Compound it - Trump has proposed defunding the CDC for the past several years, including *this month* right in the middle of the Coronavirus epidemic. 

Don’t politicize this tragic situation.

It may cost $500k to treat them, but them being able to feel morally superior is priceless.  Fuck Pence.

In his defense, the do not touch part was in quotes, so it was pretty much optional.

So, thoughts and prayers...?

And keep in mind I am by all definitions a “fiscal conservative”; without even considering the human costs (which today’s conservative fuckers don’t care about),

I was going to chime in a say exactly this. I work for a local health department. We have already made plans and are ready to go. (we’ve also had plans in place for years for things like this, they were last implemented during the H1N1 outbreak, but are updated yearly.) The state health depts are also monitoring things…

The sign should have instead said “Female Space Flight Hardware” if they wanted Pence to stay the f away from it.

To understand how severe this HIV cluster was, you need some numbers. The outbreak cluster was centered in Austin IN, a town of 4000. Number of cases there? 140. Which is insane, but not as insane as letting it get that bad in the first place. I live in this region, and even our clueless small town newspaper was…

How this plays out is going to be completely determined by how well individuals, and local and state governments prepare. I predict the morons at the federal level will only react by providing the resources needed AFTER it has become a major crisis at the nation level, and then they will fuck that up too.

Not to mention all the unpaid labour women did at their children’s schools, which is still expected today, even though the majority of families don’t have anyone at home during school hours.

Indeed. I didn’t necessarily want to inject class into the larger discussion of gender, but I find it absolutely telling what the priority of Mike Lee is, when Mr. Capitalism’s response to falling birth rates is to hector women to have more babies. When I want to attract more talent to my (hypothetical) business, you…

Another ‘job’ that baby boomer women had because of all that free time was ‘volunteering’. Women on volunteer committees were the social safety net. They volunteered in the schools, churches, synagogues etc to assist families in need. They headed up and did 99% of the work on fundraising committees for local culture,…

I think you don’t have any experience with older racists in nursing homes and other such facilities. They don’t like being attended to by nonwhite employees, in large part because they feel vulnerable. This isn’t a “fetch me a mint julip” scenario I’m talking about.

In my early 30s, the advertisements for engagement rings and wedding dresses that had followed me around the internet for much of my 20s disappeared, and a barrage of pregnancy and motherhood products rushed in to fill the void

I don’t have kids, but have always given a side-eye to the way a lot of people are about used baby stuff. I have heard SO MANY women in my sister’s circle (upper middle class) claim that all kinds of things are OMG POTENTIALLY UNSAFE if not taken directly out of the package by them. It’s very strange. Because my…

Not when it comes to cleaning up their bodily functions and bathing them, particularly when they don’t have the strength or power to hurl slurs or attack them without repercussions. 

As I was reading this, I was thinking “This is a great deep dive!” and then thought “The author must be an academic.” We need more public historians to give context and connect the dots in the world around us - thank you for writing this!

The republican attitudes toward the idealized image of [white] motherhood have two motivating factors, both of which are racist. One is that they fear the “demographic shift” that white fascists keep stirring up as a bogeyman. The other is that - whether they realize it consciously or not - they are getting old. China…