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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. 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 immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Lawyers are speaking out. Join us. abovethelaw.com/2025/02/thou...
Thousands Of Lawyers Sign Open Letter To Defend The Rule Of Law From Executive Attack - Above the Law
When Above the Law usually talks about a group of over 2,000+ lawyers getting together to show support, it usually means that some big name went above and beyond for bonus season. This time, there’s m...
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February 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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pro-USAID demonstrators are roughly escorted out of a House hearing
February 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Oh my god.

They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.

"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"

WOW.
February 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How the Senate Voted to Confirm R.F.K. Jr. as Health Secretary
The Senate confirmed Mr. Kennedy by a vote of 52 to 48 to lead the department responsible for public health.
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February 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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With humanitarian aid in the news right now, here’s a guide for navigating conversations about its impact.
February 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM