#CDC Devices

[laagansabukid]

Child Development Center Devices Turned-over

Lantawa: Makompleto ang kap-atan ug pito (47) ka tunghaan sa Child Development Center nga gilangkuban sa napulog-upat (14) ka Barangay ning lungsod ang Indoor Devices alang sa mga tinun-an nga mga Pre-schoolers nga gidumala sa Municipal Social Welfare and Development.  Sa pagtunol diha si Hon. Ernie R. Devibar, Lantapan Municipal Mayor ug Ms. Normie S. Dumaque, Municipal Social Welfare Officer…

[nokingsnocrowns]

Deny Defend Depose

Brooklyn, NY

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

This post is my attempt to track what’s going on with US politics. This post is constantly being updated so if you see this on your dash, check my blog (this post will be pinned) to see the latest version. If there’s anything I miss that you think should be included on this list, please let me know.

January-April 2025

May 2025

National News:

Trump-appointed judge says president’s use of Alien Enemies Act is unlawful [x]

Trump is replacing Mike Waltz as national security adviser [x]

The Department of Justice is preemptively suing several states in order to prevent them from suing oil and gas companies [x]

Trump releases a budget proposal that cuts funding to health, education, and clean energy while growing funding to the military [x]

Trump downplays fears of recession [x]

Trump administration is making sweeping cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) [x]

Trump is ordering the reopening of Alcatraz [x]

Trump wants to put tariffs on foreign films [x]

Trump says he’ll give immigrants $1,000 if they self-deport [x]

Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee [x]

Supreme Court upholds Trump’s ban on trans people serving in the military [x]

House votes to codify Trump's Gulf of America executive order [x]

Trump names Fox News host as US Attorney for D. C. [x]

Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protections for 350,000 Venezuelans [x]

House Republicans want to stop states from regulating AI [x]

The executive orders Trump has signed to rewrite American history [x]

LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) has been arrested and charged with assault [x]

FDA may limit future Covid-19 shots to older people and those at risk of serious infection [x]

Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' defence system [x]

Justice Department pulls civil rights investigations into local police departments [x]

17 family members of notorious cartel leader enter U.S. in deal with Trump administration, Mexico says [x]

Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department [x]

Trump administration blocks Harvard's ability to enroll international students [x]

Trump reverses the ban on forced reset triggers, which are devices that can turn an assault rifle into a machine gun [x]

Supreme Court grants Trump request to fire independent agency members [x]

A judge has temporarily blocked Trump’s plan to stop Harvard from enrolling international students [x]

Trump has made massive cuts to the National Security Council [x]

Trump is delaying tariffs on the EU [x]

CDC ends Covid vaccine recommendation for healthy kids and pregnant women [x]

US court blocks Trump from imposing the bulk of his tariffs [x]

Appeals court pauses ruling that blocked Trump’s tariffs [x]

Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke legal status of 500,000 immigrants [x]

State News:

Texas is trying to pass a bill that would ban people from receiving medication abortion pills in the mail [x]

Trump’s war on clean energy is threatening a battery manufacturing plant in Kansas [x]

Florida bans fluoride [x]

A brain-dead woman in Georgia is being kept alive because of the state’s abortion law [x]

A bill in Texas will require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools [x]

Other News:

Ed Martin, Trump’s nominee for US Attorney for D.C. lies about being acquainted with a Nazi sympathizer [x]

Trump says he “doesn’t know” if he has to uphold the Constitution [x]

Trump posts an AI generated photo of himself as the Pope [x]

Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration [x]

Trump wants to have a military parade for his birthday [x]

Trump pulled his nominee for Surgeon General for not being MAGA enough [x]

Trump accepts a luxury jet from Qatar [x]

Trump is claiming there’s no inflation [x]

White South Africans arrive in the US as refugees [x]

Kristi Noem incorrectly defines habeas corpus during hearing [x]

Pentagon says it has accepted Qatar's gift of a luxury megajet for Trump's use [x]

Pete Hegseth is hosting Christian prayer services at the Pentagon [x]

June 2025

20 years ago, same-sex couples couldn’t legally be married in America. 40 years ago, people with disabilities had next to no civil rights and were sometimes barely treated as human. 50 years ago, women couldn’t get a credit card without their husband’s or male relative’s permission. 70 years ago, America was a racially-divided apartheid state and there was a literal terrorist group freely roaming the country and holding political power. 90 years ago people of color, people with disabilities, non-heterosexual people were subjected to eugenics and forced-sterilization. 110 years ago women couldn’t vote.

The ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples, slavery, imprisoning people for being homosexual, lynching, institutionalizing disabled people, I could go on and on and on.

America has done a lot of unforgivable things to minorities. This country has been through some unimaginable times. And through all that, there have been people putting their lives at risk to fight that because the Founders, for all their flaws, did manage to get one thing right: leaving the language of the Constitution just vague enough to plausibly include everyone even if the Founders, themselves, weren’t necessarily thinking of everyone when they wrote it.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

I really couldn’t care less if I’m “cringe” or whatever. Truthfully, I think that people considering optimism and hope to be “cringe” is exactly why we’re in this mess right now. Being optimistic doesn’t mean denying the reality you’re in. Being optimistic means accepting reality and saying “but I think things can be better.”

When our forebears were being enslaved, institutionalized, sterilized, terrorized, murdered, did they just throw up their hands and say “well times are tough, nothing we can do about it, guess we have to just accept it 🤷‍♀️”? We owe it to everyone who came before us to pick up the mantle and keep fighting.

Protest peacefully. Make your voices heard. We lose if we give up and stop fighting. Remember: Community Is Strength. Diversity Is Strength. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

When your Character is Sleep Deprived

Sleep Deprivation - occurs when you don’t routinely get sufficient sleep at night.

Seven to eight hours of quality sleep time is the baseline for most adults, yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that one third of American adults suffer from measurable sleep loss.

This lack of sleep can lead to disruptions in everyday life, from grogginess and delayed reaction times to serious medical conditions.

Causes of Sleep Deprivation

Many factors can prevent you from getting a good night's sleep. These include:

Sleep disorders: Certain conditions like sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome can interfere with healthy sleep.

Mental health conditions: Depression and anxiety can be sources of severe sleep deprivation.

External stimuli: Loud noises, bright lights, and hot temperatures can all prevent you from getting enough sleep.

Work schedules: Shift work at night can clash with your natural circadian rhythms and trigger sleep deprivation.

Physical activity: Exercise can inhibit sleep onset if scheduled too close to bedtime.

Effects of Sleep Deprivation

The consequences of sleep deprivation can be serious. A person operating on insufficient sleep may face increased risk of the following effects.

Daytime drowsiness: A poorly rested person can go through the day feeling groggy. This can lead to drowsy driving, car accidents, mental slip-ups, and poor cognition.

Microsleep: In addition to general drowsiness, a person running on very little sleep can experience microsleep—very short bursts of unconsciousness that feel like blacking out.

Mood swings: A person overcome by sleepiness may be cranky and irritable, and they may also experience headaches that further sour their mood.

Memory issues: Poor sleep patterns that cause a person to get less sleep have the potential to affect memory recall.

Tips for Avoiding Sleep Deprivation

To ensure you get consistent and sufficient sleep duration, consider the following strategies.

Stick to a bedtime routine. Sleep difficulties can stem from inconsistent schedules and routines. Improve your sleep hygiene by creating consistent sleep habits and a bedtime routine. This may involve stretching, an evening shower, or a cup of tea.

Avoid digital screens before bed. The blue light of electronics can mimic the effects of sunlight and prevent your body from entering its natural sleep cycle. Keep digital devices out of the bedroom, and when you must use them before bed, use a blue light filter that keeps the most disruptive light out of your eyes.

Consider a natural sleep remedy. Supplemental melatonin can help you fall asleep when your routine sleep schedule has been disrupted. Take care to not build reliance on sleep medications that may dampen the restorative effects of REM sleep and non-REM sleep.

Lower the temperature of your bedroom. A nighttime room temperature of 60 to 67 degrees Fahrenheit signals to your brain that it’s time to sleep.

Practice mindful relaxation techniques. A bedtime ritual of deep breathing exercises and slow exhales can promote progressive muscle relaxation. Mindfulness can also eliminate tension while allowing your body to drift into drowsiness and get enough hours of sleep.

Monitor your health conditions. Certain medical conditions, like sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome, can impair sleep onset and deprive you of sleep over the course of the night. Seek medical advice for handling such conditions, and work with your healthcare provider to develop treatment and coping strategies.

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[trainer0084]

The FDA and the CDC both state that mask is an experimenter device to stop the spread of disease. Nuremberg, code state that no one can be forced to do a experimental medical procedure

[the-dubious-creature]

So. I don't post my own thoughts much. Or talk politics much. But. I've of course seen so much stuff talking about the genocide currently happening in Gaza. And one thing in particular caught my eye.

So I did a quick Google search.

Not only is Israel indiscriminately bombing hospitals, homes, and businesses in the Gaza Strip...

