Dude I’ve been trying to redpill my wife about COVID. The mental gymnastics she plays, and she’s not even a Democrat. Me: “How come there’s virtually no flu cases or deaths in the last year? Her: “Because everyone is wearing masks and social distancing.” Me: “If that stuff protects against viruses so well, then why are people still getting the COVID virus?” Her: “Because people have no immunity to the coronavirus like they do the flu.” Me: “If everybody has immunity to the flu, then why do they have a new flu vaccine every year?” Her: “Well the flu gets a new variant every year, so it’s slightly different.” Me: “There are other coronaviruses, though. The common cold is a coronavirus. This variant is ‘slightly different’.” Her: “Yes, but it’s just different.” Me: “How?” Her: “Idk, it just is! People don’t have the antibodies for it.”

And we just circle around like that for a couple more minutes before I finally give up. I’ve told her how the number of deaths this year in the US is the lowest it has been in 10 years, I told her how the data shows far fewer people died of the leading causes of death this year than normal, I even showed her news articles and such where car accident and gun shot deaths are being reported as COVID deaths. Thankfully she has no intentions of getting the vaccine.