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JWestland
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Still up in the air about whether to go and see my folks. If it was just a drive, I would feel better about it. But there's a 1hr flight in the middle.
I'm currently on the "go" side, but very willing to resort to plan B.
Reasons to go;
We will lateral flow test every morning from now until we get back.
ms_com and I work from home, she has stopped all office visits for the last 3 weeks.
We're both triple jabbed, as are my parents.
mini_com does go to a childminder, but it is a small unit without a big rotating cast like a nursery or school. They had some scares early on in the pandemic, but nothing in the last while.
We will be driving to the airport this side, have 3 seats in a row to ourselves, getting a hire car on the other side as opposed to public transport. The are bus journeys in London longer than this flight.
Even when we get there, my parent's house is big enough (rural NI, not golf club) that we would have separate rooms, bathrooms and even floors, should one of us happen to test positive.
The biggest reason for me, my dad has MS. While he is not technically immuno-comprimised, I don't know how many more Christmases he has left. I could just wait another couple of months and go in Feb or March, but this trip/time of year means a lot to him as he missed the last Christmas with his granddaughter. And she is now of the age where she knows what's going on.
Even with all that, I still feel like a cunt.