Notices by Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io), page 2

Clinging to a fad diet that is harming you is an eating disorder.

Every Texas care home needs a TB test, but my dad believes that people who test positive are kidnapped. He tested positive in 1948.

There's a workaround for this one, at least.

The covid theories turned out not to matter.

Vitamin D pill: 10000 IU

Me: Dad, this is like 3 times a safe dose.

Me: I take three of those.

(Note: the real version of this involved a lot of yelling and accusations of attempted murder.)

Dad: The BMJ says this is a good dose.

Me, logged into my uni library: It does not.

Dad: NHS data says this is good.

Me, Looking at the NHS page on vitamin D: "Too much vitamin D can cause bone breakage and heart problems."

Dad: Its not in their published data!

Me: Where are you accessing unpublished NHS data?

Dad: Dr whoever on YouTube says…

Just watched a nutritionist go on and on and on and on and on and on and on about food options until dad agreed to order adequate food including protein, vegetables and carbs.

Experience suggests that once it appears in front of him, he will actually eat it.

I'm super impressed.

Thank you to whoever suggested asking if the staff had any family in the home. Great question. Very clarifying.

If you work for google, quit your job. Damage things as you leave.

How often does the priest come around? I guess once per day and I asked too late for today?

Dad is looking forward to lunch at the winning place. Thank Hashem. ❤

Anti-google action

I'm supposed to fly home tomorrow and idk I haven't mentioned it to dad. I feel kind of guilty but I've been here three weeks and I fucking hate Texas so fucking much.

(Sorry, the people are nice but the logistics are super challenging. Also the fake facades make it feel like if there were a Disneyland for automobiles. Like if self-driving cars became sentient, Dallas would be their theme park.)

My dad has no friends here at all. I don't know how much longer he'll be in hospital. I don't know if he'll still be alive in December, when I plan to return.

One of the care homes was done up in the style of a boutique hotel. The lobby was perhaps the tackiest room I've ever been in. It was designed with many bright, conflicting patterns (which does hide stains at least) and had many very colourful vases and art-ish objects. Among them were sculptures of hashtags and at signs, thus gesturing to influenced culture.

I am sceptical that anyone there is actually on any influencing sites. The symbols are not skeuomorphs. The floppy disk save icon refers backwards to past functionality. The hashtag symbols refer forwards, past the communal understandings. Its a boutique cargo cult.

Anyway, that TNG episode where everyone gets caught in a pulp novel in a 1960s Vegas hotel seemed to be their main inspiration.

Dad: if you take away my vitamin d, I'll go lie naked in the sun for 20 minutes.

Me: Let me get you a to well to lie on.

Dad: I'll switch to eating nothing but grass fed beef.

Me: If you're paying.

Dad: Only beef!

Me: What, no vegetables?

Dad: Just beef.

Me: You will never poo again.

Dad: Some people have the opposite problem.

Me: This isn't selling it.

Dad: Joe Rogan eats nothing but grass fed beef for months at a time.

Me: Dad's not eating I will give him Ensure.

Ensure: Every carton has 60% of daily vitamin D!

Me: :oh_no_bubble:

:oh_no_bubble:

:oh_no_bubble:

My dad has been getting gradually stronger and more alert while I've been here and now understands what's going on and I should probably stop posting about it, but also he's suddenly very sad. 💔

Old people: Dr Quak-YouTube's Stay Alive formula of 3g of daily lead is keeping me alive! Give it back! You're trying to kill me!

Family members: I am not trying to kill you. Also, I need information about your bank accounts, retirement accounts, savings, investments and any property you own.

😭

Pfizer's vaccine is deadly, ergo
Pfizer is killing people for profit with its this particular medicine, ergo
It's likely Pfizer's medications are dangerous in general.

One of the interventions from the cardiologist went badly and the cardiologist prescribers Pfizer medication, ergo
The cardiologist is also willing to kill people for profit, ergo
Stopping all Pfizer branded medications will remove danger, ergo
Stopping blood thinners is going to help.

Actual outcome: a series of strokes

How much do people own their own bodies. Is it right to fight about too many vitamins? I feel like he does not understand the risks of his actions, but I don't know.

Dad, viewing the care home: I hate it. I'll be dead within 3 months.

Me: They've got good food and physical therapy on site.

Dad: it's awful.

My spouse: Well, its your choice, but you can't move home, and [kid brother] is at work most days, so you'll be spending a lot of time with [extroverted home nurse that drove him crazy]. She works 12 hour shifts, I think.

Dad: OK this place is fine.

In the US, you can pay for "concierge" doctors who will write you prescriptions for "health protocols" described by charlatans on YouTube.

They know they're hurting people, especially elderly people.

They know.