Mary Reaves
@marein52.bsky.social
Left of center in a red state, retired public health nurse, gardener, knitter, dog lover.
Vaccines save lives
Vaccines save lives
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What a different world we could have.
March 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What a different world we could have.
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Medical societies that do not publicly oppose the nomination of RFK Jr for HHS secretary will be looked upon as complicit cowards by the annals of history
Silence is complicity
Silence is complicity
January 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Medical societies that do not publicly oppose the nomination of RFK Jr for HHS secretary will be looked upon as complicit cowards by the annals of history
Silence is complicity
Silence is complicity
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok?
Signed, a librarian
Signed, a librarian
December 8, 2024 at 5:03 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok?
Signed, a librarian
Signed, a librarian
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“We have an obligation to give hate no safe harbor and to stand up to what my dad used to say is the greatest sin of all — the abuse of power.”
President Biden, eulogizing President Carter. Two incredibly decent men.
President Biden, eulogizing President Carter. Two incredibly decent men.
January 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“We have an obligation to give hate no safe harbor and to stand up to what my dad used to say is the greatest sin of all — the abuse of power.”
President Biden, eulogizing President Carter. Two incredibly decent men.
President Biden, eulogizing President Carter. Two incredibly decent men.
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This just breaks my heart. The timing of President Carter leaving us now as a traitor is allowed to take office is fitting.
As we say goodbye to one of the best humans to ever grace our world; we have the worst human being ever to soil our country coming back to office. Pls watch over us Jimmy. 🙏
As we say goodbye to one of the best humans to ever grace our world; we have the worst human being ever to soil our country coming back to office. Pls watch over us Jimmy. 🙏
President Jimmy Carter's motorcade departs the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, GA.
January 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This just breaks my heart. The timing of President Carter leaving us now as a traitor is allowed to take office is fitting.
As we say goodbye to one of the best humans to ever grace our world; we have the worst human being ever to soil our country coming back to office. Pls watch over us Jimmy. 🙏
As we say goodbye to one of the best humans to ever grace our world; we have the worst human being ever to soil our country coming back to office. Pls watch over us Jimmy. 🙏
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Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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I can’t think of a better way to honor Jimmy Carter than donating to Habitat for Humanity. He and Rosalynn first began volunteering with the nonprofit in 1984 — 3 years after leaving the White House. They volunteered every year until 2020, eventually helping to build and repair 4,390 Habitat homes.
Habitat for Humanity mourns the death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
Habitat for Humanity joins the world in mourning the death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. A champion for affordable and decent housing, he and Rosalynn Carter donated their time and leadership...
www.habitat.org
December 30, 2024 at 3:35 AM
I can’t think of a better way to honor Jimmy Carter than donating to Habitat for Humanity. He and Rosalynn first began volunteering with the nonprofit in 1984 — 3 years after leaving the White House. They volunteered every year until 2020, eventually helping to build and repair 4,390 Habitat homes.
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RIP President Jimmy Carter
December 29, 2024 at 11:42 PM
RIP President Jimmy Carter
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Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
December 13, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
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Just once, when he's being interviewed by a journalist and starts sprouting complete lies, I'd like to hear them call him on it like "Now you know you're fucking lying".
I'd have more respect for journalists. And I don't think I'm alone.
I'd have more respect for journalists. And I don't think I'm alone.
December 11, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Just once, when he's being interviewed by a journalist and starts sprouting complete lies, I'd like to hear them call him on it like "Now you know you're fucking lying".
I'd have more respect for journalists. And I don't think I'm alone.
I'd have more respect for journalists. And I don't think I'm alone.
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Trump named Dr. Dave Weldon, former FL congressman and Fox News contributor, to lead CDC. This is bad. Weldon is not a researcher. He’s not an infectious disease or public health doc. He’s an internist. And he has touted the myth that preservatives in vaccines caused autism. Bad. Bad. Bad.
November 23, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Trump named Dr. Dave Weldon, former FL congressman and Fox News contributor, to lead CDC. This is bad. Weldon is not a researcher. He’s not an infectious disease or public health doc. He’s an internist. And he has touted the myth that preservatives in vaccines caused autism. Bad. Bad. Bad.
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Endorse.
My worst acute respiratory virus illness experience ever was influenza A - COVID was less horrible up front but dragged out way longer.
I’m an ID doc, have done my own NP swabs to help in my own isolation -masking-exposure assessments for > 15 y.
Plus: Influenza B can suck AS bad as A.
My worst acute respiratory virus illness experience ever was influenza A - COVID was less horrible up front but dragged out way longer.
I’m an ID doc, have done my own NP swabs to help in my own isolation -masking-exposure assessments for > 15 y.
Plus: Influenza B can suck AS bad as A.
Just to reiterate:
“It’s just the flu” is something that no serious scientist or person in healthcare would ever say. Influenza is brutal and can kill people of any age. It’s awful. You don’t want it. Get your #flushot
#IDsky #MedSky
“It’s just the flu” is something that no serious scientist or person in healthcare would ever say. Influenza is brutal and can kill people of any age. It’s awful. You don’t want it. Get your #flushot
#IDsky #MedSky
"The flu sucks" is a perfectly good reason to get a flu shot.
(Not going to the hospital is nice too.)
(Not going to the hospital is nice too.)
November 21, 2024 at 4:29 AM
Endorse.
My worst acute respiratory virus illness experience ever was influenza A - COVID was less horrible up front but dragged out way longer.
I’m an ID doc, have done my own NP swabs to help in my own isolation -masking-exposure assessments for > 15 y.
Plus: Influenza B can suck AS bad as A.
My worst acute respiratory virus illness experience ever was influenza A - COVID was less horrible up front but dragged out way longer.
I’m an ID doc, have done my own NP swabs to help in my own isolation -masking-exposure assessments for > 15 y.
Plus: Influenza B can suck AS bad as A.
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Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
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What R.F.K. Jr. Might Do on Vaccines
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
Opinion | What R.F.K. Jr. Might Do on Vaccines
As the nation’s top health official, he could discourage vaccine research and production, and dissuade Americans from getting shots.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:34 PM
What R.F.K. Jr. Might Do on Vaccines
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
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