(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?

  • fuckwit [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    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.