COVID led some of my family into being antivax and the ones who already were just went deeper and bought into QAnon. Ny partner is immunocompromised. Willfully making choices that are dangerous to the general population is where I had to draw the line. It's unlikely my kid will meet many of their cousins. I just can't trust their parents and the things they say are comic book level conspiracy.
My story isn't unique. Geography isn't the only thing preventing interaction with extended family, some of it is the deterioration of family because the world has gone dumb.
Are you forgetting which site you're on? This is HN, which is a hotbed of anti-vax, QAnon, and various other crazy conspiracy theories. This shouldn't be a surprise: it's an American site, and most of the readers are American, and half the American population has become big believers of that stuff lately, so of course a sizeable fraction of the readers here are strong believers in such things.
I’m not a new speaker. This is just a pretentious leftist invention because they don’t like wife or husband or boyfriend or girlfriend for some arrogant “I’m better than you because I use this.”
My spouse (partner) should avoid those that put their own misconceptions about health science ahead of the greater good. Thankfully, those people tend to advertise loudly and are often easy to stay away from. We can't avoid every danger but we don't have to stand on well marked landmines. I feel like that's a fantastic lesson most kids lear: don't stick your hand in the fire on purpose.
My story isn't unique. Geography isn't the only thing preventing interaction with extended family, some of it is the deterioration of family because the world has gone dumb.