Many of you must live somewhere far away from where I live because here, especially a few weeks back when this thread started, a person who wanted to isolate their family as much as possible would not widely be thought of as having any type of mental condition; they'd just be damned smart.
I've actually had the opposite problem where one side of the family congregates freely and has throughout, though we've been in quite the Covid hot spot. They coerce their nearest and dearest to join and there's hell to pay if they refuse. The strange thing is, the couple doing this are older and both have more than one underlying condition. They were the ones most likely to become seriously ill or die from it. I was still furious though because could you imagine how any of their/our loved ones would feel if, looking back, they realized they were the ones who had inadvertently passed Covid on to them in the first place just because they visited this couple when they knew better?
I stayed in my corner of the world with my lips zipped because if I wanted to go visiting, it would be to slap them for their ignorant selfishness.
Ahem. However, NOW the vaccine here is widely available and NOW we're all vaccinated so imo NOW is the correct time to end the isolation and resume non-essential visits.
Also, how we decided to handle the pandemic was our call, within our household, and no one outside our household included. If my husband did not present a united front on whatever we had decided between us, regardless of how we reached that decision between us, to me, that would be a problem.