Had to cut off visits bw kids and family member due to non-vaccination

[Anonymous]

Your sister is a self centered jerk. She expects to see unvaccinated nieces and nephews and won’t get vaccinated to protect them. She won’t even follow basic precautions like keeping her mask on and staying outside.

OP she’s not a good person. She’s self absorbed and rude. Let her be mad, you are not responsible for her feeling happy by getting whatever she wants. Your responsibility is to your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I am willing to accept a lot of risk in my life as long as I have done the basic things to mitigate obvious known risks. I ride on a bicycle with a helmet and I only ride in cars with seat belts and air bags. I do these things even though I know that I could still die in an accident while taking these precautions. But just because I could still die taking those precautions is not a reason to refuse the precautions which lower the risk. I look at vaccination the same way.

Her argument is that she could still infect them while vaccinated so getting vaccinated has no value. I would be willing to accept the small risk of her having a breakthrough infection as long as she had taken the basic precaution (vaccination) to reduce that risk.

I don't want to teach her a lesson, I just want the most basic steps to reduce the risk taken. I can never eliminate risk but I want to mitigate it and keep living our lives without fear.

Hey OP - For the sake of your worries, why not have your kids' blood drawn and see if they have already had COVID. If they are attending school, there is a good chance. And then you can relax a bit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm lost. How do you think in others getting the vaccine will protect your kids?

Welcome to Planet Earth 2021. Is it your first time here? I will help you since you are lost. People who are vaccinated are less likely to get Covid and spread Covid. That will help protect kids and others. You're welcome.

Thanks for the laugh. Cannot believe how dumb some people are.

My responses to this have been deleted so I will keep it short.

Unless the op's kids are not in school and the op and her spouse are not leaving the house at all her kids covid risk is not increased simply by not seeing their aunt. The op can also transmit covid.

The poster wants to cut off her sister and is using covid as an excuse.

NP -- I am afraid the PP is bringing his/her baggage into this thread (where is there any indication of "poster wants to cut off her sister"?)

COVID is not a switch that one time goes from safe to probably catch it; protection from viruses is not all or nothing.
Any additional exposure to people who are more likely that the average to be contagious with COVID (and all unvaccinated people fall into this category based on all the experience and research on the topic) will increase the chance that OP’s children will get COVID.

Still dont understand why this concept is so hard to grasp