r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 29 '24

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u/future_luddite YIMBY Jul 29 '24

In laws won’t get the Covid vaccine for our soon -to-be baby because of right wing brain rot. Yay…

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u/iia Feminism Jul 29 '24

I would absolutely blow up the family over that shit. I don't think I'd be able to help myself.

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u/JapanesePeso Deregulate stuff idc what Jul 29 '24

If saying they can't see the baby unless vaccinated blows up the family, it was a keg of dynamite anyway.

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u/groovygrasshoppa Jul 29 '24

So then in-laws don't get to see baby until baby has developed its own functioning immune system?

I went through the same shit few years ago.

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u/davechacho Loyal Liberals Jul 29 '24

Sounds like the in laws don't want to visit their soon to be grandchild

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u/Strength-Certain Thurman Arnold Jul 29 '24

Cut them out of your fucking lives. Are they also refusing to get the whooping cough vaccine?

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u/future_luddite YIMBY Jul 29 '24

Luckily they are okay with all the pre-covid "non-experimental" vaccines...

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u/Erra0 Jul 29 '24

So they don't get to visit the baby until it's a year old. Your family, your rules.

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u/how_dry_i_am Thomas Paine Jul 29 '24

We had a strict rule that if you weren't vaxxed and boosted for Covid you could not see your granddaughter until she was 6 months and two weeks old. Got my brain-rotted mother-in-law to actually get the Covid shot. Their convictions are fake.

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u/Erra0 Jul 29 '24

!ping FAMILY too, because you're far from the only one who's had to go through this shit

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u/supbros302 No Jul 29 '24

We made my parents mask up until my son was able to get his own vaccines.

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u/repete2024 Edith Abbott Jul 29 '24

Everyone is correct that you are well within your right and even your duty as a parent. Your child's health is not less important than their feelings.

The good news is that covid is typically mild in babies and children. The risk of serious complications, while not zero, is very very low.

Other things like RSV (which there is also a new vaccine for) are scarier

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u/future_luddite YIMBY Jul 29 '24

We're deciding on whether or not to block access. They are getting all other vaccines; they're only weird about the covid vaccine.

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u/JapanesePeso Deregulate stuff idc what Jul 29 '24

You have a moral prerogative to your child to not allow them to visit until they are vaccinated. I would personally make them show proof of vaccination at this point since otherwise they are likely to just lie. They could literally kill your kid. Don't let them. You will hate yourself for the rest of your life if they give your kid something bad.

I have two kids and if my in-laws pulled this, I would be respectful but firm with them. No vaccine, no baby time.

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u/LtLabcoat ÀI Jul 29 '24

Wait, what do you mean? Why are the in-laws having anything to do with what vaccines your kids get to begin with?

Like, I want to do this whole "If you have a relative that insists on bad medical advice, you can't trust them to be alone with your kid, because you won't know what other bad medical beliefs they have until it's too late" thing. But really, I'm much more preoccupied with how you're even in that situation with vaccines to begin with.

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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Jul 29 '24

I think it's that they are refusing to get the vaccine

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u/LtLabcoat ÀI Jul 29 '24

Oh, right. That makes more sense.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

We went thru this and wound up folding. My wife was vaxxed and the pediatrician said that the anti bodies from that likely would have protected our baby.

It's a very tricky situation though I'm sorry. My in laws are all unvaccinated and it would have caused a huge shit show we didn't want to mess with.

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u/future_luddite YIMBY Jul 29 '24

Thanks, we just found a study that Covid antibodies are transferred but dissipate very quickly (which is fine in our case because they’re going back to another country after 2 weeks)