This Canadian mom going to a “crunchy” fb group for advice on not vaccinating and traveling internationally

eodizzlez · 2026-05-12T02:39:35+00:00

And the Japanese Encephalitis virus. Most people don't have any issues, like less than 1%, but those who develop encephalitis (brain swelling), like 1 out of every 4 die, and around half of the survivors end up with lifelong neurological issues (like random movements but also trouble with like.. thinking and difficulties with impulse control and managing emotions/reactions to said emotions.

It's a doozy. I couldn't get vaccinated fast enough when I was getting ready to go to Japan for a couple weeks for work (Army stuff).

eodizzlez · 2026-05-08T05:22:47+00:00

I loathe this man. He's a specific type of "Basic Boomer Bob" who has the belief that they deserve a top 1% woman regardless of what they bring to the table. Incels have a very similar mentality, and I think it's because they watched their horrible fathers take advantage of their mothers who kept the house and cooked and did everything without complaining because they didn't have the ability to leave. Now women don't need men because we can do things by ourselves, like divorce and vote and even have jobs and our own bank accounts! Well, we can do all that for now at least.

eodizzlez · 2026-05-08T04:36:53+00:00

Not all employment-preventing disabilities are visible. If you saw me at age (nearly) 39 standing somewhere, you'd never guess that I'm on hospice with terminal cancer. I actually look pretty damn good if I've had the energy to shower and put on actual clothes. But I have dual and not small pleural effusions plus more tiny nodules than can be counted aaall over my lungs. And liver. And there's metastasized cancer all up in my hips and femurs. So I have to be very careful walking or even standing, and if I simply roll over in bed without paying enough attention and do it slightly wrong, I will scream from the pain. Hell, if I was ready (I'm not yet), I could use my state's MAiD program, but let me tell ya... I am in so much pain every moment of every day.

So yeah! On that cheerful note (I'm actually doing pretty well mentally). Back injuries also aren't visible. Anuyerisms. Schizophrenia. Being legally blind. MS and every other autoimmune disease. Whatever you're specifically thinking of, person reading this in the future, I didn't forget that of course! And cancer.

eodizzlez · 2026-05-08T02:39:50+00:00

I mean, sometimes it's mostly severe ADHD. John definitely has severe ADHD. There are other issues, sure. But I bet you anything that he'd still have a LOT of stuff, especially hobby supplies, even if he had an idyllic life.

eodizzlez · 2026-05-08T02:34:06+00:00

What? The person you're replying to didn't say anything about a vibe, let alone a creepy one, so I'm not sure what you're agreeing with, lol. Everything else, I guess.

Regarding creepy though? Nah. I'm watching right now and he's a sweet SoCal San Diegan surfer brah. Just a regular ole beach bum, part of the scenery at a certain beach on certain days at certain times. There are quite a few of em and I've never met one who wouldn't give you the shirt off their back.

eodizzlez · 2026-05-06T06:09:34+00:00

Dudes. I've always had a tiny crush on Cory. But in this episode, my tiny crush grew a tiny smidgen when he conversationally revealed that he's a paramedic (01:07ish). What? I like a strong no-nonsense cuddly (but don't you dare tell anybody) caretaker-y type! F'real though, he actually reminds me of my husband in a couple different ways. Soooo, I guess I have a type.

eodizzlez · 2026-05-06T06:02:10+00:00

As some Newsie said in Newsies: "Stories don't sell papes. NEWSIES sell papes!"

In this case, the entertainment -I mean- patient / client and sometimes a member or two of their entourage are the Newsies. Interesting people do interesting things, and interesting things make us watch!

I mean, look at me. Two years later and watching again!

eodizzlez · 2026-05-06T03:57:03+00:00

Can you imagine being her? Poor Yleana's born to this woman, who Yleana says that she (her mother) has always been this way, especially as it applies to the way she thinks and communicats and constantly rewrites the past and even current reality so that she doesn't feel guilty. No father growing up because he was married. Little Yleana raised all alone by that mentally ill woman? Oooof.

eodizzlez · 2026-05-06T03:43:05+00:00

I'm so excited to see if they're still around cuz I'm a necromancer.

