Has vaxx status changed any of your personal relationships?

[Male4Strapon]

I am a staunch believer in vaccination and find it irresponsible of anyone who can take the vaccine not to do so...... but of course there is a minority who disagree.
One of those people is a cousin who has always been one of my best friends. He has always been anti-vaxx of any kind but until covid, his stance didn't affect me. Now it does, especially because he's very vocal in pushing the anti-vaxx message including to his widowed mother, my aunt, who has not received the vaccine because she understandably trusts her only offspring to provide guidance on such matters.
I am trying not to let it affect our friendship but I think it already irreparably has. I am avoiding him and sense he is doing the same with me. I don't want to hear his conspiracy theories and I don't know if I can ever forgive him if my aunt gets covid.

I have to think I am not alone. How have these conflicts affected your relationships?

 

[squeezer]

Luckily all have been on board in my close circle except for an aunt who is more vax hesitant than anti-vaxxer but we are close to breaking through and getting her jabbed. I have completely ignored an acquaintance who has been trying to be my "friend" because I know he's after a contract which if it were not for his COVID and Vax stance I would have happily made him a happy man.

 

[Jasmina]

I nearly disowned my cousin for the same reasons. They actually put their elderly and high risk parents on silent treatment after they got their first shot. I was livid. But they've since come around, maybe enough people blasted them for their idiocy.

 

[Leimonis]

I am disowning my friends

 

[glamphotographer]

The Delta variant will find the unvaxed and it will continue to mutate hopefully to become weaker. Some will pay the price with their lives, some will survive and have done the work of weakening the virus for us, oh the irony. The company I work for requires all employees to be vaccinated, an anti-vaxxer (no medical examption) has been removed from the company. Should they be taken to court, the company's defense is that they have to provide a safe workplace.

 

[Mandalorian]

I’ve done a very efficient job of culling the antivaxxers from my social media and social circle. All my friends know where I stand.

 

[koolaidmane]

i am noticing a pattern of people who i know are antivaxxers/covid deniers already have some sort strange personal trait to begin with. hesitancy is to be expected with vaccines but god lord the amount of false information is staggering. lockdowns and media coverage doesnt really help the situation either. hard to totally disown friends who have formed their opinions based on the their youtube algorithm, but it def. can change how you see them

 

[Frankfooter]

You got to tell them, 'so if you're right and all of us who took the vaccine die off, do you really want to live on a planet full of antivaxxers'?

 

[Mr Bret]

All my close friends are all on board for the vaccines, so no problem there.
I have a handful of far away Facebook friends who are antivaxxers.
I keep them as friends for a couple of reasons.
1- to see what kind of nonsense they come up with.
2- there are other interests where we get along just fine, just like before.

 

[Butler1000]

Fortunately the family is all in. And pretty much all friends. I may have a few to cut loose.

 

[Leimonis]

i am noticing a pattern of people who i know are antivaxxers/covid deniers already have some sort strange personal trait to begin with.

150%

 

[NotADcotor]

It's annoying but if they shut up about it, I'm chill with it.

I might come across as temperamental on the terb but actually I am pretty tolerate. If you are a crazy wackjob... well I am sure you have other aspects of your personality that we can bond over. It's those people like one cultist I know that won't shut up about her imaginary friend that I can't deal with.

I am still friends with a facebook anti vaxxer but I no longer follow her postings because all her posts are either anti vaxx bullshit or "look at me and my life and my family, how awesome am I" and I don't care.

Hell I've dated someone who is anti vaxx and even follows David Avacado Wolf who doesn't believe in vaccines except for unine vaccines, who belives gravity doesn't exist but is somehow also a poison but when you hang upside down it becomes medicine, who believes the earth is flat and the center of the solar system. She is filled with a lot of weird ideas but we generally avoid such topics. Also I'm pathetic and desperate.

 

[Mandalorian]

150%

200%.

There‘s a well known and now retired SP from here who I got to know personally and am on her IRL social media. In general I enjoy her posts and flirty pics but the antivax wave she’s riding is making her so cringey. Her crazy personality that made her a blast as a SP is now probably gonna get her hurt or worse.

 

[Largo]

I try to give kind reminders that it’s ok to get the vaccine. I have conversations about what their fears really are and where the fear comes from.

It’s better than just yelling at them or not talking to them.

It’s working so far. I’ve convinced many of my friends and family that this is the right thing to do. Still grinding away with a few but I have hope they will do the right thing.

Historically, many of my friends and family distrust of medical authorities is due to well documented cases of abuse and neglect of our loved ones, shit man, even deaths occurred. it’s unforgivable for a lot of them.

I don’t think my technique would work with random anti-vaxxers, but if it’s someone you care about there is a way to break them down gently so they see the benefits of the vaccine you gotta try and have that conversation. Maybe a few times.

 

[Leimonis]

has anyone noticed that anti-vax attitude (and ultra right views) often can be traced to being brought up in a small town/village?

 

[downbound123]

It is situations like this past 16 months where people's true colours come shinning through. Some are aligned to your own and some are very surprising, but others, when you really think about it, not so much.

 

[lessjamie7]

Yes. Lately when I cum instead of yelling onghhhhyouwaaholahheeeolaaa

I Yell mmmmmmrRNAaaaaaahhhh

LJ

 

[The Fox]

My best friend is an antivaxxer. It’s interesting.

 

[poker]

My best friend is an antivaxxer. It’s interesting.

That's gotta be tough.

My best friend is Conservative, so we have some interesting conversations. But he bounces back and forth on the vaxx issue, and usually based on politics. At first Covid was real, and devastating China... then When Trudeau made announcements, he took a 180. When Ford made announcements he was ok... but as time has gone on, he went down the rabbit hole.

I have another friend who's dads health started declining. He was in the hospital... liver issues (not sure)... but I think he caught Covid as all of a sudden, he was on a ventilator for just under a month... and he died. My buddy said that he told the doctors "they better not put Covid as cause of death!" He was in complete denial. His dad was listed as a Covid death, and until this day says that its proof that the medical system is lying, and it's a conspiracy. What do you say to that? It's his dad... I'm not going to pick that fight.

 

[NotADcotor]

I'm not going to pick that fight.

I know a Jebus cultist who found sobriety through his imaginary friend.
He is a pretty chill dude and never brings up the Jebus with me because he knows I ain't switching.
His wife however just will never let it drop. I even avoid eye contact and don't reply and there she is Jebus Jebus Jebus burn burn burn blah blah blah. If one wants to look at it from a positive light she seems terrified that I will burn forever but her attempts to convert me are so weak and ignorant of my position. Also why love someone who would do that to a person.

Problem is there are times I react by going full militant atheist on her. "Your views are bullshit and here are 20 irrefutable reasons why they are, number 9 will shock you.
However I really don't want hommie to give up his beliefs because sobriety is important and any port in a storm but that woman just gets on my nerves so much.
Thankfully they both seem to have totally abandoned logic and reason in favor of blind faith, so he ain't switching, sadly it also means she is like the Terminator and can't be reasoned with.