Kate

Just hysterical women scared of the bogeyman, hahah!

The only disinformation in this thread is the comment that sexual abuse wouldn’t happen at a birthday party. What is wrong with you that you’re still arguing this with people who have been molested?

That’s exactly what I said. They’re getting molested by family members or friends at home. Where birthday parties happen. By older kids or whoever. You felt like you had intimate knowledge of this topic to say where it does and doesn’t happen. Yes, it does happen at other kids’ houses, and theoretically that could be at a party.

I’m dealing with a 23-y/o intern and it’s exactly like babysitting. She’s a child.

Anyhoo, I do think this is what parenting has become. It’s not like the 70s and 80s when we were left alone for hours at a time. Accommodations probably do have to be made for some people. But I definitely wouldn’t entertain this mom and would let her know what she can help with.

So this is weird to me… With Delta, it was raging through India for MONTHS earlier this year. It killed family members of people I work with. My co-workers in India were saying the vaccine didn’t seem to work against it, which was alarming. But the media barely covered it, it was just like, oh, here’s some Indians cremating their dead. Meanwhile we acted like the pandemic was over and were dropping mask mandates – remember no one was wearing them for a while in June/July? And then in the summer it was like, oh fuck, Delta.

So my question is, why are we on this high alert for omicron now? Why does the media care now but they didn’t then? Like it must have been known with Delta that vaccines were less effective against catching it, but they weren’t saying that until it was already here and we had that Provincetown outbreak in July. We were being encouraged to go back to normal. Now it’s like, we don’t know anything yet about omicron but you should be concerned.

What’s going on with the messaging? I’m not implying any conspiracy or anything, just trying to figure it out.

Right, I figured the plan was for them to test before heading out, and was wondering what their issue might be that would cause them to outright refuse, and hence not see family for Thanksgiving. Like, is it politics? A power play? So weird, especially if they have the tests.