🐢 Xia I don't see my parents often, because we live far away from each other. When visiting this weekend it turned out my dad believes in wild conspiracy theories around Covid and more. We had a discussion, an argument about it and it only ended because my mom could not stand us getting angry. We didn't talk about it after that and I feel this stands between us and I'm disappointed and sad. I even thought about leaving early. I always thought highly of my dad and now, I don't know.

🎣 Fish its important to remember you can love without agreeing :)

❤️ Brian Mcdonough serenity now ;)

Scott Dickson People turn to conspiracy theories to help them deal with very troubling times. In their minds, a conspiracy makes more sense than the somewhat random and arbitrary truth.

Queue T. Keep in mind it is not entirely his fault. Decent news sources are few and far between in the wild west of algorithmic timelines.

🧐 Nrmn People who fell into that rabbit hole will have a hard time to come out of it again. Conspiracy theories are self-feeding and self-ensuring. The only way is to help him see the contradictions without pushing him to much. If you push too much, he'll only slip further down into the hole unfortunately.

🛡️ Cyrano My dad's the same way. My dad thinks that the virus is a bunch of satellites zapping away the oxygen from different locations. I don't like arguing with my family, so I just went with it.

🦄 Chip Uni You have all my sympathy. People cling to conspiracy theories to give themselves a little power when the world is scary... like it is now. They want to think they "know the real truth".

Rafael Floresta People are scared. Making bad decisions based on bad information. Be kind to you and to him, you won't regret being kind.