Comments | greygirlbeast: "I pulled into Nazareth..."

greygirlbeast

"I pulled into Nazareth..."

Feb 13, 2015 12:53

Today the wendigo is wailing down Overlook Mountain, whipping up snow and snapping limbs. The sun is a wide and carnivorous blue. The land is crystalline white, and the sky is bottomless blue. The sun is brilliant. The trees save me from vertigo, from falling up, the trees and the mountain. Last night, the wind was even wilder than it is today. We ( Read more... )

selwyn, good movies, paleontology, hubero, philip, ice, gw2, woodstock, the wide carnivorous sky, anti-vaxers, snow, cold weather, busyness of writing, the swans, science, bill moyers, the wendigo, idiots, wind, idiot parents, then vs. now, mountains, neil

Comments 17

(The comment has been removed)

greygirlbeast February 13 2015, 18:04:44 UTC

Indeed.

David J Schow ext_1285666 February 13 2015, 18:03:28 UTC

Have you ever read this guy? He's great! I'm reading a book of his short stories called EYE and waiting for the mail to bring The Shaft from Centipede Press.
Another storm. Shit! Stay hidden.

Re: David J Schow greygirlbeast February 13 2015, 18:05:53 UTC

Have you ever read this guy?

We've been friends since 1995. In the mid and late nineties, I used to stay at his place in Hollywood whenever I was in LA.

Small world.

martianmooncrab February 13 2015, 19:11:51 UTC

whether their child gets vaccinated.

it thins the herd.

sovay February 13 2015, 19:33:46 UTC

it thins the herd.

When the herd includes children too young for vaccination, adults who haven't had their booster shots lately, immunocompromised people of all ages, and the occasional casualty in utero (see Gene Tierney), I have a lot harder time writing it off as short-sighted parents courting natural selection. It wouldn't be all right if anti-vaxxing only directly affected one's children-they don't deserve to suffer because their parents are more frightened of autism than of brain damage, life-threatening disability, or death-but the problem isn't even as containable as that. It's one thing if you think your wonderful healthy sturdy holistic six-year-old will shrug off measles like last winter's cold, but that doesn't do much for the nine-month-old who has the bad luck to get parked next to them at the bus stop.

greygirlbeast February 13 2015, 20:19:43 UTC

Sonya, yes.

martianmooncrab February 14 2015, 06:47:39 UTC

My Gran insisted on all of us getting our vaccinations, because, she would tell us, she loved us and didnt want us to die.

Thread 6

sovay February 13 2015, 19:23:17 UTC

Hubero is getting ready to whip up a culinary masterpiece. Right after he sleeps some more.

That is an excellent cat portrait.

"Why Do So Many Young Americans Misunderstand Vaccination?"

Because empathy is dead? Or maybe it's just memory that's been short-circuited. My father had polio as a child. He was one of the last generation for whom it was possible: he was born in 1952. He was paralyzed on his left side; he had to relearn how to be right-handed and he limped for years of his youth. Maybe when that sort of thing isn't real to you, it's easier to be misled by apathy. At this point I don't even know how much misinformation has to do with it. I really just begin to wonder if there are parents who believe it would be a thousand times worse to put limits on their personal decision-making than take steps to protect the lives of their child or their child's friends.

(This topic, I feel vitriolic about.)

greygirlbeast February 13 2015, 20:20:58 UTC

Because empathy is dead?

This is one popular hypothesis advanced by researchers.

(This topic, I feel vitriolic about.)

As well you - and all of us - should.

alumiere February 13 2015, 20:59:24 UTC

So much cute fluff.