They live in the south. Today we were talking about the case numbers (yeah its meaningless, but thats what everyone is obsessed with) and I told them that Uttar Pradesh had completely cured Covid. They were surprised to hear it. They had the daily list of new cases for all states next to them. Went through the list, found it - 0 cases.
They were literally shocked. This is the real red pill moment. They were asking "How come we never heard about it? Shouldn't they be playing it on all the news?"
I had to go over the mainstream primer (I tell them once every 2 weeks, but it doesn't stick) but this time it had an impact. They started asking me how and I told them about Ivermectin. Well, they jumped on their phone and are busy trying to order it.
Take a look at this statistics tracker for India: https://covidtracking.in/
You can see that almost all states are reporting very low daily cases but if you hover over Uttar Pradesh (its the one just below the Yellow state) you will see the growth is 0%.
The state thats Red at the very bottom is Kerala, the one Yellow at the top is Uttarkhand, and the tiny yellow one just above Kerala is Goa. All three of them are in the 5 top vaccinated states: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/kerala-among-top-5-states-in-covid-vaccination-drive/articleshow/86189167.cms