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May. 21st, 2022 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellway[cw: illness]
Mom: Have you heard about the monkeypox outbreaks?
Me: Yeah.
Mom: It's all over the place! One cluster in the UK, sure, but how did it get to *Italy*? *Australia*?
Me: It *what*? I looked away for *one day*!
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Me': So, I think the lesson here is that we really do need to call the doctor's office ASAP (Tuesday would be the next day they're open, with Victoria Day) and try to extract an immunologist referral from them. The doctor who didn't seem to think it was a big deal and didn't want to do anything unless we were actively sick at that particular moment is off sick herself right now, so it might be a particularly good time.
Me: That's the lesson?
Me': Look, I have seen our future, and it's us getting denied an orthopox vaccine because we lack the *legal status* of "immune-disordered person". And besides, with the current state of Paxlovid availability in our area, "denied disease treatment we should actually get because our need isn't legible enough" is *already* an uncomfortably large swath of probability-space. There are many plagues yet to come, many triage systems we will face: the power of a name may yet save our life, or our health. There is no time to waste.
Me: Tuesday it is, then.
Mom: Have you heard about the monkeypox outbreaks?
Me: Yeah.
Mom: It's all over the place! One cluster in the UK, sure, but how did it get to *Italy*? *Australia*?
Me: It *what*? I looked away for *one day*!
---
Me': So, I think the lesson here is that we really do need to call the doctor's office ASAP (Tuesday would be the next day they're open, with Victoria Day) and try to extract an immunologist referral from them. The doctor who didn't seem to think it was a big deal and didn't want to do anything unless we were actively sick at that particular moment is off sick herself right now, so it might be a particularly good time.
Me: That's the lesson?
Me': Look, I have seen our future, and it's us getting denied an orthopox vaccine because we lack the *legal status* of "immune-disordered person". And besides, with the current state of Paxlovid availability in our area, "denied disease treatment we should actually get because our need isn't legible enough" is *already* an uncomfortably large swath of probability-space. There are many plagues yet to come, many triage systems we will face: the power of a name may yet save our life, or our health. There is no time to waste.
Me: Tuesday it is, then.
