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Personal account of Prof Raywat Deonandan, PhD: Epidemiologist, award-winning educator, bestselling author, scourge of the ignorant, & Servant to a small child.

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i felt the same way

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ha!

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During the worst of the pandemic, when I was on TV a lot, I got a lot of hate mail. But I also got a lot of love letters.... entirely from dudes, though.

Hey, I'm not complaining. I'll take what I can get.

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A little awkward for the stage. But I'll try it.

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"I chose a crass serial rapist and adulterer, who calls women 'nasty' and 'piggy,' and took away by daughters' reproductive rights, over my daughters. So why are they displeased with me??? It must be all THEIR fault! I take no responsibility. NONE!"

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https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/slides-2025-09-18-19/02-langer-hep-b-508.pdf

In Palau, infants vaccinated more than > 3days after birth had a 6.7% infection rate. Those vaccinated within 3 days had 0.6%. That's >10X multiplier.

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Big day in our house. Kiddo received his Gr7 HPV vaccine. My dad died of oral cancer that could have been prevented by this amazing anti-cancer vaccine. My husband's research contributed to the development of Gardasil. Full circle here for us and we are all having big feelings about it. ❤️💉❤️

03.12.2025 18:06 — 👍 128    🔁 16    💬 6    📌 1

Going on stage in front of 2000 people in 15 minutes. Got traces of a migraine coming on, so I popped a tiny bit of codeine. Uhoh, I can feel it kicking in already. Bad timing.

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Interesting how this "coroner" moonlights as a carpet cleaner.

03.12.2025 16:35 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 0
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US vaccine committee's hepatitis B changes would be most consequential yet Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisers will vote this week on whether to delay hepatitis B shots for most American children, the new chair of the committee said, a move that would be the most conseq...

Of course, the RFK ghoul crew is coming for Hep B vaccination. Delaying Hep B jabs for infants by 3 days increases risk of infection 10X.

Maybe vaccination can be obviated by proper prenatal screening. But proportion of US women with inadequate screening is >10%.

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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Separated at Birth, part 170 For part 169, click here. On the 10th anniversary of his premature death, today we remember singer Scott Weiland:   In his later skinny days, he bore a weird resemblance to Clint Eastwood: I d…

My latest blog post, "Separated at Birth, part 170"

blog.deonandan.com/wordpress/20...

03.12.2025 16:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I've forgotten most of my life, but some moments are burned into my memory. Once, in the late 80s, a refugee family from the USSR invited me to their very first Thanksgiving dinner. They had scored a small turkey from the food bank and weren't sure how to cook it. Sure, it was dry; but it was GREAT.

03.12.2025 15:42 — 👍 74    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 1
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This Christmas, consider donating to your local food bank.

03.12.2025 15:37 — 👍 38    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 0
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Shocked! Shocked, I say!

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03.12.2025 15:31 — 👍 62    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 0
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"killers, leeches, entitlement junkies."

1. formal complaint filed against him for "extrajudicial killing": PETE HEGSETH
2. systematic pattern of self-enrichment, i.e. "leeching" DONALD TRUMP
3. "entitlement junkies": repeated use of federal taxpayer funds to patronize TRUMP-owned properties.

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I have arrived

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On a via train now between Toronto and Ottawa. Should be a 5 hour trip. Last time I did this, it took 14 hours. Let's see what happens this time.

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Not Fridays though. On Fridays he's in love.

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This is Forbes's new ranking of the 10 richest people.

-all men
-9/10 are American
-they have a combined worth exceeding the GDPs of dozens of countries, including: Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands, Israel, Taiwan, Singapore

Imagine what we could do if we sacrificed them all.

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Who will get the joke?

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RIP Tom Stoppard. "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" blew my mind when I read it as a teenager.

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Master has given Dobby a tie.

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