And has announced he hasn’t and won’t be taking any precautions and that he has being the exact opposite of government advice.
Back story, he’s an utterly useless father who has very little to do with DD14 and has sporadic contact at the best of times. Once a month at best. Hasn’t seen her since March and originally used lockdown as an excuse for not seeing her. He’s also got form for conspiracies theories, and has been attempting to live ‘off grid’ for a couple of years because he doesn’t believe in the ‘system’ but from what I can tell this means not working and bumming off people and the system to try and get away with not contributing and not paying child maintenance.
I digress. He now wants to see DD but has spouted all the Covid crap about not taking precautions or following government advice etc that I’m not sure I should let it happen, but am I being OTT? I’m not highly paranoid on it myself but I stick to what we are told to do because I prefer to try and keep my family safe. I also don’t want to disrupt Dd going back to school as she will be starting her GCSEs this year and having to self isolate would cause issues for my work too. Basically I don’t want to go to great lengths to do everything right so we can be normal only for Dd to catch something from someone who thinks it’s a government conspiracy?
Admittedly there are bigger issues here with her father being utterly useless. And normal circumstances I let her see him on the odd occasion he shows interest to do so, so that I can’t be accused of stopping him and she still sees him now and again. I would say it’s harmless but it isn’t it’s shit for DD. But harmless in that he comes and goes and we get on with our lives in between. But now we have to run the risk of catching a virus too and bringing it into the house just because he’s decided to disregard advice and rules?
Should I let her see him?