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Post by jess on Jul 20, 2021 3:26:03 GMT
I'm looking for advice and I thought the Peas would provide an impartial opinion.
I turned 50 yesterday and I'd booked out a cocktail bar this weekend to celebrate. My state in Australia went back into our 5th lockdown last Friday and, as of today, we'll be locked down until next Tuesday night. We're only averaging 10-15 cases a day, but they've been very strict on lockdowns and our vaccination rates are still really low.
Generally when we've had lockdowns lifted there has still been restrictions that have been lifted more gradually, especially around group gatherings.
So my dilemma is - do I just forget about having a party or do I reschedule it for a month's time when we will (probably) be allowed to hold it? I'm very torn. On the one hand, I've put some work into organising this party and I was looking forward to it. On the other hand, it feels silly as a grown adult to be celebrating a month after my birthday and a lot of the shine has really come off the event for me. My DH is definitely in favour of rescheduling.
I figure lots of others have been in this exact position. So what would/did you do? How did you feel later about your decision?
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Post by mom on Jul 20, 2021 3:36:26 GMT
I would reschedule. After another loockdown, people will be excited to get together again! And happy birthday!
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Post by ntsf on Jul 20, 2021 3:39:08 GMT
unbirthdays were a thing in alice in wonderland. I would reschedule.. the 2nd celebration of a very special day!!!
humor will get you through..
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Post by wellway on Jul 20, 2021 3:40:54 GMT
We are living in odd times, a party delayed by covid? No one will bat an eyelid and will probably love the excuse to do something normal and fun.
This milestone meant enough to you to mark it with a party, go enjoy it with friends.
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Post by vsimone on Jul 20, 2021 3:40:55 GMT
I'm in a similar predicament. Today is my daughter's 21st birthday. She had to cancel dinner with her dad's family, a night out with her friends and a family dinner at a restaurant. We plan on celebrating in a couple of weeks, hopefully.
I think you should reschedule and keep your fingers crossed that lock-down ends soon.
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Post by pjaye on Jul 20, 2021 3:44:28 GMT
I'd cancel it outright. Maybe next year have a "I'm 50 (again!) cocktail party"? Or at some point in the future when things are definitely open maybe schedule it then - but I wouldn't schedule anything in advance - because even if things are open, they may well be limits on the number of people who can attend etc. I've got one set of tickets to an event that I've had for 2 years and has so far been rescheduled 3 times. I thought I was pretty safe booking something last month at the Arts Centre - nope, rescheduled until Sept (and that was even before this current outbreak) and there's something else booked in August that I'm not holding my breath will happen. I'm OK with things being cancelled if that's what needs to happen, but if it's a personal celebration then that's just disappointing over and over again. There's just too much unknown at this stage but we should be in a much better place by this time next year. Oh and  |
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Post by sassyangel on Jul 20, 2021 3:47:13 GMT
I would definitely reschedule for a later time, if celebrating your 50th is important to you. You won’t be alone in having a belated celebration, and I also think the cocktail bar will be appreciative of your business, even if it’s delayed. This pandemic people are going to totally understand about very delayed celebrations.
