27 karma · joined April 7, 2023
I looked up the cost, and found out the household would be bankrupted by the shots and we would end up homeless. I calculated the danger from homelessness outweighed the risk of rabies. I guess the bet paid off, as we're now well past the 99th percentile of incubation period.
Lol I was taken involuntarily to the hospital. When they gave up billing me they simply turned it over to collections to let them deal with squeezing the blood from the turnip. (not mental though, fraudulent accusation by federal agents I had drugs up my ass and then dragged there in handcuffs).
At the end of the day it's inconvenient to punish homeless for crimes. They have no money, they're often infected with disease, and they are often unpleasant to deal with. Meanwhile when I did absolutely nothing wrong, federal officers bragged to me what a great vacation it was to drag me to the hospital for the better part of a day on a fraudulent and fabricated search for "drugs" because they said it was better than doing their normal beat, and it paid great overtime. People say you should be polite to law enforcement, but the fact is being unpleasant/unpolite/filthy works.
Like most humans, a frightening amount of law enforcement boils down to they did it because it was easiest. Dealing with mentally ill people at their worst moments is not easy, extorting a well to do professional for going 5 over the limit is much easier.
Plenty of homeless people who don't commit crime, you just don't notice them because they aren't bothering anyone.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment . After just one episode of telling professionals that they "heard voices", patients were diagnosed and forced to take medication despite never again showing symptoms or evidence of illness.
Once admitted and diagnosed, the pseudopatients were not able to obtain their release until they agreed with the psychiatrists that they were mentally ill and began taking antipsychotic medications,
Even if they weren't ill... the only way to get out was to lie and say they were.Teaches you to keep your ego, empower yourself to change, rather than the helpless feeling of yielding to a higher power taught in AA.
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rotten.