Last year I removed a bunch of people after the BLM riots. I know how communism works and could see that these people would be the ones to rat me out if it ever came to it.
So my list of friends is drastically lower, and most are pretty right wing. Well this friend of mine, who a couple years ago got a job at a hospital making sanitation policy, came at me about a question I had regarding medical staff being threatened over vaccine hesitation. I didn't understand why they would threaten to fire staff if they were already so severely strapped.
Long story short, instead of answering the question, he came at me emotionally and talked about some of what he saw. I replied with my concerns about the authoritarian measures being taken, the VAERS reporting, the flu cases disappearing, etc.
His reply was long, emotional, and honestly painful. He accused me of having an attitude that killed people, that I had no empathy and didnt care about people dying. I've been sitting here for a few days thinking about it. Granted I don't see what is happening in some of these hospitals.
I'm sure there are places where things ARE bad. But damn it if this division isn't heart-wrenching. I'm not gonna convince him that he can't see the forest for the trees, and he's never gonna convince me that the vax is the right thing to do. It just sucks that someone would essentially accuse me of killing someone. But worse, it sucks I am losing someone I considered to be a good friend over an issue of medical freedom.
Maybe this isn't the place to say this, but I am finally trying to part ways with a close family member who has been emotionally draining to me for decades. I wish her well, but I want to be free of the constant victimhood-ness, emotional dumping, self-sabotaging, never-want-to-recognize-their-need-to-change, blame everything on their spouse self. I am finally at an age and place where I can say I want to detach and it wouldn't mean I am a terrible person. She needs a friend, but it doesn't have to be me. I'm weary of her life choices and all of her life choices, and listening to them for so long. I just don't want to hear it anymore. It is JUST SO DRAINING. I hope she finds a friend who can relate and who wants to listen to that all the time. I don't have to do it any longer just because she has no one else. I can move on with my life.