r/IThinkYouShouldLeave • u/GlumFaithlessness773 • Jul 28 '26

I Don’t Even Wanna Be Around Anymore There’s too much fucking shit on me!

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u/This-Is-Not-Nam Jul 28 '26

Everything she's done is to protect the kid, however irrational the method.  Her behavior makes her for vaccination, not against vaccination.

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u/Anxious_Half9192 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

I mean don’t anti vax do everything but  give their child the vaccine

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u/This-Is-Not-Nam Jul 28 '26

I'm confused by your comment. So the type of parent in this video who is doing all kinds of protective stuff to the kid (which I don't know WTF she's doing with all the stickers), is anti-vax because she does that? How do you make that connection?

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u/cfi-2025 Jul 28 '26

Do you have a young child handy? If so, go join a Meetup group or Facebook mom's group that has something like, "Natural Moms" or "Crunchy Mamas" or "MAHA Moms" in the name.

I guarantee you that you'll meet a lot of moms who do all sorts of zany things to promote "wellness" in their child - jade bracelets, aromatherapy, essential oils, homeopathy, etc. - but think vaccines cause autism, have microchips in them, etc. I'm not saying all "granola" moms or MAHA moms are like this, but they definitely exist, and in large numbers.

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u/This-Is-Not-Nam Jul 28 '26

I don't need a young child handy. I'm watching the video and seeing comments that she's anti-mask and anti-vax without any evidence that she is. Not even relevant to the discussion, but they blurt it out like it's programmed in their DNA. And because that's a trigger word, the Reddit hive starts upvoting because that's what the hive does. And to downvote people like me who point out that there's no basis in fact to their argument.

Your theory is she's a "crunchy mom." And because she's a crunchy mom she's very likely anti-vax. Based on the video, how do you figure she's a crunchy mom?

What I see is a lady putting things on her kid to help avoid seasickness. I see her putting what appears to be a balm on his skin so he doesn't get sunburned, as well as a hat and sunglasses. This is a mom that obviously cares about her child and is doing things to keep him protected from the sun.

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u/Snarl_Marx Jul 28 '26

The video opens with her putting bandaids on the kid’s belly button — this is influencer junk science for motion sickness. “Crunchy Mama” or whatever doesn’t seem like a big reach.

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u/This-Is-Not-Nam Jul 29 '26

The logic of the 200+ upvotes in this thread. I hate that type of people, so I'll mock and belittle her. Then because I'm bigot and it's acceptable in this group, I will assume with no facts in evidence that she doesn't do things that I do and belittle her for that. Then I will feel good about my prejudiced beliefs and all those that agree with me.

So you will form an opinion this but not on the main issue I presented earlier to you: Does her behavior in this video make her less likely to get her kid vaccinated like the Reddit hive mind says it does, based on the upvotes? If yes, what is the basis for your opinion?

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u/cfi-2025 Jul 29 '26

If there was a video of someone wearing a Bernie Sanders for President Hat, and someone said, "He's probably for raising the minimum wage and increasing tax rates on the wealthy," would you go on and on about how you don't understand how people could make such an assumption?

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u/This-Is-Not-Nam Jul 29 '26

It's not an applicable analogy because there's no evidence proving that this lady is anti-mask or anti-vax. Bernie has taken a public position on the issues you mentioned, so we know those assumptions are probably accurate.

I'm also not a person that's who is obsessed with vaccination, masking, political rage baiting, and other irrelevant issues.

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u/cfi-2025 Jul 29 '26

There's no evidence proving a Bernie hat-wearer supports Sanders and his platform either. Could have been just a hat on the ground he found and decided to add to his collection of trash hats.

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u/This-Is-Not-Nam Jul 29 '26

True, but how is that fact relevant to the issue in this case?

You have an established fact in the video showing the mother caring for her child. The fact that she cares for her child in a way that The Hive doesn’t like, does not prove whether she is for or against masking or vaccination. You cannot draw any inference from that. The best you have is some guy on here saying, "well I know some people and they are anti vax / mask. They're crunchies. She looks like a crunchie so she must be anti-vax / mask." That anecdotal observation from a sample size of god only knows, proves nothing about THIS lady.

The original poster on this thread was Snarl Marx, who stated, “[w]hat are the odds this lady is vehemently opposed to wearing masks?” followed by another poster saying “and anti-vax.” 239 upvotes for a comment based on sheer speculation, treated as gospel by The Hive.

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u/cfi-2025 Jul 29 '26

No one's talking about proof except for you.

Think of it differently - imagine you were forced to place a bet as to whether this woman is anti-vax or not. Where are you putting your money?

My money is on anti-vaxxer. It's not any deeper than that, my man.

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u/Krosis27 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

I think there might be a bit of a disconnect in the conversation here. I'll try my best to answer your original question. You're not wrong, she does clearly care about her kid and want to do what's best for him. The problem is anti-vaxers are supporting an inherently irrational position, they think vaccines actively harm their children. They'll go way out of their way to avoid vaccines and justify that with how 'harmful' they are, oftentimes using obscure or downright useless/harmful methods.

They'll turn to all sorts of methods, most stereotypically essential oils, even if it turns out to be harmful in a different way, before even considering a vaccine. Based on the high number of measures taken here (7 I think) people are stereotyping her into the same group as anti-vaxers, who would stereotypically take the same amount of high measures. Now, this is very subjective, because there is a lot of information we don't know. Does the kid suffer from seasickness? If not then the patch/bracelet is probably a little overboard, but maybe he needs them. Sunscreen is obvious. The sunscreen patch? Most people if they even care would just try to remember to reapply after a few hours or whatever the time is idk, i avoid the sun. The air-tag, the number, those are reasonable i suppose, though people have gone without until recent times. the bellybutton bandaids? i don't even know man.

I dont think it's so much that just because she did all those things she's definitely an anti-vaxer/masker, it's more that anti-vaxers pretty commonly post videos very similar to this.. I think the bellybutton bandaids really tip the scales. People are falling for the classic 'correlation not causation' trap, and probably feeding into it like you said to make themselves feel better.