To not understand the conspiracy

[MeadowViews]

My DM has been offered the Covid vaccine but has refused it. She says it's all part of a conspiracy.

She has been going on and on about conspiracy theories and how this is all a set up for 'them' to control 'us all'. Her sources are "a Doctor/what she read on the internet."

She also firmly believes in astrology, psychics, and spiritual healing.

Do I support her in her own personal choice not to get the vaccine (she said "I'm not having it, I know what's really in it") based on random internet findings, or tell her I think she has too much time on her hands?

After nearly a year of her theories my patience is wearing thin.

Her body, her choice.

This is a conspiracy theory that some how seems to have taken root! Our friends are convinced we are being lied to ,and that it isnt a real disease. Keep sending us links to stuff on the internet.The thing is that as a Panorama show said last evening, that many people seem to not want to take up the Vaccine and are happy to take their chances as it were.No reasoning with them really is there .I personally wonder if Restaurants and Bars/Cinemas and so on may want proof of Vaccine to cover themselves ,even though BJ said not .Time will tell I think

my feeling is that once the pandemic is considered over and things open again and we can really get a sense of where we are economically, there may well be a kind of "no vaccine no entry" kind of attitude.

If i were looking for a babysitter or childminder, for eg, I'd like to know they're vaccinated. If i were a childminder I'd probably prefer that the parents of the children I'm looking after were vaccinated, etc etc. And that even if there is no actual "show me your vaccination card" people will have a way of knowing.

As an aside, what are the rules with childminders/nurseries and MMR vaccinations?

@SidSparrow

People are allowed to believe what they want. When we start policing each others opinions and choices then we're in real bother. Repect her decision.

This would be fine, except OP and others have given examples of anti vaxxers talking others out of getting the jab. Which is a really shitty thing to do.

[quote FoxyTheFox]Send her this

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Haha, like that

Can you ask 'but why?' when she says things like 'the vaccine will do more harm than good' 'people want to control us' etc. In conspiracy theory awareness training this is presented as a way to try to show the conspiracy theorist that the reasons for the theories don't rationally exist. Could that work?

If you keep yourself to yourself and don't try and talk others out of the vaccine, sort of OK.
But people who are against it just cannot shut up. There is a FB interest page I go on, thousands on there and there is a woman who spends her life banging on about the vaccine and we're all sheep and to be honest I feel like leaving because I find it dangerous talk.

By the way, I had my first jab a few hours ago! I am just over the moon. They'd run out of AZ and it was Pfizer so me and DH are different.
Feel OK so far.... but everyone I know who has had it, has had a few hours of feeling a bit fluey.