@wizz said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
"I refuse to wear a mask or get the vaccine because I have anecdotes about two or three people wearing masks or getting vaccinated and still getting COVID. Why would I take any preventative measure if it doesn't completely magically 100% work?????? I openly admit that I have done little to no research and seem kind of proud of this for some reason? You can try to provide me with even a basic understanding of medicine and scientific methodology that I very obviously lack but I will just call everything you painstakingly labor to give me 'opinion' and stand by my dumbass mouthbreather ignorance because it childishly eases my anxiety to put my fingers in my ears and go LALALA IT'S NOT REAL IT'S NOT REAL despite being a grown ass adult."
Fuuuuuuuuucking christ why is this EVERYONE IN UTAH I JUST I CAN'T ANYMORE
I really feel like the United States, as an entire culture, just needs to spend about five years or so being raised by my mom. Like, don't get me wrong, the woman has issues. She has issues, believe you me, but.....
When I was little and I threw a tantrum in public, it didn't matter where we were or what we were doing, my parents would just pack me up and leave. Halfway through dinner at a restaurant? Doggie bags. Middle of the grocery store? Full cart returned to an employee with apologies while they marched screeching toddler-me out of the store. After about half a dozen goes at it, I decided that I liked going out and doing things more than I liked having fits, so I stopped having tantrums in public.
Didn't even matter if you were someone else's kid. Didn't matter where we were or what property you were on. Drop me off at school and find a pack of kids bullying someone? She'd yell at you to knock it off and get your asses inside before she called your mother. Running around the neighborhood acting all crazy-like? She'd scream at you to get out of the damned street before you got hit by a car.
I really, really feel like we could just use a collective National Mom (tm) who is sick of everyone's shit and prepared to give anyone within earshot a piece of her mind.