I have a couple of casual acquaintances like that too. I belong to a support group of straight people whose spouses came out as gay after long marriages.
One time, before the 2020 election, we were just starting our local zoom meeting and talking about how long the pandemic would last.
I said that Dr. Fauci said that it would be about 1.5 years before a vaccine was developed.
One of the guys on the zoom smiled and said, "oh the pandemic will go away in November, shortly after the election." I was totally confused, until I realized that he thought it was a Democratic "hoax".
This same guy at a different time in a private conversation, got into an argument with my friend David (from the same support group), and he then told David to "go back to where you came from!"
David is from Australia and has that beautiful accent. When David told me this story, I said, "I am guessing that is the first time anyone has ever said that to you"
He laughed.Another zoom meeting, same support group: I was asking a woman on there with a couple of tween daughters whether she was planning on getting her daughters vaccinated (they had JUST approved the vaccinations for kids over 5).
She gave me that same smile that the guy in my previous story gave me and she said, "No, I don't think that covid is such a big deal.
My sister had it and it only lasted a couple of weeks and she is OK." And when I asked if she was vaccinated, she smiled and said "No". Shortly after that, I got off the zoom meeting, because I was so enraged, I couldn't bear to be in her presence, even if it was only one zoom.
AND SHE HAD BEEN THE ONLY ONE who asked David (who was the moderator) when we were going to go back to meeting in person, because she didn't like zoom!! As an aside, when that group has met in person, we have our founder who is 92 years old there, as well as a member who has had a kidney transplant and who has had a hard time developing antibodies (even after 4 shots).
But, I am sure that anti-vaxxer doesn't give a shit that she could kill two people in our group, if she met with them indoors. I really HATE HER!!
