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[quote=Anonymous]I’m immunosupreased, and if it were just me I would have stayed at home. But DD ( fully vaccinated) is severely depressed and I think that being with cousins will be good for her. And so far I’m right, it has been lovely.

I made a decision that I am just not going to be around unvaccinated adults. It’s a bit of an arbitrary line but you have to draw the line somewhere. Most of my in laws are vaccinated so this isn’t an issue. I’m just not going to the houses of those who aren’t vaxxed and I’m skipping out on the big Christmas Eve family gathering. But the few that are not vaccinated keep asking me (via DH) if I would be go if they took other precautions. What if they wear masks? What if they stay six feet away? What if they take a test beforehand? What if they do some of the dinner outside? One of them said he and his wife and kids just wouldn’t go to the Christmas Eve event if I wasn’t comfortable because, they felt bad that I’m not going because of them.

I appreciate their consideration and it’s nice that they want to be around me, but they are putting me in the situation of constantly having to enforce a boundary. It’s not a big deal, but it’s starting to look like I’m overly cautious and never pleased. And with the BIL who says be just won’t go, he is putting me in the position of determining whether or not he will go to an event that be really wants to go to. This doesn’t make sense because one or three other unvaccinated adults will be there but he is still adamant that he won’t go if I can’t.

This is not a big deal but I just wish people would respect my boundary and stop pushing. Why can’t the people who chose not to get vaccinated be the ones who take the fall for “making it” so I can’t go? Especially when I’m not giving them crap for it? I would just like it if people said “oh yeah your decision makes total sense, of course you don’t want to put yourself at risk” and drop it. [/quote]

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