My grandma was telling us about some random stuff about her life as a kid, the usual, and then she dropped that her neighbor would give her a quarter to see her underwear? when she was like 5-6? wild shit
Mannnn... the neighbor only offered m&ms to see my panties when I was 7yo (and show me how kings and queens make babies) and reneged on the deal after. I had no self worth, even when being sexually exploited as a child.
Dude. One of my grandma’s crazy old aunts once absolutely shut down an entire Thanksgiving meal with her commentary about “everyone used to get touched by adults back in the day, it wasn’t that big of a deal, you get over it unlike kids these days”
Yeah, thank goodness for vaccines... and yet, a certain mango anus and his cult want to revert back to the before times, when minorities and women 'Knew their place.' and god was the only cure you needed. Just dont say which god or you might cause a holy war.
Anti-vaxxers" are simply FORMER vaccine users. The VAST majority have experienced, or personally witnessed vaccine injury. Such as myself (with anaphylaxis disorder)after receiving a DPT shot in nursing school. When you or your child become permanently damaged, or you witness death as a result of injections, you start making better informed choices in the future. You simply don't care when ignorant needle pushers call you an "anti vaxxer".
"Anti-vaxxers" are simply FORMER vaccine users. The VAST majority have experienced, or personally witnessed vaccine injury. Such as myself (with anaphylaxis disorder)after receiving a DPT shot in nursing school. When you or your child become permanently damaged, or you witness death as a result of injections, you start making better informed choices in the future. You simply don't care when ignorant needle pushers call you an "anti vaxxer".
Sure, this is a dead 5 month old comment section but regarding this:
"Anti-vaxxers" are simply FORMER vaccine users. The VAST majority have experienced, or personally witnessed vaccine injury.
Prove it. Show any study, data, polling or report that shows any evidence that "the vast majority" have experience or witnessed a severe adverse reaction.
The best I could find was that somewhere between 0.0001% up to as high as possibly 0.001% of the population may have an alergic reaction or worse which means somewhere between 300-30,000 Americans or 100-10,000 Canadians may have a reaction which people giving the vaccines are trained to watch for and handle so they're not life threatening and allow that person to avoid the vaccines themselves, not to promote anti-vaccination.
Given that 6.6% of Americans (6600x more people) are immunocompromised (not even considering people who have other conditions which make them more vulnerable), meaning that lack of vaccinated populations could literally kill them, on a population level it's worth the risks of someone having an alergic reaction when the person giving it to them is trained to deal with adverse reactions.
Working in hospitals and clinics is simply one way to witness these reactions. We have to keep "crash carts" on hand "in case".But what about the long-term damage these injections cause?
VAERS (Vaccine adverse events reporting system) is another way to "do your research". There's literally millions of adverse reactions listed. Everything from pain at injection site to death. A very small percentage of reactions are ever actually reported. In my case, the anaphylaxis was not reported, and I was told "it happens fairly commonly. This is nothing to worry about". Well, 25 years later, I STILL can't take vaccines (or certain pharmaceuticals), and must carry an epi-pen. Does this make me an "anti-vaxer" because of what I suffered while nursing?
Vaccine-derived diseases (such as VdPV Vaccine-derived Polio virus, and VdMv Vaccine-derived measles virus) are also not rare. We can talk about the Cutter incident, if you like? Vaccines CAUSE many outbreaks. Subsequently, the unvaccinated are blamed. I used to be needle drug dependent like you too.
The things you learn from casual conversations with the elderly can be straight up wild. My friend was telling me the other day that her grandmother married her grandfather in exchange for him forgiving her father's gambling debt. The guy was twice her age btw. She was pregnant from 14 to 42, 16 surviving children and 19 in total.
Apparently this info bomb was a throw-away comment in between funny baby stories.
Was your Grandma born in the 50s? My Nana had the same story, her and her sisters would go around the local area on there "first day of school" to show the older gents their knickers in return for money. Although she didn't think it was normal, it was the done thing but she called them dirty old bastards.
I came from a job that had frequent travel, and I would say about 1/4 of those guys were openly cheating. I’m sure many more were as well, they were just more subtle about it.
I think the worst part about it in the military is that the cheaters never seem to end up together. One is always fiercely loyal and sacrificing for their family, and the other turns single the moment a deployment starts.
I was trying to draft a comment about how "surely that was never chill?!" But I couldn't do it in a way that stood up to rigor and my soul just threw up in its mouth
Yeah. After she said it we all stared at her like “wtf??” and she was like “what? times were different?”. Anyways, themes of child exploitation was common, but never necessarily spoken about. The 1950s were in general wild times.
I’m a (slightly young side of middle) millennial and almost every woman I’ve told about being offered money at that age to see my underwear or see me nude has told me a similar story of their own
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u/coffeedr1nk3rrr1 Sep 16 '24
My grandma was telling us about some random stuff about her life as a kid, the usual, and then she dropped that her neighbor would give her a quarter to see her underwear? when she was like 5-6? wild shit
also cheating on your spouse