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Related: About this forumWould you have lunch outside with someone who probably isn't vacinated?
As some of you may know its hard to make friends when you are older.
I have a neighbor who's always been friendly and we've gone out to dinner with her, I text her often but I have a sneaking feeling she is anti vax as she made a comment in the past that her mother died after being vaccinated for the flu many years ago and that made a big anti vax impression on the family.
Bottom line she has asked me to sit on her deck in the open air for some wine next week and I would love to go but, naturally, as I'm fully vaxxed and boosted and 'pretty sure she is none of them I am afraid to go.
Sitting outside at a 6 ft distance if no one is sneezing or coughing would you go?
Yes my husband and I have commorbidities and we are over 75 but healthy.
zuul
(14,654 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,493 posts)as it is I hate to turn down a chance to hang out with some people.
We have another date with her and another neighbor next month I guess I'll have to bow out of that one, too.
Thanks for your response.
SheltieLover
(59,345 posts)marybourg
(13,090 posts)you probably pass near unvaxxed people every time you go to a store - but that the fact that she is unvaxxed means youll probably not see eye to eye with her on many things. So why put yourself in a situation that youll just have to extricate yourself from later.
Peregrine Took
(7,493 posts)marybourg
(13,090 posts)Its like I would go for maybe a glass of wine - not lunch - for half an hour, but I really think she should be made a pariah and deprived of the company of others for not being willing to protect them by getting vaxxed.
multigraincracker
(33,923 posts)in a Hazmat suit, face shield and double masked.
Explain that had an older friend die fro covid.
elleng
(135,659 posts)Go.
wyn borkins
(1,109 posts)MLAA
(18,534 posts)for yourselves and others? Based on her answer either go or suggest you catch up on the phone if you really want to engage 🙂
Scrivener7
(52,397 posts)Meadowoak
(6,085 posts)kimbutgar
(23,106 posts)Restaurant on a windy day and even though he was vaxxed got Covid.
MichMan
(13,014 posts)So, I probably wouldn't know for certain one way or another
MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)because if they haven't been vaxxed one can assume they are bent to the right and no thanks.
zeusdogmom
(1,040 posts)Pretty easy to stay a few feet apart outside
Our social worlds seem to shrink as we age. Embrace the opportunity
FWIW - 74 and healthy - and frequently out and about. I know not everyone I come in contact with is vaccinated. I accept that risk as part of living and embracing life to the fullest
brush
(57,104 posts)Get it out in the open and you'll know from then on how to proceed with the relationship.
duckworth969
(966 posts)If you get C19, you could die drowning in your own mucus and be unable to see the ones you love for fear of contaminating them.
The increased isolation many of us exercise is not because its what we necessarily wish to do.
But it is our reality.