I told him yesterday that libertarians are just republicans who want to smoke weed. And I suggested a podcast where they actually talk to a doctor who researches vaccines, but he started going off about Fauchi and mask mandates or something. It does help that we have a crazy co-worker who thinks the moon landings were fake so I can point to him and say “you’re sounding like him right now” if he starts going full Alex Jones
yeah, covid is not a place to take a stand. No one in the US feels like anyone should be telling them what to do about covid, cause no one has an answer everyone would like and can stick with. We should have had a federally run shutdown, with rent relief for tenants, both commercial and residential, no one had to get fucked over at their job by covid, but we did and telling people people they ought to get it cuz its “right” or even practical for them to do just wont cut it. Just explain that half a million people are dead on our own soil, and the vaccine is the only direct action you could personally take to try to save more of them.
Yeah I’ve tried to be respectful and not lecturing but it’s difficult. The other day he started talking about how Sweden did it right by leaving everything open, and I gave the counter-examples of Vietnam and Australia doing a better job by shutting down early and more completely. I’m not sure if I’m getting through to him, I guess these things take time.
