There was some effort done in sanitation and education which reduced the spread of the mosquito, so there are fewer cases now. But as the article says, fewer is not zero.

Fuh real. I was pregnant in South Texas during the Zika scare so was super paranoid just walking to my car. But now it’s a distant memory and I’ve moved on to chasing my one year old around... I’m a lucky, oblivious jerk. These poor babes and their parents. I can’t imagine :(

Man.

There was a girl in my town who was caught smearing feces on the cap of her toddler’s central line (an IV that goes to the heart). The baby was born really premature but still was “sick” at 3 years old with all manner of infections. The mom had a LiveJournal where she chronicled all the illnesses and also got into all…

Medical professionals absolutely DO NOT keep good records. This is why you must advocate for yourself and remind them of any preexisting conditions because they will prescribe medicine that can fuck you up. And doctors will listen and be swayed by patients which is a good thing when you are advocating for yourself but…

OK, I read the part about how the mom lied to doctors about the kid’s condition, but... these are medical fucking professionals. They can tell whether a kid is sick or not, whether he has cancer or not, whether he needs certain tests or not. I get that some of these might be necessary but... 13 fucking surgeries?…

Your son doesn’t know you that well so we’re placing him with a foster family he doesn’t know at all.

You’re right. And that’s the part that’s truly ghastly. This woman- at the very least- has a cultural connection to the women who vote for bigots by virtue of feeling she isn’t responsible. Guess what? Those voters don’t feel responsible for other women or PoC, either! Sure, there are some who are outright hateful,…

There is a lot of conflation between ‘responsibility’ and ‘blame’. People can’t seem to differentiate between the two.

I love your analogy, and I completely agree. I know that for me, the difficulty comes not in having the hard talks, but in penetrating the veil of religion/FOX news/hardcore racism, etc in order to get my message heard. Like trying to talk about diabetes and educate someone who insists on drinking multiple 2-liter…

“She feels awful, as if this is our responsibility because we’re white women. And it isn’t”

Koch Brothers have an ownership stake in NPR. Out there trying to make it a majority ownership stake, too. Have bought into AOL-Time-Warner, too.

Now, next question: Where were you when you found out singer Bobby McFerrin was black?

It’s a good W. But...

This is the wrong attitude to have in regards to politics. Politics are a serious matter with actual ramifications on our daily lives.

Considering all the voter suppression attempts that were made today, congratulations are in order.

I love black opera singers so much.

Iberian could mean a lot of things. There were Celts, Moors, Basques, Aquitanians, Vikings and several other ethnic groups in the peninsula. You can be a red headed Spaniard or you could look more North African, or something in between. Spain and Portugal are hardly homogenous

Crying too. I don’t want to be a helicopter parent, and I try to give my kids as many opportunities to experience independence as I can, but reading something like this gives me chills. I'll choose to focus on the decent people who intervened.

I love when women watch out for other women