NC as possibly outing. Just after some perspective.
I have a friend who I met on the school run when our boys started, they're now in year 5. Friend and I have done lots of stuff with the kids as well as nights out and weekends away so I consider her a good friend not just a school run mum and our boys are good pals too.
The boys are on their third stint of isolation and although I'm not keen on kids their age having phones, I do let ds chat to this particular friend (let's call him joe) on WhatsApp or FaceTime during isolation for a bit of company.
So a few days ago they were on a video call and joe asked ds what he's doing on Christmas Day. Ds replies we're staying at home because of covid. Joe suddenly gets really cross and starts ranting about how covid isn't really it's all a lie. For context his mum and dad are big covid deniers and have posted a lot of questionable things on social media which I strongly disagree with but haven't spoken to her about as I didn't want to fall out.
Ds replies that covid is real because lots of people have died. Joe continues to shout that it's fake and people have died of other things like heart attacks and cancer and the doctors lied about it. We lost a relative to cancer recently and I could see ds was getting uncomfortable so I stepped in and said that's ok joe but our family don't believe that so maybe change the subject now.
I wasn't mean and the conversation moved right on to minecraft. But since this incident my friend has been really off with me and I feel quite pissed off with her too. Aibu to think it's really inappropriate to fill a 9 year olds head with that and get them so worked up over it? Was I wrong to step in and say something? I know it's a contentious issue with a lot of people so I'm questioning myself.