After her unvaccinated husband exposed himself to COVID-19, a mother-of-2 shared in her grief and dismay. Once he had caught the virus, he brought it home and began to expose their children and her.
The woman wrote to Salon’s ‘Pandemic Problems’ advice column about the incident, explaining that her husband drove two hours to spend the weekend with a friend — after finding out that the friend’s wife had COVID-19.
The husband — whom she described as ‘unvaccinated and conspiracy-theory minded with anger against authority issues’ — quickly caught the virus himself and was already exhibiting symptoms by the time he came home, exposing both the woman, a seven-year-old child, and a 15-month-old baby to the virus.
She said she is now ‘devastated, betrayed, and furious,’ writing that ‘he absolutely knew what he was doing, understood potential consequences — not just for his own health but for his family — and decided that neither me or my kids had any right or say in his choice to do this.’
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After learning that the friend had COVID, a woman claimed her husband drove for two hours just to visit her friend. After becoming sick, he brought the disease home to his family. [stock photo]
While the mother is currently vaccinated against COVID-19 in her home, she says that COVID-19 has not been administered to her young children.
She is currently in a country that hasn’t yet approved vaccines for her age. It doesn’t even make sense for them to be vaccinated.
Meanwhile, her husband has chosen not to get vaccinated at all — and is clearly not taking the pandemic, which has killed 5.33 million people worldwide in just two year, seriously.
According to her, their husband learned that her friend’s wife was positive for COVID-19 last Friday.
Next day, he drove two hours to meet his friend and her wife. He then decided to stay the weekend at their home.
‘He insists he wasn’t “planning” to catch COVID, he just “refuses to live his life in fear” … but when he returned on Monday, he already had symptoms coming on, and on Tuesday I insisted he get tested. She wrote that he tested positive for Delta.
She stated, “I feel devastated, betrayed, angry, and confused.”
‘I feel like he absolutely knew what he was doing, understood potential consequences — not just for his own health but for his family — and decided that neither me or my kids had any right or say in his choice to do this.
“He stated that he had not planned to catch Covid. However, this is the only way I see it.
Although neither her nor her children appear to be positive, his carelessness has already had a major impact on their lives.
To avoid exposing others to her children, the mother has kept them home from childcare and school. However, this means she must take over homeschooling and ‘deal with all of his consequences entirely alone, even missing work’.
They are being tested as well and will be quarantined for 17 days.
Although the woman appears furious, she stated that she had not “blown up or spoken anything in anger” but only said to him that she couldn’t comprehend how such an action could be done.
Even made soup for him and brought him medication from the pharmacy.




A handful of Twitter commenters are also horrified, with one writing: ‘There’s no way I’d be with a man like this and it’s quite obvious he’s a horrible father. I’d be furious’
And despite the consequences of his actions, she said, he has expressed a desire to spend the week of Christmas with the couple who infected him — and to bring the kids.
He is not trustworthy, I don’t believe him. She wrote that she felt helpless, and didn’t know how best to deal with this situation.
Nicole Karlis (Salon columnist) was shocked by the letter that described the husband of the woman as You are impulsive and selfish.
Carla Marie Manly is a psychologist and she advised that there may be underlying narcissistic tendencies which will make it difficult for the couple to endure long-term.
Even suggested to her husband that she call the police if he takes the children into an unsafe situation as a threat.
A handful of Twitter commenters are also horrified, with one writing: ‘There’s no way I’d be with a man like this and it’s quite obvious he’s a horrible father. I’d be furious.’
‘There is literally only one answer to a spouse who refuses to vaccinate: Divorce,’ tweeted Amanda Marcotte, a politics writer for Salon. Although there are many problems that can be solved, it’s better to get out than continue with the dysfunction.
One person said, “It may be necessary to end the relationship.” Another agreed. “This ignorant and selfish behavior could lead to the death of the husband or one of their children.
“I would start to look at exit strategies,” wrote another.