Just because it's old, or has many followers, or makes people happy, or uses the placebo effect, or is from 'ancient wisdom' doesn't mean it's real.
This blog is for debunking pseudoscience, pointing out stupidity and re-asserting reality in place of magical woo.
This blog is run by an extremely-unconvinced skeptic, who was once a believer. They learned to read Tarot Cards and Runes, they consulted at least one Psychic, performed spells and saw ghosts and fairies and thought they really were under the influence of their Star-Sign.
Then they actually read some real science and realised all of that was stuff and nonsense.
Now - amongst other things - they run this blog.
Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost
The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction
The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity
We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either
Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender
The gods didn’t actually have animal heads
Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)
The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous
Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”
The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit
‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”
While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago
The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved
I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On
Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies
Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.
Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:
Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids
Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt
Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt
Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt
Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)
McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs
*takes a fat sip of my tea* what a great day to remember that you cannot “detox” your body, nor do you need to!!! your liver works very hard to do that for you (your liver, coincidentally, does not need to be “detoxed” either).
also a fantastic time to remember that detox/weight loss teas are diuretics and are designed to shit yourself to a certain weight, activated charcoal is useless unless administered as poison control by a medical professional, and please get yourself vaccinated!!!
Some people always get super salty when they come asking for help with a “ghost haunting” and the first thing i ask them is “have you checked your living space for carbon monoxide”.
Like maybe you thought coming to a witch you’d get some neat spell or some shit, but a big part of being a (good) witch is also looking at what is in front of you and ruling out some basic things first, and a lot of the things people describe to me when it comes to ghost hauntings also sound a helluva lot like carbon monoxide poisoning. So like sorry for giving a shit over whether or not you’re actually about to die or not I guess *shrug emoji*
Like I know we joke about my house being haunted (and maybe it is) but when the lights flicker in my house I don’t do a cleansing spell, I call an electrician. You gotta do the physical world things first before you jump to the metaphysical. That’s just how it is.
Here are 10 tell-tale signs that expose unknowledgeable KS2 History resources about the Maya
I thought this was really good, so I wanted to share. Some of the images were missing, so I did my best to substitute based on the description.
Since the ancient Maya have been added to the Key Stage 2 national curriculum for History (non-European Study), there’s been a ‘mushrooming’ of online resources covering the topic. Most of which are downright awful!
After the recent flawed news story about a teenager finding a Maya site, I thought it an apt moment to let both teachers who are teaching the Maya as well as the general public know what they need to be looking out for to confirm a resource’s unreliability
Beware!
Here are 10 tell-tale signs that expose unknowledgeable sources
1. The term ‘Mayan’ is used instead of ‘Maya’
The term ‘Mayan’ is ubiquitously used by ill-informed sources: ‘Mayan people’, ‘Mayan pyramids’, ‘Mayan civilisation’…
All Maya specialists -and, for that matter, all non-specialists who’ve read a book or two on the ancient Maya- know that the right word is Maya.
Their calendar is called the ‘Maya calendar’, their civilisation is called the ‘Maya civilisation’, their art is called ‘Maya art’…
The only time you should use the adjective ‘Mayan’ is when you are talking about their languages, the ‘Mayan languages’.
So, if you see ‘Mayan people’, ‘Mayan pyramids, ‘Mayan art’, ‘Mayan civilisation’, etc, on a publication (website or magazine), you can be sure the person who wrote the article doesn’t know a thing about the ancient Maya.
2. The image of the Aztec calendar stone is presented as the Maya calendar
Unscrupulous sources will use the ‘Sun Stone’ to illustrate texts about the Maya calendar.
Unfortunately, the famous sculpture is Aztec. Not Maya.
Using the ‘Sun Stone’ to talk about Maya calendar system is like using photos of theElizabeth Tower at Westminster (AKA ‘Big Ben’), which was completed in 1859, to illustrate time keeping in ancient Rome!
