{"id":1237,"date":"2021-03-19T08:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2021-03-19T08:44:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:44:28","slug":"what-do-you-think-riskier-travel-and-unvaccinated-kids-aunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"What do you think riskier? [travel and unvaccinated kids, aunt]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note: I have a writing project this weekend. Q&A will resume on 3\/22<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Every summer (except last), our family spends 1 month together at our cabin, and we’re planning to resume the tradition this summer. If my sister-in-law chooses not to get vaccinated, she will be the only adult unvaccinated in the cabin. She won’t, however, be the only unvaccinated person there– our two young kids will be there too. Our journey to the cabin will be by car (4 days).\u00a0 And we’ve started a dialogue with my sister-in-law,\u00a0who has a lot of hesitancy about taking the vaccine.\u00a0 She asked why we would risk the four-day road trip with our kids (hotels, bathrooms, etc.) but potentially not risk staying in the same cabin as her, basically asking isn’t the risk equivalent?\u00a0 What do you think?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Difficult situation you find yourself in.\u00a0 First, it’s great that you’re having a dialogue and asking each other questions.\u00a0 Keep at it!\u00a0 (Note: Q&A of 2\/2<\/a> may be helpful on that front.)\u00a0 Second, when it comes to risk there are many factors at play related to the infected host, the environment, and the susceptible host (see Q&A of 11\/16<\/a>), making individual risk assessments challenging.\u00a0 Generally, risk is higher in close-contact settings, closed spaces, and crowded places, including in household settings<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion, the question of which is riskier is the wrong discussion.\u00a0 In the scenario you’ve laid out, if you are to resume the tradition, you and your family have to take an unavoidable risk– to travel with two children who are unvaccinated in order to reach the cabin.\u00a0 Meanwhile, your sister-in-law is taking an avoidable risk by making the choice to not get vaccinated, and her avoidable risk becomes an unavoidable risk to you and your family.\u00a0 So rather than contending with one unavoidable risk, you’re now contending with two.\u00a0 And that feels like an unfair burden.\u00a0 Especially if it’s turned back around on you with the sentiment, “Why would you take one risk and not two?”\u00a0 I’m reading into this, but I want to affirm– you are not being hypocritical by wanting to limit risk to your children.\u00a0 I encourage you to keep the discussion going with your sister-in-law to\u00a0understand her concerns, with the aim of nudging her to help herself and us all by taking the vaccine when it’s her turn.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: I have a writing project this weekend. Q&A will resume on 3\/22 Question:\u00a0Every summer (except last), our family spends 1 month together at our cabin, and we’re planning to resume the tradition this summer. If my sister-in-law chooses not to get vaccinated, she will be the only adult unvaccinated in the cabin. She won’t, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[85,60,17,64],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children","category-risk","category-risk-reduction","category-vaccines","tag-travel","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-photo-1876045.jpeg?fit=731%2C1300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}