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Everyone should use your wish bones wisely today. The goal is simple: a Trumpless America, one crack at a time.

Spent the day just existing. That counts, right? Because I’m too tired to do more.

(Raising my wine glass) In the spirit of Thanksgiving I am most grateful immortality doesn't exist.

I just googled 'sick as a parrot' it's giving me mixed meanings.

I have never heard of this expression before.

They work just as good as Copic colors.

Help often comes quietly. As a childhood meningitis survivor, Eric’s patience and guidance carried me further than I could have managed alone.

One misunderstanding doesn’t erase all the ways he has supported people during the past and that’s what I remember.

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I never heard of Doctor Who Day.

I shouldn’t have had to stumble into coping decades later. We needed support back then, and we still need it now especially with COVID and the threat of a potential bird flu pandemic.

That's the thing we track fevers, rashes, and vaccines, but not the trauma of quarantine, the fear, or the aftermath. That neglect doesn’t just hurt individuals; it weakens whole communities.

nobody thought about treating the psychological toll of the quarantine, or about any kind of aftercare once the danger passed. We were expected to survive it and move on, even though the mind doesn’t work that way.

Trust me, I’m a meningitis outbreak survivor from the 1990s. I came from a time when public health was enforced, but there was no such thing as guidance or therapy for what came after. When my family endured that localized outbreak,

There are so many survivors, and now we’re seeing children facing the consequences of anti-vaccine and anti-mask movements that have brought back illnesses like whooping cough and pertussis. Support should have been there from the start, and the lack of it is still shaping lives.

It's my emotional support Marvin...

✅ Cuts to CDC, HHS, and other public health agencies, weakening disease detection and response.
✅ Erosion of vaccine advisory boards and expert panels.
✅ Disregard for scientific consensus and evidence-based guidance.
✅ Rising misinformation that spreads faster than pathogens.

Reasons to worry a bit

✅ We empowered conmen who sell snake oil
✅ The anti-vax movement, convincing people they’re smarter than those with PhDs
✅ Reclassification of nursing and specialized medical degrees so they no longer count as “professional degrees.”