Question - How Many Families Hosting Thanksgiving Are Requiring Proof of Negative COVID Test

A family member of ours is hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year. They recently sent out a mass email to all guests that, since "we are in unprecedented times", attending their dinner will require proof of negative COVID test.

I was initially stunned, but I have now heard of another part of the family that has raised a similar request to guests visiting their home for Thanksgiving. Given the nature of the holiday, and that the sides of the family rarely see one another, and how important the event is to others in our family, I have decided we will comply versus just bailing on the gathering.

Now look, I don't want to turn this thread into a debate about whether or not screening your dinner guests for illnesses is pragmatic and smart, or posturing and virtue signaling. We have dozens of other threads that already satisfy this criteria. I have my opinion on the matter, but that is not relevant here. This thread is intended more as a poll/census than a soapbox. Please avoid judging or attacking others, and just let us know if you've noticed similar types of conversations going on in your family about the upcoming holidays, or if you've aware of conversations like this in other families you're close with.

From among our community here, how many others are either setting a negative COVID test as condition for attending a Thanksgiving dinner they are hosting, or will be taking a test to satisfy requirements that others in your friends/family circle have set? Just curious to gauge (from our limited sample size) how common this is.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

I would have to tell my family to Kindly piss off

Lol no that’s just stupid. We’re hosting and we could care less if guests are vaccinated or have a negative test. Although, we would appreciate it if people don’t show up hacking up their lungs I guess.

Our phones will tell us anyways I’m sure and then we’ll all be tracked down and told we have the COVID.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

Since I am getting the pois err 2nd dose on the 22nd, I am quarantining myself to reduce my catching anything (not just covid) from anyone until I feel my immune system is back in working order.

I suppose the bigger problem is the $100 turkeys 😃

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

Hosting, no conditions (other than no damn phones at the dinner table), no papers, no masks. Covid politics at your own peril.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

I'm always looking for reasons to avoid the opinionated members of my family.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

We have 3 family members left alive. None of us have been vaccinated so I don't think I need to ask. Also, I would probably nix attending any event, family or otherwise where that requirement was in place.

And don't take the crap from them, throw it right back at them. My modus operandi is to pin them down: Ask then to provide proof of all their vaccinations, mumps, measles, shingles, small pox. Because you never know. You ever get cold sores? That's a form of hepatitis, you don't have any right now do you? That's what causes the shingles, so I'm not going to attend because I might get your hepatitis from you.

originally posted by: xuenchen
I suppose the bigger problem is the $100 turkeys 😃

While glib, it's unfortunately not that far off, and if people tried to view the forest more so than the trees, what you point out ought to be even more concerning than COVID.

originally posted by: billxam
a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

We have 3 family members left alive. None of us have been vaccinated so I don't think I need to ask. Also, I would probably nix attending any event, family or otherwise where that requirement was in place.

And don't take the crap from them, throw it right back at them. My modus operandi is to pin them down: Ask then to provide proof of all their vaccinations, mumps, measles, shingles, small pox. Because you never know. You ever get cold sores? That's a form of hepatitis, you don't have any right now do you? That's what causes the shingles, so I'm not going to attend because I might get your hepatitis from you.

Thanks. Believe you me, the contentious and angry debates have been had in the family, just like I'm sure in other families here.

The reality is, no matter how many articles, blogs, data sheets, statistics I raise, I'm not changing opinions. Likewise others in the family have attempted the same with me (of course relying on MSM material mostly, which I've already voiced my concerns about here) and found my opinions are equally difficult to sway.

If we break family bonds over this, that's probably just as or even more destructive than the carnage from the actual virus.

originally posted by: SleeperHasAwakened
A family member of ours is hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year. They recently sent out a mass email to all guests that, since "we are in unprecedented times", attending their dinner will require proof of negative COVID test.

