You may as will stop trying to explain this to these people. They just want to believe the conspiracy theories. I focus they want to believe in these theories because they're miserable people and it is did misery loves company.
When I was working on ambulance as an EMT, I transported the first of many that died of covid. She died in her home from covid. She was a healthy 47 year old woman. She was diagnosed and within two weeks had died of covid pneumonia. This was in the beginning of March 2020.
Covid is very real, I have seen its end result many times. I have had covid myself. If it weren't for the vaccine what I had should have been much worse. I did end up with Covid pneumonia, but it didn't get to the point where I needed a hospital. I did stay home from work for a month though as it took that long to feel well enough to go to work. Even then I was still very fatigued and to this day over 1 1/2 years later I don't have the benevolent that I used to before Covid.
The other thing about my catching Covid is that it didn't happen till my fiance stopped wearing her mask at work along with others at her work. She ended up with Covid from a coworker and then gave it to me. I still wear a mask today as a precaution. I have yet to get sick again.
Let these people continue to believe what they will. You're not going to change their minds.
I kept well for three years and after I moved I finally caught it. But between the drugs now available and vaccine it was caught early. I didn't stay sick long or get very sick at all. I was basically exhausted from moving and with all the new allergens and junk my immune system was exhausted.
My wife caught it and gave it to me...probably caught it at church.
Someone gave it to my mother after she had a bout with sepsis and she died. We had already enacted her living will....but dang ya know? She was without much of an immune system at that point.
My dad is kinda lost without her. They had been married for 60 years.
The church secretary 's son died, her daughter in law and kids are devastated without their dad. They WERE antivaxxers and antimaskers....he was young too...late 30's. They weren't in my SS Class but I knew them.
The ones who died are a strange list of people...those with liver damages or other debilitating problems like my FIL is a strange list...I kept hoping that it would make sense in some way....but it doesn't.
My co-worker (alcoholic) I thought would get it...he didn't but his GF did and left him her kids. They had been together only for a few years...he's definitely having a rough go of things. Teen angst step daughters....but he is doing what he can.
That's just a few....the list of dead or disabled in Nashville is long. They kept the highest per-capita infection rates in the nation. Of course they are antivaxxers and antimaskers. The hospitals and doc-in-boxes had lines so long I was nervous just driving near. I prayed for my health care professional friends.
When "Christians" are so callous about other people's lives...you gotta wonder about their relationship with God. I know how guilty I felt that Christmas I had influenza and called everyone immediately so they could get Tamiflu or whatever. Nobody got sick but I still felt horrible for the possibility until I knew for sure.