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[quote=Anonymous][quote]OP, dont listen to the posts snarking at you to let them visit. You're in the right. All these "just wipe the bathroom after they leave" etc. posters are the types who think it's fine to have people over to visit now. You're not alone in believing visits like this with people who are in the middle of a road trip are not a good idea.

Adults like your in-laws who insist they must enter your house and interact are not going to adhere to any attempt you make at distancing once they get inside the door: "Oh, sorry, I just COULDN'T resist hugging sweet little Billy but ha ha, now it's a done deal, here's a hug for Susie too!" It'll all be a joke to them. No rules apply to grandma and grandpa's hugs--right? [/quote]

This X1000. If a relative lives locally, is taking the pandemic seriously and suggests getting together on a deck or yard then you can probably trust them to maintain social distancing. If they are traveling, not taking it seriously, pushing and pouting about why they can't stay over and then reluctantly agree to visit on the desk but then throw in the drinking wine demand then it would be a hard no. OP'a parents will not maintain social distancing on their deck.

I feel bad for my grandmother. She has asked everyone to take this seriously, avoid visiting her and FaceTime her often. Two of her children are taking this very seriously. They drop groceries off at her back door, waive at her from the window and have sat 10 feet away from her on her outdoor patio with her. They always politely refuse anything she offers because they don't want to touch anything that she later touches. The other child lives with her and has not left the house since this started to avoid infecting her mother.

Her other three children are total selfish a-holes. One can't stand the idea that the closer and live in siblings gets to visit and she wasn't so now she stops by, goes into the house, makes a big pretense about social distance but has to keep being reminded to step back. She goes on and on how she doesn't have it. Another ones lives hours away by plane and expects to come stay with her mother when she travels into the area for other business in June. A third one is a Trumper who thinks the whole thing is a hoax. [/quote]

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