And I鈥檓 so happy. He鈥檇 been in prison for 8 years for being caught with child porn.
oh wow, it got plusses, okay i'll add context.
Like, I dunno, 20+ years ago, I met this dude at a bathhouse and we hit it off and I moved in with him. I'm exclusively into older men and he was older and smoked pot so I was in idiot heaven. We ended up taking a long road trip from Texas, to Tennessee, and then over to California. We had the idea we were going to move to California and wanted to see the country first. We were there, I had gotten a job and worked for like a week when I got nosy and started digging through his laptop.
I really was just being nosy. I didn't suspect anything beyond the obvious fact that he liked younger guys (and girls). But he had child porn squirreled away in some folder I found. It wasn't cool shit, guys. The one thing which stuck with me was a little girl naked on a bed crying and I was like, holy fucking shit who keeps THAT!?!
So I took his truck keys, locked them in his truck. Took the hotel keys, threw them in some field. And started walking down highway 29 in California. I found some callbox they had there and was able to call the cops. There was LSD on me and back at the hotel room. I was scared yall, I just wanted to come back home to Texas and I didn't know anyone there. I had the cops drop me off at a gay bar where the owner let me sleep the night. He then took me to pick up my first (and only) paycheck and I took a greyhound bus back. I got back, and I called the cops from Texas and tried to do something but they wanted evidence and my involvement and I just sort of dropped the ball. I didn't want to have anything to do with him and I was able to just push it all from my mind once I got back into my routine.
I google him periodically cuz I mean, I only have two exes. LOL.
That they need to get vaccinated after they've told me they don't trust doctors? I'm gratefully vaccinated, and very pro vaccine, but my brother and his wife are choosing not to. They have no trust in the medical system. The second they heard that there might be another booster, it was all the evidence they needed to say that they were right all along. That the doctors don't actually know what they're doing. They're not scientifically minded, and so approaching them from that direction will not work.
There are still doctors who believe black people feel less pain.
There are still doctors performing conversion therapy.
There are still doctors overprescribing opioids.
There are still doctors who ignore menstrual pain in women.
Like. There ARE TERRIBLE doctors out there doing things in the name of "Medical Science". And I sincerely don't know how I can advise them that at least where this is concerned, they should trust the doctors. They don't like, watch the news or anything. They get their info from Facebook, and I only just found out that they were so far down this rabbit hole. I legit thought everyone I knew was on the same page as me.
I'm not a medical professional, but I work in IT support at a hospital. I'm privy to daily mid-management briefings where they talk about all the regional numbers. I tell my brother whatever I can, but it doesn't make any difference.
