I’ve avoided this for a while but here we go. Thread time. When my youngest son was about 5 he got a weird harmless virus (fifth disease) that made his cheeks red. About a week later he was in children’s hospital Charlotte diagnosed with HSP. HSP is a super painful autoimmune..

Disorder that causes your blood vessels and capillaries to explode causing internal bleeding. My little guy had it bad. His scrotum filled with blood. There was talk of permanent kidney damage. I went into hardcore research mode and found a treatment for the doctors in a Harvard.

medical journal that showed steroids were the best way to calm the immune system and treat the patient. Up until then the treatment was Tylenol+codeine. It worked almost immediately! Why am I telling you this? Because it made me realize that we are not all the same. We don’t..

Know how our immune systems will react to some strange new threat. In my sons case a harmless virus we all get once as kids caused his immune system to overreact and almost kill him. So I empathize with folks who have had experiences like mine who are exercising caution with..

The new vaccines and don’t judge. There people should continue in us to mask up with effective mask and isolate as much as possible. That will keep them safe without needing the vaccine. It’s kept my family safe for 14 months and will keep us safe another 14 months...

I am NOT antivax. I follow the news closely and if I had to recommend one I would recommend one of the mRNA based vaccines like Moderna or Pfizer which seem more effective and with less side effects than the Adenovirus based ones from J&J and Astra. Given our experience with my..

Now teenage son we will just continue to keep him home (he is not in school) and have him wear a kn95 in public which he sadly gets to venture into rarely. My oldest son is getting the shot soon and I’m fine with that. My point with this thread is this: awareness and empathy.

This is what’s missing from the civil discourse right now. People are acting like *EVERYONE MUST GET THE SHOT NO EXCEPTIONS* and that is not what the science says about what is needed for herd immunity and is also incredibly dismissive of people like me who know about how weird..