Over Christmas dinner he tried to convince me that:
1) Joe Biden was incapacitated
2) Joe Biden was an evil genius
3) "Let's go Brandon" was 'funny'
4) FDA and Pfizer released an anti-viral drug that was "just relabelled ivermectin"
I quit listening after the last one, and made no attempt to engage him in further conversation, choosing instead to only talk about my nephew's blossoming hockey career instead.
He told me this BS with the full knowledge that I have worked in protein purification, microbiology and medical device manufacturing for the last 28 years. He further spat out the right wing talking points about ivermectin and Pfizer's allegedly experimental anit-viral (https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-pfizer/fact-check-pfizers-trial-covid-19-drug-is-not-the-same-as-ivermectin-idUSL1N2R11T5) as both being "protease inhibitor" drugs without acknowledging that I spent 15 years in development and purification of protease inhibitors early in my career.
For anyone unsure what that means, the term "protease inhibitor" does NOT refer to a single thing. It is a label and description of a family of chemicals that have a similar action on dissimilar molecules - specifically a protease inhibitor is used to regulate the activity of a peptide or protein that interacts with and degrades (by means of structural changes or ionic bonding) the conformational structure of proteins and special proteins known as enzymes or proteases. This is a an entire classification of many, many molecules with vastly different structures, modes of action and mechanisms, not at all the same thing because they may be described as "protease inhibitors".
To a trained person, this kind of comparison is the equivalent of someone saying that because there is a chance of precipitation it is absolutely going to snow. Yes, snow is precipitation...but so is "rain", "sleet"/"freezing rain" and "fog". The key is NOT in the naming convention, but rather the specific actions and effects. It depends on temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and winds to see if precipitation is goin to take one form or another and there is no single set of conditions that makes all precipitation "snow".
His steadfast insistence to me that Pfizer is just trying to sell rebranded Ivermectin at a huge mark-up to make Trump look bad was the exact moment that I gave up on him as a human being and began to ignore him for the rest of our lives. He has no interest in understanding or truth or fact. He cares only about "winning" and has so fully embraced Trumpism that I am surprised he was not at the January 6th insurrection personally.
Its too bad really because he is the father of my neices and nephews. Its a shame I won't be seeing them much as they grow up, but I refuse to suffer fools lightly and I do not wish to engage in verbal aruments with nitwits. He is clearly a nitwit and I won't abide him or his insane ranting and raving any longer.
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