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My MIL is willfully unvaccinated. We have a 5 month old and said he's only seeing vaccinated people. She hasn't met him and if she's not willing to get vaccinated to see him, I'm hurt but we're not bending on it. I've run out of patience for anyone willfully unvaccinated.
Outdoor and masked is very reasonable.
We insisted on outdoor masked visits with our young kids until all parents were fully vaxed. We got some mild silence and eye rolls at first but perfectly reasonable. No one that loves you should push back on what you choose to do to keep your child safe.
I am *in* texas and when my vaccinated in-laws and my vaccinated mom come over we do only masked outdoor visits since my 7 year old is not vaccinated (and in public school, with no mask mandate).
We had relaxed a bit with masks over the summer (with eachother) since we all are vaccinated except for her, but once this variant hit we went back to it. It protects her from them, and them from her.
As a vaccinated person myself, I’m sticking to outdoor visits, even with other vaccinated people.
My MIL told my sister in law to wait to fly or visit until she was vaccinated. She was upset, but has no medical reason not to. She cancelled her trip instead of getting a shot. We even said just the first one was enough. We didn't want to take the risk with either our child or my MIL, who is vaccinated but still high risk, and just got rid of her long haul symptoms a year later. I would just plan all the activities outdoors in nice spots with masks only and not make a big deal. Maybe just say cases are high here right now, so we should be careful so you don't catch anything while traveling with this new variant going around. Especially with the kids back in school in person, if that's your situation.
I want to add that my older daughters went to a birthday get together in February for their step mothers mom, against my advice. That in turn got my daughters covid, their aunt and uncle, their dad and even their grandparents. My girls lost their uncle, their grandparents were hospitalized and they lost their grandmother.
I’ve lost several friends and friends parents already. I’ve attended 5 funerals this year, and that’s only the ones that have had services. I have zero second thoughts about caring for the health of my family over everyone else.
Jesus. I’m so sorry. That puts it in perspective.
Offering a different perspective here. I’m 100% pro-vax and also frustrated with those choosing not to get it. However I’m not willing to restrict my child from quality time with their otherwise loving and fun grandparent. The actual risk of them having covid and giving it to your kid while visiting is very low. So long as they aren’t in large crowds prior to visiting and fully mask on the plane, I wouldn’t restrict visits to both outdoors and with mask. I wouldn’t have done that during flu season years ago either. Absolutely your decision though!
My parents got COVID on the flight to see us with my 6-month-old and they gave it to all of us. So, low risk isn’t no risk.