Just so y'all know. The anti vax Covid downplayers are alive and well even in states like NJ. Yesterday, the woman who screened me before my eye exam proudly proclaimed she had covid like 10 times (literally, I clarified. SHE LITERALLY HAD IT TEN TIMES) and is not vaccinated. This is AFTER I told her I have long haul covid and was hospitalized for it.

Natural Selection!

Just like... wtf dude. You don't want to get vax'd and don't believe in it or the seriousness of covid, fine, kill yourself. It's ok. Just don't share that bullshit with your customers, especially ones who just shared their own struggles. It's so fucking enraging. I don't allow people like that to invalidate what I know my experiences were/are but it still..

gets under my skin.

people are silly and think they are immune or something.

Not worth the energy but thats easy to say. I fume all the time over stupid

Aems : well, the cool thing is that they sent me a questionnaire/rating thing and asked what they could have done to better serve me and I told them in detail.

awesome!

I would have told her to please leave and get me another person to finish your screening as they are putting your health at risk

I would not have let them be in my space one more second

Nimil : I honestly was so in shock and offended that she was kind of low key invalidating my experiences that I didn't even think of that. Luckily, she wasn't my actual eye dr, just the assistant

hi5 for giving them the feedback they deserve.

You have struggled so much not just with the actual health issues but with people treating you poorly. You do not need to tolerate any more of that.

potato boyo : <3

She's nuts. I used to be an eye assistant. You spend all day right up in people's faces, touching their faces a lot. Insanity, to not vax when you have that job! What a dummy.

sheesh

I don't understand being proud of having covid 10 times. Like...ma'am, did you stop to think that maybe it's you who is the problem here?

That is crazy. That means she's been getting covid every three and a half months. That means that every single time she's gotten over her three-month-ish period of "natural" immunity, she immediately gets it again. And she thinks she's NOT doing something insanely wrong? Jesus.

maybe she's going to covid parties?

or, alternate hypothesis... she can't reliably count to ten. so.

potato boyo : lol

Alicia ✿ : I know! And I like that she almost implied that my vaccine wasn't helpful? And I'm like, bitch, it kept me out of the hospital the second time

Lette : I know!

i would have probably wondered out loud hey i wonder how many people you've killed by having it that many times.