Obviously this is a joke, but for real I dreamed that this was what happened to my grandmother after taking it... so it's a bit freaky to me that you put it this way! It was a super spooky and vivid dream, I was crying over her gelatinous puddle form--it was like all her bones disappeared. Bizarre.
But isn't a lot of the difficult recovery/post-sickness problems caused by the ventilator rather than the virus? Weren't many people put on ventilators unnecessarily because the hospitals are receiving so many thousands of dollars for every patient they put on one? That is my understanding of the situation.
It doesn't show him actually going inside the building. And presumably this took place before it was all fenced off and locked down or the press wouldn't be there, right? Doesn't exactly disprove the rumors I heard...
"Energetic vampirism" isn't a scientific concept--it's a metaphysical one. But it's a very real phenomenon and I'd like more people to become aware of its effects, so I referenced it here.
You can't be "incorrectly assigned female at birth." Your body is your body, and male and female traits are very obvious in humans as they are in many species. Doctors aren't "incorrectly assigning it" by correctly identifying your biology. Recognizing biology isn't "oppressing trans people." Feeling like a woman doesn't mean you are a woman. But of course you already know all of this as any young child with eyes does, so I really have to question your motives and intent here.
Again, you can choose to dress and act however you want--you don't have to conform to gender stereotypes. In fact, we live in a more accepting society in that regard than has ever existed before--I would think you would be celebrating and enjoying that freedom of expression? But it's not really about that really, is it? You just want to control other peoples' speech and make them feel badly about themselves so you can keep on posturing like some kind of victim and demanding special privileges.
What does this conversation have to do with "black and brown bodies"? Now you're playing the race card and trying to appropriate other groups' experiences for oppression points? You think people don't see through that?
Your original comment on this post shows that you do not care about actual women's feelings, so why should women care about your feelings? Why would you come onto a Q forum in the first place? Someone else told me you are probably just trolling, so I have to assume that's all this is. I tried to offer genuine advice and concern for your mental and emotional well-being, and all I got back was insults and false accusations about my intentions. I hope you think back to this conversation down the road when your own personal experience shows you that I was only trying to warn you what a dark path you are embarking upon in terms of your relationship with the truth. Be well, and I do hope you find true self-acceptance, but I don't have time for mean-spirited insults and disingenuous argumentation.
Please explain how words can do "direct harm to bodies." "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words can never hurt me." You are trying to intimidate and guilt trip well-meaning people into doubting themselves so that they will compromise themselves to lies. It is all sophistry, and it is a form of energetic vampirism where you cause others to deny their own perceptions and feelings purely for your benefit. If you are unhappy with yourself, then figure out why and work to improve it. I hate to tell you this, but no amount of trying to force other people to cater to you will ever make you truly love yourself or feel good about yourself. That can only come from within, when you choose to fully accept yourself regardless of other people or "society."
If gender is merely a social construct, then why would you bother going through all of the trouble of transitioning to a different gender? If it's just a social construct, then why don't you just ignore it? Why does gender matter at all to YOU?
Your own body isn't "wrongfully imprisoning you" by having a gender. Plenty of people feel uncomfortable in their bodies for countless reasons--that is a normal feeling that you are choosing to fetishize into a "movement" so that you can play the victim while lobbying major establishments for social benefits.
I have watched interviews and read forum posts with countless trans individuals who have lived to tell the tale. There are opportunists in the medical establishment who are making a fortune off of these surgeries that leave even the most popular and famous trans stars literally scarred for life both physically and emotionally, and the medical establishment doesn't even know what to do at that point because the damage has already been done. This is a relatively new and trendy phenomenon whose long term effects have yet to be revealed, but the stories I've read about post-op individuals are absolutely heartbreaking.
You are on this forum for a reason. Believe it or not, I genuinely hope that for your own sake, you will revisit some of these beliefs and see the garden path you are being led down while being used as a political pawn. And if you claim that words are violence, then surely you can see the violence in trying to force your own lack of self-acceptance down other peoples' throats and label them horrible things if they disagree with it.
I know this might be tough to accept, but men cannot actually become women, no matter how many hormones they take or surgeries they have. Sex is determined by the chromosomes at birth (either XX or XY). The sooner you accept this as biological fact, the sooner you can move on with your life and find genuine enrichment in pursuits that are meaningful to you. Challenging societal gender role stereotypes is one thing, and if you want to cross dress or act more "feminine" I say go for it, but trying to force society to mold itself around a false belief that you can actually "become the other sex" has got to stop. It's not healthy for anybody, least of all the countless transgender individuals who end up harming themselves when they finally understand that transitioning did not actually solve the core emotional problems they were grappling with all along, and in the meantime they often did irreversible damage to their bodies.
Moving from an extremely blue state to a MAGA-supporting red state worked for my partner and me, and I know there are a million excuses anyone could come up with for why it's "too hard", but we did it without jobs and with little money (he lost his business last year, and I was only doing some remote freelance/contract work here or there but still fortunately had some previous savings), and some other significant challenges stacked against us. But last spring and summer we were both horribly depressed/hopeless, and he was having nonstop panic attacks, insomnia, and a nervous breakdown back home. He despises change, and we knew it would be a ton of hard work and risk, but at some point you have to ask yourself, what is your health/sanity/life worth to you?
After months of not being able to secure jobs here by applying over the internet, we finally took the leap anyway, packed all our stuff into a POD (which I HIGHLY recommend if it's an option) and drove down, bouncing around cheap hotels for over a month and then luckily finding a nice inexpensive VRBO for another month and a half, where we spent Christmas. There were many times we thought we couldn't make the transition happen, panicked about running out of money, and felt uncertain about the future (I took a crappy seasonal warehouse-type job just to have enough income to qualify for a year-long rental), but I truly believe that if we successfully made it happen, then so could the average American. And now that we are here, surrounded by Trump flags/stickers and people who think the way we do, we know for certain that it was never us that was the problem, it was our horrifically-run state and the awful, awful people there. While it's been tough for me walking away from 95+% of people in my former life, I am grateful every single day that we made this choice and stuck it out through the stress, and now the future actually looks bright again.
Again, I know it's a scary idea for many, but where there's a will, there's a way, and there are stories of people who have made similar leaps with even far less than we had (Mikenificent from RSBN is one, I believe). Anyway, I hope that sharing our story will help someone out there.
I think it's less about the journalists and more about the publications; they simply won't be willing to publish it even if the journalists want to. And if it can't be/isn't published in mainstream/"established"/"verified" publications, the normies simply won't take it seriously.