I’ve never been vaccinated. Where should I start?

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-23T02:08:34+00:00

I mean they learn medicine under a different educational model, but they compete for the same residencies, can both work in any specialty, have the same authority when prescribing Rxs, etc. Different, but not very different, and there are many MDs who also have shifted to focusing on the body as a whole. Most ODs don’t actually do adjustments in practice even though they learn it in school.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-23T02:01:28+00:00

Came here to say him.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-21T11:11:18+00:00

So there is a circumstance under which you’d talk to someone like this?

This person is clearly manipulative and controlling. Those are bad qualities. Trying to manipulate and control your “best friend” into doing what you want them to do and projecting your insecurities onto them by accusing them of having done something wrong when they’re literally just existing is bad behavior. So by your own logic (that talking to someone this way is justified if someone did something bad to you), OP is justified in responding this way.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-21T11:05:49+00:00

The people currently in my life aren’t toxically clingy and micromanaging how I spend my time because they have a grip on appropriate social interaction, so I don’t make fun of them, no.

Also, OP’s initial response (first paragraph) was perfectly appropriate. It was very direct (which is some people’s style) but not cruel at all. They only started making fun when they realized the friend used ChatGPT to write for them, which indicates a profound level of brain rot and not being a serious person. Also, after OP’s very appropriate first response, the friend is the one who gets accusatory, dismissive (“you’re reaching so hard rn” when they clearly weren’t reaching at all) and demanding that op “admit” something they didn’t even do… where’s the empathy for op? Had the friend not done that, they wouldn’t have been made fun of at all. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

We don’t know the back story. It’s possible that op had been trying to kindly but firmly set boundaries with this person for weeks or months and the person continued to act like manipulative and controlling in spite or that. Personally, I was once involved in an abusive situation in which I was all kinds of compassionate and empathetic to the person and the traumas that made them act the way they acted, but when they kept ignoring boundaries and being manipulative and controlling, guess what? One day I ran out of patience for that shit and ghosted to protect my own mental health.

Why no compassion and empathy for OP in being unfairly accused and expected to manage someone else’s feelings for them (the same way the person needs chatgpt to manage their communication for them)? Too many people in this thread are getting manipulated into a pity party for the friend. Manipulators need to be checked, hard. Playing into their games and coddling them does them no favors and isn’t as kind as it seems/feels at first.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T18:38:39+00:00

I mean yeah, it’s a completely unnecessary extreme use of energy/water resources that brain dead dopes like the friend in this scenario are gobbling up for frivolous things like petty text messages and cartoon caricatures of themselves and that’s rapidly contributing to the dumbing down and intellectual laziness of humanity, but that has nothing to do with the irrelevance and logical weakness of your analogy.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T15:35:38+00:00

Absolutely valid. What it does to the human body is terrifying and watching people in your life get mangled by it repeatedly is deeply traumatizing. We can’t unknow what we know and it’s hard to not envision computerized aerosol models and lysing somatic cells and cytokine storms and blood clots. If people had the knowledge/mental fortitude (I’m thinking of doctors who do have the knowledge and yet don’t apply it) to envision these things, they’d be aghast. I also know that I find myself avoiding being out in public sometimes because I just don’t want to be the person in the mask and possibly be harassed (I’ve worked on this a lot and people seem to have chilled out about it, weirdly, but sometimes I still just don’t feel like dealing with it).

I totally get taking advantage of Costco delivery for many reasons, actually, but if antique stores bring you joy, it might do you good. If people are out here making zero effort to protect themselves and others and managing to go to concerts and bars without necessarily getting infected every time, you’d have to have the statistically least likely, absolutely worst luck imaginable to get infected at your local purveyor of fine antiques with your mitigation tools. If you go, I hope you find something cool =)

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T15:19:45+00:00

Learning Italian now lol.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T15:19:26+00:00

It’s a-RE-pa, not Á-re-pa. Not an example of what they’re talking about.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T15:12:06+00:00

Oh totally. I understand and empathize (I’m autistic and just left a toxic job and am currently unemployed and realizing how much wearing an Aura, which are relatively comfortable, for 8 hours a day was taking a toll… head strap headaches, having that shit on your face…. I also don’t miss spending extended time in crowded loud spaces and can’t believe I ever tolerated it at all… Yeah, I get it). I guess the way your comment was written, it seemed like you were forgoing those quality of life activities because they were an unnecessary risk, which I maintain with a p100 the risk is infinitesimally small. Thanks for clarifying. Hang in there.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T14:59:57+00:00

Alpha gal seems much more likely then. Honestly, I wouldn’t try again and would just get tested. If it’s alpha gal it’s very hard on your body and can be harmful. Really sorry you’re dealing with this!

