For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better.
She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.
Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest. Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear. I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”
She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there.
You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.
All crime is vastly underreported in Japan and a shitton of deaths are ruled as suicide, because their police system is broken as fuck.
Japan’s legal system is also fucked up beyong anything ever. They are a country where “Guilty until proven innocent” is fucking normal. You get accused of something?? you are guilty. its up to you to prove you didnt do it and the accuser has to do jack shit
Japan is a country that tries to pretened very hard that it’s not a complete dystopian shithole, isn’t it?
It was rather terrifying to learn Ace Attorney was actually a satire.
And just like in AA, there’s no jury, the judge is the one who calls the verdict at the end of a trial. Prosecutors can basically present anything they please as evidence. And worst of all, they typically only hold trials for the people who seem the most obviously guilty, which the defense inevitably loses, which is why Phoenix winning all of his cases, let alone his very first, is such a big deal.
Also it’s really REALLY common in Japan for police/prosecutors to falsely evidence. Hence why that’s a recurring theme/plot point in the series
“This dude has a gunshot to the back of the head under really weird circumstances”
“Idunno investigating is hard. Call it a suicide or something”
Actual testimony from police in Japan
Police departments and politicians also have uncomfortably close relationships with organized crime, and it’s not uncommon for detectives and coroners to get called off murder investigations or recieve “suggestions” to prematurely call suspicious deaths suicides because some nice men in suits told the chief that they’ll handle things from here on out.
I left my house in the middle of the night and walked to a bridge to jump. By the time I had walked all that way and was at the bridge. The effort to climb to a spot to jump didn’t seem worth it all of a sudden.
When I was 17 i decided I wanted to kill myself. I hiked up to the top of this mountain to a summit called “Maidens Cliff”. there was a plaque at the beginning of the trail that told the story of a girl who had accidentally fallen and died while on a family hiking trip and how the cliff was named after her. By the time I’d made it to the top I’d changed my mind about jumping. About two years later I went back to that trail and hiked it with my family (they were completely unaware of what I had planed to do to myself on that cliff years prior). My mom read the story on the plaque aloud to all of us and I was so thankful that I had changed my mind about jumping because all I could picture was my name on that plaque instead of the girls. Time helps put life into prospective. The things you are going though are not worth ending your life over. Keep fighting. For your friends, for your family, and for your future self. You are worth it, life is worth it.
This is my girl! Her name is Albatross! She’s a 16-year-old paladin who was raised by ghosts on a haunted island. Her favorite mother is a halfling, she LOVES bling, and she speaks in a weird archaic accent because all her parents have been dead for centuries. She is proficient in GHOSTS and being BIG.
This is my OTHER girl! Her name is Peri! She’s a Warlock (pact of the Great Old One) but she doesn’t KNOW it because she just so happens to be friends with her village’s Party Tree, who teaches her things and in turn she vows to travel the world to spread Her seeds because THAT’S JUST WHAT FRIENDS DO. Also she can cry on cue and is a scarily proficient liar. She loves TREES and FLOWERS and sometimes SETTING BAD PEOPLE ON FIRE.
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