KJ

Host of @SPNOpinions, hockey know-nothing on @chirpingpod. they/she🩷💜💙

[KJ @EditingKJ]

I have The Big Sads today but I know in 15 minutes I'm going to jump on a Zoom call and start talking about Supernatural and The Winchesters with some of my favourite people and I'll be less sad and that's honestly wild.

[KJ @EditingKJ]

Thinking about the episode of Glee where it was literally Major Plot that Will Schuester could not choreograph a romantic dance to Thong Song. Mark Ballas killed it #DWTS #teamtink

[TJ Parker⚡️ @tjparker]

The year is 1854. Cholera is killing thousands in London. John Snow traces an outbreak to a contaminated water pump. Everyone blames bad air. Eventually cities separate sewage from drinking water. Clean water and sanitation will save more lives than almost anything medicine invents.

The year is 1867. Surgery is often more dangerous than the disease it treats. Joseph Lister starts cleaning instruments and wounds with antiseptic. Other surgeons ridicule him. Infections plummet.

The year is 1890. Your daughter has diphtheria. A thick membrane is forming in her throat, slowly suffocating her. The doctor injects a new antitoxin. She survives. A disease that killed tens of thousands of children will become almost unheard of in America.

The year is 1922. Your 14-year-old son has diabetes. He is starving to death no matter how much he eats. The only treatment is a starvation diet. The doctor injects insulin. His blood sugar falls. Children who would have died within months will grow up and have children.

The year is 1943. Your daughter has pneumonia. Before antibiotics, doctors could do little but hope. Now they give her penicillin. The fever breaks. Infections that routinely killed healthy adults become treatable.

The year is 1955. Parents are terrified of polio. Swimming pools close. Children become paralyzed. Some spend their lives in iron lungs. Jonas Salk develops a vaccine, tested in more than a million children. Within decades, polio disappears from America.

The year is 1960. Your wife is giving birth, and something goes wrong. A century earlier, she might have died. Now there are blood transfusions, antibiotics, safer cesarean sections, and anesthesia. Maternal mortality has fallen dramatically. Millions of women survive childbirth who otherwise wouldn’t have.

The year is 1978. Your blood pressure is 180 over 110. You feel fine. The doctor prescribes a pill. Clinical trials show that treating hypertension prevents strokes, heart failure, and death. You take it every morning. Nothing happens. That’s the point.

The year is 1980. The WHO declares smallpox eradicated. A disease that killed hundreds of millions in the twentieth century has disappeared from nature. Not treated. Not managed. Eliminated.

The year is 1996. Your brother has HIV. A decade earlier, the diagnosis was effectively a death sentence. Now doctors combine antiretroviral drugs. People who had months to live begin living for decades. Many will have near-normal life expectancies.

The year is 2014. Your father has hepatitis C. For decades, the infection has meant liver failure and cancer. Now he takes pills for twelve weeks. The virus disappears. A lifelong infection becomes curable in more than 95% of patients.

The year is 2019. Your daughter has cystic fibrosis. Her lungs are slowly failing. For decades, treatment meant managing infections and delaying the inevitable. Now doctors have a drug that corrects the underlying protein defect. Her breathing improves. Hospitalizations plummet. Predicted median survival rises from roughly 40 to more than 60 years.

The year is 2026. Your doctor has ten minutes and a screen. Your blood pressure is high, so the tablet is for life. Your cholesterol is high, so another tablet is for life. Your weight is high, so she offers an injection. The drugs have side effects. Not everyone needs them. But clinical trials show that appropriate treatment prevents heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, and death.

None of these treatments is perfect. None needs to be.

For most of human history, parents buried their children, infections killed healthy adults, and childbirth killed young women.

Today, global life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900. Child mortality has collapsed.

Medicine has made terrible mistakes. We should remember them.

We should also remember the hundreds of millions of people alive because somebody got it right.

[KJ @EditingKJ]

Both our favourite redheads!!!!

[Funko POP News ! @FunkoPOPsNews]

Saving people, hunting things, the family business🧂🚗 Brand new Supernatural Funko POPs! Landing Summer 2027 ..

~ Dean Winchester w/ Dog
~ Castiel w/Wings (Premium Glow)
~ Charlie Bradbury
~ Rowena MacLeod

#FunkoPOPNews #Supernatural #SPN #DeanWinchester #Castiel

[KJ @EditingKJ]

@hannahluvsdean Asking the important questions

[jojoisms @khyungisms]

letting the fanfic i want to write play like a movie inside my head instead of writing it >>>

[Lyle 🏝️ @_FromTheIsland]

Here’s Jeff Probst’s full appearance on The Simpsons

[Once Upon A Time @OnceABC]

The vows that started it all - Happy Anniversary to #OnceUponATime, which premiered this day in 2011!

Take a trip to Storybrooke - stream every episode of #OUAT on Disney+ and Hulu

[KJ @EditingKJ]

@scurtscurt 👀👀👀

[cecidrai @cecidrais]

Between heated rivalry and this game the PR for Ottawa has never been better

[🕷️ beth 🔱 @bethlovescas]

Every single day a choice has to be made about dinner and frankly I think that’s ridiculous and a scam

[trash jones @jzux]

(still in a dark place) ah yeah i was in a dark place then

[bhumika⸆⸉ @bhumika_1905]

is?? it?? insensitive?? for?? me?? to?? say?? get?? your?? shit?? together?? SO. I. CAN. LOVE. YOU. is?? it?? really?? your?? anxiety?? that?? stops?? you?? from?? giving?? me?? everything?? OR?? DO?? YOU?? JUST?? NOT?? WANT?? TO????????

[camy @sidnezcrosby]

no woman is watching hockey because they find the players hot. this narrative is insane to me. players are literally covered up head to toe..you can't even fucking see them.

[KJ @EditingKJ]

I did make the mistake as we were circling the Chicago airport of idly thinking I’d like to fly through Denver sometime… we circled too long I missed my connection and guess where I’m rerouting?

[KJ @EditingKJ]

Could’ve dated someone who lived in my city but then I wouldn’t have a reason to see 4 different airports in a convoluted 18 hour sprint across North America

[KJ @EditingKJ]

Could’ve dated someone who lived in my city but then I wouldn’t have a reason to see 4 different airports in a convoluted 18 hour sprint across North America