Facebook friends and coronavirus questions

YES! It's the media's fault for the virus.... I responded with maybe you're reading the wrong media outlets. The media is doing their jobs of reporting. If you don't like the media, read some scientific articles.

I silenced quite a few idiots today, not a single one over politics over the last 5 years but today my finger is sore.

My favorite one so far talks about how this is all a hoax to make Donald Trump lose the election. 🙄

I told my daughter, why yes, multiple countries have shut down their schools just so Trump will lose. Disney world is closing, Broadway is shutting down. I then laughed and said well, Broadway might actually go dark just to make him lose!

I see a lot of "we're overreacting" posts. I shared a scientific post that explains why this is necessary and got a "disagree" comment. The ones that are scoffing at all these shut downs are the ones that never bothered to further their education and barely graduated high school. I'm not speaking in generalities. I'm speaking of the people I know personally on my Facebook friends list. One is a high school drop out who waited 10 years to get a GED and continues to job hop from one retail job to another. The idea of her reading anything that's more than a paragraph long is laughable.

I'm hiding a lot of people these days so my feed is primarily Dodo and news.

My worst was on a FB group I'm in (so thankfully it wasn't a close friend or family member) -- it was in an Aldi group where someone was complaining about how she couldn't buy something at the store because of all the hoarders. She made a comment about how we shouldn't be so worried and should just "let our God-given immune systems take care of it". 


   

The replies perhaps didn't go quite as she imagined, but I was still shocked to see how many people agree with her! 

They had a segment on GMA about those claims.

Supposedly it had come from a Stanford account ( screen shot)BUT Stanford said no we never put that out . And in fact it is patently false.

My daughter told me this morning that the playground supervisor told all the kids this was created by the pharmaceutical companies so that they could get more money out of people.

I about had a stroke. I yelled some things with swear words. And then I told my 3 kids they are never ever to listen to this woman about anything related to science or healthcare ever. She is an anti-vaxxer. The only thing they are to take seriously from her are directions about the playground. On the way to school we had to have a conversation again about viruses and how there are different categories of them and then different strains that affect different populations and then about mutations. I had to dig deep into what I can remember from my bio minor. 😂

Try living in North Dakota where most LOVE Trump and feel like they are immune from anything bad ever happening to them. Let's just say there have been an awful lot of people on FB I have unfollowed in the past 3+ years. It's actually quite horrifying to realize how deep down nasty and/or ignorant certain people you interact with in real life are when they are safely behind a screen typing away.

I really haven’t seen many political posts about the corona virus. As I said on another thread, I did unfriend someone I knew in high school who sells essential oils. She posted a very somber looking black and white announcement from her company which said something like “Our thoughts are with all who do not have our oils during this time.”

I thought it was so offensive that they were taking advantage of a crisis to tout their products and suggest they would protect you from the corona virus.

YES YES YES!

Like someone else mentioned, my husband has given me notice. I need to let it go and ignore the idiots or he was deactivating my facebook/twitter/instagram accounts.

I feel like one more stupid comment I might lose my mind on someone and go off the deep end, trying to educate.

I realize though, most wont listen to reason and science.

I have seen a lot of stupid stuff. In the last month or so there has been an influx of anti-democrat posts so I have unfollowed a few people. I unfriended/unfollowed a few last night for the coronavirus stupidity. They were primarily people that I don’t know irl and don’t really have a reason to be friends with then anyway.

My sister falls into the "this is all a big overreaction caused by the mainstream media" camp. I finally blocked her. I can still communicate with her via phone and text but I can't do social media with her any more. She lives very isolated, taking care of her four kids (three with cystic fibrosis, so OMG she should be worried if anyone is) and getting "news" from right-wing conspiracy sites and FB groups. She frequently posts self-deprecating things "thanking" people with BCBS insurance for paying for her kids' treatments, but OMG suggest that others could gain similar benefit through a single-payer plan and "that's socialism." Sorry, that's off-topic but to the point of others above, the Venn diagram of right-wing conspiracy folks and "the media has overhyped this" is pretty much a circle.

My elderly aunt also posted yesterday about how unfair all this was to Trump and how "no one could have seen this coming or prevented it." A couple of other people had gently disagreed with her so I just scrolled on by. She's the only one of my aunts I actually like, so I tread carefully there.

I already culled my Facebook down to a handful of people and groups. But have had to cut off a few local news groups because of either full blown hysteria or full blown denial. I don't have a place in my head for either extreme.

One post and I'm unfriended by 6 people....my list is cleaning itself up! 😆