Same thing goes for madness:

The Quantity Theory of Insanity

Oh wait that's a line but also the chorus; the chorus is only 1 line long.

Well, if it helps give context, the drug that got me into remission was only approved for my condition in 2018 (tho rxed off-label well before that). So in my case I'd still be on roids & mtx, and more isolated than I am now. Even with covid around, I'm extremely lucky that it's 2023 and not 1999.

That I can't speak to. But I will say that for me, it is very much about outcomes, and the specific outcome I'd like to avoid is having half the skin on my body decide to fall off a second time.

It's really not complicated. The flu is dangerous to me but not especially. It may well have been a bad flu that triggered the PV lying dormant in my DNA.

But there is very little data about how PV interacts with COVID and how much worse the flare up could be, and I don't intend to find find out.

But you wanted to use me as some kind of point in a larger argument. Cheesy.

If I get COVID, as opposed to the flu, I would have to delay treatment for my condition. That delay would be at least extremely painful and possibly deadly. No such delay is needed for a common flu.

There's a lot of folks out there with specific situations that you most likely are unaware of.

Is there a reason you chose to screenshot me instead of just, like, asking me?

And I appreciate you asking. I get why people want to get back to normal. I miss nightclubs. A lot. I hate wearing a mask at rock shows. But it's tough living somewhere where the official response seems to be that people like me don't exist, don't count, or should just go and die already.

...but the danger is less that COVID could kill me and more that it would delay treatment (which could kill me). I spent the summer of 2020 waiting around for people to take COVID seriously enough for it to be safe to crtl-alt-del my immune system.

It's tough to say because Pre-COVID I hadn't been diagnosed yet; was just a weird thing where my gums wouldn't stop bleeding and some cuts took a long time to heal. I got diagnosed with Pemphigus around June(?) 2020. Bit of a blur now...

For me it's having an immune system that puts "normal" out of my personal reach until folks start acting more responsibly for others (so, never).

Raygun

I would carry this thing around in my pocket as a kid just in case I saw any dinosaurs.

Sigh... "Leonard," not "Leanoard".

I'm not retyping all that alt text again.