Refusing to meet up with a vaccine refuser?

[BlueSoop]

MIL has been offered a vaccine appointment. MIL’s cohabiting partner has refused the vaccine. Myself, DH and DC have not yet been vaccinated.

This morning MIL has read the news about family meet-ups possibly being allowed by Easter and wants to make a plan. It’s possible that DH and I may have had our first jab by then.

WIBU to say I don’t want to meet up with a vaccine refuser? Close contact with a vaccine refuser is introducing a risk into our family that wouldn’t otherwise be present. Plus he’s trying to talk MIL out of having the vaccine so if that happens I won’t want to meet up with her either.

Oh dear. Probably best for their sakes if you don't meet up with them until you get treatment for your covid hysteria and superiority complex.

I'm with you on this OP, he sounds like a selfish arsehole.

Jesus wept. This COVID has turned some people in to absolute morons.

Jesus what has the world come to.
You are bonkers OP.
Please do start asking people you socialise with / your kids socialise with proof of every vaccine you believe they should have before being graced with your presence.... Nuts!

@BlueSoop

Unless you decide to isolate yourselves from society, you will come into contact with unvaccinated people regularly Not close contact as with a family member. Sitting in a cafe 6ft from a vaccine refuser isn’t the same as spending time in their home and eating off their plates.

OP, sorry you are having a harsh time. I agree with you and this. Being in someone’s house where if they’re infected they’ve spent hours filling the air with viral load is far worse than briefly walk past someone in a shop. You have made the right decision for you and your family

Yesterday 17:32 Donoteatthekittens

I’m pregnant and then I’ll be breastfeeding so no vaccine for me. Thankfully none of my friends or family are refusing to see me. 🙄

“What happens once vaccinations finish? Are you going to refuse to see somebody in a decade because they didn’t have a vaccine ten years ago?“

They will likely be with us for a very long time. Listening to someone from SAGE earlier - can’t remember her name, sorry - it’s current thinking seems to be that it will be administered annual, tweaked to cope with prevalent strain, much like the ‘flu jab.

Don’t blame you op. Most vaccine refusers I know are really paranoid and believe David Ike/conspiracy theories. They seem so selfish there are some at my work who have refused it and I really don’t want to work with them.

I had my first jab yesterday. Couldn't give a shiny shite about the unvaccinated, even if they are riddled with covid. It's extremely unlikely I'll get ill.

Regarding the time it took to get the vaccine out, I'm pretty sure that a lot of the red tape in approval process was omitted. The vaccines don't even have proper brand names, you'd expect them to be called things like Covaxx or Astravax or something, not simply referred to by the maker's name.

@DenisetheMenace

PhilCornwall1

Hwory
Me and my kids won't be hanging around anyone refusing to have the vaccine.

If their choice whether to have it but it's my choice what risks I take with myself and my children.

And how are you going to know they've not had it, if they don't say anything. If asked, people could just say that they've had it“

In my (admittedly limited, 3 people and I’m 56) experience of anti-vaxxers , that’s the very last thing they would do. They’ve wanted everyone to know and why, in gear detail.

[complete, irrelevant aside, Phil, are you Cornish, my ‘’ansome? Wondered since I joined]

'In my (admittedly limited, 3 people and I’m 56) experience of anti-vaxxers , that’s the very last thing they would do. They’ve wanted everyone to know and why, in gear detail.'

There is a flaw in your thinking. If someone is anti-vax but doesn't say anything, you WON'T know about it.

here is a flaw in your thinking. If someone is anti-vax but doesn't say anything, you WON'T know about it.“

Yes, that’s one way of looking at it. All I can say from personal experience is that anti-cachet’s are extremely vociferous because they want to persuade and concert others.

You could of course be right, though 🤷‍♀️

Sorry, that was in reply to MsAlva

Catchets?

Vaxxers

🙄

Concert?
Convert!

I give up 😁

@SheCannaeTakeNoMoreCapt

You are being utterly ridiculous. HTH

No she isn't.

Personally I wouldn't be meeting up with him because vaccine refusers are complete dickheads and life is too short to spend time with wankers like that. Anyone who won't do something so simple to get us all out of this mess (without a sensible reason) is not someone I want to be around. Fuck them.

@SheCannaeTakeNoMoreCapt 👏👏

Sounds like you're using contact as a means to control MIL behaviour/punish her for her choice of partner

Health-wise I can totally understand why you’d want to wait until you’d had your own vaccine before meeting up with them. Sanity-wise I’m not sure I could spend much time with someone who was anti-vaccines (unless they have a good and specific reason).

I take it you don’t really like this person and are looking for a good excuse not to see them?

@Hwory

Me and my kids won't be hanging around anyone refusing to have the vaccine.

If their choice whether to have it but it's my choice what risks I take with myself and my children.

How will you know?

I don’t particularly care if others haven’t had their vaccine as long as I have, even though I think it’s selfish. But I’m not going to be the one who’s going to be ill.

Anyone who comes out with the kind of bullshit I’ve seen about the vaccine “it reduces infertility/it’s all a conspiracy to reduce the population/it’s all about government control/it’s happened too quickly” and the list goes on, I consider to be in the same league as any other kind of anti vaxxer and as such I would likely avoid them.

I block any anti vaxxers I’ve come across on fb discussions for example, people commenting on other people’s statuses because frankly you can’t argue with stupid. And I take the same view of people wanting to be in my life who hold and express the same kinds of views.

I agree. They are causing such harm with their silly, unfounded theories. I hope they see all the stories now in the news about the vaccines reducing transmission and get it done for the good of other humans.