[Magdalen] Dilemma

[Grace Cangialosi]

Lesley,
They had it more than a year ago. The 16-year-old has some developmental delays, so he can’t really babysit the others.

> On Nov 28, 2021, at 7:15 PM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Grace, Just chiming in here after everybody else.
> 1 They presumably had COVID   6- 12 months ago. I wouldn't be relying on
> their immune status, as  resistance to re-infection seems to be very
> variable anyway ( meaning, it's not like eg. measles,  where infection
> should give one lifelong immunity.) I suspect that he wouldn't be impressed
> by recent reports about a new variant  coming around, but you could at
> least try.
> 2 I agree with all who say, if they come, they should wear masks indoor and
> out.
> 3  Can't the eldest babysit for the day, if necessary bribing him so that
> they all recognise he is in charge ?
> I do think your son is being unreasonable  towards you. ( You could lay it
> on the line "How would he feel if his actions caused  illness/ death  of
> his own mother?")
> 
> Best wishes
> Lesley de Voil
> 
> 
>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 at 07:00, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I had a phone call from my son this morning asking if he could bring the
>> three boys here on a Saturday in December. He has a job and can’t bring
>> them. They are 16, 10, and 8. I don’t really have much for them to do here,
>> but I figured maybe we could go out for pizza and maybe go to the community
>> park if it’s not too cold, or to a movie.
>> But then I remembered that they aren’t vaccinated and won’t be. So I won’t
>> want to take them out for lunch or to a movie. But I’m also not terribly
>> comfortable with the idea of having them here in the house all day. I left
>> a message with my son that we need to discuss it, but I haven’t heard back
>> yet. He told me awhile ago that the whole family had COVID back at the
>> beginning, so they don’t need the vaccine, but I’ve heard that isn’t
>> necessarily true. I know there’s going to be a confrontation over this, and
>> I’d like another opinion or two. Am I overreacting? At the very least, I
>> will insist that they wear masks—he doesn’t believe in those, either.
> 
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