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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2014-11-09 07:46:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2014-11-09 07:46:00

Mood: quixotic
Music: Miranda Lambert, "Little Red Wagon."

Something silly and sort of scary for a Sunday morning.

I (as Mira Grant) was asking to put together a list of potential pandemics for Buzzfeed. I like anything that gives me an excuse to wallow in delicious virology, so...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/orbitbooks/10-epidemics-waiting-to-happen-that-you-wonat-e-16hk

Enjoy, and remember, medical science is more interested in keeping you alive than it is in cutting you up and reassembling you as a shambling horror.

Most of the time.

Tags: making lists, mira grant, pandemic time, silliness

archangelbeth

November 9 2014, 19:25:20 UTC 2 years ago

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*sigh*

My sire was an anti-vaccine nut, who got a doctor to go along with this and write a "no, really, it was medically necessary not to vaccinate her; let her go to college anyway" letter. (This letter also prevented me from voluntarily getting vaccinated for measles when there was an outbreak at said university; I didn't catch it.)

I eventually did get vaccinated -- as I wished to have a kid and, y'know, MMR vaccines are kind of useful there, and why not do the rest while I'm at it? -- but apparently the doctor contacted... the CDC? And they said, "Eh, don't bother with the polio vaccine; just make sure her kid gets a killed-dose vaccine and not a live one."

I think they didn't polio-vaccinate my kid, either, it turned out?

So I will just be sitting over here making the D: face!