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Speaker 0 describes the spread of misinformation that claimed vaccines are “killing weapons” and that COVID-19 is a human-made crisis, calling it “baseless information.” This misinformation influenced a woman who lived with her husband and two children. The husband, who had been absorbed in online content since around May last year, began to show changes in behavior by August. Speaker 2 adds that he collected things he had researched on A4 paper and distributed them around the middle school near his daughter’s school; on a different day, the husband distributed a flyer as well.
Speaker 1 mentions that people who had received vaccines were said to have an average lifespan of about two years, an assertion tied to the flyers. When the wife or others protested the distribution, the husband insisted that he was doing the right thing, and he reacted with anger, making it hard for them to understand him. The couple’s children were affected as well: when Speaker 0 left the house, the children wore masks, and there were statements suggesting that wearing masks was unnecessary or that those who did not wear masks should do so. The wife’s group was told that COVID-19 was merely a cold or flu, and this rejection of masks and other measures extended to handwashing and disinfection, with the husband arguing about not needing to adhere to these practices and claiming that certain friends drank together despite the precautions.
Speaker 0 notes that the husband repeatedly asserted, “Corona is just a cold,” while he and his companions refused to wash hands or disinfect and continued to socialize aggressively. The family, constantly confronting the fear that they could be infected, tried several times to stop him, but those efforts only led to more fights. Ultimately, for the sake of the family’s safety, the wife separated from her husband in February of this year, resulting in a rift within the family.
Speaker 1 emphasizes that this is rooted in baseless information, including the belief that documents or papers published in journals supported anti-vaccine arguments, which people used to promote demagogic claims. Speaker 1 adds that reading such literature reveals that many sources lack scientific soundness, and sometimes people believe them blindly without evaluating the literature. The speakers express a sense of regret and a need to confront the emotional impact of these events, but they refrain from evaluating the truth of the claims, simply presenting the sequence of actions and the resulting family fracture caused by misinformation.