Are you sick or just doing the smart thing?

[Phentex]

A cousin asked me this at an event that was held for my mother-in-law. My family, one niece and one sibling were the only people in the room wearing masks. There were mostly elderly people there but some children and middle aged people.

I was against the whole thing but nobody knows how many more birthdays MIL will have. She really wanted this.

A cousin described her terrible bout with covid last year. Whole family got it, hers lasted over a month and her husband is still having joint issues. No mask. But too worried about what people would think if she wore one.

I am so OVER people caring if I wear a mask. They can do what they want but I will also do what *I* want. Most of the questions were: are you sick? Are you vaccinated?

[MuseRider]

1. We are all getting sucked into the

"but she wanted it so much" party line.

I will mask no matter what and nobody should have to provide a reason, it should be obvious.

[Phentex]

3. This is the only thing I did...

look I love her dearly but I do NOT understand her attitude about Covid. (She got it at xmas 2020). Aside from that, I don't want someone's cold germs either. And she wanted her children at dinner at a restaurant the night before! I said hell no to that.

I'm not under the belief I won't ever get covid. But I also don't think any of these large gatherings are necessary. We didn't eat at restaurants much before covid so that hasn't changed for us.

[MuseRider]

6. I too believe we will all get it at some point.

The mask is so easy.

My friends do not understand why I will not join them for dinner out now that it is so much better. I am recovering from heart problems and do not want them to get worse. My friend is being treated for cancer and she is going nuts so she is going out. I don't get it but it is her choice.

It is the, "so and so just wanted us all together so much" that gets me.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. And if MIL gets Covid from someone who attend the event

and subsequently dies, she will definitely have fewer birthdays.

[Phentex]

4. She doesn't care...

but yes that would cut down on the family gatherings.

But to hear the one cousin talk about Covid and then just be there without a mask was something else. WTF?

[Anon-C]

5. ...

Happy Valentine's Day!

[Phentex]

7. Ha!

Thanks. This was just a vent.

My MIL is old but I am getting old, too. My husband was trying to come up with reasons for not attending dinner the night before and I said I planned to tell her "because I just don't want to!" Because that was the truth.