“my leftie friends and family members”
Yeah, you need to fix that.
Being around unstable, mentally challenged, willfully ignorant and stridently cocksure wingnuts is bad for your mental health and physical well being.
Cut your losses. Dump em all.
Choose a new group of family and friends.
I’m dumping my highschool buds that I play golf with every year. There are 16 of us and we do a long weekend at a resort. Went to Reunion golf resort in October. I realized afterwards I never had a meaningful conversation with any of them the whole time. And any mention of Trump or covid sent most of into a frothing at the mouth rage. I don’t need friends like that. Not even looking back.