I’ve been feeding my parents a steady stream of facts and calmly disputing hypotheses that they couldn’t support with evidence (“there are lots of unreported cases”, “most cases are asymptomatic”, etc.). It’s taken time but my father helped influence a decision to shut down schools for the whole Chicago area, citing statistics I’ve been supplying from the WHO.
I think the best thing you can do if they don’t take it seriously is to just whittle down their resistance with facts. I tend to only pick a few to talk about in depth at a time. A fact that particularly influenced my mother was that preventing one infection today can prevent thousands over the course of just a few weeks.
I’ve been feeding my parents a steady stream of facts and calmly disputing hypotheses that they couldn’t support with evidence (“there are lots of unreported cases”, “most cases are asymptomatic”, etc.). It’s taken time but my father helped influence a decision to shut down schools for the whole Chicago area, citing statistics I’ve been supplying from the WHO.
I think the best thing you can do if they don’t take it seriously is to just whittle down their resistance with facts. I tend to only pick a few to talk about in depth at a time. A fact that particularly influenced my mother was that preventing one infection today can prevent thousands over the course of just a few weeks.