caniwin
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Just ranting here. I'm just sick of my parents talking about the virus and the vaccine, they've spent a couple hours a day doing this every day for months. When I wake up, every fucking morning, the first thing I hear is them ranting about it. Additionally, they're calling up my grandparents, aunts, and uncles every single week just so they can yell at them to get the vaccine (they yell, I'm not exaggerating), they won't even talk about anything else with them. None of my relatives even care about it, it's just my parents.
When we pick up food from the restaurant, they never hesitate to complain about how not every single person was wearing a mask, even if most people were. I just think, if the virus was indeed as "extremely dangerous" as my parents say it is, they wouldn't risk their lives just to get food from that particular restaurant. I'm not even saying they're wrong about masks (although I do personally have serious doubts as to their efficacy), but really, what's the point of complaining about the same exact thing every single time we go to a restaurant?
To be fair, my parents are very risk-averse people, and they're liberals who believe everything the media says. From that perspective, I understand why they're scared. Also, I'm not even arguing that COVID is exaggerated, or questioning the safety of vaccines, or anything like that (although that certainly is a discussion that could be had). But even taking all of that into consideration, I think it's a bit much for them to spend so much time discussing something that's not even in their control, and that's not even an enjoyable or interesting topic, in my opinion.
Something happened a few days ago that was interesting. My mom received a shared post from a friend saying that she could sign up for the vaccine on the website, even though she wasn't older than 65 or had preexisting conditions. Literally immediately, she called me and my dad and told us to message everyone we knew about this. My dad messaged his friends, coworkers, and neighbors, even people he barely interacted with. They didn't do any vetting of this information to verify its accuracy; they were so excited by getting the vaccine that all sense of reason escaped them. I obviously didn't tell any of my friends, since the news wasn't saying anything about this. It turns out that this was just a bug on the website, and anyone who wasn't eligible would have their appointments cancelled. So my parents then had to message back everyone and tell them that they fucked up. I'm telling this story because it's interesting how my parents, who are generally so extremely cautious about everything, become so hasty and impulsive at the thought of getting vaccinated.
As it turns out, they got scheduled to get the vaccine a few days from now, and my grandparents are all scheduled to take it, or have taken it, so my parents no longer need to worry about them. My country is expected to be fully vaccinated in a few months, so everything is looking quite positive (from a normie standpoint, but honestly also from my standpoint, just so people will finally leave me alone). But my parents, if anything, have only increased their preoccupation with the virus! Once at dinner, when I dared to voice my indifference to it all, my mom began getting upset and badgering me, so I just shut up. Apparently not only is it considered bad to question vaccines and the severity of the virus; now it's also bad to simply "not care" about this issue and remain neutral.
TL;DR my parents go on and on about this shit and it's driving me crazy
When we pick up food from the restaurant, they never hesitate to complain about how not every single person was wearing a mask, even if most people were. I just think, if the virus was indeed as "extremely dangerous" as my parents say it is, they wouldn't risk their lives just to get food from that particular restaurant. I'm not even saying they're wrong about masks (although I do personally have serious doubts as to their efficacy), but really, what's the point of complaining about the same exact thing every single time we go to a restaurant?
To be fair, my parents are very risk-averse people, and they're liberals who believe everything the media says. From that perspective, I understand why they're scared. Also, I'm not even arguing that COVID is exaggerated, or questioning the safety of vaccines, or anything like that (although that certainly is a discussion that could be had). But even taking all of that into consideration, I think it's a bit much for them to spend so much time discussing something that's not even in their control, and that's not even an enjoyable or interesting topic, in my opinion.
Something happened a few days ago that was interesting. My mom received a shared post from a friend saying that she could sign up for the vaccine on the website, even though she wasn't older than 65 or had preexisting conditions. Literally immediately, she called me and my dad and told us to message everyone we knew about this. My dad messaged his friends, coworkers, and neighbors, even people he barely interacted with. They didn't do any vetting of this information to verify its accuracy; they were so excited by getting the vaccine that all sense of reason escaped them. I obviously didn't tell any of my friends, since the news wasn't saying anything about this. It turns out that this was just a bug on the website, and anyone who wasn't eligible would have their appointments cancelled. So my parents then had to message back everyone and tell them that they fucked up. I'm telling this story because it's interesting how my parents, who are generally so extremely cautious about everything, become so hasty and impulsive at the thought of getting vaccinated.
As it turns out, they got scheduled to get the vaccine a few days from now, and my grandparents are all scheduled to take it, or have taken it, so my parents no longer need to worry about them. My country is expected to be fully vaccinated in a few months, so everything is looking quite positive (from a normie standpoint, but honestly also from my standpoint, just so people will finally leave me alone). But my parents, if anything, have only increased their preoccupation with the virus! Once at dinner, when I dared to voice my indifference to it all, my mom began getting upset and badgering me, so I just shut up. Apparently not only is it considered bad to question vaccines and the severity of the virus; now it's also bad to simply "not care" about this issue and remain neutral.
TL;DR my parents go on and on about this shit and it's driving me crazy