I have some friends who are worried about the sham virus. I know that the virus was planned and it's nothing more similar to the flu and vaccines or not won't affect me nevertheless. How can I calm them down since our government is starting to open up stuff? Without saying I support Trump or telling me that I'm a conspiracy theorist.
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I have a cousin that I’m very close to that gets sucked up into all the false realities. She’s a good person that is easily misled because she doesn’t see it happening.
Here are my tactics:
She doesn’t know where I fully stand. It keeps her guessing, which keeps her thinking.
Don’t go full-on. They will be overwhelmed and will choose the cognitive dissonance. It’ll be easier for them to dismiss you.
Avoid any and all talking points. I call it side-stepping. When you use talking points, they will quickly refer to the talking points they have been “fed” which leaves no room for them to question or think anything through.
Pose questions that include unarguable facts instead of just stating the facts. (Her argument to the holiday lockdowns was that hospitals were overwhelmed. So I asked, “Why didn’t hospitals prepare better? They had like 9 months!”)
Have your “side-step arguments” against the left’s talking points ready to go (like the above, avoiding “our” talking points”).
We both have kids roughly the same ages and I keep a focus on the illogical things the schools are doing. I want her to embrace her frustration instead of just blow it off like she tends to.
I don’t expect to “turn her” immediately. I want her to gain the confidence to think on her own and to see that it’s not only okay to question things, that it’s in her best interest to. I focus on planting seeds; I have videos, sources, etc.. ready to go as soon as she comes to me ready for those redpills.