KuriGohan&Kamehameha
想死不能 - 想活不能
- Nov 23, 2020
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That NHS text service is never going to stop blowing my phone up, are they? It is absurd and ridiculous that they keep harassing people who have genuine reasons not to take the vaccine, rather than donating their excess stock to elderly people in 3rd world countries who have far more risk than I do from covid.
I tried searching up a way to stop these messages from being sent to my phone and found 0 relevant information about it on both Google and duckduckgo. Every single web page that popped up in my search was nothing but encouragement to book an appointment for the jab, absolutely no information for those who are opting out.
I feel like the typically rational and level headed people in my life have all lost their common sense about this. Before all this happened, other people were genuinely understanding of the fact that I have CFS and other chronic conditions that are not well understood by current science.
My partner and others were well aware that after developing CFS, I had an adverse reaction to the HPV jab that left me very ill for several weeks. This would make sense, as current studies are showing that there can be a significant degree of immunomdulatory dysfunction in CFS and post viral syndromes.
Everyone respected my decision to not receive anymore HPV or flu vaccines after that. No one insulted me or told me I was selfish, crazy, or the problem with society. After all, I have never went around screeching at people that they must take a flu jab, despite my CFS manifesting after viral infection.
Now, it is a total 180. Everyone treats me like a leper and a bill Gates microchip fanatic. They assume I must be carrying coronavirus on me at all times despite me rarely stepping foot outside. I have taken tests often to appease the worries of the fully vaccinated person in my home, and they are always negative.
I suspect that I may have been exposed to covid during the couple weeks I was at university and had an asymptomatic infection, because nearly everyone I came into contact with there had unknowingly contracted very mild covid symptoms and tested positive at one point or another.
That would make a lot of sense if they spread it to me and conferred natural immunity, since I have never tested positive despite being exposed to many people in crowded tubes, trains, and airports after those encounters.
Anyways, it was very upsetting to hear that we will have vaccine passports soon. I have always wanted to go to a concert, hell, a nightclub even, because throughout my entire life I have never had the opportunity to go out and enjoy things the way other people do.
One of my friends was going to take me out to a nightclub very briefly so that I could say I tried something new at the very least. Even if I hate it, at least I would get to experience it once and know if it's my scene and if it's within my energy envelope. Now I will be barred from going to any events like this, because negative tests are not accepted upon entry, only apps with proof of vaccination status.
Why the fuck has the government banned negative tests as proof of being covid free? A vaccinated person can still have a palpable viral load according to recent studies. It would make far more logical sense to require a negative test rather than a vaccine passport, because even if the chance of developing an infection is reduced, vaccinated people can still develop covid.
What happened to someone staying home if they are ill to prevent disease spread? Why has that messaging morphed into telling people that "life's pleasures are contingent upon vaccination" (in the words of Boris Johnson). There seem to be no exceptions in this policy, no leeway for those whose conditions were not studied in the clinical trials, no leeway for those who have proof of covid antibodies, no leeway for those who simply say, no, I'm opting out at this time, and I can take a negative test to prove I don't have covid.
It frightens me how much the authoritarian tendencies have sprung up in people I used to respect. Nearly everyday I see comments on social media threatening violence against all people who don't have a covid vaccine. People I considered friends calling for all basic dignity to be removed for those who don't comply, cheering that they should be sent to camps. What the actual fuck?
I've been degraded and name called for saying I won't take it due to my illness. I've been insulted and threatened for saying I won't interfere in the bodily autonomy of others either. People have insinuated I'm an illness faker with Muchassens instead of CFS when I told them it was messed up for them to brag that they want to murder people who don't have the covid jab on a public channel.
What the hell has happened to people's sensibilities? By threatening and coercing people, you are doing the exact opposite of achieving your goal. You are not convincing anyone that you care about their safety or the safety of others when you make senseless violent threats against people.
I thought that one of my bf's family members wanting to call the police on a neighbor a few months ago for having a guest over was extreme. Now, I feel like we've gone one step forward and two steps back, because this has turned into a political issue rather than a scientific one. People dont want to seem like they are on the morally wrong side, so it is hard to have an honest conversation about risk assessment and preventative measures.
