Jessica Pishko

Oh that is annoying. I love recorded meetings

Oh interesting!

Sometimes I am reminded that I am not that special and am subject to all the same external pressures as anyone else!

they do

I usually say something like, well there is no painless birth!

Most of my close friends and family were not woo, so it was easier to say, that seems wrong, because it was not something I grew up with. But in retrospect, I am sort of horrified how easy it can be to have your mind warped.

i have heard this too! like banning people from neighborhoods!

a good point. c sections are fine! now i feel obligated to spread the word when people are anxious about them.

it absolutely is. i had the same issue with mental health and the woo (same thing -- vulnerable, stigma, etc). just utterly soulless and actively harmful.

it's a very fraught time even for those in the best of circumstances.

um wtf with this dude

it absolutely is! i remain grumpy with the birthing industrial complex for making me so afraid of getting the medical care i needed!

Talking like a true colonizer -- the bodies of people are just territories for conquering, flesh to be plowed for the conquest, their blood will water soil that colonizers will use to grow their own crops. (most women, but a few men evidently)

yes! they are not interested!

i tend to blame the politicians and social media influencers who push this stuff...they are hurting people on purpose and infiltrating legislatures with anti-science laws. (same with race science, a coincidence?)

i agree that i am very alarmed at the anti-health legislation and ideas that are peddled in state legislatures. it's very distressing! and i think it's a real problem.

this alternative schedule pede then didn't catch a basic diagnosis in my baby, so i learned my lesson i guess. (and i had a c-section so no natural birth for me!) but even 15 years ago, doctors would cater to the woo-pilled.

and maybe this says something bad about me, but when i had my child i was much more susceptible to the "alternate vax schedule" both because i was deep in woo culture (natural birth!) and bc i was afraid of doing the wrong thing.

my info is all second hand -- it does seem unfair to place the burden on doctors rather than have a coordinated political strategy.

not to defend it, rather to say that is how it works. i also didn't love the tone but to each their own etc

so i dont know the ins and outs, but my impression is that since vaccines are part of well baby visits, they do talk to parents about them. the problem tends to be that people don't process a lot of information, so they simplify (e.g. I vaccinate my kids and wouldn't do anything harmful.)

a lot of stores have informal processes where you sign an agreement not to return (or worse, to participate in a private program) to avoid calling the police. that is actually for the store because the police get grumpy if they get called to a store too often. (store just wants you to stop)

from what i hear, it is genuinely difficult (even at practices where they require children to be vaxxed). all that said, they say the real problem remains a lack a resources for people (like therapy etc)

people i know who are primary care doctors have told me this is a real problem -- people come in with vague ideas of what they saw on tiktok, and it's harder for them to use their usual tactics (explain, studies etc).

we have been led to believe that more surveillance will protect the virtuous (by the government, corporations, and various advocacy groups) when it just protects the powerful

omg it's just like police killings

omg yes

Brooklyn artist gets a taste of what it is like to be treated like a criminal, then proceeds to yell about people sleeping on the subway.

"i'm not like those people stealing detergent, i am just taking food from the hot bar"

yes but that is where poor people shop