‘D’H has announced that Covid doesn’t exist.

[OutOfLine]

Name changed for this.

One year since lockdown 1 began and DH has announced that Covid does not exist.

The illness is ‘no different to flu’, he is not having the vaccine because ‘he doesn’t need to’ and if he falls ill with any symptoms listed as Covid he will not be taking a test and will phone in sick with backache or some such nonsense.

AIBU to think WTF?
Apparently he has thought this all along and decided to let us know as he is sick of ‘having his freedom taken away from him’.

What started as a chat about weekly testing ended up with this.

I don’t know what to do with this information. All year (pre. weekly testing /vaccine rollout) he’s just gone along with it all.

So, along with AIBU to think he has lost his mind, WWYD or say in this situation?

Twerp

Haha!! That made me laugh! Thank you!

He knows fuck all about statistics for a start. This is why I have no patience with the 'people are entitled to a different opinion' fools. People are not entitled to their own facts.

@justasking111 it is fine to have a difference of opinion but I don't think I could stay with someone who is monumentally stupid

Tell him that the biggest conspiracy theorist in America caught covid and his wife died of it.
I actually did! It’s ridiculous!

I’m surprised so many people are saying ltb. He’s allowed an opinion.

My DH is the same but it’s up to him, I don’t agree and will be having the vaccine when I can (pregnant and under 40 so will be a while) but that’s my choice. People are allowed to be sceptical, after all we are all only believing something we are being told. I’m choosing to believe it, he isn’t.

@toconclude

He knows fuck all about statistics for a start. This is why I have no patience with the 'people are entitled to a different opinion' fools. People are not entitled to their own facts.

Said this too. 😡

I'd like to go against the grain here. Now clearly he is talking nonsense. BUT:

1. we have all had our freedom taken away from us. FACT.

2. The figures of covid deaths is bullshit. 127,000 haven't died from covid. Many people died from other things and their death was attributed to covid:

BEL MOONEY: My dad Ted passed three Covid tests and died of a chronic illness yet he's officially one of Britain's 120,000 victims of the virus and is far from alone... so how many more are there?

So, some of her DH's points are valid. Just saying.

@OutOfLine

MonaCorona

I see you were in the room with us too!

Yes I tried to reason with him.

In that case, share some of the reasoning with us, too.

The vaccine does have some question marks over it. It's inevitable with any vaccine which hasn't been subjected the normally lengthy clinical trials. You don't have to be an anti-vaxxer to realise this.

Covid is, for the majority of people, not that bothersome. It's silly of your husband to say it's flu; flu is a completely different virus. However, he's right to say of the people who catch this particular respiratory virus, most people will be perfectly okay.

Given that most people who contract Covid would be perfectly okay, it's ridiculous to expect people to give up their lives and livelihoods for over a year.

There is something very dangerous about the loss of personal liberty that we are seeing at the moment.

There is also something very dangerous about the current tendency for people to turn on one another and to report other people (mostly erroneously) for apparent breaches of the rules.

All these things are perfectly reasonable standpoints. If you were this reasonable, and your husband still objects, then he's a loon. But your other posts suggest that you're more in the 'Covid hysteria' camp - in which case I can see why he might dig his heels in and end up saying something stupid.

@isadorapolly so how does your DH explain all the deaths, not just in this country but across the world

@Lunar567

Well done to your husband! He has not got brainwashed by Covid propaganda. You should listen to his arguments, he will be proven right.

JESUS.

[quote ineedaholidaynow]@justasking111 it is fine to have a difference of opinion but I don't think I could stay with someone who is monumentally stupid[/quote]
I couldn't stay with someone who was trying to control my thoughts.

Plenty of stuff out there that points to things not being as they seem. But if you only watch the Biased Broadcasting Corporation or Sly News you are never going to see any of it. No doubt anything questioning it here too will be removed by mods. We are in an information war.

