A Broadband Engineer Was Spat on by a 5G Conspiracy Theorist. Now He Has Coronavirus.
@kravietz This is fuel for my father to send me more conspiracy theory. Latest one was that 5G is not enough to do you harm, but mandatory vaccination due to covid19 in combination with 5G is.
You should make the sacrifice yourself and dive in search for the most fringe theories out there and just start sending them in response. This helped awake my relatives in a very similar case. The trick employed by Facebook is to feed them stories that are fringe but not fringe enough to risk raising skepticism - if you break this threshold and show him where this actually comes from, this usually has a very good therapeutic effect.
@kravietz Its just sad overall, my father gets all this conspiracy content from Viber messenger, and he gets them from people deeply involved in religion (my father is very religious too). What concerns me is that we have young people on YouTube who also promote these conspiracy theories and I think they do that because they are using the situation.
I had the same with some of my relatives who are not only religious (or they claim so) but also nationalist.
Each visit to Poland end in a night long angry debates where they explain me things about other countries they've never been to but which I'm visiting all the time 😂 So I know how frustrating this can be.
