(Sorry, this is longer than I expected)
The “open your eyes” thing definitely is weird, but it was an unintentionally smart move by Hollie (since attention is what she wanted.).
Every campaign needs a slogan, and she hit on one that resonated. “It’s Time to Open your Eyes” just says it in a sentence, great start to an elevator pitch. The purple wave was also a good match, as I imagine it fits with the sports theme of Archie’s interest and the unstoppable nature of waves. The Army thing has been done many times, but in this case, with alliteration, it works. All these catchy things, plus a photogenic kid who supposedly did something like a Tik Tok challenge-something easy for parents to be worried about- got Mom media attention another child may not have received. It’s kind of genius and all accidental.
As an Amerifag I can’t think of an equivalent to the word Chav, but she did a good job considering her being dumb and uneducated.
Somebody said the Admin. Assistant wouldn't correct the big boss about typos, but that is not true. That’s a big part of their job, and in fact, Admins usually write those letters and not the big boss. It should have gone out with proper English. It’s a small thing but it does make them look unprofessional and uncaring at a time when they really shouldn’t.
It’s good that Army members are remembering that other families exist in that hospital. Jahi’s mom had family and friends eating fish fry and blasting music in the waiting room which disturbed a lot of grieving people. I doubt remembering others will stop the Army from showing up outside with their purple balloons, signs and prayers, and I’m sure there will be a police presence both outside and in. It may be enough to prevent them from hoping to get inside to interfere. They can’t stop it anyway and many just seem to be mothers and keyboard warriors, not up for a real fight.
I started the Jahi McMath thread. I was so horrified at not only what happened to Jahi, but the way her family behaved. There are a lot of similarities between these cases, but I honestly do think Hollie loves Archie, bad/neglectful/overbearing mother or not. (It happens, and she even tried Jo Frost techniques instead of hitting.) I didn’t feel that way about Nails, who eventually moved out of state to be with her corpse daughter and left her little kids behind to get in fights and congratulated them for doing so. Nails was in it for cash, pure and simple, and didn’t care about her kids. I think Ella is money-hungry too, but I feel like Hollie’d rather have Archie than money.
I’m not sure what the difference is for me, and I guess it’s just little things. There are lots of pictures of Archie, he looked healthy, she was doing stuff with him-Jahi was fat and just had a couple pics. a school one and one at a pool is all I remember, none with mom. She needed surgery due to her weight, nobody cared to help her lose instead of surgery. I guess it’s just things I can’t explain, but I do feel Hollie is suffering and acting out from pain, and I felt Nails wanted to get around the CA malpractice caps and just used Jahi. .
Of course, I do think Hollie has been outrageous, and has been, as I said before, in a fight with those she didn’t need to be. The dread she must be feeling right now is overwhelming. I think she somehow thinks if she fights hard enough, she can stave off the inevitable and Archie will wake up, even though she’s admitted he won’t be the same. She’s now realizing that won’t happen but stating “execution” is a sensationalist way of expressing despair. She too dumb to trust that anybody has their best interests in mind.
I know I’ll get a lot of disagreement and it’s ok, I get it. I’m not worried about Archie or his dignity-once you are dead it’s meaningless. I do worry about the well-being of the people who care for Archie though. I hope they all get vacations after it’s over. Somebody should start a GFM for them.
Bottom line: Hollie better come to terms with it and turn her phone off, because Tuesday is going to be the day and if she wants to say anything to his body, now’s the time. Batman is not coming.
Tl:dr; I truly wish the family could put their anger aside and give their son the beautiful send off he should have had 4 months ago.
