How are you adjusting to the opening up?

I’m alarmed and a little surprised at the eagerness of folks to resume the assault on our “hospitality” here. Nobody believes me when I ask them to stay home. I knew I would have this sutuation with my neice who is depressingly gregarious and therefore irresistible , but the entire social marathon is ramping up at a frightening rate, and my assumed resistance is apparently illusory. I’ve actively engaged in deliberately hurting people’s feelings to little effect. No one takes me seriously. The wife (who EVERYONE fears and has no trouble being regarded with respect) is running off to Hawaii for a week agreeing to allow me to stay home while my neice and her husband blow through on their annual pilgrimage to our house and other West coast business. The phone is back to ringing incessantly, and the assumption is now that I am retired, I have nothing else to do beyond entertaining and dashing about. How are you coping with “normal”?