One by one my friends started cancelling Christmas parties, and it looks like I will have to cancel mine too | OPINION
Meant to be our first real Christmas in two years: parties, weddings, everything. Anything but sitting at home or walking the same five kilometres of footpaths we’ve known so well we even have names for the cracks.
This would be our time to glow, smeared with sunscreen, sociable spritzes in hand. Kisses on both cheeks and so many hugs. Sitting in backyards of friends we hadn’t seen except for scratchy picnics and even then the older kids couldn’t come. But by Tuesday, I knew my dreams of next-to-normal were over. First Liz did it. Then others. Chris, Wendy, Helen. Then I did it myself.istock
Yes, we are cancelling all we’ve planned for months because we don’t want to spread COVID or catch it. We do not want to spend Christmas in quarantine or, so help me god, New Year in iso. And we have good role models. Liz, or more respectfully, the Queen, made the call for so many of us. She decided to cancel her pre-Christmas lunch with the fam as a precaution.
Friends Chris and Wendy wrote this week, postponing their legendary Friday before Christmas party for the second time in two years: “If there were even one case everyone here would become a close contact and therefore forced into isolation over Xmas, let alone prevented from making long-awaited trips to loved ones interstate.”
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