They're doing it with white phosphorus.

Now, if you know what white phosphorus is, that sentence alone should be enough. But if you don't, here's a quick summary.

Take napalm. Now make it burn about five hundred degrees hotter. And make it react with oxygen, i.e. the air. So what that means is even if you somehow manage to extinguish the flames, the second you unwrap the wound you start to burn again.

Oh, and it also absorbs into the skin, which can cause even more complications and health problems, up to and including a slow painful death.

While the use of white phosphorus itself (as a smokescreen or concealment device) is not necessarily a war crime, using it as an incendiary weapon is. ESPECIALLY in an area where the vast majority of the population are civilians. But that's what Israel's doing.

Now, if you don't believe me, here's the CDC saying everything I just said in more scientific language, and a news story about the white phosphorus shells:

CDC SOURCE

NEWS SOURCE

So yeah. Call for a ceasefire. Free Palestine. I don't support genocidal countries that commit war crimes.

[pascalscoffin]

Gail’s statement about Joel and Ellie walking side by side from the beginning made me think of a theory that’s been rattling around in my brain from the beginning (including the game lol)

I never understood where people were getting the whole “Joel made her violent” thing when he did everything he could to make sure she didn’t have to in the first season

We see Ellie’s interest in violence/her anger issues in like the first two episodes of the show. When she’s stuck with the fireflies and Marlene she’d spent the whole time she was there cursing at them and all but telling them to go fuck themselves

And then we have the way she side stepped so she could watch Joel beat that FEDRA soldier when they were trying to escape the quarantine zone

And then of course we have the whole mall episode where she gets bit (believe me she had a very VALID reaction but compared to Riley it was… 0 to 100 real fast) that was sadness/distress morphed into pure rage

All happened before she really knew Joel (she only knew him in the FEDRA scene for like… maybe 10 or 12 hours idk).

Genuinely I think Ellie’s immunity is part of the reason she is so angry all the time, why her rage encompasses everything else she feels.

Ellie’s immunity comes from the fact that she’s already technically infected with Cordyceps, her cord was cut just in time for her to not be fully infected but still show up as fully infected on the devices FEDRA carries. Logically thinking, having the Cordyceps gene in her dna (dormant or not) could hype up her rage, since she was born with the fungus already inside her, it doesn’t turn her completely, but I do firmly believe that it had at some point altered her brain chemistry and just made her more prone to getting angry.

I’m gonna reference 28 Weeks Later rq because they have immunity (spoilers? I guess if you haven’t seen it yet)

I don’t think the rage virus and Cordyceps are THAT far apart in similarities, other than Cordyceps being fungal and the infection being bloodborn.

When the kids find their mom, she’s happy to see them, but because she’s a carrier for the rage virus (immune like Ellie) her joy is slightly overcome by the rage virus and she starts squeezing her son too tightly (a bit of a parallel to Ellie’s reaction in the mall)

Now Cordyceps… seem very angry lol and despite Joel saying “fungus isn’t that smart” we know that some of them are in fact that smart and seem to still have a very tiny bit of their humanity left (just enough to remember how to hunt and stalk people). Out of all zombie movies and shows and other media that’s come out, the only ones you can really compare Cordyceps to is the rage virus (and the hyped up rabies from the Quarantine movies) in the sense that they’re not mindlessly wandering around bumping into eachother and instead seemed to be fueled mostly by anger and the need to spread.

(As for Quarantine comparisons- the Quarantine virus has the ability to fix whatever’s wrong with your physicality (like Cordyceps did to Nana) there’s a character with Parkinson’s (late stages he’s already completely immobile and unable to speak) in the second movie, when he’s bitten by an infected rat he leaps out of the wheelchair he’s been confined to (just like Nana) and attacks two or three CDC workers in a matter of seconds.)

The Quarantine virus is a little closer simply because it’s rabies, thus centered in the brain (like Cordyceps) unlike the rage virus, which is a strain of the Ebola Virus, making it bloodborn and just makes you really fucking angry rather than starved like most of the other zombie viruses within media do.

My point is, these viruses are working mostly on rage and the need to create more like themselves (rather than just wanting to eat) which puts them closely in comparison to the Cordyceps virus (with a few differences) and they’re centered in the brain (Cordyceps & Quarantine rabies virus). They’re all viruses that in some way alter your brain chemistry.

So, theoretically, Ellie’s habit of jumping to rage before anything else can just be a symptom of her being born with Cordyceps lying dormant inside of her.

[ghostflowerdreams]

It's absolutely essential to have an emergency kit, or to build one tailored to your needs. Don’t put it off or assume you’ll be fine without it. Being prepared can make a real difference when things go wrong.

