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06.03.2025 22:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

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.

15.02.2025 17:48 — 👍 26809    🔁 11798    💬 407    📌 548

Canadian Lawmaker Blasts 'Loser' Kevin O'Leary For Marching In Mar-A-Lago 'Grifters Parade' Charlie Angus, a member of Canada's Parliament, ripped O'Leary for claiming that he could help cut a deal for an "economic union" between the U.S. and its northern neighbor.

We need to start calling out the parade of grifters who are undermining our democracy and trying to sell out our nation.
All for 15 minutes of fame beside the convicted predator of Mar-a-Lago.

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05.01.2025 12:57 — 👍 1181    🔁 401    💬 84    📌 45

Growing up we were never taught the real history of our land.
We weren't told about the struggle to bring forward justice and rights.
The reality is that the oligarchs have given us fuck all.
What we have, people fought for.
And they often paid a heavy price.
That is a legacy worth defending.

05.01.2025 19:41 — 👍 565    🔁 207    💬 27    📌 18