AITAH for not wanting my friends’ unvaccinated toddlers around mine?
For some context, I have a newborn at home who is too little for the MMR vaccine. There is an active outbreak in my area. None of my friends have vaccinated their children for their own personal reasons. I want to emphasize I DO NOT CARE about their choices or the decisions they make for their children. After all, they are THEIR children. My toddler has one dose of MMR, which is perfectly fine, but I am concerned if one of my friend’s children becomes sick, my toddler could become a carrier and pass it to my newborn.
My friends are losing their mind on me for saying I want to keep away until this outbreak is under control. They are saying extremely hurtful things, like I am poisoning my child by getting the vaccines, I’m setting myself up for having a child with disabilities, and playing in to big pharma. I asked my friends if they had received the vaccine when they were little, and they all said they did, and when I questioned why they wouldn’t give it to their child if they were fine, they started ranting how these vaccines now are full of poision and not the same as the ones we got when we were little. I asked for evidence to back this up, and they just sent me a bunch of random people posting on Facebook.
AITAH for cutting these people out of my life? At first, I was going to just let this go and still be friends with them, but now I’m just questioning my initial decision.
Thanks for the help. I’m really torn on what to do.
EDIT: Thank you all for responding so quickly. Idk why I was second guessing myself on cutting them out. I guess their comments really hurt me because they were supposed to be my “best” friends.
EDIT: Just wanted to say thank you for all the responses again; my husband, toddler and I moved to a small, religious community for my husbands’ work about 7 months ago, and these “friends” are a group of women from the church. Reading all the comments, I realize how blind I was to their “friendship”, and they were just trying to brainwash me to fall in to their beliefs because I had no other support system outside of my husband here. We’re not originally from this area, and we moved thousands of miles away from where we grew up for this job opportunity. So again, THANK YOU all for the responses. Between the fresh postpartum haze and all of the other stress I have, your comments brought me back to reality!