Maximus Optimus
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What are your thoughts on the shot? Negatives or positives?
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
I can't agree more with this. I'm a healthcare provider and getting the vaccination is the furthest thing from my mind. People look at you like you're a psycho in my state (Massachusetts) if you haven't gotten it - but I always default to the answer: "It's my body and my choice. I am young and healthy and I am not worried about getting COVID."No.
I don't see any reason to take a rushed vaccine made by shady pharmaceutical companies. Especially if its against a non-threatening virus like covid. There are zero long-term studies on the safety covid vaccines, and I'm seeing more and more stories every day of severe side effects and even death.
I'd legitimately rather catch covid than get the vaccine (which I probably have multiple times since I don't follow any of the guidelines).
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Good question. We should have sovereignty over our bodies. Period.What are your thoughts on the shot? Negatives or positives?
Best reply so far. Good stuff man.I think people should be free to do what they want without being criticized by the opposing party.
However here's my take whether you agree or not.
- Covid Vaccine was rushed to market within months, instead of years of clinical trials and on limited sample.
- Pfizer CEO went on public record that he didn't take the vaccine even though he was the CEO and could've had first dibs when it first came out.
- Pfizer is now saying booster shots most likely needed on a yearly basis along with the sentiments echoed by Moderna CEO(legit or profit scam)
- I believe it can actually do more harm in "healthy" individuals than good as now your body is going to be dependent on receiving outside assistance for immunity rather than producing it on it's own.
- High risk individuals like the old, obese, pre-existing condition people may be better taking it as the rewards will most likely outweigh the risks.
- Blood clots found in certain women. What else has yet to come to light with enough shots in different people's arms? Or what are the long term effects yet not seen?
- Cases are being found in people contracting Covid after being vaccinated. Media has been keeping mostly hush hush on this.
- CDC put out a report that initially pegged Covid hospitilized cases as being 90% of those being obese. Now they changed it to over 80%. Any smart person can conclude that being obese will multiply your chances of not surviving Covid or having to be hospitalized. This should be a wake up call to obese people to change their lifestyle rather than relying on a shot.
- I've personally known a couple dozen people that's gotten it and to varying degrees but only one(300 lb obese coworker) went to the hospital and he was sent home the same day with an oxygen tank where he recovered in a couple weeks. Another high risk case was my friend's father who just stayed home and rested for 3 weeks. He's 81yo but in relatively good shape for his age.
- I've had Covid back in Dec 2019 before it became mainstream. For me, it was rough and lasted close to 4 weeks but I survived it.
- CDC says to achieve the 80%+ herd immunity, people need to have the Vaccine OR have had Covid before. If people wanna chance it on getting Covid and not get the vaccine, we will eventually reach herd immunity but it may take a lot longer.
I think people should make a choice on what they're comfortable with however I don't think anyone should get dinged from doing certain things or be excluded from venues because of it.
The vaccination card is a huge joke and hard to prove as it is just a generic card you handwrite on. There's no security strip or authenticity seal of any kind. These used to be sold on Ebay and Craigslist before it was banned and those sale posts were removed. So going forward, currently there's really no way of proving whether you've truly been vaccinated or not.
My $.02
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Emphasis on belief. That is not at all how vaccines work.- I believe it can actually do more harm in "healthy" individuals than good as now your body is going to be dependent on receiving outside assistance for immunity rather than producing it on it's
Unfortunately that is not how public health works. Hence, why children can’t go to public school without adhering to the vaccination schedule.If someone decides to take it or not take it, it should not be anybody's business and no one should feel offended and start winning because they have different beliefs.
It's the way the "body" works. It's common sense. It's not a belief. If your body is exposed enough to something enough, it will naturally develop it's own immunity to it. Vaccines may save "some" lives but it doesn't allow the body to build up it's own immunity to something.Emphasis on belief. That is not at all how vaccines work.
What exactly do you think a vaccine does?It's the way the "body" works. It's common sense. It's not a belief. If your body is exposed enough to something enough, it will naturally develop it's own immunity to it.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
Vaccine reduces or eliminates fear.What exactly do you think a vaccine does?
Normally, a vaccine gives you a dead/inactive form of a virus/disease that your body learns to recognize and practice on and will promptly eliminate if you get exposed to it again in the future.What exactly do you think a vaccine does?
So a vaccine biologically reduces fear in the recipient?Vaccine reduces or eliminates fear.
Is that so? How do covid-19 vaccines work then?Normally, a vaccine gives you a "dead" form of a virus/disease that your body learns to recognize and practice on and will promptly eliminate if you get exposed to it again in the future.
That is not at all how the covid vaccines work as far as I know.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.