# How to deal with anti-vax relatives who want to hang out? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 12, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-deal-with-anti-vax-relatives-who-want-to-hang-out/941932 "2021-05-12T19:12:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-deal-with-anti-vax-relatives-who-want-to-hang-out/941932/20 "2021-05-12T21:15:00Z")
I’ve got one anti-vax relative. He’s not generally anti-vax, just anti-_this_ vaccination. He also thinks the election was stolen from Donald Trump and that Joe Biden is a Socialist and Kamala Harris is a Communist. So you get the picture. He’s been out of this area for a couple years now, but he’s coming up for a visit. Wants to get together. Wants to see all his nieces and nephews. My children are too young to be vaccinated. Most concerning, he’d like to visit our father, who lives in a nursing home (I guess it’s actually a “memory care” facility). I’ve had difficulties with him in the past about the political stuff, and his insistence on carrying a gun (which he has absolutely no reason to do, but that’s a whole 'nother story). But I’m thinking, no, I won’t have him around. And I do have control over who can visit my father, and I’m thinking no to that too (and the nursing home itself is on the verge of insisting on vaccination for visitors, but they haven’t yet). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-deal-with-anti-vax-relatives-who-want-to-hang-out/941932)._