PIL

[OneMoreTime23]

PIL live a 4ish hour drive away. DH planned to go up there yesterday for a few days with DD to see that side of the family. He was mildly unwell last week and tested positive for Covid on Friday, so they said he would have to stay outside to speak to them because they are visiting a vulnerable family member for new year. DH tested negative yesterday.

They then arranged for the rest of the immediate family (a5 adults and 6 children) to visit them yesterday, none having tested. DH stayed away last night and visited today and they still made him stand in the howling rain to speak to them because they can’t risk getting ill. But they didn’t see any risk in what they did yesterday?!

There’s a reason I don’t go with DH anymore. Their lack of logic is painful. (Teen DD was most amused at the packet of festive Lidl crisps and 6 hens eggs they got her for Xmas.)

He drove 4hrs to see them and had to stand outside in howling rain? Fuck that for a game of soldiers. However, if I had recently tested positive for Covid, I would have stayed away from other people, especially if they had already warned he'd have to stay outside.

He has since tested negative. We postponed Xmas to January and he checked with his family members as to what they wanted to do. They still wanted to see him.

(he knew exactly when and where he caught it and it had been almost a week when he tested positive.)

(The last time I went up they left us sat in a freezing cold house for 3 hours waiting for them with a hungry toddler and not so much as a rich tea biscuit in the house. I drew the line then.)