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Posts by Yvonne Martinez

I can’t believe you let this happen.

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REPOST if you stand with AOC!

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Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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Here's a clip from 2009, when President Obama spoke about the Continental Airlines crash -- the LAST time we had an airline crash with fatalities in America.

He didn't blame Bush.
He didn't blame Reagan.

He just consoled America.
A REAL Commander in Chief.

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I don’t have words for all the misinformation I just watched!

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Good morning 💙

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Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

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My work buddy today!

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If you believe this, don’t follow me. Love is equal for everyone 🙌🏽💙🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ love is love♥️

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I will not believe the lies!!

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"It depresses the hell out of me that people I grew up with or l am related to have turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding."

"It depresses the hell out of me that people I grew up with or l am related to have turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding."

Good morning!

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🇺🇸👇👇🇺🇸

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Thank you 💙💙💙💙💙

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Meet sweet Helena🐈

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers

Day 8.

#booksky📚💙 #booksky #20DayBookChallenge #HandmaidsTale #UnderHisEye #JuneOsborn #SerenaJoy #FredWaterford #ReproductiveFreedom

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Just feeling drained and exhausted!

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This is Athena!

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Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

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Deleted it and not going back!

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RE: ICE immigration raids in Chicago: I apologize, I posted the English version, here is the Spanish one. Please RP!

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I smell a setup… the Bitedance CEO will be at Trump’s indoor inauguration and then watch… Tiktok and Capcut will pop back on, and Bitedance will hail King Donald as a hero. The fix is in, fam…

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I won’t be getting back on TikTok especially after Trump supposedly saving it!

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