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“My family is in the south of Spain. They are my uncles and aunts, my mother’s brothers. They have never left home, they have never had a job and they are in their 50s now. .That’s why they always have a problem. They’ve always parroted their grandfather’s very outdated views, which are still “conservative” and at least not completely racist and liberal. There was no. Then a combination of the pandemic and the rise of more far-right parties (part of the Nazis called Vox) wiped them out. Balled deep down the QAnon rabbit hole (while in Spain!) They say COVID-19 is fake, all vaccines are bad, 5G (obsessed with cell phones) Pause), and even things about pizza pedophiles and how Trump will save them. (Although I never left Spain again) Everything. ”
“At first, I tried to convince them, especially my aunt who had a heart transplant. I knew she loved and trusted the doctors, so I asked what they would say. But she just changed the subject. I told them Trump wouldn’t like them because they’re tan and Hispanic and what I’ve endured in the United States. I showed them the racism and the things they say about Hispanic people. “They’ve since had a baby and they refuse to see me or let me see my baby until it’s vaccinated. That’s their choice and if they trust online Rand more than me. “I said it was theirs, even if it hurt me.” “This decision was just like my decision to protect my child. I was sad, frustrated, and angry at their outrageous… I am sometimes baffled by statements that don’t. The cognitive dissonance is too much for me. I mean, they were vaccinated as children.”
They’re so isolated and hard and I don’t know how they’re going to survive once my remaining grandparents die, but it really bothers me because I know they’re going to hurt someone who is LGBTQ or a minority. I haven’t done it. I’m grieving, but it’s for the family I could have had, and no matter how sad I am, I won’t give them a pass or forgive them unless they change their 180 opinion. You can’t. In Spain, they are truly ostracized by their own choice, as the majority of the population is vaccinated and wears masks when necessary, but their FrEeDoM is more important, so I hope they enjoy it. It certainly means I’ve lost a large part of my originally small family, but I can’t risk my baby’s health to cater to their insane and harmful opinions. At this point, it’s not just the vaccine, it’s the sexist, racist, homophobic shit they say. I don’t want to expose my baby to that. ”
-Anonymous