How do I get my relatives to reconsider their summer travel plans?

Post date: 2020-05-21 10:44:27

My uncle and aunt (both mid 60s) live in Portugal and are planning to drive up to Gothenburg, Sweden this summer. They plan to isolate in their summer house which is located on an island outside Gothenburg and have promised not to go into the city for the two months they are in the country. Both have high blood pressure, are slightly overweight (they are working on this), and my aunt takes medication for a mild heart condition. Help me talk them out of this plan.

The drive to Sweden will take 4-5 days - they'll stay in hotels overnight. Apparently hotels in Europe guarantee that no one has used your room for three days before you move in. They'll have to buy food from supermarkets. They have masks (I'm not sure if they have proper N95/N99 masks or just homemade clothes ones) and gloves and alcohol gel.

Any advice on how to talk them out of this plan would be appreciated. They also recently lost a slightly older acquaintance to coronavirus who incidentally was in great health with no known lifestyle conditions (unlike them!). And they are STILL keen to make this journey.

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