I generally try to stay out of these discussions but I start to twitch when I read statements like "it is a personal choice of what you do". In the midst of a viral pandemic you are not just making a choice for yourself to attend a gathering. You are making a choice for everyone who will have contact with you. Your friends and relatives, their friends and relatives, etc. You are making a choice for the "essential workers" like grocery store clerks and their friends and relatives and the friends and relatives of those people. Also, you are making a choice for the overworked healthcare professionals who will have to care for you and the others that you infect.
I sincerely hope that everyone is giving serious thought to what might happen to their dogs, critters and other dependents if they should become seriously ill with Covid-19. Chances are that if you are ill, others in your household will be as well. It seems to me to be unreasonable and also unethical to ask others to come into your virus infected home to care for your dogs.
At the end of April of this year, I lost an aunt who I had been close to as a child to Covid-19. Yes, she was nearly ninety, and yes she was in a nursing home in (of all god-forsaken places) Brooklyn NY. Up until becoming ill with the virus, she was mentally as sharp as a tack and she didn't need to die alone without her family able to be there. Please do not write off the elderly or those with medical issues as not worthy of consideration.
Barb Meyer