I'm always stunned by how conspiratorial many conservative 'thought leaders' have gotten. One of the biggest voices in health politics literally believes your hair is a magnetic antenna.
If there are people today that I will celebrate their demise when I read about their death by natural causes, it’s not because I hate and despise them (which I definitely do), it’s because I value and cherish the innocent lives that will continue to be lost as long as they inhabit the planet.
Any time I hear someone complain about "pregnant people", I ask them 2 things:
1) Are you really going to call 11-15 YOs "women"?
2) Do you not think that women and girls are "people"?
I spent a lot of years as a technical writer and editor. "Pregnant people" is medically correct
and much easier to work with than "pregnant women and girls". It centers the subject's humanity in a way that "pregnant females" does not, and it just sounds better.
The only reason to NOT use it is if they specifically want to exclude non-binary people. Which means they are letting "identity politics" dictate language--which is exactly what they say they are against.
The idea that doctors would conspire by the thousands to hurt people, or to lie to gain more "covid money" is so batshit I can't even.... Secretary at a school where I worked said all those people who died of covid didn't really die of covid. COVID is a disease that can cause many other things to go haywire. Because the death is indirect does not mean covid wasn't the main factor. But she'd rather believe the refrigerator trucks full of bodies was all either staged, or bodies dead of other things used as props so the docs can rake in all that cool covid cash. Either that, or RFK JR. is a fucking moron. Tough choice. For some. I guess.
The way these nutbags keep bringing up "gold-standard science", I'm beginning to think they're referring to medieval alchemy and trying to turn base metals into gold. They certainly can't be inferring to any real science-based standards.
Ta, Robyn. By now, just about everyone here knows I nearly died of measles/Reye's syndrome at the age of six. Had there been a vaccine back then, I would have gotten it. Instead, I got measles-Reye's syndrome, chicken pox, mumps, and rubella, all at the ages of six and seven. There's one good thing that came of all this. My sister and several friends got shingles, so I had my PCP test my titers. I believe she said any number over 645 means immunity to both chickenpox and shingles. My number is 1,111 so I didn't need Shingrix.
I had 'em all, too. Still got problems nearly 70 years later. Those high fevers wrecked my hearing, a sad state of affairs for a (now former) musician.
My sister and I were both given chickenpox at the same "party" our mother arranged. Decades later, we both got the Zostavax vaccine. When Shingrix came around, I figured it would be like wearing suspenders with a belt, couldn't hurt. She didn't. One of us got shingles. It wasn't me.
This is exactly how petty authoritarianism works in practice. RFK pulls funding not because AAP's research was flawed, but because they wouldnt bend the knee and endorse his anti-vax crusade. The part about how AAPs recommendations actually cost pediatricians money to implement is what makes this whole thing so absurd—theyre not profiting off vaccines, theyre eating the cost to protect kids I worked at a clinic that almost dropped immunizations entirely because reimbursements didnt cover storage and labor costs. But sure, its all Big Pharma puppet strings. The cancel culture hypocrisy here is spectacular
Has Bobby Brainworm (h.t. to Jeff Tiedrich) been getting into dear leader's make up closet and started spackling his face with the shit brown/orange filler putty? The make up job is every bit as obnoxious as sleepy don's. What the fuck is wrong with these guys?
Do you crave the look a a side of pork left too long in the sun? Is Sharp Cheddar the Pantone color of the year in your Konclave? At MALF for Him, we have disabled the timers and removed any filtering glass on our tanning beds. How long you bathe your skin in our premium ultra ULTRA violet tanning rays is limited only by our stated opening and closing times, and those are flexible if you know what I mean! Don't delay and be sure to sign our legally binding waiver on the way in. The ladies love will love caressing your new leather! [[nod suggestively]]
My grandma grew up in a tiny rural farming town in the 19teens. In her tiny high school class, she knew two siblings who were deaf from mumps. She became the Dir. of Admissions at a university teaching hospital in the 1950s, and recalled many of the staff being brought to tears the day they held their first polio vaccine clinic. I cannot believe we're this stupid. It truly breaks my brain.
You don’t see me canceling road kill scavenging, whale head joose guzzling, and bathing in boiled hot dog water just because those things aren’t my jam.
Great, now I have to fear that my HHS grant to study the sun deposition onto the secluded beaches of Baja is in jeopardy.
Overreacharound!
As usual, the people who say that starting shit is awful and how dare they are the ones who always start shit themselves.
People who reply to Wonkette comments are the WORST!
Harrumph!
I'm always stunned by how conspiratorial many conservative 'thought leaders' have gotten. One of the biggest voices in health politics literally believes your hair is a magnetic antenna.
https://drewdespereaux.substack.com/p/is-your-hair-literally-antennas-the?r=63rclf
If there are people today that I will celebrate their demise when I read about their death by natural causes, it’s not because I hate and despise them (which I definitely do), it’s because I value and cherish the innocent lives that will continue to be lost as long as they inhabit the planet.