Sorry haven't read the replies. My neighbour, his wife and myself all came down with covid end of January this year. I hardly noticed, his wife was really poorly but recovered but her husband is on end of life care and is not expected to live. He was a man in his late 60s, super active, always out hiking and wearing a mask outside too. Sadly not had his vaccinations. I would say yes covid can feel like flu, flu is an evil bugger, I've had it 3 times and the last time I felt I was going to die. But covid is much much more insidious and is a bigger killer and also the after affects if you survive can be absolutely horrendous for alot of people. I've known of someone who has had to learn how to live again after a long stint on a ventilator. I am a lucky one and so are thousands of others but not all come out if it unscathed. Just saying for those who think it's just the flu

Don't be so hasty in dismissing your husband's views. There are highly qualified doctors with views similar to your husband's. Most surprising perhaps is Dr Geert Vanden Bossche a very eminent vaccine specialist who has called for all covid vaccination to stop. He says the vaccine teaches the virus how to mutate and to become stronger and more deadly. dryburgh.com/geert-vanden-bossche-open-letter-to-who-halt-all-covid-19-mass-vaccination/

@Oblomov21 I disagree with your 'we've had all our freedoms taken away'. We have had restrictions, a lot less than some other democracies. Where I think we have had common ground is that justice as it should be has been denied or been enforced inconsistently. The police should not be judge and jury, and there should not be one rule for the government, it's advisors and friends, and one for almost everyone else.

As for the death toll, whatever the number is we will never really know, given that people afraid to seek medical treatment or where it has been postponed will undoubtedly lead to deaths that would not have happened were there no Covid 19. All I feel confident in saying is that if there had been almost any other of the possible Tory leaders as Prime Minister there would have been a quicker response, fewer deaths, and a shorter period of restrictions.

"The illness is ‘no different to flu’, he is not having the vaccine because ‘he doesn’t need to’ and if he falls ill with any symptoms listed as Covid he will not be taking a test and will phone in sick with backache or some such nonsense."

Personally I'd be insuring his life for a seven-figure sum and sending him out to play with the other fuckwits (once I'd had my own vaccine, of course).

"I’m starting to think he’s actually an idiot.
(He is highly qualified academically)"
Ah, one of them. Arrogantly assumes that because he knows a lot about one narrow field, he knows everything about everything. 'All brains and no common sense' was my mother's description of such people. 'Annoying as fuck' is mine.

Buy him a lab coat and set him up some test tubes and a microscope on the kitchen counter. He is obviously a scientist.

@WhereYouLeftIt

"The illness is ‘no different to flu’, he is not having the vaccine because ‘he doesn’t need to’ and if he falls ill with any symptoms listed as Covid he will not be taking a test and will phone in sick with backache or some such nonsense."

Personally I'd be insuring his life for a seven-figure sum and sending him out to play with the other fuckwits (once I'd had my own vaccine, of course).

"I’m starting to think he’s actually an idiot.
(He is highly qualified academically)"
Ah, one of them. Arrogantly assumes that because he knows a lot about one narrow field, he knows everything about everything. 'All brains and no common sense' was my mother's description of such people. 'Annoying as fuck' is mine.

Annoying as Fk sums it up nicely!

I'm a registered nurse and during the past year we got our asses handed to us in my hospital here in Atlanta,Georgia. I'm certified in cardiology and my coworkers on my unit took care of the patients needing urgent treatment. It was awful because we had more patients than normal and cared for sicker than normal census (but even harder for the emergency unit and Covid wards.) As for the vaccine it is safe for the majority of people taking it.

The Covid deniers drive me batty and I can't tolerate hearing their nonsense

Geert bossche is not what he seems, look on sciencebasedmedicine.org. funnily enough he also wants to sell his own vaccine, same as Andrew Wakefield did for MMR.

@bearandowl please note.

@OutOfLine

That makes no sense to me. As it happens, I also can't breathe through my nose, but masks cover both nose and mouth and whether you breathe through your nose, your mouth or both, a mask doesn't stop you breathing otherwise no one would be able to breathe would they? I can breathe through my mouth while wearing a mask with no problem whatsoever.

It would be a massive coincidence if you had the exact same condition as my DH. (Without me actually telling you what it is!) You seem to know a lot about what he can/can’t do!

I have a deviated septum.

I've had the vaccine and I'm not dead... why would he think the government would want to kill everyone? So they can rule an empty world?