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amother
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 Fri, Jun 21 2024, 10:06 am
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MY friend invited my family for shabbos. This morning she called to tell me that her child woke up with a fever. would you take your family and risk it?
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amother
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Fri, Jun 21 2024, 10:09 am
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Fri, Jun 21 2024, 10:11 am
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nw11
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Fri, Jun 21 2024, 10:11 am
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Nope. not worth it. I'd rather have a very simple shabbos meal at home
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amother
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Fri, Jun 21 2024, 10:30 am
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I just feel like we cant control who gets sick. but would it be stupid of me to go? I guess so..
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groovy1224
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Fri, Jun 21 2024, 10:33 am
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Maybe I'm crazy? But for me it depends on the age of the child. A teen or a 10 year old who can keep to themselves? I'd probably still go. But if it's a toddler or preschooler that will likely be all over my kids and touching everything I would stay home.
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amother
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Fri, Jun 21 2024, 10:49 am
| groovy1224 wrote: | | Maybe I'm crazy? But for me it depends on the age of the child. A teen or a 10 year old who can keep to themselves? I'd probably still go. But if it's a toddler or preschooler that will likely be all over my kids and touching everything I would stay home. |
Yes, but by the time you get there those germs have probably been happily incubating in other asymptomatic family members and are ripe for contagion. I wouldn't risk it.
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amother
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Fri, Jun 21 2024, 10:57 am
It’s very possible that she is secretly hoping you decline.
She might feel bad to back out on you last minute, but it is very difficult to host when a child is sick.
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amother
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Fri, Jun 21 2024, 11:29 am
I once went to a shabbos meal and another guest (not the host) had come despite having a stomach bug they'd been passing around. One of the parents was throwing up in the bathroom by the end of the night. I got sick from it and I was so upset. I would have stayed home if I'd been given the option. They were nice people, and offered to host me sometime, and I knew that I was never going to take them up on their offer because I couldn't trust them to tell me if they were sick in the future.
It's probably not worth going.
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amother
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Fri, Jun 21 2024, 12:06 pm
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Are you nuts? No, I wouldn't go. You don't even know what the kids has or how contagious it is. It's probably not bubonic plague but even a mild flu-like bug isn't something you want to deliberately expose your family to. Not to mention that your hostess doesn't exactly need a houseful of guests when she has a sick child to care for.
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