Day: September 18, 2018

On the whooping cough rage train – I’m also immunocompromised and went into a new workplace only to be told that someone there had it…AND WAS IN WORK. HAD TURNED UP. INFECTED HALF THE STAFF. If it’s just a cold, fine, but non-immunocompromised people need to know to stay home to protect the rest of us.

pbrim:

thebibliosphere:

yEP.

It’s become such an issue in our local area the doctor’s office I go to asks it as routine now. “Have you been exposed to measles of whooping cough that you are aware of” at every visit. And if you can’t for certain say yes they hand your a mask. Which is basically anyone with kids or someone exposed to kids. It’s unreal.

Shit people, when I was a kid we got the mumps and measles and chicken pox and all that because there were no vaccines.  (But no whooping cough, thank $Deity.)  You know what else we had?  Quarantine!  Stay in your house and don’t come in contact with anyone else until you’re well again.  It didn’t stop it but it did slow it down some. 

Sure, my family came through with no permanent repercussions, but the parents all knew the risks.  Every parent had heard about a kid who died, or went blind, or lost their hearing, or whatever.  It scared the shit out of them. And when my baby sister came along and there were vaccines for all that stuff, she got every one there was. 

And now we have parents who willingly put their kids at risk.  Not only their kids, but everyone else around them!  I can’t believe it!  If you insist on bringing back preventable disease, bring back quarantine too.

gay-danny-phantom:

dissociationdemon:

I see posts about parents yelling at kids if they cry or show emotion

That’s not normal, but there’s another side

If your parents laugh at you for crying or feeling upset it’s a form of abuse

If your parents tell you you’re a “poor baby” because you’re showing a human emotion, it’s a form of abuse

If your parents tell you you’re being too sensitive it’s a form of abuse

If your parents tell you to “man up” for being upset/sad/depressed/crying, it’s a form of abuse

There’s different ways of belittling someone, emotional and verbal abuse can be spoken, it’s not always screamed or yelled

if your parents tell you you’re being manipulative by crying that’s fucking abuse

vandaliatraveler:

Appalachian Summer/Fall, 2018, Volume Four: Pasture Thistle. Our beautiful native thistles often get an undeserved bad rap for being noxious agricultural weeds, and that’s truly sad. Invasive thistles, such as bull thistle and Canada thistle, are the primary culprits for the costly eradication efforts undertaken by farms; these non-native species spread aggressively and tenaciously and out-compete their native counterparts. As is often the case, the native varieties suffer the wrath of the farming industry as much as the imports. Yet few native wildflowers are more beautiful in structure and form than the pasture thistle (Cirsium discolor), whose gorgeous magenta flowerheads are a telltale sign of fall’s impending arrival. The plant also has an enormous wildlife value, being a copious nectar source for bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds and providing seed for the American goldfinch. A biennial to short-lived perennial herb in the Asteraceae family, pasture thistle produces distinctive composite flowers consisting of numerous disk florets held in a tough, scaly bulb composed of overlapping bracts. The plant’s alternate leaves are pinnately-lobed, spiny, and a lustrous green on the surface. Although it bears a superficial resemblance to bull thistle, pasture thistle is easily distinguished from its European cousin by the fine hairs on the underside of its leaf, which gives it a white, rather than green, appearance. Also known as field thistle, the plant has a long history of culinary and medicinal use. All parts of plant are edible, either raw or cooked – after the spines have been removed, of course. In addition, traditional herbalists have used the plant’s roots to make a tonic and an astringent.