Off My Chest
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Did you get vaccinated? Please say you did, and that you weren't one of the dumb ones falling for all this bullshit. The vaccines, even if they don't keep you from falling ill - greatly reduce the effects of Long-Covid, and the problems they cause with the body.
Dude, read the room.
This is 100% inappropriate to ask. While I am also very pro-vaccine and frustrated at the anti-vaccine movement, you're talking to some who is grieving the loss of a major part of their life. Saying all this is on par with "Did your mom X with you" or "This wouldn't have happened if you didn't Y so much" to explain disabilities. No one owes you their medical history and shame on you for asking. You're fishing to put personal blame on to someone so you can get a sense of smug schadenfreude from another suffering. Let's say the answer is yes, are you truly here to do a victory lap?
Yep. And if the answer is no, then I'll offer my condolences and probably do some research to see what opportunities for treatment they have available - so that I can help in the way I know best.
Well that is just an outright cruelty. Fucking stop.
Do that anyways.
Holy shit don't. This post isn't your personal call to action. OP's doctors know far more about their treatment than some rando online. OP is venting, not asking for your personal medical advice.
Please, try to understand what you are doing here is harmful, not help and learn how the disabled community is begging people to stop saying these things.
You're speaking to a troll, by the way. This isn't new behaviour.
what a smug piece of shit. not just because you want to gloat at another's suffering, but because you are fucking arrogant enough to this that you can help find a solution to a problem OP has had for years.
Do you really think that OP is that much of an idiot that it took them two years to find some random asshole on lemmy to Google shit for them?
You need to do some introspection, holy shit
I have helped find solutions for a handful of people's medical issues over the years.
I've found doctors often don't care to do this research themselves. You too can help; as someone who cares about this stuff often times a patient's best hope is usually a family-member who is diligent in asking questions and educating themselves further.
So piss off, internet armchair expert. Doctors aren't infallable as you may think; and I've known plenty to simply don't give 2 shits and do not look further into stuff such as this.
The irony of raging about anti vaxxers while using their talking points.
Anti-vaxxers don't trust scientific researchers and their research.
I don't trust for-profit "doctors", who look at you as a pile of cash to extract money from.
While related to the healthcare industry, they are not one in the same. MRNA vaccines are a technology that has been studied and perfected for a very long time.
Doctors on the other hand, will treat you up until the point where they don't believe they can extract money from you any longer. But there are still studies on Long-Covid that help advance that research and may even help reduce/eliminate some of the symptoms of its effects. Many of these studies are looking for participants, and don't exist to extract money from the people joining them; in fact, many will pay participants. They're risky, but in this particular instance, that may outweigh the problems that are being experienced.
OP has lost their hearing, is bed-ridden, and has lost their future plans. And here you are kicking them while they’re down. There is absolutely nothing appropriate with anything you just said in your comment.
Honestly, you sound as bad as those anti-vaxxers, sitting all high and mighty on your throne of shit. You think you’re better than OP because how dare anybody get sick if they were smart enough to get vaccinated like you. Your world is so black and white you cannot possibly fathom any grey in between. It’s ideologies like yours that hurt the rest of us the most.
If they fell for it, then they've effectively destroyed their own life. I'm not going to be sympathetic towards antivaxxers. The whole world worked as fast as possible to get people protected. If this person then rejected all of that work, all of that effort, and ended up like this? -- Then they did it to themselves.
You don’t have to be sympathetic. You also don’t have to be an asshole and rub it in. You know nothing about this person, and yet you’re so quick to pass judgement. I pity you more than I pity OP.
You should probably pity OP more. They lost the genetic lottery on this one. I haven't had COVID. I've been actually harassed and bullied because of the protections I took.
So fuck antivaxxers.
This isn’t about you.
Are you on the spectrum?
Yes. Is that a problem?