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keep our grandma safe
Title (Dublin Core)
keep our grandma safe
Description (Dublin Core)
While some of my relatives live in Australia, most of my family is in Israel, which is doing really bad covid-wise. We keep in touch via a What'sApp family groupchat. However, over the last few weeks, the groupchat had become a site of conflict. We in Australia, on one hand, take the virus very seriously and have favourable attitudes towards lockdown and face masks. My relatives in Israel, on the other hand, see it as a prelude to dictatorship. They also subscribe to all sorts of covid conspiracy theories that undermine their faith in public action. Although usually their opinions are tolerated, covid has really fleshed out our ideological differences to an irreconcilable point. The other week, my cousin in Israel showed up to my grandmother’s house with her friends. This caused a backlash here in Australia among relatives who were concerned for my grandmother’s safety. After quite a public and vicious argument on the What’sApp groupchat my grandmother eventually stepped in to defuse the tensions.
As absurd as it sounds, I hope my relatives stay away from my grandmother. Their alternative views, which were once endearing and funny, can now claim her life. Ultimately, I would be powerless to stop them from here.
As absurd as it sounds, I hope my relatives stay away from my grandmother. Their alternative views, which were once endearing and funny, can now claim her life. Ultimately, I would be powerless to stop them from here.
Date (Dublin Core)
Creator (Dublin Core)
Type (Dublin Core)
text story
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Home & Family Life
English
Conflict
English
Emotion
English
Health & Wellness
English
Pandemic Skeptics
English
Social Distance
English
Politics
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
conspiracies
family
groupchat
social media
elderly
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
09/10/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
02/15/2021
03/01/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
09/10/2020
This item was submitted on September 10, 2020 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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