👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully…specific… bit of slang. Brace yourselves for a bumpy ride into the wonderfully weird world of…
“Vaxxed-Up.”
(Let that simmer in your delightfully confused mind for just a moment.)
Now, technically according to urban oxford, a "vaxxed up" is someone who has received multiple rounds of vaccinations and then subsequently becomes convinced they are part of an elaborate, government conspiracy. The symptoms often include a paranoid insistence on personally vetting everyone's shot records, loudly proclaiming the imminent arrival of a grey goo, and a frankly alarming capacity for shouting about microchips. Let's unpack this. Basically, we started with the act of vaccination – getting shots to keep us from being miserable (and occasionally dead). Then something went… sideways? People get really attached to the idea that they have insider knowledge, it’s like the placebo effect got REALLY overstimulated and decided it was in charge! It's a bit like turning into a human tin-foil hat fuelled by an aggressively positive internet search history. You go from being a reasonably sensible adult who trusts medical professionals to yelling about 5G and government mind control. There’s no one definitive cause, but there is a lot of theorizing that involves shadowy figures in hazmat suits and the CIA. --- Here's my edgy/unsettling example sentence: "He hadn't blinked once since his third shingles