My parents have always been left-wing hippies and entertained the odd conspiracy theory, but during the pandemic they got lost down YouTube rabbit holes and bought into Q-Anon and anti-vax ideas. They still don’t believe Covid is real (even though they blatantly had it…).
We’ve just kind of agreed not to talk about it anymore, but they’ve steadily become more and more batshit and I think they believe I have been brainwashed.
Anyone else’s familial relationships changed forever?
They live in a very rural part of the UK on a commune (which is a bit culty) and don’t really interact with anyone outside their bubble. At the beginning they didn’t know anyone who got ill, and later on they just explained any illness away as being flu or something else.
Even when me and my siblings all got covid they didn’t believe us, which honest really hurt. I’ve always had a good relationship with my parents.