I am honestly convinced that the COVID 19 propaganda is going to get me ex-communicated from my family. I told them that I am not going to get the vaccine, that it is my decision and that I have full responsibility. I got a cold in the past week (I am still waiting for my results to see whether it is somehow COVID, but I honestly doubt it since the symptoms are so mild). I told my father that I have a small cold for the past week, and he just said "Oh, ok. Just make sure you drink plenty of fluids and such"
Then my mother gets on the phone and says "HOW DID YOU GET A COLD IF YOU HAVE BEEN WEARING A MASK?!" Then says "it could be COVID 19, oh god, if anything were to happen to you, we can't do anything about it! It always starts out seemingly harmless but it could go bad very quickly!" (For reference, none of my family nor extended family has gotten COVID nor has been hospitalized from COVID since the whole thing became a Pandemic).
Then my father texts me afterwards saying, "Please make sure you are honest with us when you are feeling sick, as a cold or a flu could turn into anything these days. I am trying to calm your mother down as she is freaking out."
My parents (and my mother in particular) have become so afraid of COVID-19 that they would be less concerned if I told them I have cancer vs me saying I have a cold. Everyone in the MSM and in the government needs to be hung with their own intestines for the amount of irrational panic and lies they have pushed. There is no way in hell things will ever return to the pre-pandemic "normal."
WuFlu becoming politicized to the point where you now hear pushback on Fox is probably the only thing that saved my relationship with my parents.
They floated the idea once that maybe they wouldn't visit until I was vaccinated but abandoned that pretty quickly in part because it became socially acceptable to disagree with what the government was doing but also I think they realize I can out-stubborn them on this.
And for all the shit they gave me about not wearing masks they certainly had no problem not wearing them when I took them places that didn't care if you wore them. Which pissed me off a bit, but I was glad for their slight nudge towards sanity.
The older generation isn't terrified of COVID, they are terrified their complacency fucked up the country so bad that they'll be blamed for inaction.
It is basically a built in fear for the elderly that they didn't do the right things and they allowed all this bullshit to embed itself in the country under their watch, so they will claw and scream and blame anyone but themselves when it looks like things are turning to shit.
The idea that they are possibly at fault for enabling these politicians and behaviors is so abhorrent for someone within spitting distance of death that they'd rather deny and destroy then come to terms with their own poor decisions and inaction.
My sister refuses to let me hold my baby nephew because I'm not vaccinated. She'll take him outside and let me look at him. But I can't get too close or come inside. I'm a danger apparently.
Meanwhile, my cousin lets me hold his newborn daughter like it's nothing. He invites everyone in the family, vaccinated or no, to come crowd around and see her.
I am honestly convinced that the COVID 19 propaganda is going to get me ex-communicated from my family. I told them that I am not going to get the vaccine, that it is my decision and that I have full responsibility. I got a cold in the past week (I am still waiting for my results to see whether it is somehow COVID, but I honestly doubt it since the symptoms are so mild). I told my father that I have a small cold for the past week, and he just said "Oh, ok. Just make sure you drink plenty of fluids and such"
Then my mother gets on the phone and says "HOW DID YOU GET A COLD IF YOU HAVE BEEN WEARING A MASK?!" Then says "it could be COVID 19, oh god, if anything were to happen to you, we can't do anything about it! It always starts out seemingly harmless but it could go bad very quickly!" (For reference, none of my family nor extended family has gotten COVID nor has been hospitalized from COVID since the whole thing became a Pandemic). Then my father texts me afterwards saying, "Please make sure you are honest with us when you are feeling sick, as a cold or a flu could turn into anything these days. I am trying to calm your mother down as she is freaking out."
My parents (and my mother in particular) have become so afraid of COVID-19 that they would be less concerned if I told them I have cancer vs me saying I have a cold. Everyone in the MSM and in the government needs to be hung with their own intestines for the amount of irrational panic and lies they have pushed. There is no way in hell things will ever return to the pre-pandemic "normal."
WuFlu becoming politicized to the point where you now hear pushback on Fox is probably the only thing that saved my relationship with my parents.
They floated the idea once that maybe they wouldn't visit until I was vaccinated but abandoned that pretty quickly in part because it became socially acceptable to disagree with what the government was doing but also I think they realize I can out-stubborn them on this.
And for all the shit they gave me about not wearing masks they certainly had no problem not wearing them when I took them places that didn't care if you wore them. Which pissed me off a bit, but I was glad for their slight nudge towards sanity.
The older generation isn't terrified of COVID, they are terrified their complacency fucked up the country so bad that they'll be blamed for inaction.
It is basically a built in fear for the elderly that they didn't do the right things and they allowed all this bullshit to embed itself in the country under their watch, so they will claw and scream and blame anyone but themselves when it looks like things are turning to shit.
The idea that they are possibly at fault for enabling these politicians and behaviors is so abhorrent for someone within spitting distance of death that they'd rather deny and destroy then come to terms with their own poor decisions and inaction.
My sister refuses to let me hold my baby nephew because I'm not vaccinated. She'll take him outside and let me look at him. But I can't get too close or come inside. I'm a danger apparently. Meanwhile, my cousin lets me hold his newborn daughter like it's nothing. He invites everyone in the family, vaccinated or no, to come crowd around and see her.