# My sister, a pro hoax believer, has Covid **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [July 19, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770 "2020-07-19T21:27:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/61 "2020-08-02T11:49:51Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > What the everloving fuck is wrong with people??? Guess I can use this Alan Moore quote again. “The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.” They just can’t handle that there is this invisible thing out there making people sick and killing them. They need _some_ feeling of control over something, and that manifests in needing someone to blame. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/62 "2020-08-02T15:15:50Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > It doesn’t do much for getting rid of your sins either. Actually, it should add to them. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/63 "2020-11-15T02:52:54Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > Thanks for the concern. My sister spent 6 days in the hospital and was released this past Wednesday. My niece has posted a couple updates, my sister is doing better. Lost her sense of taste and smell and had problems breathing. She should start feeling somewhat normal in a week or 2. Some symptoms will take longer to return such as her sense of taste. How is your sister doing, @racer72? I think of the two of you from time to time. Hope things are better. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/64 "2020-11-15T18:47:32Z")
She is doing okay. Still has a few side effects. She is back to hiking with her friends and recently attended a fire fighter memorial service in Denver for those that died in the line of duty. Her recently passed husband was one of those honored at the event. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/65 "2020-11-15T19:36:41Z")
Glad to hear it. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/66 "2020-11-15T21:44:25Z")
I hope she continues to recover fully. Do you think she’s changed her mind on it being a hoax? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/67 "2020-11-19T23:44:42Z")
Is she still convinced that there is no COVID? Here in TN, some survivors…have gone that route. According to rumor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770.md?page=3)