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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly the flu shot is a red herring.  The thing that's bothering you is that you can't take your kids to thanksgiving if they have any kind of cold symptoms which sucks because school ages kids have colds basically all the time but is also a pretty reasonable ask for a big optional indoor gathering like thanksgiving.  Stop focusing on the flu shot or lack thereof.

- I and my babies are vaccinated for flu but I don't think telling people not to share their colds is unreasonable[/quote]

I don't think OP is being too unreasonable. It's kind of unusual that the SIL is banning people from thankgiving out of fear of flu instead of staying home herself.

And if SIL is so fearful of flu, why didn't she get a flu shot for herself and baby? (to be fair, infant flu shots are a two shot deal and the baby has to be at least 6 months with a month between shot 1 and 2, so) [/quote]

I don't think SIL is banning symptomatic kids for fear of the flu; I think she's banning them for fear of all the various diseases she and her kid don't want to get.  The flu shot wouldn't make any difference to the plethora for colds, HFM, RSV, Covid, assorted other viruses going around so it's not really relevant to sick people at thanksgiving dinner ban.  Also, maybe OP will correct me if I'm wrong, but I read the post as implying SIL is hosting the thanksgiving dinner, so she's just putting (imo no unreasonable) conditions on her guests.  Would OP prefer to have not been invited at all?[/quote]

Rereading OP, I see grandparents are hosting, so yeah, not SIL's call.  Grandparents set the conditions on the guests and if they say not kids with sniffles that's their right.  If SIL is trying to pressure OP separately, OP should ignore and SIL can stay home if she doesn't like it.  The flu shot disagreement is still largely irrelevant.[/quote]

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