cw: pregnancy loss
I live in Alabama, a state with a total abortion ban, and was so overjoyed when I found out I was pregnant last month. I’ve been doing everything right. Stopped caffeine, took my prenatal vitamins, followed every rec. But I started bleeding on Tuesday.🧵
when I asked my pro life mom about the 3000 children who die every year from gun violence she rolled her eyes and said “that’s not that many.” we cannot work with republicans. we have to work around them.
There is a viral disease
Where most infections are mild, asymptomatic
With a very low fatality rate
And large age gradient: kids are even lower risk than adults
And less than 1% of kids have any serious complications at all
Yup
Polio
And we vaccinate against it
It's so fucking funny to be antivax. The creation of vaccines is arguably humankind's single greatest achievement. Unquestionably so in terms of the raw quantity of human misery averted. And a bunch of people are just...against that lol
My cousin's wife had a stroke and couldn't get admitted to the hospital last night due to overcrowding. She was gone within hours. Covid is affecting health care across the board. You may not suffer from catching it, but you just may just need a hospital bed for something else