Chaos grunk completed
. Lord Jesus Christ’s scarf, that saga had me on the edge of my seat. As per usual, you have all articulated all of my thoughts already.
I said something to this effect when is appeared Jack was going to cosplay a long Covid saga (allegedly m’lud) & I think it’s becoming relevant again. Jack would (correctly) argue that she has never stated that she has a serious illness and certainly hasn’t lied that she has cancer or any other life threatening illness. However, making statements about her ‘current treatment’ being ‘exhausting’ so she requires rest soon after talking about lumps (she says she left too long) and CT scans will (rightly or wrongly) concern people who will likely think the worst.
She won’t have outright lied about anything but the language is misleading & she really needs to tread very carefully. She’s previously claimed to have illnesses and/or diagnoses that are very hard to disprove and has usually identified herself as part of groups of people who are marginalised so a) it’s hard to call her out without looking like a bigot and b) people don’t tend to care very much when people with those diagnoses/characteristics call her out.
It’s easy to say ‘I never said that’ about things that the majority of people don’t know much about or care much about. However, cancer is not one of those things. If people get the idea that she is seriously ill (particularly if they think it’s cancer) I don’t think it’ll matter to them if she’s never actually said she has it (so never actually truly lied). People will feel cheated regardless. It’s a dangerous game even dropping crumbs about something so serious and so easy to disprove. If she has any sense at all she’ll stop doing it.
Of course, it goes without saying that I wish Jack health and happiness. I sincerely hope she doesn’t have a serious illness. However, if she did, it would not make her immune to scrutiny and able to do/say whatever she likes.