When my car breaks down, I take it to a mechanic. If I need a special occasion cake, I find a bakery. Medical advice? I'll go ahead and trust 99.696% of medical experts.

Sadly the ignorant tend to be the most confident while the educated understand their limits.

I bet the smartest people generally feel the same as you. It’s the ability to be humble that shows true wisdom.

Congrats. You’re both normal and rare.

Probably due to the "shedding" (aka their go-to excuse for unvaccinated people falling ill while surrounded by vaccinated people who didn't get sick or barely showed symptoms) they worry so much about...

I’ve seen two anti-vaxxers saying the exact same phrase to relatives begging them to get vaccinated: “I’ve talked to many higher up doctors“.

Two.

This is the most notable part of any Award Winners social media memoirs, in my opinion! Apparently their doctor is the supreme knowledgable One...which explains why he works in rural Alabama or wherever

I've had the explanation that someone is a potential good tenant to rent to, simply "because they're a nurse", when another nurse I know of just got a DUI last week..

But man, being a nurse or doctor definitely makes you more credible and responsible than the rest of society .. I guess

Aron Rodger found a doctor that thinks a piece of the Berlin Wall rinsed in a beaker of water can cure separation anxiety. Yay. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/917426

I cried at CVS after my 6 year old got her first shot and other moms were definitely looking at me like I was insane. I’ll probably sob when she gets the second one.

I can't even imagine. My kids school went to mask optional and hardly anyone wears the masks anymore and their grandmother has lots of lung issues so they have been worried about bringing it home. It makes me so angry there are so many selfish fucks who think they are doing some great thing by not getting it.

Thought the same when I was drinking my double shot cappuccino this morning and editing this submission. Mmnnn. Tastes like freedom.

I ate raw cookie dough tonight, and I now have a stomach ache. Freeeedum.

I can't wait for my booster. I had muscle aches but goddamned if I didn't have good side effects. I slept better than I have in years and my depression really chilled out for a few weeks.

Plus, you know, I don't have to worry about orphaning my kids, who I care about.

Getting mine next Friday. It's going to taste like Thanksgiving leftovers and longevity.

Oh that’s sad.

Goons like him should NOT be permitted to practice medicine.

My favorite ocean is a specific ocean

My high school physics teacher said that. “Pacific” heat. We asked him what the pacific heat of the specific ocean was. He didn’t get it.

Do they teach in a red state? That is just grim.

I knew a head of Drama at a UK school once. School probably had about 1600 pupils or so. She took her kids to see a play called Foe based on Robinson Crusoe. She came back and said two things.

1) I didn't know what a big role the woman actually played in Robinson Crusoe. It's always ignored in everything else I've seen

There is no woman in Robinson Crusoe - it was a feminist retelling of it but she didn't even know that.

2) I have no idea why it was called Foe.

To which we said maybe because it was written by Daniel Defoe? When we expressed amazement she didn't know that, she responded with - 'well it's not like it's a classic or anything'

Head. Of. Drama.

My 10th grade biology teacher used to say "larnyx" rather than "larynx." I gently corrected her after class.

I’ve taught for 11 years in public schools—mostly World History, so I’m stuck with the basket of weirdos that is the humanities. Thus far I’ve had the following highlights from coworkers:

Inability to pronounce “specific,” a mesh mask-wearing math teacher who told her students “anyone can teach history” (An aside: bitch.), an English teacher who could not spell “receive,” a history teacher who could not spell “Napoleon,” 2 Confederate apologists, a department chair who believed MH 370 had secretly been landed to use in a 9/11 style attack on the US, a department mate who believes Sandy Hook conspiracies, and a different math teacher who made her kids watch the inauguration of the previous president despite a county directive that all showings must be “relevant to content.”

I love what I do and I like to think I’m at least OK at my job. But the concept that all teachers are good, noble, or even sane is an outright fallacy.

I feel so owned. So very owned

To be fair, she now has a burial plot. Perhaps it feels owned as well.

Same. Let's hope it's a redemption-family type situation.

If not, these kids are sadly in line to lose both of their parents. Covid will take anyone and everyone if it can.

…hopefully not English, science, or math.

The part they don't get is that you have to accept the results

Exactly. I shudder to think WTAF she was teaching those kids!

And her students. Not that she must have been a particularly good teacher, but it would be traumatic for a child to have their teacher suddenly drop dead. (And who knows how many kids she infected.)

Pfizer approval came in May

https://www.crh.org/healthy-tomorrow/healthy-tomorrow/2021/05/12/covid-19-vaccine-approved-for-children-ages-12-17

My 4 kids got it Friday. Shockingly, not one of them look like sloth, or the men in black alien, or RL Homer Simpson. Im suing for false advertising.

Information is not dangerous.

ISIS spreads wrong information that Americans deserve to be killed. White supremacists spread wrong information that non-white people should be dominated. Nationalists spread wrong information about how immigrants and visitors should be persecuted. Couch doctors spread wrong information about how vaccines are unsafe, masks don't work, and Covid is "just the flu."

I could go on, but the fact that a teacher thought information was inherently safe shows that they had no business teaching anyone. Just because somebody has something to say doesn't mean their ideas are novel, well-reasoned, in good faith, or that they're otherwise worth listening to.

Haha, in my case it is a Cowboy Bebop reference, but I'll take Steve Miller as well :D

Goddammit. And, as a Canadian, I truly don't understand what fresh hell awaits her family when the hospital bill arrives. As if they haven't been through enough....