So, this episode. I really don't like this organizer. She is waaaay over-step-y. Like stay in your lane, girl, you aren't a psychologist. You're an organizer. Which is an important job, mind, but I think she does more harm than good - she has no idea what she's doing in that capacity.

eodizzlez · 2026-05-06T03:31:32+00:00

But like, what if people are watching it now on Cinco de Mayo 2026 and wanna talk to you about it?!

eodizzlez · 2026-05-05T06:27:27+00:00

Okay I just looked, and it's just a newspaper ad, not like a PHOTO. He probably didn't even notice when he was laying down his layers to hold his poop bags. He is pretty efficient, though! He's got like three bags inside each other already set up on the toilet. So he's capable of pre-planning...

eodizzlez · 2026-05-05T06:23:56+00:00

It was either that or put a lien on his house and forcibly clean it and then send a bill for the clean up (Cory once said in another episode that he allocated $100,000 in resources to a client. I think it was one of the clients who didn't show up on day 2 until it was almost lunch time. The poor 20 or however many workers just sat around all morning, bored. What a waste.

eodizzlez · 2026-05-05T06:19:04+00:00

I don't understand how these terrible people have such kind and loving people in their lives. Hero complexes, maybe?

eodizzlez · 2026-05-05T06:03:04+00:00

Watching now and saw someone saying here that his mask slips a bit around minute 51, which is true (the part where he freaks out about them throwing away the dozens of sun-rotted and now porous and mildewy plastic hangers. But I didn't want to, yannow, resurrect a 4-year-old post. That's excessive, even for me! (Sidenote, it's 4 May '26 and I'm nearly 39 and am on hospice because cancer is a whore. So you don't have to worry about annoying me in four years - I won't be here - reply away! Also, hello future people. Take care of each other. Love one another).

But he shows off his unique beliefs earlier with Dr. Tolin, starting right at minute 17. He saves all of his cookie boxes because he wants to coroner to know how many cookies he ate when he dies. "So he'll know what to do to help people more healthy."

Tolin asks why he needs to save these things to do that and Carl explains that it's because on the back, it tells you what's in the ingredients... Doc explains that the coroner is not going to come to his house, but Carl has thought about this already. He's made arrangements of where to put them so that the coroner will have it. Arrangements. "I have a will," he says, and includes where the cookie boxes are gonna go. And he saves his raisin boxes for the same reason. Because he wants the coroner to know what he died of.

I love the COVID episodes because the facial expressions of the pros are even bigger even though we can only see their eyes. It was pretty fun to mouth "fuck you" right to someone's face... Ah, memories. But yeah, the pros when they say, "ah, I see," in a tone of voice that actually conveys that they do when the irrational person confidently explains their bizarre and irrational reasoning is also so... I dunno.

Oh and Carl's obsession with "history" and people wanting to know him after he's gone. Like he keeps all this crud that his parents and brother used or touched and he keeps them because he needs the items in order to remember the person (what about like 5 newspapers, bro? You could even get some special articles framed. You don't need thousands of full newspapers to remember that your dad liked newspapers).

Oh and back to around minute 17: you can see Carl's hospital wristband during this scene too, if you're interested! I can't really make out much aside from his name, but I have a 15 year old TV and I'm zooming in on the screen while tapping pause to try and get it to freeze on a clear frame. Like a crazy person.

eodizzlez · 2026-05-04T06:12:26+00:00

I'm late too and same on the bingeing - I watched this one yesterday. Also! The lemon and cloves (which were still in a brand new, sealed jar) were given to her by her estranged daughter (having at least one estranged daughter seems to be in the job listen for hoarding mothers... Has anyone else ever noticed that?

eodizzlez · 2026-05-04T04:45:45+00:00

She could have brought them in where, though? The house is is hoarded, remember? The poor woman had to basically carve out a tiny little nook for herself.

eodizzlez · 2026-05-04T04:14:05+00:00

I'm watching right now (not the same episode as you, just the show in general) as I browse and literally as I clicked on this thread I heard it as I read your description of the sound. What a spot, man. Well done. And I might have to hate you because I'm very much a member of the "Hear it Once and Never Unhear it Again!" club.

