If there’s one thing we should all know at this point in the coronavirus pandemic it’s that you should stay home and self-quarantine if you have COVID-19. Unfortunately, not everyone seems to be on board with this advice, and that’s probably why the United States is having such a hard time controlling the spread of the novel coronavirus.
One mom had good intentions when she planned a family vacation during Christmas break. The vacation, a trip to Walt Disney World, was going to be the big Christmas present for her 2 daughters, and the plan was to leave the day after Christmas. Unfortunately, this mom planned the vacation during a pandemic.
Now, the mom is conflicted about whether or not to go through with the vacation. It turns out that her 4-year-old daughter tested positive for COVID-19. She posted about her dilemma in the Facebook group “Disney World Junkies,” and Twitter user @kittynouveau took a screenshot and shared it on Twitter.
ma’am are you outside your entire fucking mind pic.twitter.com/uCtTSKuTrc
— mrs. claws (@kittynouveau) December 19, 2020
This mom is concerned that if they cancel the trip she won’t have any Christmas presents for her daughters, and she mentioned that even her travel planner said they should be okay to go on the trip since the rest of the family’s COVID tests came back negative and the 4-year-old doesn’t have any symptoms.
Seriously. We really hope this family cancels the trip and buys their daughters some last minute Christmas presents instead. We’re definitely not the only ones. Twitter users are concerned about so many aspects of this mom’s post. For example, she seems more concerned about not going to Disney World than about her own daughter’s health.
I just got really emotional imagining a mother being told her 4 y/o has a deadly illness & her getting upset bc it throws a wrench in disney plans 😣 this has been a big year for me learning how blasé people are about their own children
— mr struggle (@garlicwhisper) December 19, 2020
Other Twitter users are concerned for the health of everyone at Disney World.
Taking a contagious 4 year old to an amusement park to potentially sicken a bunch of other people when they’ll likely not even remember they’d been anyway 🙄I doubt this was for the kids.
— Hornyface Killah 😏 (@bpsycho1) December 19, 2020
Yet other Twitter users agree that this trip was for the parents not the kids and that the kids would be perfectly happy with other presents.
Taking a contagious 4 year old to an amusement park to potentially sicken a bunch of other people when they’ll likely not even remember they’d been anyway 🙄I doubt this was for the kids.
— Hornyface Killah 😏 (@bpsycho1) December 19, 2020
And still other Twitter users point out that the rest of the family may very well end up testing COVID positive the next time they get tested.
I am a contact tracer. Many people test the day they know they were exposed, within a couple of days of the exposure. Its negative so they go about their lives. Then they get sick, test positive here we go again.
— Dicentra (@BAMcNichol) December 20, 2020
This tweet probably sums up the situation best of all.
imagine planning a family trip to Disney during a pandemic and then being upset/surprised that there’s a pandemic
— Tom Hutch (@tomhutchmusic) December 19, 2020
Please, cancel your travel plans especially if you test positive for COVID-19. That family vacation to Disney World can wait until next year or whenever the pandemic is over.