I sent a peer viewed, published scientific article- written by researchers at one of the top universities in the world, with data verified by the CDC- to one of those people making senseless threats against me. I wanted to demonstrate to him the sheer improvement in the covid situation using raw data, such as the steep decline in deaths and hospitalizations, the low risk to certain age demographics like children and young adults, mutations becoming more infectious but less lethal, etc.
He literally refused to read the article, stating that the scientists "sounded Conservative." Apparently if someone publishes results you don't like, that makes them a Conservative, got it. We should just never use the scientific method again, or report accurate data, if it goes against our preconceived notions.
It really does feel like some individuals want this to go on and want covid to become worse, because they enjoy the restrictions. This individual seemed almost gleeful reporting daily how many people got infected with covid in their area, cheering when an un vaccinated person got hospitalised or died. I got told my illness doesn't matter because it is not covid. So much for compassion and understanding towards the vunerable, huh?
The way the tides are turning is scaring me. Just recently, a cluster of young healthy acquaintances of mine singled out unvaccinated people and made us take covid tests before even entering their home, regardless of how well you were feeling. None of this was for health reasons or out of any sort of concern, but because they didn't want to "look bad."
Being treated like a typhoid Mary all the time for a disease I don't fucking have sure does ramp up my suicidality tenfold. I may not even be allowed to step foot on my university campus for not having the jab, which would mean I'd be kicked out. Those people are a far greater risk to me than I am to them, mind you.
UK universities have never mandated such a thing before, we had reccomended jabs, which I received as a child already, but never anything of this sort. Now there is messaging everywhere that you are selfish, terrible, and want to collapse the NHS if you don't comply (by that logic let's ban smoking and drinking since they cause strain on the NHS.) The NHS is already not fit for purpose and needs reform, but they won't acknowledge that reality.
Feels like I'm living in a totally different world to these people. I am not an anti-vaxxer or Conservative, nor do I believe in the Bill Gates world domination theories. I literally study a subject allied to medicine, and have to extensively study diseases, so I am not "anti science" either whatever that means. I simply do not wish for someone to make my medical decisions for me, when my immune system and body is already wrecked from CFS.
I tried searching up a way to stop these messages from being sent to my phone and found 0 relevant information about it on both Google and duckduckgo. Every single web page that popped up in my search was nothing but encouragement to book an appointment for the jab, absolutely no information for those who are opting out.
I feel like the typically rational and level headed people in my life have all lost their common sense about this. Before all this happened, other people were genuinely understanding of the fact that I have CFS and other chronic conditions that are not well understood by current science.
My partner and others were well aware that after developing CFS, I had an adverse reaction to the HPV jab that left me very ill for several weeks. This would make sense, as current studies are showing that there can be a significant degree of immunomdulatory dysfunction in CFS and post viral syndromes.
Everyone respected my decision to not receive anymore HPV or flu vaccines after that. No one insulted me or told me I was selfish, crazy, or the problem with society. After all, I have never went around screeching at people that they must take a flu jab, despite my CFS manifesting after viral infection.
Now, it is a total 180. Everyone treats me like a leper and a bill Gates microchip fanatic. They assume I must be carrying coronavirus on me at all times despite me rarely stepping foot outside. I have taken tests often to appease the worries of the fully vaccinated person in my home, and they are always negative.
I suspect that I may have been exposed to covid during the couple weeks I was at university and had an asymptomatic infection, because nearly everyone I came into contact with there had unknowingly contracted very mild covid symptoms and tested positive at one point or another.
That would make a lot of sense if they spread it to me and conferred natural immunity, since I have never tested positive despite being exposed to many people in crowded tubes, trains, and airports after those encounters.
Anyways, it was very upsetting to hear that we will have vaccine passports soon. I have always wanted to go to a concert, hell, a nightclub even, because throughout my entire life I have never had the opportunity to go out and enjoy things the way other people do.
