When should the reconciliation start with the Covid Anti-Vax community. Are there friends, family and neighbours who you will never speak to again.
When should the reconciliation start with the Covid Anti-Vax community. Are there friends, family and neighbours who you will never speak to again.
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There definitely are. They’re lost now to a world of unforgivable stupidity.
The trouble with this, is there’ll just be another batshit thing they’ll start to believe in because Facebook and YouTube’s algorithms with throw them their way.
These conspiracy things tend to escalate. Once someone’s on that rocket, they rarely come back down.
It’s a “community” now?
It was an enlightening insight in to a number of people. I’m lucky that I didn’t have any friends that went down the rabbit hole. But I now know that if anyone uses the word sheeple, or talks about social credit systems I can just discontinue the conversation immediately because they aren’t going to be worth any further time.
Know a good few. Didn’t want to get it for whatever fucking reason. I did for my reasons. To be fair they don’t shout about it or call me a sheep. They made their choice I made mine. Life moves on.
A couple of friends yeah, and no I won’t speak to them again. Not because they didn’t get vaxxed, but because of the complete shite they spouted about the whole thing. It brought out the crazies.
Its totally OK to cut people out of your life and never give them a 2nd look. Even if they are family.
Life is too short to deal with people who only bring you hassle.
It will be hard for some people to walk back what they have made their identity.
Don’t know what to do with them, laughing at them solves nothing, but you just can’t ignore their nonsense either and pretend it never happened.
From before the pandemic I’d lost a good friend who came out as an antivaxxer over the measles shot. It happened because of videos she watched on Facebook. In retrospect she wasn’t great with proportions, couldn’t grasp how herd immunity had to involve her etc…
I don’t miss her friendship now, and if I got to know someone who then revealed themselves as antivax then I’ve zero problem letting that fizzle out. I’m not going to waste an ounce of energy arguing.
The few I knew… the antivax thing tended to be the visible edge of a whole nuttier pile of dung. We weren’t exactly super close, but I don’t think we’ll be the same again, because the process that got them to antivax land seems ongoing.
It will be a handy one in years to come to get the few I do know to stop fucking annoying me with whatever fresh bullshit they’ve moved on to. “Don’t waste your time explaining that to me Dave, sure I’m going to be dropping dead from the Covid vaccine, remember? Any day now”.
Other than that, leave them off to play with their crayons and move on with my life I suppose.
I’ve never cared if anyone else got vaccinated or not and I never will. I’m vaccinated and that’s all I care about.
Why is the antivaxer the chad and everyone else is the soyjak?
With my friend it started well before covid, around 2016 strangely enough. Now this persons vocabulary is sprinkled with lib cuck this, social marxism that, controlled/muzzled by the state, you know the rest of the worst online catchphrases. At first I seriously thought it was joke. We can still hang out but it can be hard work to keep the convo from going to crazy town.
I remember reading a lot about Cambridge Analytica and what they were trying to do. And that was to fire up the demographic who would otherwise have no interest in history or politics or voting to get out and vote and swing a close election/vote in their favour. And it worked so well. Largely because they didnt exactly constrain themselves with the truth.
Now there is a very active and lucrative industry online that keeps stoking the fire. Its a worrying global problem. We have so many real problems to deal with its so frustrating that so many are wasting their time and energy on made up ones. No one has an idea how to tackle it and its only getting worse.
Luckily I don’t have any AV nut-jobs in my friends/family cohort.
At the wake. I’ll raise my drink to the cunts.
I may speak to them again. I definitely wont be reaching out. I will never forgive them and I wont forget.
Is anyone bothered ??
GF’s mother is one and we live with her. It’s a weird feeling. Like most of the time, everything’s fine, but it’s crazy we just have to act like she didn’t scream about being killed by the government and telling us we weren’t getting the vaccine (we’re in our 30s!). It’s like being gay and having super religious family members you’re forced to humour; they’ll never know how much of your good will their wearing on.