Magical herbs do not cure cancer. Vegan diets do not cure cancer. Apricot pips do not cure cancer. Black Oil does not cure cancer.
Coffee enemas sure as fuck do not cure cancer.
Sadly some cancers are, at the moment, incurable. Others have a good survival rate with Medicinal treatments. Others less so, but at least they have proof.
End of the day you can do what you like with your own body, but don't encourage others to try woo-woo treatments.
Also for the love of fuck, get your kids vaccinated.
That kind of pseudoscience bullshit really burns my biscuits, especially with the whole anti-education backlash in it.
Those on the side of education and intellectualism have to work hard, document their studies, choose their words carefully and be very aware of the ramifications of everything they publish.
The other side just needs to fling their shit and screech as loud as they can to achieve equal effect.
I'm up to date with my vaccines. I'll take my chances with autism or becoming a zombie; at least I won't have the flu.
And what is the deal with the people who insist Dinosaurs Aren't Real? Why is that even a Thing?
@Usekh said:
End of the day you can do what you like with your own body, but don't encourage others to try woo-woo treatments.
End of the day, I don't even care what you're encouraging others to do, unless they're not consenting adults. Part of adulthood is deciding for yourself what's best for you. If you decide to not take penicillin because it's an evil chemical that's your call to make.
... But for all that is holy, don't mess with herd immunity. People who don't get vaccinated shouldn't be allowed within their communities. Be crazy on your own dime.
This feeds into a real peeve of mine, people who are super vocally pro-vaccination who aren't vaccinated. Yes, adults need things like the MMR. If you're going to act all elitist and smart, maybe you should know that you're still not immune from childhood. I've gotten into this with friends in FB who were being soooooooo smart and knew nothing about pertussis or that their MMR had likely worn off.
I honestly have no idea what I am vaccinated for and what I am not, should probably look into that. Although I suspect at 20 I am still young enough for the shots in grade school still work.
I think that now that herd immunity is truly in danger adult boosters will be more promoted.
For example, I had most of my kids in my mid-20s. This was during a pretty big heyday of no vax but most people didn't seem to care. I was never offered a booster or anything like that while pregnant or pospartum. They didn't even ask about my vax status.
For surprise #4 last year jesus christ I must have been asked about my boosters like every visit. And I've been asked a few times since even for non child related medical visits. Even though I'd already had a Tdap a couple of years prior, they still wanted me to have another one plus an additional MMR postpartum. I belong to an HMO though, after two decades of shitty catastrophic care only coverage so I don't know that the message gets out through other healthcare providers.
At 20, unless you've had college shots, there's a chance you're not immunized fully anymore.
And yeah, I got tested when I was pregnant to see what I was and was not immune to and I had to get measles again. This was a few years ago and they still split the MMR if you only needed parts of it. That's no longer the case, it's now all or nothing but it's not a big deal except if you're sensitive. I am. I hate that mumps shot, I get sick as fuck every time. Still would take it, but it suuuuuucked.
I'm asthmatic so there are other considerations for me, like the pneumonia shots and such. Those aren't recommended until you're old, unless you're at risk. But Tdap and MMR for us in our 30's is recommended and people aren't getting these I know.
Here's the official adult vaccine schedule, it starts at age 19
Fun? What is this fun thou speakest of?
... indigent health care is full of assholes. I really should just borrow someone's kid so I can get some fucking health care.
Army sorted me out.
Peeve: Filing for taxes, expecting to get money back like every year... and finding out I actually made so much this year I have to give the government MORE money.
THANKS OBAMA! 
RL Peeve Tax Edition:
Working in a public library, we get people in all the time asking for tax forms. For the first year ever, the Federal Government told libraries they wouldn't be sending free tax forms/instruction books out for passing out. So we have "master copies" of the forms and will make 2 free copies to give to people of each type needed, but people have to pay to print off the instruction booklets (which average 70 pages).
This is apparently a money-saving idea by the Federal Government and I've been chewed out half a dozen times because the library won't just eat the costs to provide things printed out to people. Even if we do have computers, and free/available wireless, that people can use to access the instruction books online.
@lordbelh Yeah... my asthma came back. No enlistment for me.
Inconsiderate/Immature management at work, especially when they're older than me and should know better. (Age shouldn't be the deciding factor here, I know, I know. But it still baffles me every time.)
Had to call out of work yesterday. I'd agreed to help with Inventory, even though that's the manager's job and I'm but a low-level peon. Really sucks that I couldn't be there to help, but I can't plan when the shit hits the fan. Legitimately sorry, coworkers.
Don't call me the next day to ask if I was actually sick or not, and whether or not I value my job. What the everloving flying fuck. And do not call me four times in a row after I tell you I've discussed it with the store manager, and it's none of your business (because frankly they're a man-child, and the last person who had similar issues had to switch departments, because they couldn't handle the judgmental reactions from this manager), say that I have to go, and hang up after you say 'ok'. What a piss-poor excuse for an adult. Acting like dangling my job over my head is a reasonable response to the situation.
Maybe I'm overreacting, because of mentioned issues that are none of my immediate manager's business, but come on. Four times. Four times they called me after I hung up. On a real day off for me. After insinuating that I'm a liar and that my job was on the line.
Excuse me while I go flip a table somewhere. And probably stress-eat some cookies. Damn girl-scouts...
This is something you should document. In some way that time stamps the phone calls if you can, in writing in your own words if not. If there are messages where the douchebag actually says your job is in jeopardy because you used a sick day, make a copy of that thing and put it in a vault somewhere, because that's gold (literal gold in a wrongful termination suit). This is an actionable complaint that brushes up against FMLA protections that you can take to HR, and your manager will get in deep shit. Your sick time, so long as the company gives you sick days, is your sick time.
I realize actually doing this is not as simple as all that, since managers and even smaller companies will make an employee's life hell if they actually exercise their rights as workers. So I'm not exactly saying complain. But document and keep, because it'll probably happen again in a circumstance where letting it go isn't an option.
@Three-Eyed-Crow
Definitely documented.
Unfortunately I don't get paid/documented sick time, or anything like that. I'm part time now (in part because of mentioned issues, in part because I've started my own business yay!), so if I call out, I call out. Or, that's how I've understood it over the years. I'll be looking that up to double check, because I've been a full time employee up until a few months ago, and am still kind of used to how things worked, from that perspective.
Regardless. Still fuming.
It depends on where you are if you can do anything. Texas, for instance, is 'at will employment'. You can be fired at any time for any reason. And it's extremely difficult to contest it in court.
@Luna said:
like the pneumonia shots and such.
Getting the pneumonia shot this year was probably the best thing I did, healthcare wise. I'm asthmatic as well with a history of getting really bad respiratory infections.
@silentsophia It's no better to have Medicaid. My doc decided I don't have asthma and took me cold turkey off all my meds. He refused to refer me out too. I was changing my GP when they said I didn't send some form in and took it away. Which is fine, I'll make too much money this year and I just bought insurance, but it's very wtf.
This feeds into a real peeve of mine, people who are super vocally pro-vaccination who aren't vaccinated. Yes, adults need things like the MMR. If you're going to act all elitist and smart, maybe you should know that you're still not immune from childhood. I've gotten into this with friends in FB who were being soooooooo smart and knew nothing about pertussis or that their MMR had likely worn off.
