"I've done my own research and decided not to get the vaccine".

[bhikkhu]

89. Reminds me of a friend at work when we had a covid argument

I started out by saying I hadn't spent much time looking into it so I wasn't an authority, which he offered to help with as he spent "3 to four hours a day doing research". And he laid out a number of points which I looked up and fact-checked later. As it turned out every single one of the many things he told me (such as that there were no "excess deaths: in the US in 2020, and that no one had ever seen the virus) was a fabrication or an outright lie.

And it didn't take long to go through debunk them all. Of course I looked them up after the conversation, and there wasn't any point in going back and telling him that his "sources" were doing little but filling him up with shit. He's still a guy I get along with at work, but not one I'd rely on for anything meaningful. I'd say that was another blow against my faith in humanity, but that died long ago.