But, you see, his youngest brother died of whooping cough, just a few years before the Pertussis vaccine would be developed.
So my grandfather did not become an opera singer. He always loved opera, listened to it, would sing along to his vinyl records of it, play it on the radio whenever he could. But it wasn’t his profession.
No. He became a pediatrician.
It’s about what kind of world he wanted to live in, you know?
Also, you need a DTaP booster (Diptheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis) every 10 years. People generally forget about it as an adult unless they have a tetanus scare, but if you are ever regularly around kids, it’s important to stay up to date.
The Measles vaccine is good for life, especially if you got the full 2 doses as a kid. But DTaP is different! Make sure you have that up to date!
I got my last standard DTaP in 2017.
Got a pertussis booster while I was pregnant.
TH is fully vaccinated for their age, including flu and covid boosters.
In 2018 I had my measles immunity checked, because I heard that some people don’t develop immunity properly and some batches of vaccine don’t cause persistent immunity as reliably. Turns out, my primary care doc has an immune compromised child. Doc was only too happy to order the blood work, probably would have given me another MMR right there if I’d asked.
You never know whose life you’re protecting when you participate in public health by getting vaccinated. By ensuring I’m immune, I help to keep someone’s child safe. Nothing could be more important.
I lived in an area with a major measles outbreak in 2015, and my company required everyone to either show proof of vaccination or have tests done to show proof of immunity. I could not find my childhood vaccine records, so I had the test done.
It turns out I *was* immune to measles. I was also immune to Rubella. And Varicella (chicken pox), which I was never vaccinated for, but did have as an infant. I was not, however, immune to mumps, because even though I had been fully vaccinated, vaccines don’t work 100% of the time. I had been protected by other people’s immunity (herd immunity) for 20ish years.
My company offered to give me the MMR for free, as they were giving it to anyone who needed it, so I am proud to say I’ve had more MMRs than the average person.
I got TDaPs (DTaP and TDaPs immunize against the same diseases, but in general TDaPs are for people over 7 years, and DTaPs are for little kids) in 2016 and 2018 when I was pregnant, as did most of my family because I insisted that if they wanted to see my babies, they needed flu shots and whooping cough immunizations.
Vaccines save lives. Even if you think you’re tough and you can take it, getting vaccinated means you don’t pass it on to other people who can’t. Vaccinate yourself, and if you have them, vaccinate your kids.
Oh yeah, I found out that husbff’s mother was vaccine hesitant, and flipped shit. I said that anyone who wanted to see tiny TH needed to be vaccinated like it was the first day of school. My mother, retired RN, got extra vaccinations so she could be there when her grandbat was born. Husbff’s mom still hasn’t met TH. Her loss. TH has so much love in their life, and everyone who gets to spend time with them participates in keeping them healthy and safe.
call me a dirty communist radical but I think everyone should know if they live near toxic waste
if youre in the united states and would like to learn new and terrible things about where you live, you can visit the EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening map and put in your location or zipcode
click on superfund proximity to see how close you are to a superfund site (location contaminated with hazardous material)
heres Niagra Falls NY! google love canal!
its a good tool to see what environmental factors could be harming your health that you may not know about. this is not limited to toxic waste so look around at it
my favorite is looking at roads. there are some interesting correlations. Here is a map of Buffalo NY with traffic proximity
here it is again but with where people are getting asthma 😛
crazy
heres where the people of color live in Buffalo btw
in case you where wondering what the explanatory factor here is, its the 6-lane expressway that they ran through a residential community in the 50s. a redlined neighborhood btw. the road used to be beautiful parkway. thank you Urban Renewal, thank you Robert Moses, and thank you Kensington Expressway
anyways yeah um environmental health issues are super insidious and not talked about enough. i know thinks seem daunting and scary when we talk about environmental problems, things like climate change are huge and all-encompassing. The way you can make the most impact, real tangible impact is by learning about things local to you!!!!
learn about them, talk to other people about them, organize or find a way to get involved with orgs that already exist. grassroots activism is infinitely more effective than they want you to know and its your responsibility to yourself and your neighbors to try to make things better good luck I love you all
One day I showed up to D&D and one of the guys in our group, before we could even start playing, was like “guys, look at this thing I found.” And pulled up either this exact map or a very similar one that cross checks environmental hazards from industrial facilities with average income (more detailed than by zip code, it was pretty cool). And we use a big TV embedded in the game table for maps and stuff, which he pulled this up on, so we spent like half an hour looking at where we all lived and going “oh. Shit.” And then we sat there a bit kind of ambling through some cool down small talk.
And like, the thing that kind of made it real for everyone was the context of it being on the screen we use to look at world maps for a fantasy game. It was very surreal for some of the guys at the table, the more conservative ones in particular, like they could see the map and it was showing them the forces of Mordor marching to their doorstep. And for a short time they understood that there are actually vast and evil forces in this world that they could defeat with a weapon, they were just large corporations commiting environmental crimes with very well protected CEOs and fantastic lawyers.
check out your location while you can!!! Part of Trumps immediate changrs includes getting rid of public information sources like this one. I don’t know if they will keep this website up for much longer so go on and download any reports or pollution information you might want
so as of today, February 5th 2025 this website is down. This is coinciding with mass censorship of other government agencies online from the Trump administration. Those who were able to download their data before the removal, keep it and learn it and share it with your peers. Those who did not get the chance, know that there are other avenues and follow them. Information is power and they are trying to take it away from you. Do not let them.
here are some other mapping resources from the notes. this is not everything, but it is a start.
look into the history of your area and TALK ABOUT IT. be annoying and loud about it. don’t stop learning and don’t stop talking.
update! here is a clone of the website, thank you @boots-fastened-slip-fashion for linking this in the replies I’m putting it here so it can be accessed along with the other sites 🙂
he would not fucking say that but it’s he would not fucking talk about his queer identity like he was reading out of a college campus lgbt center brochure
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