I know of someone similar in my family (not a close family member). During the lockdown, she ended up watching MSM 24/7 and turned from a somewhat reasonable person to a raving lunatic that nobody else wants to listen to. To the point where some of us have blocked her number on our phones. She made her own adult children mask up before entering her home. Naturally, they started coming by to see her a lot less.
I'm happy to say my own home has been an oasis of peace and quiet during all this. We have no cable TV and will only watch certain movies and documentaries on demand. The wife and I get our news online through trusted websites (like Free Republic). We will watch RSBN when a Trump event is taking place. We did see some of the recent CPAC but even that got a bit on our nerves after a while. No network news whatsoever poisons our home. Not even Tucker. Sorry Tucker.
“She made her own adult children mask up before entering her home. “
It’s actually one of the few times you need a mask. If you are going to be within 6 feet of someone for a length of time, it can help but a face shield is a better choice. The problem is that people think the mask completely stops the virus and that is a joke. It’s only a mitigating factor.
My aunt has Dementia and we had to block CNN on her cable because she would just go off on rants about how “Donald Duck” was going to be thrown out of office.
When the “pandemic” hit and the news was 24/7 covid, I turned off all news sources on the set. Local, national what have you. My father was 91 with short term memory loss and I didn’t want him to feel frightened about something that was likely, imo, to be little more than a flu epidemic. We still don’t watch the news. I read the news on trusted sites and that’s it. My regard for the “news” in the msm is -1. I wouldn’t trust them to report about a kitten up a tree.