>>He says people (like me) should be more sceptical and not simply accept the Covid myth, the vaccine, the restrictions etc,
That particularly annoys me. The idea that they put forward that anybody who doesn't blindly agree with them is simply a willing slave to the Government.
The ridiculousness of that statement infuriates me. Especially when they are blindly following crackpots themselves.
A certain amount of anti-vaxxers are driven by ignorance or instability, but my friend is most certainly not that. Not uneducated, not stupid (or at least he wasn't) but it's like he's suddenly found a cult that he's happy with and wants to live within.
I find it very similar to the attitude possessed by a Jehovah's Witness friend of mine - anything can be explained and that explanation, however ridiculous or illogical, will be accepted in defence of their belief in God. And he smiles sympathetically as he gently explains to me why I am wrong.
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