My boys have been invited to a birthday party for their half- brother, age 4-8, at a Chuck e cheese.
My wife is immune compromized and is not yet elligible for her booster. She also read that because she had mono when she was a kid she is at greater risk of long covid. I told my boys that their mother plans to stay at my parent's unoccupied house for several days to protect herself. And so she is not going to be here to drive one to high school at 7:30an and not here to drive the other to commuter rail at 6am. I am not. They can ride their bikes.
If I had a plan to do something that was such concern to my wife she would feel the need to move out for several days to protect herself I would change my plans.
I am really disappointed with my boys.
And frankly their birthmom (we adopted them when she was deemed unfit) is in my opinion, a moron to do this at chuck e cheese.
What is even more nuts is that my boys were planning to go tomorrow without knowing anything about it. My daughter said she will drive them and I learned from her. She is not planning to go in. I can't imagine planning to go to an event with zero knowlege on the situation.
Teenager truly are stupid and as I said, I am really disapointed that they are Ok putting my wife in a situation where she feels to need to temporarily move out of the house to protect herself.
How old are your boys? You are disappointed in them because they were invited to and want to attend a family member's birthday party?
19 years old. One 20 in a week.
I think I was clear that I am disappointed that they do not seem to care that due to their choice, my wife, to protect herself, my will temporarily move out of the house.
It was not clear the age difference between themselves and the children at the other party.
Have your children been vaccinated? Your wife? Do you expect your children to forever avoid social contact for your wife's sake?
She has had 2 moderna but is not eligible for booster yet despite being immune compromised. Her condition is not on the CDC list so she can't get her booster yet even though she is in fact immune compromised. She was stuck in Canada from March to November 2021 and couldn't start the vaccine process until the 2nd week of November when she got home. She was stuck in Canada caring for her 94 year old mother and could not get vaccinated while in Canada for not having a Canadian issued ID. And she's at higher risk of long covid.
The boys have had their boosters and I also. But we know that the vaccine is not great at stopping Omicron infection. It is good at reducing the risk of severe illness for boosted people who are not immune compromised.
We do not expect the boys to forever live in a void. The older one commutes to college every school day. He goes to Umass Boston. I do expect them to make choices that are not so risky as going a Chuck e Cheese birthday party around lots of people, inside, some unvaccinated, who are eating and I do think it's appropriate for them to discuss plans with us given that they live in our house, and we support them 100%.
And the older one is known to lie to us about keeping his mask up.