So my sister, her BF, and my mom (very at risk person) were going to come to mine for thanksgiving. We decided this in the summer when the cases weren’t that bad. In Oct and early November I said to our group chat that I don’t think this is a good idea because numbers are going up a lot. They told me it would be fine.
My sister and her BF are coming from CA to DC. For you non-Americans that’s 6 hours on a flight and COVID is looking as bad or worse than it was in the spring.
So today, even though it was last min I finally had the courage (and fear) to tell them that we shouldn’t do this. This was my 4th time speaking up about it but this was the first time I really put my foot down. The bad part is that my sister and her BF were supposed to come in tomorrow. My mom was coming in closer to Thanksgiving. I was nice about it and I told them that this was hard for me too and I’m sorry that I waited until today to really say no don’t come but this is also my 4th time speaking up about it.
My mom understands but my sister is so pissed off at me that she doesn’t want to talk to me and she told me to drop it. She is much angrier than I thought she would be.
And I feel awful about it. Even though I really do think it’s the right call I feel like I ruined Thanksgiving and Christmas. (We we’re going to do a two in one.) I’m sitting here crying because not only is it sad I can’t see my family because of how this country handled and is handling this crisis but because I’m the one that cancelled it. It wasn’t a group decision. Like I was hoping for.