I was initially stunned, but I have now heard of another part of the family that has raised a similar request to guests visiting their home for Thanksgiving. Given the nature of the holiday, and that the sides of the family rarely see one another, and how important the event is to others in our family, I have decided we will comply versus just bailing on the gathering.

Now look, I don't want to turn this thread into a debate about whether or not screening your dinner guests for illnesses is pragmatic and smart, or posturing and virtue signaling. We have dozens of other threads that already satisfy this criteria. I have my opinion on the matter, but that is not relevant here. This thread is intended more as a poll/census than a soapbox. Please avoid judging or attacking others, and just let us know if you've noticed similar types of conversations going on in your family about the upcoming holidays, or if you've aware of conversations like this in other families you're close with.

From among our community here, how many others are either setting a negative COVID test as condition for attending a Thanksgiving dinner they are hosting, or will be taking a test to satisfy requirements that others in your friends/family circle have set? Just curious to gauge (from our limited sample size) how common this is.

Mine isn't hosting ...again (2nd time in Cov1984 years). And not getting together, since there are a few family members who refuse to drink the spike protein shake and haven't been mandated by work to get it. I was forced by work or the ol' ixnay of the objay. So doing my own ...again and it's going to be 5 spike protein shake drinker adults and 2 non spike protein drink toddlers.

I won't discuss it with anyone farther than, "it should be a choice". Sadly though, I have lost a lot of respect for a lot of my family over this.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

This is a joke right? you just making this thread to have all of us laughing, right?

originally posted by: TheAMEDDDoc
Lol no that’s just stupid. We’re hosting and we could care less if guests are vaccinated or have a negative test. Although, we would appreciate it if people don’t show up hacking up their lungs I guess.

Our phones will tell us anyways I’m sure and then we’ll all be tracked down and told we have the COVID.

Thanks for your input, and coming from your perspective with your background, that does present a strong argument on one side of the fence.

Anyone that brings up Covid in conversation at my house on Thanksgiving will be promptly asked to leave.

originally posted by: RazorV66
Anyone that brings up Covid in conversation at my house on Thanksgiving will be promptly asked to leave.

What if I was your parent or a very little child asking an ignorant or innocent question? Boot us to the curb? Sad...

originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

This is a joke right? you just making this thread to have all of us laughing, right?

Nope, not a prank or joke marg, despite my wish that it were. I'm chuckling because in my OP I originally wrote I thought it was an attempt at humor myself, but I removed that part from the post.

This is 100% legit, and my aim is to see how prevalent it is among folks here, keeping in mind that our audience is not your typical Facebook group or the like.

As an aside, the family members that sent this request shared the MSM "article" from which they must have gotten this idea.

Link Here

Maybe let that idea land a bit and consider the implications of the MSM now instructing its audience on what their journalists feel is sound medical advice for folks to host a family event.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

That is just crazy. Is this how confident they are in these covid vaccines than?

I had a party a week before Thanksgiving with 14-94 year olds and no one got sick. Like fifty of us from mostly southeast New England, a few farther up.

originally posted by: HawkEyi
a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

That is just crazy. Is this how confident they are in these covid vaccines than?

I will say that the requesting branch of the family, in their email, did not differentiate among WHO they asked to provide tests, based on vaccination status.

My wife is fully vaccinated due to her job. That side of the family knows this. They did not make any exceptions. Yet I suspect that in their minds, they don't really believe that vaccinated individuals can also spread COVID, but to their credit, they didn't stipulate that in their email.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

To tell you the truth I never would imagine if a member of my family will ask that question, I remember when my father was soo afraid of covid that he demanded everybody coming to the house to wear a mask, that means his own children, grandchildren ect.

I do not live in near my parents, soo when I went to visit them I walk right into the house with not mask and told my father that if he did now wanted me to visit I was going to leave and never comeback, well taking into consideration that I only visit PR once between several years he did not say a darn thing to me.

In other worlds is your choice to either politely refuse, make your own rules or tell them to Feck off or show your nazi passport.

Nobody have to force anybody to do what they do not want to do.