I don't talk to my neighbors much. We're pretty spread out, and I normally don't want to bother them. The guy who mows my lawn, thought... I mistakenly got into a discussion about Covid-19, and he told me about how it was a virus that escaped from a lab in China, and everybody was overreacting, and the masks were silly, and I disagreed-but didn't feel like arguing. Then a neighbor came over to see if she could hire him, and more of the same paranoid shit. I realized I had some of those Fox viewers around here. I don't even want to hear about their opinions on Black Lives Matter. Nobody I know by choice feels like that.
But you can't change anyone else's opinion, and the only sanity-saving thing I can do is simply not engage.
And don't even get me started on the flat Earth guy I talked to at an art festival a few years ago. but he was actually nice.

But I really have been watching the news way too much.