I'm going to make the Covid / Flu comparison...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

63. I am absolutely not a germaphobe.

And when my kids were young, if another mom called me before a play date to let me know her kid had come down with something, and should we cancel, I was always saying, Nope. Not unless you want to.

I do realize that being on chemo is a totally different world from mine.

I will add this. Both of my sons have alopecia areata, an auto immune disorder that causes hair loss. It does seem as though for them, they have a hyper active immune system and so have rarely gotten sick. My older son, who lost his hair when he was four, went through three outbreaks of chicken pox (back before the current vaccine) in elementary school, and I was beginning to despair that he wouldn't get it. Then, one spring break, we were headed to visit my sister, who lived in a different state. She called me the night before we were setting out to let me know her oldest had just broken out in chicken pox, so maybe I might not want to come. Oh, no. I was on my way. My kids played with her for a week. When we got back home, at exactly whatever the incubation period is for chicken pox, both my sons broke out, within two hours of each other. Yes!