Opinion |
Anti-vaxxer Contagion: How I Tried to Save My Friends, but Failed
I'd been treating the COVID anti-vaxxer conspiracies as a farce, lunacies to laugh about. But then I witnessed their true cost
On a cold but sunny afternoon, I received a phone call from a woman I hardly talk to anymore. We used to be friends, but she left the country.
First, she cracked a slightly uncomfortable joke about our past, then she said: "I'd like to talk to you about my mother. You know my mother’s life has always been surreal, but I have been told it’s spiralling beyond surrealism."