Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR.

Back in April, a couple weeks into the lockdown in California,

Heather Stevens invited her parents who were in their 70s over to her back yard.

Heather has three kids, and she knew her parents really missing them.

When her parents came over, everyone wore masks. Heather says,

stayed six feet apart, nobody hugged.

Everything was fine, she says, until her parents went home,

and her brother, who lives with the parents, found out where they'd been.

When my parents got home, my brother was just livid.

She was very upset. Heather's brother, Chris, told us,

when he heard his parents had been at Heather's house, his first thought was,

are you kidding? He later told Heather on the phone, he just didn't think it was a good idea

for her to hang out with their older parents when she didn't have to,

that she'd put them and him at risk. Heather said she thought she was being safe.

The masks outdoors, six feet. But Chris said there was just no way to be sure.

At that point, there was a lot of things we knew, but there's a lot of things we didn't know.

And it just felt perilous and reckless, and it made me feel concerned for everybody in the situation.

He said, well, Chris, we don't know a lot about coronavirus, but we do know how viruses work in general.

And you know, on a sunny day and you're outside, there's really very little chance of a virus

being transmitted across six feet. Things got heated. They both hung up, feeling insulted.

And he, you know, he hasn't spoken to me since. We haven't talked in, I think eight weeks.

Heather still disagrees with her brother, but she also wants to see him.

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