One of my friends was going to take me out to a nightclub very briefly so that I could say I tried something new at the very least. Even if I hate it, at least I would get to experience it once and know if it's my scene and if it's within my energy envelope. Now I will be barred from going to any events like this, because negative tests are not accepted upon entry, only apps with proof of vaccination status.
Why the fuck has the government banned negative tests as proof of being covid free? A vaccinated person can still have a palpable viral load according to recent studies. It would make far more logical sense to require a negative test rather than a vaccine passport, because even if the chance of developing an infection is reduced, vaccinated people can still develop covid.
What happened to someone staying home if they are ill to prevent disease spread? Why has that messaging morphed into telling people that "life's pleasures are contingent upon vaccination" (in the words of Boris Johnson). There seem to be no exceptions in this policy, no leeway for those whose conditions were not studied in the clinical trials, no leeway for those who have proof of covid antibodies, no leeway for those who simply say, no, I'm opting out at this time, and I can take a negative test to prove I don't have covid.
It frightens me how much the authoritarian tendencies have sprung up in people I used to respect. Nearly everyday I see comments on social media threatening violence against all people who don't have a covid vaccine. People I considered friends calling for all basic dignity to be removed for those who don't comply, cheering that they should be sent to camps. What the actual fuck?
I've been degraded and name called for saying I won't take it due to my illness. I've been insulted and threatened for saying I won't interfere in the bodily autonomy of others either. People have insinuated I'm an illness faker with Muchassens instead of CFS when I told them it was messed up for them to brag that they want to murder people who don't have the covid jab on a public channel.
What the hell has happened to people's sensibilities? By threatening and coercing people, you are doing the exact opposite of achieving your goal. You are not convincing anyone that you care about their safety or the safety of others when you make senseless violent threats against people.
I thought that one of my bf's family members wanting to call the police on a neighbor a few months ago for having a guest over was extreme. Now, I feel like we've gone one step forward and two steps back, because this has turned into a political issue rather than a scientific one. People dont want to seem like they are on the morally wrong side, so it is hard to have an honest conversation about risk assessment and preventative measures.
I sent a peer viewed, published scientific article- written by researchers at one of the top universities in the world, with data verified by the CDC- to one of those people making senseless threats against me. I wanted to demonstrate to him the sheer improvement in the covid situation using raw data, such as the steep decline in deaths and hospitalizations, the low risk to certain age demographics like children and young adults, mutations becoming more infectious but less lethal, etc.
He literally refused to read the article, stating that the scientists "sounded Conservative." Apparently if someone publishes results you don't like, that makes them a Conservative, got it. We should just never use the scientific method again, or report accurate data, if it goes against our preconceived notions.
It really does feel like some individuals want this to go on and want covid to become worse, because they enjoy the restrictions. This individual seemed almost gleeful reporting daily how many people got infected with covid in their area, cheering when an un vaccinated person got hospitalised or died. I got told my illness doesn't matter because it is not covid. So much for compassion and understanding towards the vunerable, huh?
The way the tides are turning is scaring me. Just recently, a cluster of young healthy acquaintances of mine singled out unvaccinated people and made us take covid tests before even entering their home, regardless of how well you were feeling. None of this was for health reasons or out of any sort of concern, but because they didn't want to "look bad."
Being treated like a typhoid Mary all the time for a disease I don't fucking have sure does ramp up my suicidality tenfold. I may not even be allowed to step foot on my university campus for not having the jab, which would mean I'd be kicked out. Those people are a far greater risk to me than I am to them, mind you.
UK universities have never mandated such a thing before, we had reccomended jabs, which I received as a child already, but never anything of this sort. Now there is messaging everywhere that you are selfish, terrible, and want to collapse the NHS if you don't comply (by that logic let's ban smoking and drinking since they cause strain on the NHS.) The NHS is already not fit for purpose and needs reform, but they won't acknowledge that reality.
Feels like I'm living in a totally different world to these people. I am not an anti-vaxxer or Conservative, nor do I believe in the Bill Gates world domination theories. I literally study a subject allied to medicine, and have to extensively study diseases, so I am not "anti science" either whatever that means. I simply do not wish for someone to make my medical decisions for me, when my immune system and body is already wrecked from CFS.
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