It was during school and a pediatrician would never recommend something like this now lol. Plenty if medical professionals were against it at the time too. The vaccine was out by the time I was a teen. We could have waited it out.

That didn’t make it ok to have kids hang out with a sick kid so they’d also get sick 😐

I’m a victim of “chickenpox parties” from the 80s. Some parents are just stupid assholes that refuse to accept you don’t have to make the immune system a punching bag to make it stronger

Now I’m at a higher risk for severe shingles. Yay!! Thanks mom!

I don’t see why you couldn’t just get vaccinated. No harm even if you were previously.

My mom’s record keeping of my vaccinations as a kid was a shit show so I ended up just getting the ones I wasn’t sure about later in life when I found out she might have skipped some 🙄

Too bad it was so close range too. She might have had a chance because their aim was probably just as shit as acorn cop’s considering how poorly trained they clearly are 😕

Far too many for me to have any kind of faith in the embarassing joke that is our police force.

I read there’s also a disclaimer that the shoes you get may not be exactly what you see on display there lmao. $400 and you might not even get that version of hideous

With some random sports channel or fox news absolutely blasting in the background the entire time

Yes but if it was clarified that you could in fact communicate with plants in a meaningful way I’d take that one in a heartbeat. You could do so much with that. Imagine being a reporter or a private investigator lol. An archeologist could just ask some trees what was going on under them. Dying of hunger or thirst? Just ask some plant what’s edible or where some water is. Plenty of plants want to be eaten to reproduce anyway. Ask some fungus (if it counted as plants for magic) what the meaning of life is while you’re at it

No.

Orrr just responsible people that quarantine before hanging out, get vaccinated, wear masks, and social distance. Option number 2 is online friends. I’ve got a few that got nailed by covid but we d&d/game primarily online so I was still safe lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have vulnerable people in my life so nobody sees me in person unless they’re damn sure they’re clean and so far none of them have let me down

There were after school programs when I was a kid too and I wasn’t in a small town. Just depends on where you are I guess. We’d start in the cafeteria with a small snack and then go to the playground for a while before hanging out in the gym goofing off and watching movies until we got picked up

Shut up 🙄

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What’s this even supposed to mean? What a weird thing to say let alone think

So then go do it instead of bitching about other people doing it? Wtf?

As an elder millennial I apparently got exposed to healthy doses myself and I refused to turn into one of those entitled twats. My family has strict instructions to put my ass in a home the second I tell them anything remotely resembling “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”. I refuse to be an emotional burden like so many boomers are on their kids/those around them. I would rather die alone in the cheapest home they can find or even on the streets before that happens

Oh shut up and enjoy retiring in your home that you worked half as hard for as the rest of us you privileged turd.

Also, we shouldn’t have to sacrifice a small joy as simple as a god damn snack to do more than barely survive. That whole thing has always been so stupid :(

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