I’ll be honest, this is as much a question as it is a vent.

Specifically, how do you deal with people you meet everyday like family, coworkers, etc. who just revel in conspiracy theories?

I have a coworker who is dead certain 5G somehow produces the coronavirus, despite easily verifiable facts in microbiology and physics showing otherwise. He’s a nice guy in general with a degree in electronics, but dear lord, when he starts with this tin-foil hat bullshit it ruins my day.

  • seahorse
    51·
    3 years ago

    I know how you feel. I work with someone with a nursing degree and she called covid “a bunch of hogwash”. Luckily she doesn’t talk about it much.

    Assuming the guy won’t troll you going forward you could tell him you just don’t want to talk about it or that it makes you not want to be around him.

    • onlookerOP
      4·
      3 years ago

      Wow. People like that should have their degree revoked. I shudder to think how many patients had to listen to her theories. Some may have even believed her.

      He’s not the trolling sort, thankfully. I already did tell him I don’t want to talk about it and that we’ll never agree on the topic, but he still occassionally brings up the topic when I’m around. I don’t participate in the discussion, but it still annoys me.

      • seahorse
        6·
        3 years ago

        We both work for a medical device manufacturer and she’s a consultant for us, so she generally doesn’t see patients. She had a trump sticker on her car as well lol. Weird because she seems so nice when I have to actually work with her.