People are making me feel crazy about fearing Covid. I heard a therapist go “I don’t want to say Covid is OVER…” (but)
Gaslighting is when someone lies to convince you of something they know is not true. The people who are telling you these things do not feel the same way about COVID as you. You are not being gaslit. You are being confronted with a perspective different than your own.
Yea, the intention may not be one of gaslighting but the result is the same. Harmful and dangerous
I think it’s kind of obtuse to conflate someone who spreads misinformation as a form of abusive control over another person with someone who spreads misinformation because they’re uninformed. Ignorance is harmful but this is one thing where I think intent matters.
They know it’s not true because they get angry if you disagree with them.
If you’re a “people who don’t wear masks are doing genocide” type I don’t think you want to go with “anger indicates someone is lying”.
