vaccinated. Unfortunately Ashley sister is a radical conservative anti-vaxxer who would be there along with her anti-vaxxer boyfriend and their children. Becky and I declined to attend the party and spent another Christmas Eve by ourselves. Of course Sean and Ashley came home early with the baby after spending the afternoon and evening with her family. 

We didn't want want to expose ourselves to Covid because we have plans to fly to Philadelphia in two weeks for the birth of our newest grandchild. We would not take the chance of getting exposed by an unvaccinated prison guard regardless of the number of tests that person is getting. We got tested ourselves before driving to Sean's house.

Betsy and Joe got together with their kids and grandkids at their home on Christmas Eve. They would be seeing them again on Christmas Day at Chris and Kim's house along with a lot more of the extended family. There are usually about forty people at their house on Christmas Day but there was going to be somewhere between twenty and thirty people there this year including Katie, Todd, Henry and Clara. The day before Christmas Eve Katie decided not to attend because she did not want to risk getting exposed so close to delivering the baby on January 14th even though everyone attending was vaccinated.

We found out Dan and his family were not going to the party because Marissa tested positive for Covid after getting some symptoms. They were all potentially exposed so they were not going. A couple of days after Christmas a few other people attending the party at Chris and Kim's got sick and tested positive including Ariele, Michelle and Eric. Then more including Kim and Courtney. Everyone attending got tested again. Joe came back positive too which was a big concern because of his many ongoing health problems. 

The Christmas party had turned into a family Covid spreader event. I was so happy and relieved that Katie had decided not to attend and risk exposing unvaccinated Clara and potentially the baby too.