I can name three men whose deaths would almost instantly improve the lives of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
My point exactly.
Any time I hear someone complain about "pregnant people", I ask them 2 things:
1) Are you really going to call 11-15 YOs "women"?
2) Do you not think that women and girls are "people"?
I spent a lot of years as a technical writer and editor. "Pregnant people" is medically correct
and much easier to work with than "pregnant women and girls". It centers the subject's humanity in a way that "pregnant females" does not, and it just sounds better.
The only reason to NOT use it is if they specifically want to exclude non-binary people. Which means they are letting "identity politics" dictate language--which is exactly what they say they are against.
The idea that doctors would conspire by the thousands to hurt people, or to lie to gain more "covid money" is so batshit I can't even.... Secretary at a school where I worked said all those people who died of covid didn't really die of covid. COVID is a disease that can cause many other things to go haywire. Because the death is indirect does not mean covid wasn't the main factor. But she'd rather believe the refrigerator trucks full of bodies was all either staged, or bodies dead of other things used as props so the docs can rake in all that cool covid cash. Either that, or RFK JR. is a fucking moron. Tough choice. For some. I guess.
Xtiains think all of science is a giant conspiracy to bury the evidence for the existence of God, OK?
All religion has ever been is an excuse for sadism.
If it takes children dying to get butts in pews, these psychos will make sure that happens.
The way these nutbags keep bringing up "gold-standard science", I'm beginning to think they're referring to medieval alchemy and trying to turn base metals into gold. They certainly can't be inferring to any real science-based standards.
this is all the fault of gop voters. these guys are just doing what they were elected to do.
Ta, Robyn. By now, just about everyone here knows I nearly died of measles/Reye's syndrome at the age of six. Had there been a vaccine back then, I would have gotten it. Instead, I got measles-Reye's syndrome, chicken pox, mumps, and rubella, all at the ages of six and seven. There's one good thing that came of all this. My sister and several friends got shingles, so I had my PCP test my titers. I believe she said any number over 645 means immunity to both chickenpox and shingles. My number is 1,111 so I didn't need Shingrix.
I had 'em all, too. Still got problems nearly 70 years later. Those high fevers wrecked my hearing, a sad state of affairs for a (now former) musician.
My sister and I were both given chickenpox at the same "party" our mother arranged. Decades later, we both got the Zostavax vaccine. When Shingrix came around, I figured it would be like wearing suspenders with a belt, couldn't hurt. She didn't. One of us got shingles. It wasn't me.
There really is no bottom with these despicable people.
The Trump regime and all of his sycophantic buttmonkeys, including the very demented RFK Jr, are the worst people.
I really hope they all get what they so richly deserve.
This is exactly how petty authoritarianism works in practice. RFK pulls funding not because AAP's research was flawed, but because they wouldnt bend the knee and endorse his anti-vax crusade. The part about how AAPs recommendations actually cost pediatricians money to implement is what makes this whole thing so absurd—theyre not profiting off vaccines, theyre eating the cost to protect kids I worked at a clinic that almost dropped immunizations entirely because reimbursements didnt cover storage and labor costs. But sure, its all Big Pharma puppet strings. The cancel culture hypocrisy here is spectacular
Has Bobby Brainworm (h.t. to Jeff Tiedrich) been getting into dear leader's make up closet and started spackling his face with the shit brown/orange filler putty? The make up job is every bit as obnoxious as sleepy don's. What the fuck is wrong with these guys?
Mar-a-Lago Face for Him™️
Do you crave the look a a side of pork left too long in the sun? Is Sharp Cheddar the Pantone color of the year in your Konclave? At MALF for Him, we have disabled the timers and removed any filtering glass on our tanning beds. How long you bathe your skin in our premium ultra ULTRA violet tanning rays is limited only by our stated opening and closing times, and those are flexible if you know what I mean! Don't delay and be sure to sign our legally binding waiver on the way in. The ladies love will love caressing your new leather! [[nod suggestively]]
Very well done. I love the long-form sarcasm!
My grandma grew up in a tiny rural farming town in the 19teens. In her tiny high school class, she knew two siblings who were deaf from mumps. She became the Dir. of Admissions at a university teaching hospital in the 1950s, and recalled many of the staff being brought to tears the day they held their first polio vaccine clinic. I cannot believe we're this stupid. It truly breaks my brain.
The party of "family values" does it's best to destroy quality medical care for children. Because, after all, death is "natural."
And gawd's will. Surely gawd could stop the death of children if he really wanted.
"God just wanted another angel."
You don’t see me canceling road kill scavenging, whale head joose guzzling, and bathing in boiled hot dog water just because those things aren’t my jam.
Great, now I have to fear that my HHS grant to study the sun deposition onto the secluded beaches of Baja is in jeopardy.