In recent years, we’ve faced all kinds of unexpected events: earthquakes, floods, the pandemic, severe snowstorms, and most recently, a massive power outage across parts of Europe. These situations have shown just how unprepared many people are.

Think about how much worse that blackout could have been if it happened in the middle of winter, during a heatwave, or if it had lasted for days instead of just hours. The consequences could have been far more serious.

Please take the time to prepare now, even if it’s just a few small steps. That way, you won’t be caught off guard when something bad happens and your future self will be glad you did.

Heavy-duty, durable backpack

LED flashlight (with extra batteries)

Battery-powered or hand crank AM/FM radio (NOAA Weather Radio, if possible)

Portable backup battery or power bank for mobile devices (with phone charger)

Candles, matches, lighter or a fire starter in a waterproof container

First-aid kit

Mess kits, paper cups, plates, paper towels and plastic utensils

Moist towelettes, garbage bags, and plastic ties (for sanitation)

Feminine supplies and personal hygiene items

Non-perishable food (such as canned goods or packaged items)

Manual can-opener (optional)

Water (bottled and/or water purification tablets—for drinking and washing)

Prescription medications and glasses

Non-prescription medications (pain relievers, anti-diarrhea medication, antacids, laxatives)

Cash (Do not rely on credit cards or debit cards)

Important documents: Copies of insurance policies, medical info, bank records, birth certificate and proof of address. Store them electronically or in a waterproof container.

Sleeping bag or emergency blanket

Multi-purpose tool

Whistle (to signal for help)

Hand Warmers

Dust-protection face mask

Duct tape

Map(s) of the area

Books, cards, puzzles, or other non-electric games to pass the time

Pet food and extra water for your pet

Infant formula, bottles, diapers, wipes and diaper rash cream

Not every item on this list may apply to your situation, so choose what makes sense for you. Remember, it's better to have something and not need it than to need it and not have it. Make sure to also keep your kit up to date and replace any expired items as needed.

For more information, visit official government websites for reliable emergency preparedness resources and trusted news outlets for the latest alerts and expert advice such as...

The American National Red Cross - What Do You Need In A Survival Kit?

The National Weather Service (NWS) - Building an Emergency Winter Supply Kit for Your Car

Ready.gov - Build A Kit

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) - 10 Items to Include in Your Emergency Kit

Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) – Emergency Kit

CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Prepare un kit de emergencia

Government of the Netherlands - What does the emergency kit contain?

Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación (MAEUEC) - Guía de emergencia (PDF)

euronews - Esto debe incluir el kit de emergencia que propone la UE ante peligros como un gran apagón

euronews - Francia enviará a sus ciudadanos una guía para sobrevivir a guerras, pandemias y otras crisis

National Geographic (España) - El kit de emergencia que la UE recomienda tener en todos los hogares

El Pais - Agua, comida y medicinas: qué incluir en un kit de emergencia como el que recomienda la UE

infobae - Apagones, desastres naturales o guerras: cómo es el kit de supervivencia que recomienda la Unión Europea para catástrofes

Publico - Água, comida, lanterna, cobertor, canivete… O que deve ter um kit de emergência?

Santander - E se o inesperado acontecer? Saiba o que deve ter no kit de emergência da União Europeia

ECO News - O que devemos ter num kit de emergência?

Ministère de la Transition écologique - Préparer son kit d’urgence 72h

Service d’Information du Gouvernement (SIG) - Se préparer à une situation d’urgence

Croix-Rouge Française - Catakit : Préparer son sac d’urgence

[deansapplepie]

Till THE DEAD do us part | Chapter 4

A/N: This story will take place in all the seasons, but it’s not exactly a rewriting cause I’d have to re-watch everything to use the exactly lines of the characters, also I think it’s better if I tell a side story without changing the main facts of the story.

This story has a Female Reader, but I don’t describe her appearance, so anyone can identify with her.

Chapter 3 Chapter 5

Chapter 4: Pinky Promise

Summary: The group arrived at the CDC and were welcomed by Dr. Jenner, that asked just for blood samples so they could stay there. The group ate better than they have been eating in weeks and also drank a lot. Y/N and Daryl talk about the past while they share a bottle of whiskey and things get just a little bit out of control.

