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.
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