We moved out of Hawaii to get away from the mandatory testing/vaccine. For the holidays we’re staying in a more free state and we were invited to my aunts house nearby for Christmas morning. Enter my cousin (aunt’s daughter) two weeks before Christmas, having decided she wants to spend Christmas with her family this year but refusing to spend time around unvaccinated people. She came to the “compromise” of mandatory testing. Rather than make a fuss I simply pulled my family out of the situation and said we’d be spending Christmas morning by ourselves.

My aunt wasn’t very happy with me since she offered to provide the covid test. Everyone else is going along with the testing protocol, though they’re PISSED. My husband is fully supportive of pulling out.

I’ve never taken the PCR test and will likely need to do so to get back in the country in February. My aunt is accusing me of being selective of the test. I explained that a government mandated test to return home from my friends wedding when the arrangements were made pre-restriction is quite different than my entitled cousin demanding that I test to prove I’m worthy of Christmas morning. I told her that if I went, I wouldn’t enjoy myself. I’d be resentful and I wouldn’t have a good time.

Don’t let the rona ruin your holidays people. I’d rather have fun on my baby’s first Christmas!