Happy birthday! Im so sorry you’re spending in yet another lockdown though. Victoria has really done it tough. 😞
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 20, 2021 3:48:14 GMT
Yes I would reschedule. I'm sorry you missed out on celebrating your 50th. Blame Gladys!  We are in a similar predicament. My nephew turned 18 on Saturday and they had to cancel his birthday plans due to lockdown. I thought they were going to reschedule, but I think his mum and dad ended up giving him the money they were going to spend on food & drinks. My other nephew also turns 18 in eleven days, hopefully we will be out of lockdown then. |
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Post by sassyangel on Jul 20, 2021 3:53:33 GMT
I'd cancel it outright. Maybe next year have a "I'm 50 (again!) cocktail party"? Or at some point in the future when things are definitely open maybe schedule it then - but I wouldn't schedule anything in advance - because even if things are open, they may well be limits on the number of people who can attend etc. I've got one set of tickets to an event that I've had for 2 years and has so far been rescheduled 3 times. I thought I was pretty safe booking something last month at the Arts Centre - nope, rescheduled until Sept (and that was even before this current outbreak) and there's something else booked in August that I'm not holding my breath will happen. I'm OK with things being cancelled if that's what needs to happen, but if it's a personal celebration then that's just disappointing over and over again. There's just too much unknown at this stage but we should be in a much better place by this time next year. Oh and Yep. My dad ‘retired’ last year during the last lockdown, and they still haven’t been able to have a company goodbye/celebration for him yet, thanks to ongoing large gathering restrictions, even when they weren’t in lockdown. |
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Post by jess on Jul 20, 2021 4:03:05 GMT
unbirthdays were a thing in alice in wonderland. I would reschedule.. the 2nd celebration of a very special day!!! humor will get you through.. I love Alice in Wonderland! Maybe that's my way to still do it. I'll actually frame it as an Unbirthday Party and I'll change the cocktail names for the custom cocktails we created to Alice in Wonderland names. I'm actually feeling quite enthusiastic about that! |
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Post by quinlove on Jul 20, 2021 4:04:50 GMT
🎈🎉🎊🎂 🎈 happy birthday! 50 🎈🎂🎊🎉🎈
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Post by jess on Jul 20, 2021 4:11:12 GMT
Yes I would reschedule. I'm sorry you missed out on celebrating your 50th. Blame Gladys! We are in a similar predicament. My nephew turned 18 on Saturday and they had to cancel his birthday plans due to lockdown. I thought they were going to reschedule, but I think his mum and dad ended up giving him the money they were going to spend on food & drinks. My other nephew also turns 18 in eleven days, hopefully we will be out of lockdown then.  I do blame her! Her and the furniture removalists! But I feel that it was inevitable that we'd be back here one way or another. Until we have enough vaccines and enough people vaccinated it will keep happening. As much as I'm feeling sorry for myself today, I do feel worse for those who are missing 18th or 21st celebrations. I hope your nephews have great birthdays. |
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Post by pjaye on Jul 20, 2021 4:11:48 GMT
I love Alice in Wonderland! A group of us had a booking for The Alice in Wonderland cocktails tomorrow night - but it wasn't actually changed due to the lockdown, but because they've had to change venues. Have you heard of this?: The Alice: An Immersive Cocktail ExperienceI was looking forward to it - but we're going to rebook later in the year. |
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Post by sassyangel on Jul 20, 2021 4:41:11 GMT
I love Alice in Wonderland! A group of us had a booking for The Alice in Wonderland cocktails tomorrow night - but it wasn't actually changed due to the lockdown, but because they've had to change venues. Have you heard of this?: The Alice: An Immersive Cocktail ExperienceI was looking forward to it - but we're going to rebook later in the year. That looks like fun! I’m sorry you missed that. |
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Post by voltagain on Jul 20, 2021 4:45:41 GMT
I would reschedule a party. Don't know if I would call it my birthday party... maybe celebrate everyone's un-birthday or just a party to have a party because it has been such an isolating year +
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Post by cycworker on Jul 20, 2021 5:12:05 GMT
Haven't read the replies. I would reschedule. I am so sorry. I don't understand what Australia is doing. It makes no sense to me to go into a full lockdown for 10-15 cases. Covid Zero is never going to happen on a permanent basis. What the gov't is doing to the mental health of the population with the in & out of lockdown routine is a case of the cure being worse than the disease at this point.
I also don't understand why Australia is having so much trouble with getting folks vaccinated. It can't just be a case of not producing their own; Canada doesn't have that infrastructure either (another bee in my bonnet, but a different thread) and we are still at over 70% with their first shots.
