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  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    3 years ago

    It took awhile to reach middle of nowhere town where my folks live but once it did it ripped through and has been around pretty incessantly

    We had no less than 5 people in my family die last year and I don’t even know how many “so-and-so’s aunt/brother/cousin passed away from the covid” stories I’ve heard. And no one is taking it seriously.

    It’s like people out there take what fox tells them to be more authoritative on reality than their own lived experience.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      It absolutely is some kind of weird Fox misinformation and I don't know how to combat it. I've had nearly two dozen relatives die of covid. Some nearly died and will still claim covid isn't real, or they're immune now. Half my relatives tell me they remember bombs going off around the country in the summer of 2020. A few told me they remember antifa riots in their hometown that the police had to exterminate. It's infected their memories somehow. They legitimately believe this stuff instead of real events in their lives.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          the problem there is they're scared of entirely fictional things and completely dismiss legitimately scary things, like disease, racism, poverty, etc

      • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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        3 years ago

        Half my relatives tell me they remember bombs going off around the country in the summer of 2020.

        :agony-deep: