You can't control what others do. If they wish to remain ignorant, you can't stop them. You've made the offer/suggestion, and they are apparently not interested. Move on. Do the best you can if something happens. From what I have read in these pages, you are not lacking in common sense or experience. You'll instinctively do whatever is best, given whatever set of circumstances you find yourself in.
I've tried to "educate" many people. Most of them just keep on with their blissful ignorance and carry on assuming, "It won't happen to me..." The only time I've seen that turn around is when they survive a close call. Something bad has to happen to them, or someone they are very close to for them to understand that "It can and will happen to you eventually, and you better be prepared". My mother was a gun hating, Jimmy Carter voting, liberal, right up until the day the police dispatcher told her she was on her own and hung up on her during the L.A. riots. She nearly kicked me out of the house when I bought my first Mossberg at the age of 18, a year prior to the riots. She loved that beautiful shotgun on the fateful day of that fruitless phone call to the police for help. Now she carries a G 30 and prints fist sized groups.
"Literally EVERYTHING is in space, Morty." Grandpa Rick Sanchez
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