Warnings: swearing, little angsty, fluffy, alcohol consumption, sexual tension (?), a hot kiss 🥵, Minors do not interact. Nothing extremely sexual and detailed, but if disturbs you in any way it’s better not to read. Maybe some characters are ooc, idk 🤷🏼‍♀️

Pairing: Daryl Dixon x Grimes!Reader (Rick’s Sister)

Word Count: 2,877

Extra notes: I proofread the text, but English is not my first language, so feel free to correct any mistakes, of course with love. I’m consulting a timeline of everything that happened, but it can happen that I put events out of order, but I don’t think it’ll make much difference in the story. ALSO, I’m very nervous about the path this chapter went so I’d be glad if you told me what you think.

As soon as the door opened everyone entered, but there was no one. Where were the person that opened the damn door? After some minutes a man appeared, gun on his hand and he just lowered when you proved you offered no danger. His condition to give you shelter, was to take blood samples of all of you to examine. A fair price for a scientist, how could you deny?

After you picked everything you needed from the cars, the man named Jenner, closed the metal doors and you followed him to get your blood samples taken. You were not over joyed to get your blood taken, because normally your veins were pretry dificult to be found and people would end up torturing you with a needle until they found your vein.

“You’ll probably find my vein here.” You said pointing to a place one inch from your elbow. Yeah, your vein was easy found in a very strange place. “My veins are difficult to find, that’s why I’m telling you.” ‘And because torture is not my kind of entertainment’, you thought.

“Don’t worry, I’ll only do it when I’m sure I found it.” He tried to make you calm. And he didn’t lied, he really waited till he found it and then he collected your blood without much trouble or pain.

He took everybody’s sample and then took you to the kitchen. A full supplied kitchen with good food, alcohol, water and all the appropriate devices to prepare anything.

“Glenn, did we die and I didn’t notice? Cause this looks a lot like heaven.” You commented with the young man.

“If we did, I didn’t notice it too.” He replied. God! You didn’t think you would miss so much having a kitchen with all the appliances you were used to.

You prepared the food together and the drinks were served. Everybody was so happy, having a good meal, drinking and chatting. There was a long time you didn’t feel such a light atmosphere. You all joked and smiled, maybe the alcohol was helping a little.

“Hmmm, never thought I’d taste such delicious wine again.” You commented next to your brother.

“Go easy on the alcohol sis.” Rick told you, as if he knew how to drink.

“Shut up Rick, you know I can handle alcohol better than you.” You said making him have a good laughter, in no way you were a better drinker than him. “Hey! Let a woman have her dreams.” Everyone joined Rick on his laughter, brightening the room with joy.

Very reluctantly Lori gave Carl permission to taste a little of wine, and he hated, so she was happy. Glenn was getting drunk for the first time and all of you were encouraging him, even Daryl, which was really funny to see him all lose and even smiling, genuinely and openly smiling. Alcohol was a dangerous thing, but it could also show you things you didn’t know about other people, good and bad. You sneaked some appetizers to Luna, which she gladly took.

When dinner was over Jenner showed you around, there was rooms where all of you could stay, and bathrooms with hot shower. Oh my God, you couldn’t even remember the last time you took a hot bath. You claimed one of the rooms and went directly to the bath.

You took your time in the bath, washed your hair, let the hot water fall against your back and relax your muscles. It was so good, it had been only two months and you already missed this little luxuries from the old world so bad. When you finished drying yourself, you brushed your hair and put some comfortable clothes, your sleeping shorts and a tank top. Then, you missed something important, where was Luna?

You left your room and passed looking on the rooms that had the door open. You saw Carol putting Sophia to sleep and you couldn’t help, but smile. They deserved happiness and you were glad they were safe here, as you were glad you family was here too.

“Carol, did you see Luna? I can’t find her.” You asked her from the door.

“No, I just came from the rec room with the kids and didn’t see her. Maybe she’s with Rick or Shane?” She suggested, you didn’t know. You didn’t want her messing around in an unknown place.

“Ok, thanks. Gonna continuing looking for her. Have a good night Sophia! And you too Carol, rest yourself.”

“Have a good night Y/N/N” they replied.

You continued looking in the rooms that you could see open, but she was nowhere. You saw the door of Daryl’s room half opened and decided to knock, maybe he saw her somewhere.

“Come in” you heard he say, and you were not expecting the scene. He all cleaned up, a bottle of whiskey in his hand, his back on the wall, sitting in the sofa and Luna all over him.

“Am I interrupting something?” You asked playfully, Luna looked at you and swinged her tail, but she didn’t move from where she was.

“Not my fault she likes me better.” He took the bottle to his mouth all cocky.

“Seriously, I’m already thinking about giving you her custody. It’s obvious she doesn’t love me anymore.” You dramatized sitting on the sofa right next to him.

