Kiwi Farms

To quickly get to the point, my issue is my beliefs that COVID is mostly hysteria and that I do not trust Big Pharma to not fuck things up Thalidomide levels of bad.

My situation is that I am married, have a daughter, and my side of the family are complete sheep. My mother and my FtM Brother eat up modernity's commodification of unearned confidence and self-esteem. At first they approached me about joining their vaccination party in a month or twos time where they and their social circle could sit around discussing the side-effects of the various vaccines and probably wind up comparing them to Harry Potter wizard houses or whatever. I declined as I lived far and away from them, and that seemed a hell on earth affair. About a day later, they skyped me to ask about my vaccination schedule for me and mine. I was upfront, it went ok and very sad and quiet. They later asked my wife behind my back, who shares my beliefs as does her mother which has actually been a nice bonding moment with my in-law. She let me know, and politely declined their offer to help work around me. That was the point where I got mad and stubborn, when normally I'm the calm logical one.

Since then, I've been sent chat messages about their beliefs. As has the wife. Then the daughter got one, and the wife escalated things because that made it her business. We had a voice chat over a breakfast, which was early for us on our end, it was very sad (although very telling how we were calm and they were emotional) and now I might be completely out of touch with my side of the family for at least the near future. I'm not happy with this abstractly, but I'm happy for the stress and passive-aggression to be over from my own mom and sibling.

However I've been thinking it over, should I have just lied? It wasn't that they were the source of the problem, they are pushed alongside the rest of us, so it doesn't seem like a concession to evil. What if I just told them, "yep, we're doing the whole shit, sure thing" and just left it alone?