I received an email from a friend in New Zealand (I’m also from NZ but live in the UK) and her beliefs and attitude to Covid had me reeling.
Turns out she’s a militant anti-vaxer, thinks all the world governments are colluding to control us all, jabs have microchips, refers to vaccines as ‘synthetic junk,’ it’s all utter garbage about how dangerous Covid can be and it’s nothing to worry about etc, it makes her furious that she had to homeschool/work from home for 5 weeks last year just for something that it doesn’t matter if it kills people who were going to die sooner anyway, and she shouldn’t have to be inconvenienced because of them.
The worst was that the people who are dying were going to die anyway so all they have got is “an express ticket to heaven,” it doesn’t matter that old and sick people are being affected the most because sooner or later something was ‘going to get them.’
And on and on it went. She also tells me that since splitting with her partner their mutual friends have cut her off and I seriously think I can’t blame them if this is any representation of her views (she was always quite opinionated generally).
Everyone is of course entitled to their opinion but I find her views abhorrent, particularly regarding it doesn’t matter if the old and sick die because they have got their “express ticket to heaven.”
New Zealand is one of the least affected countries in the world and the UK is one of the most ravaged by Covid and I find her just so insulting. She then says ‘rant over. So how are things in England? We don’t really see much on the news.’
I really don’t know how to respond to her email. I’m not a confrontational person but I’m torn between not being able to let this slide, and feeling like right now she’s not really someone who I can be bothered maintaining contact with.