I get tired of saving this over and over again but here goes. Smallpox: killed millions of people for hundreds of years. Where is it? Gone, worldwide, because we were forced to vaccinate. Measles were on their way out until now. I'm older than Wolfson, I remember getting measles and having school mates getting…

To steal a quote from Jezebel I saw last night, if I can't send my kid anywhere with a PB&J sandwich for public health reasons, I shouldn't be allowed to send them anywhere without an MMRV.

I met a guy today who's been crippled (I'm not sure what the proper term is) for 60 years because of polio. He can walk, but with great difficulty. Screw this doctor.

That obituary was a disgrace, and got the thrashing it deserved on Twitter and in other media (The Australian is a Murdoch paper) yesterday. My fav response with this article imagining the obits of male writers if they were subjected to the same treatment as women.

Yeah, people who are afraid of modern medicine really ought to spend more time in cemeteries looking at birth and death dates.

Go to your primary doctor and ask for a titer test - they'll tell you if you need an MMR booster, or a TDAP, or even varicella.

I'm of the first generation that had full access to the primary vacs. Born in early 1960s. But it was still far from unusual to have classmates out with measles, mumps, and scarlet fever. I remember in 2nd grade boys talking about how their testicles swelled like softballs and the pain. I remember several older high…

Yeah, my mom has clearly been faking the whole "deaf in one ear because of measles" thing for over sixty years.

Measles is so five minutes ago. I forded a river, lost some oxen and now have dysentery. #19thCenturyProblems #ThrowbackDiseaseThursday

I want to claw my eyes out.

Measles are getting all the attention...let's bring back polio too, to keep things interesting.

Sweetheart, did you read the piece? No? Then shut the fuck up.

I swear to God. it's apparently going to take someone being murdered for being a woman in the media for things to change.

Oh gosh, silly me

Someone broke Megyn Kelly and I'm loving every. fucking. second.

tchq should honestly be a subblog. people give you cat stories/tips/vids and tchq responds. like i would follow that shit OBSESSIVELY

#ByePhylicia (sigh)

Jay Leno as the voice of reason? Boy, this is a low point we've hit.

She only told him nine years ago, so I'm assuming it was in that 25-ish years that the husband didn't know? Maybe even right before.