Dealing with Covidian inlaws

Covidians are still out there and it’s awkward if they are related to you in some way.

We have relatives who have kids of a similar age to ours, so naturally all the kids sort of grew up together.

Covid changed all that,  they barely spoke to us, and we certainly weren’t welcome at Xmas events, etc.

We were outcasts, simply because we had made a different decision to theirs.
(We went on a blind date with another unvaxxed family with kids of a similar age in 2021, as a result of the fallout.)

https://uncoffined.wordpress.com/2021/12/26/some-days-in-the-sun-over-xmas/

Those formally close relatives left a vacuum that was filled by fellow unvaxxed people we could trust.

Since then, the hysteria has died away a lot, but we are now in a very different place to them.

It’s like they just went along with all the constant mass media which created anxiety and hysteria, and now they seem naturally afraid all the time.  They still watch the ‘news’ and get carried away with whatevers been gaslit this week.  eg, Trump bad, Russia bad, etc

(The TV news in NZ is probably best described as similar to CNN in the USA, so not exactly factually credible).

We, on the other hand, dont watch the news or any TV for that matter -constant vaccine and covid ads in 2020 sent us off to netflix and we haven’t returned.

Five years on and my teenage kids are planning to travel overseas to third world countries.

In contrast, they are freaked over one of their kids going to a universary in a town 3 hrs from home.

I think back to a time in 2021, when I decided not to get the vaccine because it just didn’t make sense, I asked my kids at the time what they wanted to do, and they both decided no.

I think it’s made us all stronger as a result, because in the end, we never succumbed to the relentless peer pressure. We stood up to the adversity.

They, on the other hand, either through bribery, fear, or gullibility – went with the flow.

So, with all that history, what happens now?

Everytime they visit, it’s awkward, because that subject isn’t discussed, but how far do should we go with this?

All our friends are on the same page as us.

Do we run around trying to keep them seperate?  My wife, who is very much a peacemaker prefers this option.

The way I see it though, as that we are not been honest to ourselves or them, we are putting on an act, which is tiresome and dishonest.
It also doesn’t ‘fix’ anything, nothing is resolved.

Do we just say ‘just get over it’, these are our friends. This is my preferred option.
Everything is out in the open, our friends are quite non confrontational and very supportive to us. It’s not as if they are looking for a fight.

P.S. A passing comment from the sister inlaw. ‘Oh we haven’t seen you for a while for some reason’ !

It’s like the last 4 years never happened to these people.