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I sort of lost a friend, but other than that nobody else so far. My family has been vaccinated. Well, the ones I talk to anyway. Lost most of my family years ago when a bunch of personal stuff happened, but its for the better lol.

Friend is convinced vaccines are bad and don't help. She's "talked to so many people who havent had any vaccines and they're fine".. I have yet to see or know any of these said people. She also doesn't realize we all had vaccines to be able to go to school. Very frustrating. She's a hippie who's all about love and peace yet refuses to wear masks + get the vaccine. If you love people and want harmony so badly, why are you ok with everybody dying? smh. Someone asked her how she would feel if her daughter (whos like not even a year yet) got covid and died, and she was just like oh well, that's the natural life cycle. That was the last straw for me. People dying of the damned plague isn't a "natural cycle of death" if we can prevent it with a simple shot and piece of cloth over your damn face. It's like she doesn't even realize why she's arguing against the points people bring up. I hate it here. Im convinced alot of people would think differently if they got out of this hick town. I understand its hard to realize if your family/friends are in the wrong when everyone around here thinks the same uneducated bs, but you gotta eventually break that cycle of stupidity... :/

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I've lost countless friends due to ignorance. Conspiracy theories, bigotry, you name it. When I say "lost" I mean yeeted from my life. I used to look past a lot of it, but when I saw how truly bad it was I had to just end my relationship with them. I was just shocked. I don't know how I talked myself into thinking these were good people. My best friend since highschool is even lost to me now. She posted some nutso anti-vax stuff, and I encouraged her to research legitimate sources, and even provided her with some. She responded by yelling at me about killing children. I told her abortion rights and vaccinations are not even the same argument, and she started ignoring the conversation entirely. That was it for me. If you can't even have a conversation, or be open to read something longer than a meme, theres probably no hope. I also feel like a friendship of like 20 years earns a bit more respect, but what do I know. Her husband is a huge bigot so I'm not even sweating the loss very much...

I don't know how far along my dad was already, but over the past couple of years he definitely got worse with the whole right-wing, bigotry/covid-is-a-joke/the-left-has-an-agenda... thing. I don't know if he bought into any of the wackier conspiracy theories, but watching him spiral deeper into the "trump 2020" crowd was enough. I used to think--no, I know--he was the less conservative of my parents, the less likely to care about stuff like that, and the more likely to accept his kids for who they were. I think drinking and loneliness really got to him over time.

Then there's my grandma's best friend, who was always like family to me (more so than my actual family, anyway). I haven't cut contact with her, but I unfriended her on Facebook after seeing all the questionable stuff she kept sharing on there, including some outlandish conspiracies about the vaccine and bill gates... Our relationship has been reduced to "pleasantly superficial" for a long time now, but seeing that stuff has made me even less willing to open up to her any more.