In your yard? I would throw that shit in the trash and put up a no trespassing sign.
Initially it was and we definitely took them down. We also have some common area that aligns to our side yard and she started placing them there. I get enraged every time I pull out.
I would feel like I had to put some sort of disclaimer sign in my yard, so that people wouldn't think that the sign/beliefs were mine.
There is a house that we pass on our way in or out of the neighborhood that was anti Obama care when we moved here, then he was a Trumper and the signs got bigger and I had a visceral reaction to all the nonsense there. I finally asked DH to avoid that route, because I could feel my blood pressure rise as we approached. DH and a neighbor were speculating that the guy must be away right now, because there aren't any signs in his yard, and we've never seen it like that.
I am so glad that my students seem to be a whole lot smarter than so many adults out there and that they'll be taking over.
That sorta is the point. The kids don't give a shit about the masks. I have 3 kids and never once has it been an issue for them. Never. That is the thing though, the adults are always the one making an issue out of it, yet will say they are just protecting their kids or some shit.
QFT. I remember at the beginning there was some hand-wringing around "how will I get my kid to wear a mask?!" and with a few exceptions, pretty much no child I know complains about the mask. When we pick up DD from school she sometimes forgets to take it off the whole way home. Kids don't care!
Also to the point of the people who say they had Covid before it was a thing (late 2019-early 2020), if one more damn person suggests that DD had Covid when she was in the ICU with flu/pneumonia in January 2020, my head will explode. NO, we don't think she had Covid. She tested positive for flu. The illness that she had doesn't line up with the symptoms of Covid that children have and the treatment she received wouldn't have helped Covid, but it did help her pneumonia. Not to mention that although flu precautions were taken once at the hospital, leading up to it she was around many children and adults before masks were a thing, and nobody else got anything like Covid.
If all the people who had lingering upper respiratory nastiness in late 2019 actually had Covid, we would have entered a shutdown right after the first of the year because it would have spread like wildfire over the holidays.
I had someone try to compare face masks to motorcycle helmets, saying they only protect you...so no need to wear one to protect others. Of course a loud and proud Trumper who traveled to FL because "they're doing COVID right, no masks, everything's open". I still can't completely understand their mask logic like even in their own mind. Masks protect others, that's why we ALL wear them.
And I wish they'd stop calling them face diapers, that's getting really old, and kinda gross.
Well, most of those people do have bad diarrhea of the mouth so.....
My brother has started posting about how tons of people have died due to the vaccine and it’s being kept secret
No, seriously. Is losing touch with reality a new thing for him or has he always been this way? How can you even handle that? It is impossible for me to comprehend.
PDQ
We are not close geographically or personally. I have him hidden on FB so I don’t see his posts. I see him once a year. And he is (was) a smart person. He has a phD and is a college professor. But he is immersed in evangelicalism and has ventured into conspiracy land the last year or so. They homeschool and spend time with others that believe similarly. Nobody else in my family or his wife’a family is like this. It is sad.
I think so much of it is not just Fox news but consuming extremely biased media and sites that post misinformation. Once folks sour in the “mainstream media” they lose touch with facts and reality. It is jarring. I think these people are permanently lost for the most part.
Removing these people from one’s Facebook so they don’t have access to our lives is always an option. People are always oddly reluctant to do this.
Yes. I don’t understand the not wanting to rock the boat, and unfollowing them instead. Just unfriend, block optional.
What peace are you really keeping anyway? You’re willing to make the crappy people comfortable? Or not listen to your mother/brother/aunt/whatever because you stood up to aunt Linda & her shit behavior? Rock the damn boat. Tip it over. Let the people know you won’t tolerate or reward bad behavior from people, no matter what. And if you get pushback because they then have to deal with aunt Linda, help them stand up to her too.
“Linda, stop being shitty and people might want to have you in their lives. Now stop complaining to me about it!”
I don't understand keeping people like that as friends, even if you unfollow. I have unfriended lifelong friends because at this point we have nothing in common. I don't care if everything else we both like are the exact same thing, if you think this way about something this serious, forget it. My timeline is pretty clean but every now and then someone surprises me and posts something out of the blue and I delete them.
Why would you be friends with an 'anti-vax even before Covid' person in the first place?
It’s my sisters sister in law. Not a close friend by any stretch, but a friend.
I don't want to belabor my point but your sister's SIL? Why are you letting Mrs. 6 Degrees of Separation bother you? Just snooze her if you can't bear to defriend.
Post by underwaterrhymes on May 7, 2021 22:06:57 GMT -5
Get rid of her. Seriously. One of my former bridesmaids who was one of my very best friends married a Trumper and went wayyyyy down the racist rabbit hole. I unfriended her the second she posted something anti-Muslim and haven’t looked back. I’m sure she is anti-mask / vaccine, but unfriending her was tremendously freeing and I cannot confirm.
Get rid of her. Seriously. One of my former bridesmaids who was one of my very best friends married a Trumper and went wayyyyy down the racist rabbit hole. I unfriended her the second she posted something anti-Muslim and haven’t looked back. I’m sure she is anti-mask / vaccine, but unfriending her was tremendously freeing and I cannot confirm.
THIS IS WHAT YOU DO. 👏👏
Your bridesmaid, your childhood BFF, your sister. I DGAF.
It’s my sisters sister in law. Not a close friend by any stretch, but a friend.
I don't want to belabor my point but your sister's SIL? Why are you letting Mrs. 6 Degrees of Separation bother you? Just snooze her if you can't bear to defriend.
Oh. I unfollowed her years ago. But someone brought this to my attention thon to I had to go check it out.
Post by sillygoosegirl on May 8, 2021 2:09:05 GMT -5
You know though, it's a great idea. They should totally make a vaccine that sheds vaccine and immunizes those around you who refuse to wear a mask, as well as yourself. Maybe someday, when they are in less of a rush, they can add those additional bells and whistles.
Get rid of her. Seriously. One of my former bridesmaids who was one of my very best friends married a Trumper and went wayyyyy down the racist rabbit hole. I unfriended her the second she posted something anti-Muslim and haven’t looked back. I’m sure she is anti-mask / vaccine, but unfriending her was tremendously freeing and I cannot confirm.
Yep. My closest friend since third grade (also MOH) turned up a Trumper in 2016. I had talked to her only sporadically the months prior for a variety of innocuous reasons so I didn’t know she was leaning that way as the election approached and that night she posted her glee on Facebook. She wasn’t off the rails like you’re describing, but by March when they were on the verge of repealing the ACA I was so wrathful that I sent her packing and made sure she knew why— all the ways she had helped to damage my life and the lives of people I love.
And I don’t care! It was not a loss whatsoever to cut loose a Trump supporter and I’m glad I did it then rather than wait for the even more egregious batshit things he inflicted.