January 3, 1967.

Just knowing @julie4butte5 exists lowers one's IQ.

Anti-vaxxers murder children for sport.

Anti-vaxxers murder children for sport.

ROALD DAHL

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything.

"Are you feeling all right?" I asked her.

"I feel all sleepy," she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles.

Jerk it, MAGA.

The more anti-vaxxers there are today, the fewer anti-vaxxers there will be tomorrow.

Let's go, Darwin.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” 

Anti-vaxxers murder children for sport.

Well, it's a good thing the rapture happened during the eclipse or I might be doubting some of these lunatics.

Currently Reading

Simon Schama
FOREIGN BODIES
Pandemics, Vaccines, and The Health of Nations

Four years is FAR TOO SHORT a sentence for a violent criminal like Amy Verlee Hall - the sentence should be no less than ten -  but at least the miserable piece of shit is off the streets for a while.

Now do micro-peen Rick Collin.

DAVID CRONENBERG

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When I was a kid, we were all terrified of polio. The vaccine was the savior. I just can’t believe the attitude toward vaccines right now. It’s an amazing thing to be able to have a vaccine right now. If you’re refusing a vaccine, you’re a ridiculous person.

Child abuse for White Jesus for $1000, please Alex.

Where the actual fuck is Child Protective Services?

Child abuse for White Jesus for $1000, please Alex.

Where the actual fuck is Child Protective Services?

 

Child abuse for White Jesus for $1000, please Alex.

Where the actual fuck is Child Protective Services?

Just in case you were wondering who the dumbest dumbfuck on Twitter is today ...

It's James Melville.

And you thought I was going to say Lauren Boebert. Gotcha!