(cw: death, covid)
Sorry if this is bleak, but I felt like talking about it. So I've got a large extended family. A lot of tinfoil hat Qanon type members are dropping like flies. They don't believe covid is real to the very moment they're dying of it. They're deeply certain even as people they've known their whole lives are dying all around them. A good 10% of my extended family has died of covid, a few others have gotten it and have permanent complications now. More than one has ended up in the ER with an overdose of the horse paste.
Any of y'all experiencing the same? What are you doing about it?
Fuck that's bleak, just one in my case and I stopped talking to them.
Edit: after trying really hard to show what they were getting into was dangerous. Months later they were sharing racist memes on facebook according to my sister, so I failed on that front.
The new age to Qanon pipeline is wild
My family did similar, just ceased interacting with me since I was so adamant on them getting vaccinated. I'm at a loss now.
Strangely the one new age-y hippy type relative I have was the first to get vaccinated and probably has no idea what Qanon is. The rest of my family got Q-pilled through facebook memes and bumper stickers, probably the weird church they go to as well.
I actually have a (much older) friend who literally has a graduate degree in biochem and is an environmental science professor who's been adamant the vaccine doesn't work and that the rhetoric against ivermectin as a treatment for COVID is a global capitalist plot. Yes, he's actually leftist, and has genuine leftist beliefs. TBF he's gotten the vaccine, but he doesn't think the vaccine is worth is a damn and has really bitten into "naked capitalism"'s theories.
Tell me about it. My dad was into shaolin/kung fu in his 20s and apparently believing in chi and or a universal life energy that permeates all of humanity leads directly to refusing life saving vaccines on a long enough timescale.
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