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Vampire mayo angst

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thinking about how novartis is running a lottery where the prize is literally the life of babies and apparently this went unnoticed

Spinal Muscular Atrophy is a degenartive disease that affects between 4-10 children in every 100k live births. For those of you unfamiliar with epidemiology, this number might not have a lot of meaning, so suffice to say it is a rare disease, but among the rare diseases, it’s a common one. When it comes down to diseases which only affect one gene, SMA is the most common cause of infant death. 

I won’t go too deep on how and why it happens, or all the diffferent subtypes of the disease, but what it entails is that for the severe presentation, because the baby is lacking one gene, they’ll gradually lose the strenght in their muscles. By the age of 4, most those children are dead. 

It’s not an easy death. The child loses the capacity to breathe and swallow by themselves because of muscle weakness. We provide support as best as we can, but there’s not a lot we can do about something like that. And though muscle strenght is lost, cognition is unaffected, which means the baby brain is maturing as it would regularly, inside a weakening body. 

So, it’s horrific. But because it’s a single gene causing the mess, and because science has advanced this far, scientists went “hey what if we could give the kid this gene?” 

And that’s exactly what they did. Enter Novartis, pharma giant. They decided to try it out: put the gene inside an empty virus, give the virus to the kid. Did it work?

to those of you who don’t speak medical: yes. yes it did. it worked really well. it worked well to a point where they ran tests with 15 kids and all 15 kids survived without need for respiratory aid, as opposed to the usual 92% death/permanent ventilation rate. 

“Wow, this is good,” said Novartis. “I’m going to put a 2.1 million dollars tag on it.”

“What the fuck?” said the parents, who are regular people who do not have 2.1m sitting on their banks.

“Well, you know,” said Novartis. “You only have to take it once in a lifetime! Seems like a fair price to me. Uh, but also, do bear in mind it only works if you give it to the baby before they turn 2 years old.” 

but does it end there? no! although the drug was FDA approved, Novartis needs their prized treatment to get cleared on the rest of the world. people are complaining about the price tag, too. so they have an idea. a brilliant idea! 

“We’ll get the contacts of the kids who have it around the world,” said Novartis. “And then we’ll run a lottery! Because we are generous, we’ll give away a hundred doses a year for the entire population of planet Earth! Of course, that means your country has to agree my drug is legit.” 

“What if I don’t get picked,” wonder the parents of the children.

“Well, you know. You can always just raise 2.1 million dollars, but remember you have to do it before your kid turns two.”

so now i sit here seething in hatred toward big pharma, watching mothers desperately trying to raise an absurd amount of money which is even more absurd if your coin is weaker than the dollar, saddled with the weight that if they don’t do it in time, they’ll have to watch their kids die

and then every once in a while one of them manages to raise the cash, and then they’ll post videos in their social media and i get to watch as the babies gradually regain strenght and starts sitting on their own, then moving their limbs, then standing up by themselves

while the other mothers share increasingly desperate videos of their kids who can no longer sit, and no longer swallow, and no longer breathe, until it all ends with a single text shared through instagram that just says “thank you all, but my child has passed, and we’ll give what we managed to raise to the next one.” 

meanwhile novartis pats themselves on the back for their generosity of playing roulette with the lives of babies

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PLEASE SHARE. A WOMAN WAS ABDUCTED AT A PROTEST. LICENSE PLATE EEV-701. IT IS A FORD ESCAPE 2003.

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Pretty

A lovely Picrew! Find it here

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This is why it’s so important for parents to support their trans kids.

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We are the Pride Knights, and this is our battle cry No enemy can shake us, as hard as they can try There’s a fire in our eyes that no hatred can kill A passion in our hearts that’s as strong as our will To our fellow queers who fight their battles on their own We promise to fight with you, you are never alone To our fellow queers who have fallen with the pain We thank you for your courage, your fight is not in vain

We are defenders of the right to be proud of who you are To love who you love and to accept every scar We are your knights, protectors of our pride Together we stand, together we ride

These are back! 

[Tees | Hoodies | Sweatshirts]

https://teespring.com/stores/prideknights

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Hey ya’ll!! It’s been a LONG time since I did an art giveaway for a follower milestone so I figured now would be a good time as any to do one again ^p^

Rules

*You must be following me (this blog, shima-draws) to qualify.

*Please don’t follow me just for the giveaway and then unfollow right after! I’ll be checking to see if you follow or not so don’t try to pull a fast one on me.

*Likes AND reblogs count! (Replies, however, do not.) You can reblog as many times as you’d like to up your chances of winning, but be considerate!

*Have your DMs open! If you don’t respond within 24 hours, I’ll choose somebody else as a winner.

*If you win I have the right to refuse your request if it’s something I’m not comfortable with drawing. Just a heads up, I won’t do anything NSFW or with offensive material (this also includes any ships I might be uncomfortable with).

*If you win and you want me to draw an OC or a character I have not heard of, you must be able to give me a reference. I’m not going to draw someone based off description alone :’)

*NO GIVEAWAY BLOGS ALLOWED. That should be fairly obvious lol

*I’ll be choosing the winners from a random number generator, so don’t start complaining if you don’t win. I’m not choosing the person who reblogs the most or my friends/mutuals, it’s all random so everyone gets a chance!

The prizes are listed up above, but in case it isn’t clear you can come talk to me and I’ll clarify it for you!

The deadline is June 10th, 2020! You have one month to enter!

Good luck to you all and thanks SO much for 22k, this is wild! I never thought I’d hit this milestone and I’m so grateful 💖

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When I was little my mom’s meatloaf was my favorite food. But ONLY her meatloaf. I didn’t like anyone else’s, and she told me that she would teach me how to make it when I was older. And when I was like 19? She finally taught me, but she told me never to tell anyone else and I was like weird but okay

Anyway, she was super fucking homophobic and abusive to me when I told her I was gay, so here’s the recipe

4-6 lbs of Hamburger/turkey burger

1 pk onion soup mix OR ranch mix

1 TBs ketchup

1 Tbs spicy brown mustard,

1 Tbs bbq sauce

1 Tbs steak sauce

1 egg

mix, shape into a loaf in a big pan, and bake at 350 for 2 hrs (maybe 2 and a half if you’re feeling dangerous)

You can get almost all of these ingredients at the dollar store, and have leftovers if it’s just you. The leftovers make great tacos if (taco seasoning is also like a dollar). Enjoy your revenge loaf

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the sound of a deer dying in the woods

I’ve read our fortune and it isn’t good

there’s a body lying in a ditch somewhere

and she cut off all of her pretty hair

you were never going to be

the protagonist in this

you were never going to get

your happy ending 

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I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.

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No male WWI pinups exist yet so my gay ass decided to change that at 1 AM and I ended up looking like a propaganda poster with homoerotic undertones so

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Amigurumi Plush / Patterns

Mohu on Etsy

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MY NEIGHBOUR JUST TOLD ME THAT I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO FIND AT LEAST 100 NON HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE.

LET'S PROVE HIM WRONG !!!

Reblog

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Here’s the animatic from the stream, last night! I’ll post the doodles seperately later. Audio from Snapcube’s Sonic Rider’s Fandub

Please dont upload this anywhere elsse without my permission