And yes I have even seen this image adorning the front cover of books on the Maya! Beware! Which leads nicely onto point 3-
3. The Maya are identified as the Aztecs
This confusion is very common but the truth is the Aztecs were very different to the Maya. They spoke a different language and had a different writing system.
Also the Maya civilisation began at least 1500 before the Aztecs.
The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan is as far away from the great Maya site of Tikal as London is from Milan, Italy!
Stating the Maya were the same as the Aztecs, is basically saying that all Europeans are the same, having the same language, culture and beliefs…
Would you like to see an image of Stonehenge on the front cover of a book on the French? I think not!
Then we get the Egyptians….
4. Maya pyramids are said to be similar to Egyptian pyramids
I am afraid not!
Firstly, the ancient Maya and ancient Egyptians lived during different time periods. The time of pyramid building in Egypt was around 2000 years earlier than the earliest Maya pyramid.
Secondly, Egyptian pyramids have a different shape and use to those of the Maya.
Maya pyramids are not actually pyramidal! They have a polygonal base, but their four faces do not meet at a common point like Egyptian pyramids. Maya pyramids were flat and often had a small room built on top.
Pyramids in Egypt were used as tombs for the dead rulers, for the Maya, though the pyramids were mainly used for ceremonies carried out on top and watched from below.
Lastly, they were built differently. Maya pyramids were built in layers; each generation would build a bigger structure over the previous one. Egyptian pyramids, on the other hand, were designed and built as a single edifice.
5. It is claimed that the Maya mysteriously disappeared in the 10th century AD
Uninformed sources talk about the ‘mysterious’ disappearance of the ancient Maya around the 10th century AD., which mislead people to think that the Maya disappeared forever….
Firstly, the Maya did not disappear. Around 8 million Maya are still living today in various countries of Central America (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras); in fact half of the population of Guatemala is Maya.
Although they do not build pyramids like the ancient Maya did, modern Maya still wear similar dress, follow similar rituals and some use the ancient Maya calendar. I am sure they would all like to assure you that they have definitely not disappeared!
We know now that what is called ‘Classic Maya Collapse’ was actually a slow breakdown, followed by a reconstruction, of a number of political, economical and cultural structures in the Maya society.
Archaeologists see cities being abandoned over the course of the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries, and people travelling north into the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) building new great cities such as Mayapan, which was occupied up until the 15th century.
Secondly, there was nothing mysterious about it! A number of associated factors were at play.
There was a severe drought in the rainforest area that lasted decades, so people moved north where water sources were more easily available. The competition between waring factions and cities for natural resources led to increased warfare. Which, in turn, led to the breakdown of trade networks.
All this was likely exacerbated by political and economical changes in Central Mexico.
So, very much like the French did not disappear after the French Revolution -although they stopped building castles and some big political, economical and cultural changes occurred in the French society- the Maya did not mysteriously disappear around the 10th century.
6. The Maya are portrayed as blood-thirsty sacrifice-loving psychos
The Maya are often portrayed in the media and popular culture as blood-thirsty (see for example Mel Gibson’s 2006 Apocalypto), so the commonly accepted -and oft-repeated- idea is that the Maya carried out lots of sacrifices.
Actually, there is barely any trace of sacrifice in the archaeological record of the Maya area. The rare evidence comes from pictorial representations on ceramics and sculpture.
Warfare amongst the Maya was actually much less bloody than ours and no, they did not use a real skull as a ball in their ballgame! And no the loser was not put to death!
In warfare, they did capture and kill opponents, but it was on a small-scale. Rulers boasted of being “He of five captives” or “He of the three captives”.
The heart sacrifices that were recorded by the Spanish chroniclers were those of the Aztecs.
It is also important to keep in mind that the Spanish Conquistadors had lots of incentives to describe the indigenous people of the Americas as blood-thirsty savages.
It made conquest and enslavement easier to justify (see the Valladolid Debate) so lots of stories were exaggerated.
