My dad isn't even brainwashed like some people are. He's fully aware of how stupid this is, how it's not about the science, how the vaccines have some severe side effects (even if they are rare) and that I'm at a very low risk from the virus itself.

But he just can't muster up the willpower to actually fight for my (and his) rights when he knows and pretty much acknowledges that they're only being taken away by government executive fiat. But it's me who has to fall in line and be a good sheep so that I can go home for Christmas and see my family, not them who need to stand up and demand that I shouldn't need the governments blessing to freely move about the country that I am a (supposedly) free citizen of.

My mom, on the other hand is still full terrorized about COVID, and thinks I'm gonna die if I don't get it. She keeps sending me articles about the one guy who needed a lung transplant because he was unvaxxed and he was only 45 but was probably also morbidly obese. And the articles about how 99% of hospitalizations are unvaccinated.