- Joined
- Mar 4, 2019
Last time I brought that one up, I got dismissed as a conspiracy theorist.It's still mostly met with blank stares, though.
By my own brother.
Galling doesn't begin to describe it. I just refuse to engage entirely now, if the topic comes up, and it always does. At every single social gathering, sooner or later, someone will start rambling on about how their sister's nephew's cousin's former roommate got covid, and how badly it knocked them back, and wasn't it so fortunate they were vaccinated or they could have died from the uberdeathplague. Then the talk goes back to how many people did die on ventilators, and how it was covid that did it, and how horrible it was that so many people were dying, and how those terrible deniers made things so much worse by refusing to conform.
It's a statement of belief, at this point. A creed they all repeat to one another, to affirm their faith in the death toll and the vaccination program.
In my extended family, there's just me and my brother-in-law (brother's wife's brother) who refused it. He's a lot more confrontational about it and rarely gets invited to gatherings any more as a result, which seriously sucks, because he's still in the middle of a painful divorce and needs all the familial support he can get. Instead, he gets treated like a pariah by his side of the family.
I should call him some time...