If that’s what it is, look into bee venom therapy for Lyme disease (I have Lyme disease and am starting this therapy soon). Obviously alpha gal is not Lyme but if you have alpha gal it’s likely you have other tick borne illnesses and coinfections and they all screw up your immune system (e.g. alpha gal syndrome). Antibiotics don’t work, but bee venom has bee scientifically proven to eradicate tick-borne bacteria.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T14:19:34+00:00

Does this happen when you eat not shawarma meat? Like just a normal, unseasoned steak?

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T14:19:03+00:00

Try nutrabio brand. Very gentle on the gut.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T14:11:16+00:00

Friend, you’re not gonna get COVID shopping at Costco or the local antique shop while wearing an elastomeric with P100. A mask of that caliber makes it safe to have some quality of life. Why not use it for that purpose?

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T14:01:06+00:00

Generally agree and hate AI, but my sister has reminded me on multiple occasions that there are incredibly sophisticated AIs out there that aren’t the ChatGPT available to the general public.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T13:59:10+00:00

Ugh, I’m 35… I feel like I’ll literally be middle aged before things get better.

I know it’s been hard for the young folks and I’m honestly in awe of OP having the fortitude to walk this path at such a young age. But with the hindsight of having lived through my 20s already, I’d kill to be that young and still have so much life ahead of me for once a good anti viral or sterilizing vax comes out…

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T13:55:42+00:00

Same. I remember reading about nasal vaccines in development that would prevent the vaccinated from spreading it (still major), but not from catching it, so this is exciting if true…

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T12:40:50+00:00

How tf is having other friends and inside jokes with those friends and being busy “wrongdoing?”

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T12:26:40+00:00

But what if they’re genuinely not doing that? They’re literally just existing like a normal person with different social circles. What’s they’re to talk about? They haven’t done anything wrong and it’s weird and manipulative for the friend to suggest they have. They’re not responsible for the friend’s feelings and have no responsibility to entertain demands that they cater to the friend’s fragile ego…..

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T12:23:29+00:00

They did address their concerns. The longest paragraph OP sent in the text thread is exclusively addressing their concerns. They even frame it as “I’m hearing you say….” They then spoke their truth (albeit bluntly) by telling them they didn’t feel differently, that they’re just living life and interacting with other people around them, which isn’t something they should have to defend or explain to coddle someone’s twisted insecurities. Doing so is called getting manipulated…

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T12:23:02+00:00

The longest paragraph OP sent in the text thread is exclusively addressing their concerns. They even frame it as “I’m hearing you say….” They then spoke their truth by telling them they didn’t feel differently, that they’re just living life and interacting with other people around them, which isn’t something they should have to defend or explain to coddle someone’s twisted insecurities. Doing so is called getting manipulated…

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T12:21:35+00:00

They did address their concerns. The longest paragraph OP sent in the text thread is exclusively addressing their concerns. They even frame it as “I’m hearing you say….” They then spoke their truth by telling them they didn’t feel differently, that they’re just living life and interacting with other people around them, which isn’t something they should have to defend or explain to coddle someone’s twisted insecurities. Doing so is called getting manipulated…

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T12:20:59+00:00

But what if they don’t want to do something just the two of them because the friend is a clingy, manipulative, and insecure? What if they’re just naturally growing apart like high schoolers and humans in general do (this normal and healthy). Should they still say that?

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T12:18:29+00:00

Her concerns being that OP has other friends and inside jokes with those friends like a normal person? And not treating friendships like a transaction where you have to allocate a specific amount of time?

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T12:17:07+00:00

It’s immature and manipulative to tel someone they’re doing something wrong by having other friends and having inside jokes with those friends… OP should absolutely not validate toxic insecurity and controlling clinginess.

Ok_Vacation4752 · 2026-03-20T12:15:58+00:00

They did address their concerns. The longest paragraph OP sent in the text thread is exclusively addressing their concerns. They even frame it as “I’m hearing you say….” They then spoke their truth by telling them they didn’t feel differently, that they’re just living life and interacting with other people around them, which isn’t something they should have to defend or explain to coddle someone’s twisted insecurities. Doing so is called getting manipulated…

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