Am I being unreasonable?

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Anonymous wrote:Let it go. Don't let your kid crawl outside your bedroom. And put a blanket down otherwise. It's summer so the kid can be outside too.

You do not put blankets on the floor of someone else's house! It is a safety hazard.

[Anonymous]

OP I think you should go, but offer to help with housework when you are there, and as part of that, mop the floors very frequently.

Even if you have to do it when they are out grocery shopping.

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and get this: https://www.americanfloormats.com/sanitizing-footbath-floor-mat/?gclid=CjwKCAjwtqj2BRBYEiwAqfzur_hxK-ZgQpKfIg064twtNC_ey8t1FFqkpjpuk52oJjeiV2XiFQqcORoCj1kQAvD_BwE

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This is OP - we are going to go. I will suck it up and deal.

The baby does not seem close to walking yet, but I will set up a play area and keep it clean myself.

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I can't even understand the scenario of contracting a virus from your shoes - so someone who has Covid (which is a tiny tiny tiny part of the population) is healthy enough to be outside or at a grocery store and hocks up a mucous ball and spits it on the ground - your father in law steps on it - now on his shoe- and the virus (which can't survive heat or many surfaces) somehow survives him walking on it and then gets into the house - then it gets on the floor, your kid licks floor/licks toy from floor, and contracts Covid??

The data shows you need 15 minutes of aerosolized exposure to contract it - You are going to be OK! GO - free yourself from the apartment. enjoy the generosity of your inlaws

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Anonymous wrote:I can't even understand the scenario of contracting a virus from your shoes - so someone who has Covid (which is a tiny tiny tiny part of the population) is healthy enough to be outside or at a grocery store and hocks up a mucous ball and spits it on the ground - your father in law steps on it - now on his shoe- and the virus (which can't survive heat or many surfaces) somehow survives him walking on it and then gets into the house - then it gets on the floor, your kid licks floor/licks toy from floor, and contracts Covid??

The data shows you need 15 minutes of aerosolized exposure to contract it - You are going to be OK! GO - free yourself from the apartment. enjoy the generosity of your inlaws

OP is an idiot. Her in-laws are going to regret this invitation.

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Anonymous wrote:I would try to make a clean area where you can put the baby toys. You could also ask if you can lysol spray their shoes.

My kids are older so this is a non issue. We are also Asian American so we take off our shoes. The one cultural difference I just can’t understand is wearing your dirty shoes inside the house. You step on all sorts of nasty crap outside. Why would you wear those same shoes inside your home?

Agree! I'm not Asian, and neither is DH, and we both grew up taking off our shoes once we entered the house. I don't understand why a person would wear their shoes in the house, there's no reason to. My dad never wore shoes in the house, he would change into some form of house shoes like slippers - I always associated wearing slippers with being "old school" (rather than leaving shoes on like OP described).

I hate to break it to you, Asian and non-Asian posters, but some people come from different cultures than you! Sometimes even if they grew up the street next door. If you want respect for your own cultural norms, you’d be wise to extend the same to theirs.

I don’t wear street shoes inside my house, but plenty of people around the US and the world do wear street shoes inside, and I accept that it’s how they do things in their own home. Since they don’t seem to get sicker on average than those of us who use house shoes, I also concede that maybe they’re not even mistaken to think it equally hygienic to forego changing shoes.

I just know that I’m glad I don’t have to clean their floors! 😂

That’s like saying FGM is a cultural practice so we must respect it.

Outdoor shoes in the house is gross. G-R-O-S-S. No justification for it whatsoever, other than being lazy. Thank God some white people have seen the light and started to follow Asian cultures in eschewing shoes in the house. Now waiting on the remaining backwards white hicks to get it.