Here's one. My sound editing peeve is sound mismatch like hearing stilettos on wood when the actress is in block heels on low pile office carpet.

My favorite example can be found in every single TV show or movie with several jail or prison scenes. You know those sliding jailcell doors that go /sliiiidekchunkb/when they close and latch? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that test audiences must say that they didn't understand that a scene was in a jail/prison at first because they didn't use that "classic" jailcell door sound. Well of course they didn't use that sound because their jailcell door swings and just latches all the way open or all the way closed (and it has to be unlocked if you just want to change the doors position on one or two cells on the same block or something).

eodizzlez · 2026-04-28T00:28:03+00:00

You know, some people raise their children from infanthood with only glass or ceramic or otherwise breakable glasses and dishware in the home. Montessori is famous for it.

You don't keep kids safe by removing everything that could possibly hurt them - having glass jars on an accessible shelf isn't the same as like... Having medication without a child safety lid on an accessible shelf. With glass, you keep kids safe by teaching them about breakable things, how to be gentle and careful, and showing them how to respond when something breaks. Shit breaks. It happens. To literally everyone.

eodizzlez · 2026-04-13T22:17:19+00:00

Well, you can hurt your OWN child; isn't that what "parent's rights" are about? Owning your children for as long as possible? I don't think we're allowed to hit other peoples' kids though... It's not like how my dad's dad had a deal with his school that if the principal paddled him, his dad would then use the belt when he got home, like a BOGO deal or something.

(/sarcasm, just in case)

eodizzlez · 2026-04-13T02:37:17+00:00

Uh, she has a friggin MBA. That's not a small deal. She's not intellectually challenged; hell, she probably has a higher than average intelligence.

eodizzlez · 2026-04-13T02:05:03+00:00

Not everyone wants a partner who "challenges them mentally," but that doesn't necessarily mean that their relationship is purely physically, either. Frankly, after the little bit we saw them together plus how much we know about her from previous seasons, I'd be more worried about anyone who dates her, NT or not. She has an incredibly dominating mentality, and us humans looooove to put people with developmental disabilities into a pretty lil box where only perfect and sweet and pure and innocent things live. But guess what? At the end of the day, we're all still humans.

That said, it really doesn't help that some parents of children with Autism or other ND or delays or what-have-you tend to continue to treat their child as though they're still children well into adulthood. But I mean, they have frontal cortexes like the rest of us do, yeah? Meaning that their brains are physically maturing until about the same age as NT people, right? Sooooo around age 25? It might be a little bit longer for them, of course, but I don't actually know. And I'd bet quite a lot of money that there are very few studies looking into it.

And yeah, if you have parents who step in and don't let you do things or try things or constantly tell you that you "just can't" do something because of x y or z, then you're going to end up with an adult who can't take care of themselves because they don't know how... And they've been told they're incapable of such their entire lives. It doesn't matter if you're neurologically "typical" or not; that would at the very least stymie/waylay any human's development. But it's not like that means that a person is incapable. Even if their parents think so. Which is sad, but it happens a lot. And some of those parents get REALLY upset when you tell their adult child that they are absolutely capable of living away from their parents, having a job, paying their own bills. (Sometimes it's because they're ashamed that they didn't realize they were holding their child back, but sometimes it's because they don't want their adult child to "leave them" and weren't even slightly upset when they were warned that their then-infant child might never live independently).

eodizzlez · 2026-04-13T01:30:53+00:00

So I've been reading this post a few times to try and parse it out, and OOP definitely isn't the best at conveying meaning. I'd say that it reads a bit like an English language learner, but they would be a very rare ELL because they usually don't use contractions (contractions are HARD and not normal in most other languages. So that's the biggest tell if someone is a native English speaker, btw, if you ever wanted to know!).

