Apparently they’re going either way, so the question is if I want to indirectly contribute just myself to Covid spread. I’ve had Covid relatively recently so I think I’m supposed to still have immunity but that doesn’t stop me from spreading it, right? It’s a Friday at noon so the movie theater will be mostly empty ish.
I can’t believe that I’ve been “Covid-aware” for a few months now and it’s still far worse than I conceived of it as (and I already thought of it as an invisible airborne murder virus that was still circulating through the population). That’s… fun.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to get it through to them for the reason you already specified, which sucks, because I’m living with them and they’re paying for really luxurious and nice lodgings for me, and have been generally supportive of me. I wish I could get through to them but the hyper normalization has resulted in them thinking of any kind of request I give them to mask or take precautions as “scary” and like some kind of intrusion.
Yeah, it's extremely frustrating. Really shows the power of propaganda, though I imagine it also helps that people desperately want COVID to be over because the alternative is, as your family member pointed out, "scary". I'd suggest taking a gander at the Covid.Tips link in the sidebar, as it was made explicitly as an aid to convince people to take COVID seriously.
I’ve actually read Covid.tips already, and it’s a great resource- I may not have internalized it very well because I was reading it in the context of having just gotten out of an argument with family