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Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, describes his daughter's death from measles encephalitis and urges parents to vaccinate:
Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, describes his daughter's death from measles encephalitis and urges parents to vaccinate: 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.
March 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
“Musk’s Businesses Benefit Under Trump Shake-Up” chart from the New York Times detailing federal agencies affected by Trump firings that were investigating Musk’s businesses
February 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Did companies end #DEI initiatives so quickly because they didn’t want headlines to say they ended them during Black History Month?
Black History Month promotional email from Target sent a week after the company ended diversity initiatives
February 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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10/10 headline, no notes
Screenshot of Associated Press headline “Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families”
November 14, 2024 at 4:35 PM