I am watching The Crown, because I am bored and out of shows to stream. I’m on season 3, and although I am mostly enjoying it, I am also very conflicted. I am watching a dramatization of real people, most of whom are still around. Much of what I have seen so far is not flattering, and although based on real events is…

Yeah, I’m an immune compromised frontline provider. I probably won’t mount an antibody response to the vaccine because I use injectable immune suppression to keep my lupus under control. I am expected to risk my life every day to help people who refuse to take 2 shots which MIGHT give them a headache for a day.

I am a physician (and immune compromised). The development of the mRNA vaccines has been the single most amazing medical breakthrough in my lifetime. It’s breathtaking. It’s a triumph. But, because we have allowed the least educated among us to have the loudest voices, fully half (or more) of our population will…

The mRNA vaccines are the safest, most effective vaccines ever created. Their development should be, in a sane society, considered a fantastic breakthrough. The most “severe” reported side effects so far have been fatigue and headache. These “think for yourself, wake up sheeple” assholes are going to prolong this…

Just jumping in to alert y’all that Kyle, Kathy, and Dorit all have COVID.

This comment has so many layers of awesome.

I am so sorry for your loss. So many deaths, so much tragedy, so much of it completely avoidable. 

The “it felt so good and uplifted me” part literally made me (an immune compromised frontline provider who hasn’t eaten out, seen family/friends, or left the house to do anything other than drive to the hospital since March) yell, “FUCK YOU!” at my laptop screen.

I am totally stealing “feculent cabal of skeevy weirdos.” That’s some poetry, right there.

I don’t live alone, but I’m currently eating leftovers by myself on Thanksgiving Day (divorce means I never get to do the holiday on the official day because both my ex and my husband’s ex are narcissists and demand the children be at their respective houses) in front of my laptop, in total silence, and I am LOVING…

Thank you. This article and the accompanying comments are pretty vile. The edgelord tone of the pieces on this site is growing extremely tiresome. It’s not even funny snark anymore. Just mean-spirited hot takes from 20-somethings.

I’m usually not the type of person who wishes harm upon others, but I am legitimately disappointed that whatever strange disorder was afflicting his hands didn’t kill him. I guess even flesh eating bacteria have standards.

What’s especially fun is that the people who are refusing the vaccine are mostly the same people who are not wearing masks and who continue to eat out, etc. The Venn Diagram is pretty much a circle.

The Pfizer mRNA vaccine has reported no serious adverse effects in over 8000 people.

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines use mRNA, which is just a bit of protein. It’s not even an attenuated or inactive virus. It’s just enough protein to stimulate an immune response. It saddens me to no end that I have seen in just 25 years American sentiment move from “Yay, Science! We put a man on the moon! to “Science…

Having worked in healthcare for almost 25 years, I watched the anti-vaccine movement grow from a far-fringe small group of nut jobs to an internet-enabled Wakefield-McCarthy international juggernaut of stupidity. Even after 1.4 MILLION DEATHS, even after all this suffering, I STILL have patients every day tell me that…

How is pointing out that ideas like defunding the police play VERY poorly in my district shitting on progressives? I AM a progressive. As such, I want to figure out how to win elections so we can actually pass stuff like M4A, the GND, student debt relief, etc. We can’t govern if we don’t WIN, and my Rep was nearly…

Seriously. If we don’t figure out how to bring the left together, we are well and truly fucked. I live in a district that flipped from red to blue in 2018. My rep BARELY won by around a thousand votes. Why? Attack ads using the words “socialism” and “defund the police.” If AOC thinks that stuff plays well in all areas…

the book, titled No One Asked for This

Yeah, I think I may have actually proved my own point with my initial comment (sometimes people who mean well end up saying dumb shit). My chosen words did not convey the complicated feelings I had, and I would have been better off keeping my mouth shut.