Yeah there is that. But i'm not going to be able to convince her that the modern world is in fact NOT a bit fucked up, if thats the underlying worry.
She is vaccinated thank fuck, she agreed to have it because was worried about not being allowed in restaurants or something. If she wasn't i'd be going (much more) mental with this stuff.
Makes sense. I guess if covid ever blows over a bit then this stuff will also likely recede. She doesn't sound that's she's entertaining some of the real heavy shit
The point is that you are still talking to them about non-rabbit-hole things. So there's engagement, but it's conditional on what they want to bang on about. But yes - I appreciate that what I might feel OK with doing won't feel OK for other people.
oh god, this invemectin came up on the yoga whatsapp group months ago one of the loons going on about how it was the Answer but They dont want you know.Pharmacists Fight Off COVID Truthers Demanding Horse Medicine Ivermectin Instead of the Jab
These geniuses have been convinced to pass on the vaccine and raid rural farm stores so they can suck down “sheep drench” and take swine injections.www.thedailybeast.com
That would have been a lot more productive than what i did, which was basically telling her loudly that she'd been taken in my charlatans and liars.
That would have been a lot more productive than what i did, which was basically telling her loudly that she'd been taken in my charlatans and liars.
It needs a list really
Some interesting pipe lines to this stuff I have picked up: "spirituality" (not so much the dry buddhist/adviata stuff, it seems), yoga, wellness, nutrition, rave culture, fitness, alt right shit, and of course trump/qanon.
It’s mad isn’t it. All that ‘alternative spirituality’ used to be fairly harmless (unless someone was foregoing conventional cancer treatments in favour of apricot pips or whatever). At worst, its advocates were just boring hippies - but now it’s a potential red flag!
Yeah. I've been wondering just lately whether i am now totally sucked into the extremism / culture war myself because for me i could not now date anyone who was refusing the vaccine (for non medical reasons obvs), and a few old and once valued friendships will not be repaired after this debacle i'm just not interested any more. thats fairly extreme too maybe.
No its a huge red flag. "Global scientific consensus. Studied by the best minds in multiple fields? Research funded by billions. Reports from humanity about losing loved obes/having it themselves.
i do agree. Hadnt quite seen it as simply as that before, the sheer arrogance of it all. Very not attractive.
That's not just conspiracy theorists though - you could say similar for fundamentalist christians. Wouldn't be able to date one but friendship's not out of the question for me as long as they don't keep going on about it.
"Britain's Funniest Tazings" would be worth a watch.
Yes, I too have felt myself adopt a more hardline position towards anti-vaxxers than I would previously have done with, say, 9/11 truthers. With the latter I could just politely discuss and disagree but with the pro-virus lot I feel a visceral loathing …
I find this encouraging.
that is different to the evangelising zealots who are the ones I put in the anti vaxxer category.
Vitamin D is useful though, and has potential to be useful for covid. I'll try and dig out a long read article from the Graun on it, which summarised the research on it to date.
I used to work in a veterinary pharmaceutical company and we sold Ivermectin by the shit load to companies all around the world. So when I first heard about this ‘wonder drug’ to fight COVID-19 I was like ‘that shit we used to make for cows?’