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Post by AllieC on Jul 20, 2021 5:21:56 GMT
Haven't read the replies. I would reschedule. I am so sorry. I don't understand what Australia is doing. It makes no sense to me to go into a full lockdown for 10-15 cases. Covid Zero is never going to happen on a permanent basis. What the gov't is doing to the mental health of the population with the in & out of lockdown routine is a case of the cure being worse than the disease at this point. I also don't understand why Australia is having so much trouble with getting folks vaccinated. It can't just be a case of not producing their own; Canada doesn't have that infrastructure either (another bee in my bonnet, but a different thread) and we are still at over 70% with their first shots. We have been quite success in have COVID zero and I’m quite happy to continue to strive for that as are a great deal of the population. We don’t want the deaths that have happened in other countries letting it run rampant. The lockdowns will only keep happening until we get the vaccination rates up. The trouble with the vaccination rates is that we have an absolutely useless dickhead as a PM and he has botched it so badly. Thankfully things are starting to move now with some significant Pfizer deliveries on the way and we should have much higher rates later in the year. In general it’s not vaccine hesitancy that’s the issue, it’s the supply. |
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Post by cycworker on Jul 20, 2021 5:28:09 GMT
Haven't read the replies. I would reschedule. I am so sorry. I don't understand what Australia is doing. It makes no sense to me to go into a full lockdown for 10-15 cases. Covid Zero is never going to happen on a permanent basis. What the gov't is doing to the mental health of the population with the in & out of lockdown routine is a case of the cure being worse than the disease at this point. I also don't understand why Australia is having so much trouble with getting folks vaccinated. It can't just be a case of not producing their own; Canada doesn't have that infrastructure either (another bee in my bonnet, but a different thread) and we are still at over 70% with their first shots. We have been quite success in have COVID zero and I’m quite happy to continue to strive for that as are a great deal of the population. We don’t want the deaths that have happened in other countries letting it run rampant. The lockdowns will only keep happening until we get the vaccination rates up. The trouble with the vaccination rates is that we have an absolutely useless dickhead as a PM and he has botched it so badly. Thankfully things are starting to move now with some significant Pfizer deliveries on the way and we should have much higher rates later in the year. In general it’s not vaccine hesitancy that’s the issue, it’s the supply. Ugh. Any way to recall your terrible PM? Ridiculous it is going so slow. I guess my concern was - well, is - if you're going for the eradication of Covid - like eradicated the way smallpox, polio is... that, I don't see happening. If it does happen, it won't be soon. We have some in BC who wanted our provincial gov't to go the 'Covid Zero' route, and we didn't, and now it's way too late for that. And Dr Henry - our Chief Provincial Health Officer - has already said she believes Covid is here to stay, will become endemic a la the seasonal flu. So I guess, gently I ask my Aussie friends - are you willing to keep doing these lockdowns forever? Are you willing to never have your borders reopen? No vacations to other countries, no visiting any friends or family who live in other parts of the world? I couldn't do it. |
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Post by ~summer~ on Jul 20, 2021 6:20:28 GMT
Is your party against your current guidelines? I’m not clear on that. If so how is the venue even open?
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Post by AllieC on Jul 20, 2021 9:13:59 GMT
We have been quite success in have COVID zero and I’m quite happy to continue to strive for that as are a great deal of the population. We don’t want the deaths that have happened in other countries letting it run rampant. The lockdowns will only keep happening until we get the vaccination rates up. The trouble with the vaccination rates is that we have an absolutely useless dickhead as a PM and he has botched it so badly. Thankfully things are starting to move now with some significant Pfizer deliveries on the way and we should have much higher rates later in the year. In general it’s not vaccine hesitancy that’s the issue, it’s the supply. Ugh. Any way to recall your terrible PM? Ridiculous it is going so slow. I guess my concern was - well, is - if you're going for the eradication of Covid - like eradicated the way smallpox, polio is... that, I don't see happening. If it does happen, it won't be soon. We have some in BC who wanted our provincial gov't to go the 'Covid Zero' route, and we didn't, and now it's way too late for that. And Dr Henry - our Chief Provincial Health Officer - has already said she believes Covid is here to stay, will become endemic a la the seasonal flu. So I guess, gently I ask my Aussie friends - are you willing to keep doing these lockdowns forever? Are you willing to never have your borders reopen? No vacations to other countries, no visiting any friends or family who live in other parts of the world? I couldn't do it. I think you are misunderstanding our Covid Zero thoughts. We know it is going to be around probably forever and will become like the flu (simplistic metaphor but you know what I mean) we are going this route until we have high rates of vaccinations. Australian in general has very high vaccination rates so I don't think this will be an issue. It won't be lockdowns forever at all and the borders will open once we and those coming in are vaccinated. We just want to minimise tens/hundreds of thousands of people dying and I don't think that is a bad thing! |
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Post by littlemama on Jul 20, 2021 11:27:48 GMT
I turned 50 last year and we werent able to do anything due to restrictions. I dont really care much about my birthday, but this was a big one- and it fell on a Saturday- and I just wanted to go to dinner and hang out with friends.
