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He still has a terminal diagnosis because of the nature of this type of cancer, but it’s now a coin toss between whether cancer or old age gets him.

And funnily enough while my parents are/were the bad crunchy types, the one thing they never avoid is vaccines. They’re extremely provaccine and my dad actually just got all of his boosters this week.

My mother’s cousin had polio as a kid and my dad actually ended up in a sanatorium for tuberculosis when he was five or six, so I think that influenced their outlook on that. They had me and my brother vaccinated for everything possible when we were kids

The only thing I wasn't fully vaccinated for was for whooping cough because I had an allergic reaction, and when I got whooping cough at school because of the anti-vax movement that was taking off at the time, my mother was livid.

Anecdotally, while quite a few people in the MCAS community attribute the onset of their illness to the mRNA vaccine (and I believe it may have contributed for them. MCAS is a bonkers disease) I was told by my doctors to hold off until they had more data, so I spent a terrifying year unvaccinated for COVID.

Eventually when my doctor deemed it safe enough for me and we took every precaution to avoid idiopathic anaphylaxis, I actually went into partial remission after getting the mRNA vaccine. The chronic hives I’d been covered in for almost five years nonstop vanished. It just stopped.

Something in my immune system went “huh” in response to it and started trying to function again. And I’ve been able to tolerate other non mRNA vaccines again since then, which I couldn’t before. I actually got the whooping cough vaccine on accident while getting a tetanus shot and nothing happened. Everyone was bracing for me to crash and go into shock and I was just... Fine.

Sorry for the lack of alt ID folks, I’m having a bad brain day, but hey, @stringsofglass, I dont know where you are in the world, but strapless adhesive N95 masks are a thing and not many people know about them.

This is one example a friend of mine uses because she also can’t wear regular masks without it causing conflicting issues with her nerve pain:

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

fight the unkillable god, because you may be the first bacterium to take a successful bite.

fight the unkillable god, so as to set foot onto the path which leads to the god being killable.

the bacteria that couldn't eat the tree and the bacteria that could eat the tree had the same general understanding of the tree.

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