As soon as you touched the couch, she came all your way with her cold nose, and she laid on both your laps. “I think she wants to say that she likes us both.” You stated.

“Want some?” He offered you the bottle of alcohol.

“Is this even a question? Just give me the bottle Dixon.” You take the bottle and take it to your lips, whiskey was not exactly your favorite drink, but having the alcohol in your system was too good. Just not having to worry about being sober and ready to fight at any moment.

You stayed a long time in silence, just passing the bottle around and sipping from the drink. Here it was, that comfortable silence that you used to share and right now you could do it without worrying much. You rested your head back on the wall and looked at his profile, he was handsome and also cute, you felt kind of lucky for being able to take a look at this pretty serious grumpy face everyday.

“What did ya do before all this?” He asked and sipped on the bottle.

“You mean before I became a professional Zombie killer?” You joked, a bitter taste in your mouth having to talk about your failed career. “I was a vet. What about you?”

He looked at Luna and nodded like it made a lot of sense since you had Luna, but in fact anyone could have an animal. “I’d go around with whatever shit Merle was up to. In few words, I was a nobody. I had nothing as cool as you had.”

“Don’t say this. You weren’t a nobody. In fact, when it all happened, I was unemployed. So if you were a nobody, I was just like you.” Your head still resting on the wall, your eyes still on his profile and you thought how could he think so low of himself.

“Ya weren’t nobody, princess.” He turned to look at you and you swear that your heart skipped a bit when you looked in his cute baby blue eyes. “Ya just didn’t have a job.”

“So didn’t you.” He didn’t understand why you’d try to cheer him up and tell him he was more than what he actually was. Since he could remember he knew everyone thought that the Dixon’s were no good. Nobody wanted to be around his brother or him, and it didn’t change at the quarry. And why should it change now? He’d always be what he was, but you seemed to look at him with a whole different look than anybody else and you never told he was no good or a piece of shit… you mostly had good things to tell him, even when he was a dick with you.

“What’s going on in that head of yours, D.?” You looked at him and you almost could see all the gears working in his mind. You still looked in his eyes, both of your heads resting in the wall.

“Ya think I’m better than I am.” He also looked in your eyes and tried to see anything that showed you were fucking with him, but he didn’t. You were like Rick, you had honest eyes and couldn’t hide your emotions at all even if you tried. And at the moment you didn’t have any bad emotion in your face.

You wanted to say that he thought too low of himself, that he was better than he thought. You could see it, but it was not like you were good with words, and in the last 24 hours you got him upset more times than you would like, even if he was the asshole in one of them. Maybe it was the alcohol speaking, but you couldn’t put yourself to look away from his face, and now your eyes wandered all over his face, from his handsome eyes, to his lips, the small freckles under his eyes and the cute mole above his lips… God! You really wanted to kiss him, and your intoxicated brain could not think straight, if you were sober you’d never have the courage you were feeling at this moment.

He was no different from you, not that he had never spent any time admiring your features, he had done it many times. Your beautiful eyes, your nose, your lips and even your jaw. God, if ever existed one, he had thought more than he would like to admit about running his mouth over your jaw, your lips… kiss, lick and even bite your neck. But before, you were never this close to him and he had never got this drunk with you or near you. He had not felt like this before, like if he didn’t touch someone or were close to someone… he wouldn’t be able to breath. He thought it was pathetic, well that was what Merle would say, because feelings was something only pussies did. The alcohol in his body talked stronger than Merle’s voice in his head, and all he could think was that your faces were a few inches from each other and that he could feel your warm whiskey breath and the smell of your clean hair, and when you crashed your lips against his, he wasn’t able to control anymore.

You pressed your lips against his and you didn’t expect he’d kiss you back, you expected him to push you away and tell you to fuck off. But once your lips were on his, he kissed you back. Your hand went to his face and caressed him, while his hand went to the back of your head pulling you closer and you couldn’t help but feel more invested into the kiss, your lips moving in sync, your tongue caressing his bottom lip and he couldn’t help but open his lips and let you deepen the kiss, take your way, do whatever you wanted to do… He was completely at your mercy and at this moment he wasn’t even ashamed of admiting it, at least for himself. It didn’t take much longer for you to part from the kiss, you needed to breath. You pulled apart slowly, forehead against forehead, heavy breaths and rosy moistured lips. You were so into the kiss that you didn’t even noticed that Luna had gone to the floor, your bodies were much too against each other and one of your legs were on top of his.

When the reality hit, of what had just happened, he pushed himself to the farthest side of the sofa from you. “We shouldn’t… I shouldn’t have done this.” He got up and were about to leave the room, but you were faster holding his hand.