And who are we to judge when we used to have public spectacles of people being hanged or having their heads chopped off and placed on spikes on London Bridge!
7. The ancient Maya predicted that the world would end on 21 December 2012
The 2012 phenomenon was a range of beliefs that cataclysmic events would trigger then end of our world on December 21st.
This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Maya Long Count calendar and it was said that the ancient Maya had prophesied the event.
This is not true and all Maya people today and Maya specialists know this!
Very much like a century and a millennium ended in the Christian calendar on December 31st 1999, a great cycle of the Maya Long Count -the 13th b’ak’tun– was to end on 21 December 2012.
In Maya time-keeping, a b’ak’tun is a period of roughly 5,125 years.
Only two Maya monuments –Tortuguero Monument 6 and La Corona Hieroglyphic Stairway 12– mention the end of the 13th b’ak’tun. None of them contains any speculation or prophecy as to what would happen at that time.
While the end of the 13th b’ak’tun would perhaps be a cause for celebration, the next day the Maya believed that a new cycle -the 14th b’ak’tun- would begin; much like our New Year’s Eve.
In fact, in the temple of Inscriptions at Palenque, where we find the tomb of King Pakal, it was written that in AD 4772 the people would be celebrating the anniversary of the coronation of their new King Pakal!
8. The Maya are described as primitive people
The Maya created an incredible civilization in the rainforest where it is extremely humid, with lots of bugs and dangerous animals and little water.
There they built spectacular temples, pyramids and palaces without the use of metal tools, the wheel, or any pack animals, such as the donkey, ox or elephant.
The Maya were the only civilization in the whole of the Americas to develop a complete writing system like ours.
They were only one of two cultures in the world to develop the zero in their number system and so were able to make advanced calculations and became great astronomers.
The Maya were extremely advanced in painting and making sculptures, they played the earliest team sport in the world and most importantly, for me anyway, is that we have the ancient Maya to thank for chocolate!
So no, they were definitely not primitive!
The problem with this view of the ancient Maya is that their achievements are then explained by the help of Extra-terrestrial beings or other civilisations.
9. The great achievements of the Maya are in thanks to the Olmecs
The Olmec civilisation is an earlier culture located along the Gulf coast of Mexico.
This myth of the Olmecs being a ‘mother culture’ to the Maya and other cultures in Mesoamerica had been questioned over 20 years ago and has been long put to rest.
Excavations have shown that they were many other cultures, other than the Olmec living in Mesoamerica before the Maya and that rather than a ‘mother culture’ we should be looking at ‘sister cultures’ all influencing each other.
Furthermore, Maya achievements in hieroglyphic writing and calendrics which no other culture in Mesoamerica had seen or used, indicate that they were much more innovators than adopters.
So, if the resource mentions the above, then it is obvious that they are not specialists and are using redundant information written over 20 years ago.
10. Chichen Itza is used as the quintessential Maya site
Chichen Itza was inhabited quite late during the Maya time period, about 1400 years after the first Maya city and is not purely Maya.
The city was quite cosmopolitan and was greatly influenced by Central Mexico, particularly the Toltecs, who may have lived there.
Therefore, its architecture and art -such as the ‘chacmools‘ or the ‘tzompantli‘ (AKA ‘skull-racks’) actually are Central Mexican, and not Maya, features.
A much better example of a typical Maya city would be Tikal, which was occupied for more than 1500 years.
So, if all you see on a website is about Chichen Itza, chances are this is not a reliable source of information about the ancient Maya and your ‘charlatan alarm-bells’ should go off!
A b’ak’tun is actually about 394.26 years, 144,000 days to be precise. It’s equal to 20 katun, each of which is equal to 20 tun of 360 days each. The 5,125 years mentioned above is the length of 13 baktuns.
see now thats interesting. i know we use 360 for the degrees in a circle because of the babylonians who used a year of 360 days. humans are awesome two different cultures came up with that independently on different sides of the planet. 20s i get, we have 20 fingers-and-toes. multiples of 12 because (with a certain amt of drift over time) 12 moon cycles makes up a full cycle of seasons? time is a flat circle
Where, exactly, the idea of ancient aliens building the pyramids began — and why some academics think racism lies at the heart of many ext
Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens
Where, exactly, the idea of ancient aliens building the pyramids began — and why some academics think racism lies at the heart of many extraterrestrial theories.
