For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better.
She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.
Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest. Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear. I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”
She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there.
You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.
Cooking show I desperately want: Professional chefs compete to wow and astound totally amateur food critics who don’t know dick about shit. Get eliminated on totally arbitrary grounds such as “I don’t like sour cream.”
“I present to you the finest escargot.” “Ew I’m not eating snails. Sorry you’re chopped.”
“I’ve made beef wellington, with pastry made from scratch, glazed in a port wine reduction.” “Got any ranch?”
Suki is one totally badass non bender! And I really don’t get why some photos don’t include Suki whenever I type in “The Gaang/Team Avatar”. I also hope that Suki isn’t an underrated ATLA character (Is she? You tell me!) because she’s pretty darn awesome! Not only does she recur throughout the series, but she plays a major role in the finale… Suki deserves a rightful place on Team Avatar and this is why:
When we first met her, we learn she’s the leader of an elite team called the Kyoshi Warriors. She’s also only 15.
She likes to make it her point that girls can fight just as good, maybe even better, than men. “I am a warrior. But I am a girl too.”
She once crossed the Serpent’s Pass with the GAANG because she wanted to make sure Sokka got to safety. Talk about commitment!
And let’s not forget the time she found Appa and took care of him. This was one big touching moment 😭
And the time she fought Azula off, knowing full well she could get captured, so that Appa could fly away to safety and find Aang
SHE ALSO SINGLE HANDEDLY CAPTURED THE WARDEN OF THE HIGHEST GUARDED SECURITY PRISON IN THE FIRE NATION by climbing 3 levels of a building with nothing to use at her expense but just herself. TALENT! That’s literally my fave scene of her. She was so BADASS!!!
Meet Batlam, a lamb born at a science center. Batlam was born on Easter In Norway, at Vitengarden, in 2014. He was born with corpse paint, or more accurately, corpse wool. Batlam’s wool darkens into a pure black around his evil eyes and the front part of his mouth.
Photos: Odd Kjetil Liland, Jærmuseet
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