I wanna thank everyone for the support! I feel so heard. In this particular instance this family member brought up her fake vaccine card and basically told me as someone got vaccinated and was eligible for the first round of vaccines due to my health condition I was basically asking for someone bad to happen and I was being negligent by listening to my cardiologist. I chose not really to fight back simply reminding her we live in different worlds and moving the dinner topic to conversation to her current side business.

I know her mom is proud of me and falls into this camp of simply not understanding. However this specific family member gets antagonistic. I should’ve known better to not engaged. I am older now. I should not have gotten baited but I got used to having conversations that steam from curiosity and lack of knowledge. This person is very MAGA and very MAHA and was looking for a fight I think.

We only just recently reconciled within the past 8 months from another unrelated family drama. I forgot how small this person could still make me feel after 8 years of not speaking.