I've possibly mentioned it here a time or two before, I hav moderate emphysema, and moderate asthma. As such I am in the elevated risk group so I get vaccinated when needed.
Yesterday was a couple of vaccinations, pneumonia, flu, COVID booster and second round of hep A/B vaccine (occupational exposure hazard of plumbing).
This morning I was handing over my doctors excuse. Typically I don't give information when I visit a doctor- here's my excuse go fuck yourself please. For some reason I told the office manager why I went - vaccinations, blood work, and a referral for my twice yearly endoscopy.
You'd have though I told her I kick puppies and steal old folks disability checks, the fucking look she gave me.
She started out with this 'have you done your research...' bullshit, so I asked her why her medical degrees weren't hanging up if she knew better than medical professionals and left for my first service call. Then, I got to listen to my 17 year old apprentice (the owners dipshit son) explain to me how I really need to do some research and I'd probably change my opinion because I'm smart and I just need to be shown the right info, and that the other guys at the shop agreed about vaccinations. He then tried explaining to me that his grandpa who died last year of complications from esophageal cancer was really complications from the covid booster two years later.
Told him I'm dropping him with his daddy because we can't justify the labor for an apprentice and a plumber for the service calls I had lined up today.
Ain't fucking doing it anymore. I'm sixteen hours into overtime already and I'm paid double time so I'm not fucking this week up. I will finish my week at one shop and I will have another job by Friday this week if worse comes to it.
I'm not arguing with assholes anymore in the year of our lord twenty twenty five.
How was y'all's day?
I have a friend that used to work at morgues and the morgue techs would laugh at you for getting vaxxed and wearing protective equipment. They would also regularly do shit like eating in the morgue room and even placing plates on the bodies. My friend even described them eating with blood all over their hands from numerous dead bodies. Always shocked when they get diagnosed with mega death plague and die at 45. In fact one was diagnosed with like 6 different diseases and HIV to boot. People still deny germ theory I guess
Got that 15th century mindset (miasma theory).
If people really believed in miasma theory they'd mask! It's more like worshiping the right idols will keep illness at bay.
It's more like licking the idols that everyone else rubs for good luck.
Jesus Christ, I read Master and Commander recently (surprisingly fun book, would recommend), and there's a scene where the ship's doctor is on shore leave, doing some cadaver dissection. One of his doctor friends comes over and they eat lunch next to a dead body, using the dissecting knife to cut their lunch (don't worry, they wiped it on a cloth first). That scene made me laugh because I'm like "wow, no one would do that these days, because we understand germ theory". How wrong I was, apparently
Good god. Thats macabre, and bizarre all in one.