Today, after our Christmas plans got cancelled because of COVID, to make ourselves feel better we made travel plans somewhere else, which also turned into a red zone the night before our departure, we are now going out for breakfast as our highlight of the year. Thankfully they are open. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, we were looking forward to spending Xmas Eve with our best friends of 13 years before moving across the country where we know no one. That was the plan. The stomach flu virus had a different plan. FML
Today, my family is going to the USA for Christmas after being lucky and getting their tickets re-booked. My ticket was canceled due to the snow, and will not be re-booked. Merry Christmas to me, myself and a bottle of wine. FML
Today, I flew my wife, myself and three kids to pay a surprise visit to my parents who were going to be alone for Christmas. When we arrived, we found out they decided to go on vacation. We have nowhere to go. FML
Today, after spending Christmas alone because my bus home got cancelled due to Covid, I found that I have to spend the New Year alone and potentially homeless because my flight home got cancelled. FML
Today, I got a hotel room for myself and 4 friends to have a great night out in town. The couple of the group had a huge argument, ruining the evening, then another friend took of in the middle of the night, and to top it off we all ended up catching Covid. FML
Today, it's New Year's Eve. I'd made plans to spend time with my fiancé's family the past week, then my fiancé and I were supposed to drive to my parents place today to celebrate NYE. Unfortunately, this week has been full of sickness. I spent all yesterday bedridden, and now my fiancé is too sick to get out of bed. FML
Today, it's Xmas Eve, and my partner's quick afternoon catch-up with his friends has turned into 5 messy drunks in our house at 1am. So it's no to the "us" time evening we had planned before spending tomorrow with our families who live over 3 hours away. Guess who had promised to drive and now can't? FML
Today, my significant other decided it’s safe to travel to Brazil for Christmas break, even though they are heavily impacted by Covid. He doesn't understand for the life of him why we should skip this year. FML
Today, I was supposed to leave for Disney. Our trip was cancelled last year because of the pandemic. This morning, we found out my sister’s boyfriend, who was a last-minute add-on to the trip, has COVID. Cancelled again. Maybe next year. FML
Today, I got my first positive Covid test. It's also the first day of a week-long vacation that included two things I'd been planning for weeks that I haven't done in years, and a trip somewhere I've been looking forward to for months. All shot to hell right before it began. FML
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Top comments
Rodville 28
If it was only your life you choose to put at risk I would agree with you. But you risk your life and everyone’s life you come in contact with. Or do you not know how virus’ work?
123Puppy 33
You guys shouldn’t have been wanting to travel in the first place because of COVID.
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123Puppy 33
You guys shouldn’t have been wanting to travel in the first place because of COVID.
Kraths 16
Is it unsafe to travel during the pandemic, yes, but alot of places don't actively has measurements that strictly forbid traveling. There are group limits and other restrictions, but people should be free to travel without having someone jump down their throats about it. If they're adults and know the risk let them be it's their life, not yours.
Rodville 28
If it was only your life you choose to put at risk I would agree with you. But you risk your life and everyone’s life you come in contact with. Or do you not know how virus’ work?
Chazzster 32
While I sympathize with the desire to travel (and see family and loved ones) this season, that is exactly the wrong thing to do now! There is a flare up in COVID-19 and the risks of getting or spreading the disease is too high to be traveling or getting together with people you are not with at home. About half the people who get it don’t show symptoms but they can spread the germs to people who will get sick.
spinspinsugar 12
what happened to STAY THE **** HOME?
sarahcroy20 12
Seriously people. What part of pandemic do you not understand? This is one of the reasons the pandemic is out of control. We all need to make sacrifices and stay home!!! More than 300 thousand people have died!
mickymoose1 15
Nearly 1.7 million worldwide. 3x the amount of people who died during the Spanish flu and we have far better medical knowledge and technology than they had in 1918.
BurnInDemonFire 39
Better to lose one Christmas than all of them.
Fergus52 16
This sounds like OP is Aussie, pretty much the whole of Aus is Covid free except for this new outbreak in Sydney (the only red zone in Aus). So it sounds like OP's frustration is because out of anywhere in Aus for an outbreak to happen, it was the one place OP was planning to go.
idragosani 17
We're in a pandemic. Deal with it.
Hangryko 32
You absolutely deserved your trip getting cancelled during g this pandemic. How selfish of you. Stay home!