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COVID led some of my family into being antivax and the ones who already were just went deeper and bought into QAnon. Ny partner is immunocompromised. Willfully
by igetspam 3y ago
COVID led some of my family into being antivax and the ones who already were just went deeper and bought into QAnon. Ny partner is immunocompromised. Willfully making choices that are dangerous to the general population is where I had to draw the line. It's unlikely my kid will meet many of their cousins. I just can't trust their parents and the things they say are comic book level conspiracy.
My story isn't unique. Geography isn't the only thing preventing interaction with extended family, some of it is the deterioration of family because the world has gone dumb.
- malablaster 3y ago> the world had gone dumb. Source?
- igetspam 3y agoHow many do you need? https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/anti-vaxxers-political-power-00116527 https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/anti-vaxxers-politi...
- hajile 3y ago[flagged]
- jemmyw 3y agoWhat an ass. But here's a link to a Q&A on the DNA study https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/qa-covid-19-vaccine-study-gains-attention https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/qa-covid-19-vaccine...
- shiroiuma 3y agoAre you forgetting which site you're on? This is HN, which is a hotbed of anti-vax, QAnon, and various other crazy conspiracy theories. This shouldn't be a surprise: it's an American site, and most of the readers are American, and half the American population has become big believers of that stuff lately, so of course a sizeable fraction of the readers here are strong believers in such things.
- Vaslo 3y ago[flagged]
- igetspam 3y agoMy spouse (partner) should avoid those that put their own misconceptions about health science ahead of the greater good. Thankfully, those people tend to advertise loudly and are often easy to stay away from. We can't avoid every danger but we don't have to stand on well marked landmines. I feel like that's a fantastic lesson most kids lear: don't stick your hand in the fire on purpose.
- standardUser 3y agoYou may be new to the language, but as any native speaker will tell you "partner" in the context of that comment referred to a romantic partner.
- Vaslo 3y agoI’m not a new speaker. This is just a pretentious leftist invention because they don’t like wife or husband or boyfriend or girlfriend for some arrogant “I’m better than you because I use this.”
- igetspam 3y agoFantastic response. Yes, in situations like this I prefer to keep things androgenous. I don't talk much about the gender of my kid or spouse.
- Vaslo 3y agoWhy not? Self important much? No one knows not cares about your spouses gender. In fact, why not call them spouse? So Leftist pretentious of you.