“Daryl, you can’t leave your own room.” You said getting up and trying to look into his eyes as much as it was possible standing up, since your height difference. “If someone have to leave, it must be me.” He didn’t say anything, red cheeks and trying to piece everything that just happened together. “I iniciated it. The fault is on me. Did I kiss bad? Did you not like it?”

“No, it was good. It’s not…”He tried to find his words, but his thoughts overflowed his mind while his brain separated the things he could say and the things he couldn’t. “We’re friends, friends don’t do it.” He had never called you a friend out loud, but this was the perfect time to say it instead of saying how fucked he was and how he didn’t know how to do emotions, he didn’t believe in love or that he could be loved, and how you two getting involved like this would just fuck the whole group.

“Well… when friends get drunk shit happens sometimes. Never happened to me, but… there’s a first time for everything.” You over explained a little, because you were kind of nervous. “It’s all my fault, don’t blame yourself and don’t worry too much. There was a long time I didn’t had a good kiss and you were just too cute... I’m sorry.”

“I did it too, ya don’t need to be sorry.” He averted your gaze, shy, still concerned with everything going on his mind.

“This will not change things between us, right?” You asked and he didn’t answer, still avoiding your eyes. Shit. Shit. Shit. You had probably ruined one of the few good things you had in this shitty world. “Daryl, promise you’ll not avoid me and we’ll still be the same.”

“Ya won’t rest until I promise ya something today, aren’t ya? What is it with ya and promises?” Why were you always asking things from him? At the same time he wanted to tell you to fuck off, he wanted you to be close, at least close enough so he could keep an eye on you.

“I just don’t want things to get odd between us.” You raised your hand in between both of you, all fingers down and just your pinky up. He looked at your hand and could not believe that you were doing it. “Ok, now promise that we’ll still be friends.”

“What are ya? Five?” Who in your age made pinky promises? Why did you have to be so… vivid? “Fine. Let’s make the fucking pinky promise.”

He took your pinky in his and then you sealed it with your thumbs. “Happy?”

“Yes, now I can rest assured that we’re still friends.” You smiled and he rolled his eyes, but deep inside he felt a small warmth and oh, he was so afraid of this, because he had never felt anything like that before and he had no idea of what to do with it. “Have a good night Daryl, and thanks for the drink.”

“Luna, come on girl. Let’s go to sleep.” You called for the german shepherd, she got up from where she was laying, got a lick on Daryl’s hand and waited for him do caress her head, after it she followed behind you to your room.

You closed the door, put your back on it and slided to the floor. You could still feel his lips on yours, his hand at the back of your head, fingers tangled in your hair and the heat of his body. How could you ever have a normal life after this? It could sound dramatic, but there was so long you weren’t this close to a man… Years actually, you didn’t even get on dates after Paul and he never did you feel this good as just kissing and touching Daryl made you feel. Fuck. Shane was right, you definitely had a crush on him, maybe more than this. And you Y/N Grimes didn’t do ‘more than this’, not anymore. You didn’t even do ‘less than this’.

You got up and decided it was time to go to bed and try to sleep. Luna laid by your side and you snuggled to her. “What should I do Luna?”

“Woof!” She said and gave a lick to your face.

“I already did it Luna, and I don’t know if it was the correct thing to do. I didn’t even know if he liked it.” Anyone would think you were crazy, but talking to Luna from time to time kept your sanity in place. “I’m not you, you know?”

Final Note: Thanks for everyone reading, liking, reblogging and commenting, it’s really good to receive your feedback.

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[dubiouslyacquiredmilkteeth]

The intro I wrote for my very first VTM campaign

word count: 837

The year is 2035, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell fiction from reality.

Fact is falling to the rise of misinformation, exasperated by the muddying of artificial intelligence and flat-out lies fed by news websites and spilling from the mouths of politicians. It’s near impossible to tell if any image or video is real, now that they can all be generated with a few sentences of prompting, the visages so life-like that a new study of determining the validity is quickly becoming a highly lucrative career path, especially now that a recent supreme court ruling has determined that all video and photographic evidence must be analyzed by a professional before it can be submitted in a court of law. Colleges and trade schools clamor to create programs of study, since the utter lack of practitioners has essentially brought the entire American judicial system to a grinding halt - trials are delayed indefinitely as defense lawyers and prosecutors alike struggle to find someone to validify evidence.

Which is why no one knows what, exactly, to make of it when videos of apparent vampires begin to appear online.

