(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?
i have a mush-brained aunt (by marriage) that became a conspiracy brain anti-vax freak. my immediate and general extended are all vaxxed up, except like children who can't get it yet. anyway, dipshit aunt kept trying to come over to my mom's house for a planned multi-generational gathering that had a under 10 and an over 90 year old. my mom/hero, told her she was not allowed over without getting vaccinated. aunt cried and insisted the vax was dangerous and that my mom was putting her in danger. my mom calmly told her that she should only take medical advice from her doctor and that she was insisting on this because she cared about the health of the whole family, including her. shitty aunt tried to convince her own mother, a 90 year old in assisted living, to not get the vaccine because it was dangerous. frankly, i think it would be a win-win for her, because she is a big fan of inheritances. total wormtongue-type ghoul.
anyway, shit aunt digs her heals in, no vax. mom says she can't come. aunt tries to brinksmanship the situation by refusing to vax until it's too late to get one before the party, mom says "sorry you didn't do it when you had time, you can't come." aunt pouts but then moves several states away. current status: unknown.
my mom is much nicer than i am to wayward family. i would have told her to fuck herself from the jump, because she has been a stupid, manipulative and parasitic asshole for her entire life, feeding on the attention, effort and goodwill of others, and her going anti-vax would have just been the latest asshole move in a storied career of asshole moves.