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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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.

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.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Suddenly mad that we'll never get a Discworld book in which the wizards invent something like Large Language Monsters that eat everyone's stuff before regurgitating it, and Vimes arrests them all for being bloody stupid

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My houseplants watching me pour water in the coffee maker

Cillian Murphy in 28 Years Later looking dead and emaciated

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 15/11/2024

This is Meatball. He's going home for the very first time. So excited to have a human of his own. Thinking about what he's going to call you. Maybe Bob. 12/10

a tiny brown and tan puppy with a yellow collar is laying with his paws tucked in on a green blanket. he is in a crate & looks at you deeply with his nose between the bars.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/12/2024

This is really not the point, but man is the shooter an unintentional advertisement for the fastest way to get around is by bike

a map showing that the United Healthcare CEO was shot at 640 at 54th and 6th at 6:40am and that CCTV showed him exiting Central Park along Central Park west near 85th street a little before 7am

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