My parents are in their 60’s and my dad is morbidly obese with diabetes and is very prone to lung infections. He gets sick every winter and he already had pneumonia in December because he got sick, neglected it, it got worse and only then did he finally seek medical help. We live in Canada and his doctor is 5 minutes away. My mom is relatively fit but still over 60 with high blood pressure (not due to weight likely due to stress and genes).
My brother (34M) is a correctional officer so he’s an essential worker. He works hospital escort too (shuttling prisoners to the hospital) and interacts with dozens of people (officers and healthcare workers alike) on a daily basis. The cases in my town of about 126,000 people are low, about 48, but that’s just confirmed tests. We have no idea what the real number is.
He has a family and he keeps sending his daughter, my niece (4F) who I absolutely adore, to my parents house to babysit once a week. Then usually the next day they take her back to his house and stay for dinner and chit chat.
They won’t take my pleas seriously. They babysit my niece not out of necessity for my brother but out of want. I’ve told my brother than if our father gets covid it will likely kill him, but none of them think it’s a real threat because they live in the outskirts of the city. I’ve told them to please reconsider this weekly ritual, and to please cancel Easter dinner, but they so far have not and looks like they ultimately won’t. I’m so angry and upset I feel like I’ve tried everything but I can’t save them from themselves. I really need help here. I understand they might not ever get sick, but given that my brother works in a large federal prison and also works on the hospital escort side of that, the chances of him contracting it are higher than average. I have no idea how to handle this.
TL;DR immunocompromised parents and brother acting like covid doesn’t affect them and I don’t know what to do
Submitted April 03, 2020 at 05:50PM by coryhotline https://ift.tt/3dTJQ6w
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