Something something ‘big pharma’. Strange ideologies. Unfounded skepticism of mental health problems. Not knowing how biology works (and not wanting to learn).
People are just unwilling to cope with the idea that some people need medication to function.
Let me rant for a moment.
A common refrain in mental health circles is that “you wouldn’t say (insert statement dismissive of one’s need for treatment) to a diabetic person” but people absolutely do. When you go too far down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole, you have people claiming that insulin is a government conspiracy to keep you sick, that you can avoid the flu by avoiding sugar, that every illness, from depression to all forms of chronic pain to cancer, is either made up or curable with a common vegetable you can buy at the grocery store. I had a friend, now diagnosed with ADHD, who was on a diet meant to “cure” her for years.That accomplished nothing but setting her back in school and making her life pointlessly difficult. (IIRC she’s now on meds and is doing quite well.)
(Antivaxxers are just a wing of this thinking and they’ve gone dangerously mainstream lately, and most of them fear (and hate) autism. So you could say that fear of difference is also a part.)
People have a very hard time coping with the idea that illness is natural. I know so many people who will insist that if people ate only “natural” things they would never get cancer or have mental illness. Or if they never drank out of plastic cups or if they ate more dirt or walked barefoot. There are vast communities of people who deny that modern medicine is responsible for the massive boom in population of the last century and create in their minds an idealized past where no one had autism or ADHD or depression or diabetes or the flu or anything because they didn’t eat GMO’s or some shit.
What’s behind this? Fear, I think.
I feel that it’s some sort of protection against the reality that any of us could become disabled at any time, or be diagnosed with cancer, or any sort of illness. That stuff just…happens. Some people just can’t cope with that insecurity. They can’t mentally process the fact that it’s possible for disease or disability to just happen upon them because it would be too stressful. So to protect themselves, they develop a worldview where illness and disability isn’t a randomly striking occurrence but something that happens to people who have done something wrong.
A lot of the people that apply this idea to ADHD are parents, it seems to me, so let’s analyze that. I believe that parents think their child being neurodivergent is a reflection upon them. Another possibility is that they had children in pursuit of some ideal family or child they created to please themselves and they become frustrated when their kid doesn’t fit this fantasy (or would if their child didn’t.)
So, they use this mentality to cast judgment upon parents of neurodivergent kids because they want to believe they are better, would do better, that their ideal kid vision that slides into their vision of an ideal family and house and life is unassailable, that ADHD won’t come and steal their happiness. Or, if they already have an ADHD child, they want to believe their kid can be “cured” without “drugs” or at least that there’s a Reason for their kid being the way that they are other than that they came out of the womb that way (and, by extension, owe their condition to nothing at all except the parents’ own genetics).
There probably is a lot more to the hatred of “drugs” and the “unnatural.” I can’t pinpoint where chemophobia and the fear and hatred of GMO’s or whatever and medicine in general come from. I’ve noticed in my own life that many of the people who turn to these ideas are sick themselves and have just faced inadequacy in the realm of modern medicine. So they think the answer must be elsewhere, and end up falling down a hole of conspiracy theories. I understand that coping with an illness that is ravaging your life is incredibly difficult to deal with, but attacking modern medicine as a whole does a lot of damage.
