My parents have always been left-wing hippies and entertained the odd conspiracy theory, but during the pandemic they got lost down YouTube rabbit holes and bought into Q-Anon and anti-vax ideas. They still don’t believe Covid is real (even though they blatantly had it…).
We’ve just kind of agreed not to talk about it anymore, but they’ve steadily become more and more batshit and I think they believe I have been brainwashed.
Anyone else’s familial relationships changed forever?
There are people in my family who work in healthcare (psychiatric nurse, nothing to do with virology) and law enforcement who said the numbers were inflated because people called in sick despite not being sick, and that covid was just a flu. It’s kind of interesting how belief in this conspiracy theory turned into other conspiracy theories afterwards. I don’t really associate with them for that reason because conversations inevitably turn towards this kind of stuff and I just don’t have the energy to deal with this crap.