Thank you for this article Mia. I also have conversations in the shower with my anti-vax loved ones. (I’ve started to hate the shower!). It’s not just their views on the vaccine that upset me, it’s the whole ideology that exists around it about the government, heath professionals and media. The sheer arrogance that they know better. Unfortunately it’s immediate family and I can’t just cut them off or tell them how I really feel without risking my relationship with the kids. It’s devastating as we were a very close family. We’ll need to come up with a new way of relating to each other if there’s to be a future for us. I just can’t see what that looks like now.  

@mrsp I really feel for you. It’s very draining. I reckon best to save your energy for looking after yourself and your family, and hopefully time will sort things out with your friend and my sister. There’s no convincing them, sadly 🥲

@random dude I’ve no objection to you using woo woo :-) Wellbeing or wellness industry is term they use to legitimatise their alternative health practises 

@cat could not agree more 

Hey Jessie, I think there’s a significant population in this crowd you have missed who are not from disadvantaged backgrounds. My sister, who attended last Saturday’s protests, is private school educated, very wealthy and lives on the northern beaches. There’s a huge group like her who work in the wellbeing industry and consider themselves intellectuals and libertarians . They feed from a misinformation firehouse and have been completely indoctrinated. Would love your thoughts on what we do about this growing, very alarming issue. It makes me equally very angry and sad. I miss my sister.