Her vaccinated caregiver tested positive two and a half weeks ago. The only reason she tested is because my Mom was supposed to go to a church thing. So, my Mom and her caregiver didn't go.
Enter the COVID Christmas hysteria.
One of my siblings then decided that my mother, who had a runny nose, had to get tested. She tested positive. Then said sibling decided not only that my mom couldn't go to the extended family Christmas even "five days after she was asymptomatic wearing a mask" which is apparently the new bullshit rule. AND, that no one should have direct contact with her. AND, that anyone that did have direct contact with shouldn't go to extended family Christmas either, even if they tested negative. So I was banished, and adult children that flew into to town for Christmas were banished. Not because they were with my Mom. Because they were with me, who was with my mom, who was barely sick, and clearly not sick enough to get me sick.
It was awful and I don't think the rift will be healed anytime soon. I became persona non grata because I decided to take my chances so as not to isolate a little old lady at Christmas. The irony? I (unvaccinated) took some MMS and didn't get sick notwithstanding that I have been with my mom every day since. Prolly because unvaccinated people exposed to a real virus then thave broad based immunity - something everyone in the world used to know.
So, my unvaccinated mom was less sick than the vaccinated and boosted caregiver that got her sick in the first place, and I wasn't sick at all. Yet we are the problem. The good news is my elderly mom will probably never get it again. The bad news is she was heartbroken at Christmas, and she probably does not have a lot of Christmas's left.
I definitely wouldn't say I'm anti-vax necessarily. I'm certainly against the MRNA vaccine, seeing as they literally changed the definition of "vaccine" so they could call it one.. But I still support people getting actual "weakened viral sample" vaccines.
And I'm certainly not anti-medicine, just against the for-profit circle jerk of treating symptoms with "medicines" that make people sick in other ways too.
Well hey, I appreciate you being civil with me about this. You didn't just scream "REEE!!! SHILL!!" when I said something contrary to your beliefs. We need more dialogue like this in this world. God bless for that.
I hear your points, and I get them. I'm not sure I agree that MMS has a perfect track record of never having devistating effects on peoples health... You said that thousands have taken it without incident, but same goes for any drug of any kind. Thousands of people eat oily greasy slop from fast food joints every day, and while they aren't dying immediately out of the drive thru, heart disease is still the number one cause of death in America... I wouldnt say thousands of people eat at Jack in the Box without incident, though... Or just because people drive their cars every day and never seem to get into any accidents, they are still just as likely to actually crash, regardless of if they've crashed before or not. Bad analogy, but I think it demonstrates what I'm trying to articulate, lol.
I think we're both just skeptics trying to find the even truth. And I wish you the best :)
Edit: a better analogy would be the regular consumption of Marijuana. Most medical professionals would say not to smoke weed every day but ask almost stoner if they think it's unhealthy or dangerous to get high daily... As someone who smoked daily for years, I can by a first hand account honestly list the various ways that it has negatively impacted my health. My testosterone levels were so low from the regular consumption, I had given myself an undiagnosable illness called CHS, which makes you violently vomit in the mornings WITH OR WITHOUT weed. I relied on it for depression and boredom. My memory was that of a 65 year old in my mid 20s... There was a LOT going wrong, but I would never have admitted it, because it allowed me to sleep at night (chronic insomnia since early childhood)... Most stoners would be quick to blame those issues on other things before accepting that consuming weed long enough might have been what caused it... I sure as FUCK would never have admitted it, because I didn't believe it. Too many people supporting it to step back and look at it critically.
Food for thought.
I am probably older than you and don't smoke weed at all, drink only occasionally. It really bothers me that my kids' generation thinks you can smoke pot day after day without consequence.
I agree wholeheartedly. It's a viscous cycle for many kids, who then get that behavior reinforced by other people smoking a lot of weed as well. It's an echo chamber of people convincing themselves they aren't sick. I was in that echo chamber too!
And I had assumed that you're almost certainly older than me. I'm in my mid 30s now and sober as the ocean. I'll occasionally have a beer at family reunions but my last beer was well over a year ago now.
Age doesn't always equal wisdom. However, failing a lot and making a lot of mistakes throughout my life and learning from those mistakes does