But my main point is: the existence of people whose lives don’t get better if they “just try harder” or eat the way some internet stranger wants them to assails the idea that people don’t have health problems, mental or otherwise, unless they are at fault. And that in turn ruins the idea that nothing bad will happen to an individual, whether that “bad” thing is a health problem that causes weight gain or a “non-ideal” (shudder) kid, as long as they Do Everything Right.
it builds itself up like OKAY WE FOUND THESE DEVASTATING RESULTS
and then you go in to look and you find it had a sample size of 40
and then you’re like okay, what was the fantastic difference between these 40 people when sleeping with and without a dog
and the article is like
…so you get through it and you’re like you’re trying to tell me you think this is substantial in any capacity, this 40 sample size 3% difference ass bullshit??????????? you fucking shitforbrick bad at math fake ass science losers?
The oldest baobabs are collapsing, and there's only one likely explanation.
Common throughout sub-Saharan Africa, the African baobab is one of the biggest flowering plants in the world, and reputedly one of the longest-lived. It’s also known as the upside-down tree, because its bare branches look like roots, or as the monkey bread tree, because of its nutritious and edible fruit. It’s exceptionally long-lived, but recently, several of the oldest baobabs have been dying. Homasi, for example, was part of a grove of seven baobabs, six of which perished within a two-year period.
This isn’t an isolated event. Of the 13 oldest known baobabs in the world, four have completely died in the last dozen years, and another five are on the way, having lost their oldest stems. “These large and monumental trees, which can live for 2,000 years or more, were dying one after another,” says Adrian Patrut from Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, who has catalogued the deaths. “It’s sad that in our short lives, we are able to live through such an experience.”
Found this reddit post. This kinda makes me feel better. And it’s something I think about sometimes because I always feel like regardless of how hard I work on something I don’t get anywhere.
Nice summary. If you’re curious, the anon here is referring to studies over the last decade that have pointed to major impacts on pattern separation with depression, and how depression can have major impacts on nonsynaptic plasticity.
i’ll say again that the reason i have a veritable obsession w fatphobia is that people with eating disorders (the deadliest mental illnesses) cannot recover within a fatphobic framework. it doesn’t work. we must relinquish our attempts to control our weight entirely if we want to be free of the disorder.
the clinicians, researchers, and health officials who fear fat and attempt to keep eating disorder sufferers weight suppressed - recovered, but not too much! - are killing us. if i hear about another friend who’s relapsed bc her team told her she was heavy enough now, i’m gonna lose my mind.
the fear of body fat has no place in this world and especially not in the treatment of people who already have a deadly fear of food and weight gain. clinicians cannot fear the same things as the eating disorder they’re supposed to be treating. if they do, and they shape their “treatment” around that, they should lose their licenses for so egregiously violating their professional commitment to first do no harm.
if you would rather see a client anorexic than fat, get the hell out of the field.
Okay, so here’s the thing. Whenever someone asks me “how are you still alive” my favorite flippancy is usually “spite”, but in all honesty it’s vaccines. Spite and vaccines.
And not just me being vaccinated, but everyone around me too, because there are some vaccines I cannot safely have and I rely on everyone else around me being vaccinated to avoid it.
Things like, oh, say, whooping cough, which I actually had as a child because I went to school with the victims of antivaxxers, and we all got super sick and coughed so hard the blood vessels in our eyes ruptured and every fit felt like you were going to die choking for breath.
And tonight, a friend of mine who happens to be a mother, hauled me into an argument on Facebook where people in her neighborhood group were hosting a “whooping cough party” cause one of their kids got sick, and the tag line was “come on over and get it over with lol”, and words cannot convey how much visceral hatred I had for this person in that moment. If I could have set them on fire with my brain, I probably would.
Because I can wholly remember sitting in bed clutching my little chest, desperate for the pain to stop, making that horrible wheezing sound, with tears streaming down my face, utterly convinced I was going to die if I couldn’t draw breath. And that went on for months because even with treatment, the cough can take up to three months to subside. And that is a horrible thing for a child to go through. I cannot stress enough how painful and terrifying it was and my parents for all their faults could do nothing. They’d done everything they could to keep me safe from other illnesses. I had all my other vaccines, I just couldn’t have that one.