I have toyed with doing something tjis year, on the day before my birthday- kind of a celebrating my last day as a 50 year old- but I dont know if I will.
If you want the gathering, then reschedule it. Everyone knows we are in tye midst of a pandemic and nothing is as usual!
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 20, 2021 11:48:27 GMT
I would reschedule. After another loockdown, people will be excited to get together again! And happy birthday! I agree! Happy 50th birthday. |
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Post by pjaye on Jul 20, 2021 11:55:19 GMT
Is your party against your current guidelines? I’m not clear on that. If so how is the venue even open? Definitely against current lockdown rules and the venue is not open. |
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Post by AllieC on Jul 20, 2021 12:20:54 GMT
I would find it difficult to reschedule in the not too distant future. I think having to cancel twice would be really disappointing and even worse than the first time. If it was me I would plan a 51st for next year and just do something simple this year with your family.
Happy Birthday for yesterday!
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jul 20, 2021 12:25:20 GMT
I would try to reschedule. There’s always a good excuse for a party. Call it your 601 month old party - or whatever the numbers work out to!
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Post by bratkar on Jul 20, 2021 12:37:35 GMT
My husbands 50th birthday was in February, when rates here in Ohio were still very high. About a month ago, we came up with a crazy idea we would celebrate his 50 1/2 birthday and celebrate it with an Ice Cream food truck. Our numbers looks really good here and everyone we have invited has been vaccinated so we feel good about having the party next month. And really we just all want to get together with friends and family we have not seen in over a year and this would be a good fun excuse.
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Post by cycworker on Jul 20, 2021 14:30:14 GMT
Ugh. Any way to recall your terrible PM? Ridiculous it is going so slow. I guess my concern was - well, is - if you're going for the eradication of Covid - like eradicated the way smallpox, polio is... that, I don't see happening. If it does happen, it won't be soon. We have some in BC who wanted our provincial gov't to go the 'Covid Zero' route, and we didn't, and now it's way too late for that. And Dr Henry - our Chief Provincial Health Officer - has already said she believes Covid is here to stay, will become endemic a la the seasonal flu. So I guess, gently I ask my Aussie friends - are you willing to keep doing these lockdowns forever? Are you willing to never have your borders reopen? No vacations to other countries, no visiting any friends or family who live in other parts of the world? I couldn't do it. I think you are misunderstanding our Covid Zero thoughts. We know it is going to be around probably forever and will become like the flu (simplistic metaphor but you know what I mean) we are going this route until we have high rates of vaccinations. Australian in general has very high vaccination rates so I don't think this will be an issue. It won't be lockdowns forever at all and the borders will open once we and those coming in are vaccinated. We just want to minimise tens/hundreds of thousands of people dying and I don't think that is a bad thing! Thanks. Was definitely misunderstanding. There are some Canadians who are misrepresenting Australia on Twitter, and I fell for it. They are folks who want forever lockdowns, so we can 'eradicate Covid forever.' |
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Post by scrapmaven on Jul 20, 2021 15:35:40 GMT
unbirthdays were a thing in alice in wonderland. I would reschedule.. the 2nd celebration of a very special day!!! humor will get you through.. I couldn't have said it better. ITA w/ ntsf . Reschedule for a time when no one has to worry or cancel due to the pandemic. Happy Birthday. You can still celebrate quietly at home. Then you'll have a party to look fwd to. |
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Post by tentoes on Jul 20, 2021 16:20:40 GMT
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great day despite world events.
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 20, 2021 16:37:40 GMT
I would not have an indoor party at this time. I would reschedule for a time with warmer weather and hold it outside.
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I do blame her! Her and the furniture removalists! But I feel that it was inevitable that we'd be back here one way or another. Until we have enough vaccines and enough people vaccinated it will keep happening.