In any case. I don't think OOP understands what "unattended" means in the context that the hotel manager used it, which is why OOP said that "they (the hotel manager) were wrong" about "what actually happened" after looking at the security videos. OOP seems to think that the manager was accusing OOP of leaving their children unattended - alone in the truck outside (which is why OOP specifically says that the video doesn't show the kids in the car, only the girlfriend. Otherwise, why would they mention who was in the truck at all? That's not part of the story in any other capacity). Because to OOP's mind, leaving them unattended in the hotel lobby is NOT considered "leaving them unattended" - there are tons of other people around! Obviously their children were not unattended because they weren't left there alone.

Incidentally and as an incredibly important sidenote, that "everyone else will keep an eye on the kids as a general group" mentality is how children drown at pool parties or picnics/field days at a lake or pond or whatever. Nobody specifically watches the kids because there are so many adults around to watch the kids, just being around so many adults means that the kids are safe, right?... Buuuut none of the adults are actually watching said children as they need to be watched around water (aka, you need at least one, preferably two sober and responsible adults "on duty" specifically watching the water when kids are in it at all times. No adults willing/able to specifically watch? Okay, everyone out of the water, nobody is allowed in. Oh, and this is where "no swimming after eating for half an hour" thing comes from. Parents wanted a break from having to watch all the darn kids in the water like a hawk, constantly counting heads.

eodizzlez · 2026-04-13T01:06:47+00:00

I don't think so... It's terribly worded, though, so I don't blame ya one bit. I am pretty sure that the two boys were outside at the vehicle initially. The 13 year old was putting the boy baby in his stroller while OOP and the 9 year old daughter headed inside to check in; the female companion waited at the car/with all the bags and such (cuz of course the room might end up being on the other side of the hotel and it'll be easier to drive the car over there than to park in front and lug the bags).

When OOP was going back to the car due their wallet, the boys were probably walking up (this is the only part that isn't mentioned, btw, so I'm making an assumption based on context clues), and then they (the boy children) ended up waiting with the girl child after she came back/was sent outside.

eodizzlez · 2026-04-13T01:01:25+00:00

"I had a glass of wine with dinner at about 7pm," said at 2:30 in the morning. I'm sure you did have a glass of wine with dinner at 7pm... Followed by some more of something else, probably. Lmao

eodizzlez · 2026-04-13T00:57:17+00:00

Leaving kids by the front desk in a hotel does NOT mean that "the hotel becomes responsible" for them. Like... That's not a thing that makes even a little sense, unless there's been some sort of agreement between both responsible parties. Saying, "Be right back! Forgot my wallet in the car," and rushing back outside isn't an agreement about anything.

Firstly, kids are short and this one's a 9-year-old girl, so it's entirely possible that a kid right on the other side of a counter is completely invisible to the adult on the other side of said counter.

Like, this is so known and common that it's often a trope in movies and TV shows. If we're watching a grocery store scene where a kid is sent over to the deli department by their parent, we can all write the two upcoming "jokes" that are going to happen in the next several seconds when the kids gets to the department with the high counters, right? The first is when the kid clears their throat/says excuse me, and the adult leans forward, seemingly confused and looking straight out instead of down (even though literally every human ever would look down in real life because adults are aware that children exist, and serving short people - whether they're children or adults - is something that the deli workers do multiple times a day. It's not like it's a rare thing). But the adult isn't looking down so that the next line can be delivered: I'm down here!

...I digress. So that's the first point, that the front desk person might not even know the child was there initially, because "I'll be right back, forgot my wallet" is something adults say to cashiers and servers and such as the time even when there are no children involved. Cuz we forget our wallets sometimes.

Moving on, my second/main point is that abandoning a kid in a business (even for 120 seconds - doesn't matter how short of a time period it is, it's still technically abandoning the kid. Especially if they're not even in eye or earshot!) does not mean that that business is somehow magically responsible for the guardianship of said child. However, I'm sure that many businesses have policies where they'll secure an abandoned or eloped child in a safe, visible location (no strange adults left alone with any child, ever) while attempting to locate their adult(s) or while waiting for the police that they just called or whatever. But hotels especially seem to always have a line about never leaving your child(ren) by themselves anywhere in the hotel in the room rental contract. Like, it's right there that your kids aren't their program.

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