And the thing is, you can get it again, it’s not a one time deal. You can get it more than once, and doctors actually recommend you get a booster shot for it every ten years, and I can’t do that. I cannot protect myself from it. I rely on other people being responsible, and taking the necessary steps to keep whooping cough outbreaks low, and the only way to do that is through regular routine inoculation.
And these fuckers are throwing a party??? What???
Let me be clear, it is through profound measures of willful ignorance, hubris, and yes privilege, that people have allowed for things like measles and whooping cough to make a come back. It is a privilege to live in a healthy society where you can expect all your children to make it out of infancy. It is a privilege to not die young from TB, it is a privilege that many people before you had to suffer for and work hard to bring about, all in the hopes that another child wouldn’t have to go into the iron lung from polio. And through the privilege of never having had to suffer, you have elected to do harm. You have elected to allow for the resurgence of mumps, and measles and coughs that sound like a death rattle in the lungs of infant children, and then you have the absolute audacity and malice in your souls to celebrate and throw “sickness parties” because you’d rather let your child suffer through unnecessary illness than be vaccinated?
How dare you. You have a moral and social obligation to protect your children and the people around you, and not only have you chosen to wave this responsibility, but you are actively endangering others?
How dare you.
And the thing is I know, I know in your own misguided way you think you are doing what is best for you child. But if the road to hell truly is paved with good intentions, I can tell you now with absolute certainty that you fuckers have got your own burning stars on the walk of shame.
Vaccinate your god damn kids. And get your booster shots while you’re at it. You might just save someone’s life without ever knowing or trying.
(Note: This is not aimed at people who cannot be vaccinated or whose children cannot be vaccinated. I know that struggle, I know it is real and I’m so sorry other people are putting you and your loved ones at risk.
Also yes, I know chickenpox parties used to be a thing, I went to one of them as a kid. Thankfully there is now a vaccine for that too! Isn’t living in the future neat!
And just so you know, if you come onto this post telling me that vaccines cause autism, you will be afflicted with the condition known as my foot up your ass. I will not engage on discourse over this, there is no discourse to be had. You are wrong. And that is the end of the discussion.)
1. My mom had measles, and she recovered. She also lost a significant chunk of her hearing, and probably contributed to her developing disabling immune disorder later in life. (Did you know that all causes of childhood death decreased after measles vaccinations became a thing, because measles is so hard on your immune system that you’re more likely to contract another illness?)
2. One of my former roommates got whooping cough as an otherwise-healthy adult. For three months she’d have coughing fits so bad she couldn’t stand up, and sometimes threw up and/or wet herself. The only thing that works on that cough is codeine, which for obvious reasons she didn’t want to take while at work. It’s taken years for her lungs to heal up enough that she can ride her bicycle year-round again.
Me and our other roommate didn’t get it–because we’d both had booster shots.
VACCINATE YOUR KIDS and keep your vaccinations up to date!
Whooping cough often leaves its victim with a final parting gift: a type of lung damage called bronchiectasis. This beautiful gift behind door number 3 means that sufferers are more likely to contract more serious lung infections.
I contracted whooping cough in college. My mother had a lackadaisical and casual relationship with my medical care to start with, so my vaccination records were spotty. I feel certain that if I had been born nowadays she would never have vaccinated me at all.
My lungs, never strong to start with (thanks to undiagnosed asthma), were never the same again. When I was sick, I would cough so hard and for so long that I fell to my knees, and in public streets I would try to find a bench or curb to convalesce on as unobtrusively as possible. When I went on the antibiotics and codeine I’d been prescribed (bought with the last of my money, down to the dollar, because my mother had let my Medicaid lapse and hadn’t bothered to tell me) I basically came to a week later. The codeine had done its job, drugging me hard enough that even the body-quaking pertussis cough couldn’t wake me up, allowing me to recover in peace.
My roommate, housed in close quarters in a postage stamp of a sophomore dorm room with a roommate infested with a notoriously infectious disease, was unaffected. No cough, no illness. No problem.
And why?
VACCINES.
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