@emilyvanartist Hello, lovely Emily. I think it helps to remember that when people offer helpful prescriptive suggestions about vaxing or eating more yams or whatever, they don't know it's already the third time this week you've heard this, but more importantly, it's not really much about you at all. Some self-protecting instinct has moved them to unconsciously calculate that their particular bias against or affinity for yams or vaxing will protect them from what happened to you.We humans have a whole history of metaphorical theories blaming or shunning others for their illnesses, ie anger causes cancer and before that - not loving life enough causes TB.But we're learning ....
