Therapeutic Dogmatizing
04 February 2023 | St. Petersburg, FL
Saturday 4 February 2023
Had earache last night extending this morning into muffled hearing that usually accompanies. Proceeded to pharmacy for help. Figured an antibiotic would require script from PCP (due resistance from overuse of microbials) who isn't available until Monday but thought there might be something. All six products, three branded and three generic, were homeopathic. For the non-cognoscenti, homeopathy dilutes a substance that produces symptoms of the problem until there is literally nothing left except the diluter, mostly water. There is only one thing more imbecilic than thinking this will help cure disease, which is that large numbers of people will pay eight dollars for a small vial of this nonsense. At less cost, purchased bottles of alcohol & vinegar and a small squeeze bottle to mix, half and half, for spritzing.
While walking around St. Petersburg have encountered more people than ever with dogs. What's up with that? An inordinate number of pooches are being pushed in baby carriages. What the @#$%^& is up widdat? As couples are having fewer children, perhaps they're getting dogs to fill the gap. Makes some sense. If one gets tired of caring for an animal it can be taken far away and released or put down... a practice often frowned upon with kids. One advantage, however, of human progeny is that between terrible twos/threes and about twelve the little tykes are, when not acting out, impossibly cute. This is when they should be sold for serious money with which you may buy that Aston Martin or blue water yacht you deserve. Waiting until your youngsters reach puberty is an understandable, yet huge mistake. At that point they are impossibly awful and can't be given away or killed. Waiting for them to regain sanity, get a job and repay you for giving up the decent retirement you could otherwise have saved for is a delusional exercise in futility. For some incomprehensible reason, virtually no one takes the foregoing first-rate advice.
Sincere apologies to those who have not been enraged, exasperated or at least minimally peeved. Will attempt better in future. For those who found this amusing, report immediately to a mental health professional.
Jack & Jan