Don’t consent - get onnwith your Xmas and refuse consent for them to enter your home without a warrant.

Yes, I agree, but what if your loved ones refuse to come, or are scared to stay long, and so leave your table empty anyway?

We are set up to drive hundreds of miles to stay near a solitary elderly family member and put on the feast with him in our Airbnb, as he finds hosting too much. But now with warnings ramping up about Christmas, other extended family members (no one in our household) are literally crying with grief that someone is going to die from us doing this, and the whole thing may come apart. Our travel won't change, but the relative we are going to visit might be persuaded by others not to see us despite this having been set up all in peace and agreement before -- or more likely, frankly, because he has something of a grumbly personality at times, just descend into a spoiled-Yuletide soul-sulk that puts him off seeing us much, so he might show up and eat a bit, then stand up after an improbably minimal passage of time and declare weirdly he must go, leaving the grandchildren bereft. All because of someone else's fear, transmitted by Government, nothing to do with crumbling on our part.

Don’t consent - get on with your Xmas and refuse consent for them to enter your home without a warrant.

Yes, I agree, but what if your loved ones refuse to come, or are scared to stay long, and so leave your table empty anyway?

Explain the reality of the situation to them. If they don't accept it, respect their choice - just as you would like your choice respected. Some seeds fall on stony ground.

They need to own their own shit.

Tell them the score and they can either participate or hide under the bed.

This is going to clear down a lot of “relationships”

Don’t consent - get onnwith your Xmas and refuse consent for them to enter your home without a warrant.

Yes, I agree, but what if your loved ones refuse to come, or are scared to stay long, and so leave your table empty anyway?

We are set up to drive hundreds of miles to stay near a solitary elderly family member and put on the feast with him in our Airbnb, as he finds hosting too much. But now with warnings ramping up about Christmas, other extended family members (no one in our household) are literally crying with grief that someone is going to die from us doing this, and the whole thing may come apart. Our travel won't change, but the relative we are going to visit might be persuaded by others not to see us despite this having been set up all in peace and agreement before -- or more likely, frankly, because he has something of a grumbly personality at times, just descend into a spoiled-Yuletide soul-sulk that puts him off seeing us much, so he might show up and eat a bit, then stand up after an improbably minimal passage of time and declare weirdly he must go, leaving the grandchildren bereft. All because of someone else's fear, transmitted by Government, nothing to do with crumbling on our part.

Now, about that thawing bird... You all still planning to get together with other households now that the dictatorial decrees are getting even sharper?

Yes....