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To share your germs or not?!

(31 Posts)
lixy Fri 23-Dec-22 16:52:12

Not sharing here for sure. I get really fed up when people sneeze at me and so do my very best to keep away from everyone if I have a cold etc.

So many people are having to rearrange Christmas plans in a hurry this year because there are nasty bugs around; it's a shame that some people are still so thoughtless even after the last few years.

Farzanah Fri 23-Dec-22 16:44:20

Unfortunately Callistemon the risk is higher from inhaling rather than ingestion. Unless a stomach bug of course.

ParlorGames Fri 23-Dec-22 16:44:00

Unfortunately, you can't educate stupid! Some people are so unreasonable and self - centred they have no regard or respect for others.

Callistemon21 Fri 23-Dec-22 16:37:24

I went to a U3A group meeting the other day and the woman sitting next to me was coughing and had a tissue in her hand all the time.
I avoided the food except for something I'd taken myself.

Farzanah Fri 23-Dec-22 15:52:13

My book group had Christmas lunch this Wed. On Tuesday a member emailed to say she had a sniffle, would we mind if she came anyway.
On Wednesday she was in bed with full blown covid.
So no, I wouldn’t be sharing my germs, or knowingly want any else’s especially before Christmas.

LRavenscroft Fri 23-Dec-22 15:36:35

I have written about this self entitled lady before as she always thinks her way or the highway. Our group had our Christmas dinner the other day and she arrived coughing, sneezing, snivelling into a dead tissue. Several in the group are vulnerable, asthma, heart etc or have vulnerable loved ones at home. Two ladies spoke out and said they did not want her germs or cold but she just shrugged her shoulders and carried on passing the various dishes around the table. Luck had it I was sitting the opposite end of the table but she just didn't get it. You can't change people but you can avoid them!