Of course, these videos of throats ripped out with teeth in shady parking complexes, of women in glittering dresses moving at inhuman speeds, of figures with twisted faces summoning masses of rats or crows or cats, are quickly written off as some sort of ARG or prank. Hobbyist physical media analysts claim en masse that the videos are legit, unedited and ungenerated, but who would really believe that? They must be in on the joke. No real professionals have weighed in on the matter, although the government puts out numerous statements claiming that the videos have been analyzed and determined to be fake (but they never disclose the names of the people who have allegedly done the analyzing, despite the fact that the few respected analysts are well-known enough to practically count as celebrities, given the fact that the country relies upon them so heavily).

And besides, most of the videos come from San Antonio, a city known for its vampire cults, groups of teenagers running around the streets at night, engaging in blood play and calling themselves creatures of the night. At worst, those videos must just be kids messing around, a new generation of amateur filmmakers playing with special effects and AI video tools. And if there are reports of attacks, people stumbling into hospitals with twin pricks on the neck suffering from major blood loss, reporting that they were pinned down and force-feed the blood of their attacker, it was only someone taking the bit too far. Someone off their Abilify who read too much Anne Rice and Stephanie Meyer.

No one takes it very seriously until the CDC quarantines an entire 200 square mile stretch of the city, nearly half of it, erecting 400 foot walls of concrete nearly overnight, pulling thousands of officers from border patrol to stand guard at this new barrier. The electricity was cut to the quarantined zone, devices set up to disrupt the connection between cell phones and satellites, and what little communication has gotten out has been over staticky radio frequencies, a nearly obsolete technology.

Social media accounts pop up overnight on places like X and Twitch, 24/7 feeds of radio output picked up by the seldom few who still own traditional radios and broadcasted for the world to hear, screenshots of the occasional text message allegedly sent from hot spots where satellite connection is still, unreliably, available. The occasional grainy video somehow smuggled out of the city.

The information is incomplete and contradictory, slippery at best and outright outrageous at worst. But there’s generally a consensus: whatever is going on behind those walls seems to be some sort of outbreak of vampirism. Or at least something that looks like it - fangs and hunger for blood, aversion to sunlight and sharp lengths of wood (although, as many on the internet are quick to point out, a stake to the heart would kill anyone, undead or otherwise).

The CDC calls San Antonio a quarantine zone, although they are achingly unforthcoming with what exactly it is that they’ve contained within the walls. People online who think themselves comedians call it a Dead Zone.

All of this is why, when you’re snatched off the street in Houston, a mere 200 miles from the Dead Zone, thrust into an unmarked van after sundown, pinned down to the plastic floor and bit by a cold, dead mouth, razor sharp canines cutting into soft flesh like a serrated blade, you understand to some extent what’s happening to you. When fingers dig into the tender point where your jaw meets your skull hard enough to bruise, forcing your lips apart, and cold, syrupy liquid tasting of iron and rot drizzles into your mouth, when you feel as your heartbeat slows and eventually stops, you understand suddenly, horribly, that every video you saw, every rumor you heard, was true.

Vampires exist, and now you’re one of them.

[lifewithchronicpain]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated recommendations for doctors offering birth control to their patients, including a new plea for doctors to give women more options of getting relief from the often painful insertion of intrauterine devices, or IUDs.

Doctors should tell their patients that the local anesthetic lidocaine could be useful for reducing the pain of the procedure, the CDC now says.

Evidence suggests lidocaine can reduce patient pain given either as injections, what doctors call a "paracervical block," or applied to the area as a gel, cream or spray. (Read more at link)

I can’t believe it took this long but I’m glad the CDC finally did this.

[mariacallous]

On Jan. 20, as U.S. President Donald Trump was being inaugurated in Washington, D.C., some 8,000 miles away in Dar es Salaam, the government of Tanzania was reversing prior denials and declaring that there was, in fact, an outbreak of Marburg virus. Marburg, a highly contagious hemorrhagic virus, is a cousin to Ebola with a case fatality rate as high as 88 percent, and it could bring the kind of global attention the Tanzanian government has long tried to avoid.

Using lessons from the West African Ebola outbreak that began in 2014, which took two years and more than $2 billion of U.S. funding to contain, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were mapping a way to stop the Marburg outbreak early.

The same day in the Western Hemisphere, officials were tracking a new outbreak of the extremely rare and Ebola-like Chapare hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia as they readied to prepare a response. But two weeks later, no plans have been executed, and the USAID leaders who would be responsible are on administrative leave as part of the new administration’s assault on foreign aid. None of the outbreaks have been contained.

Now, Trump has ordered an ill-considered scheme that contravenes U.S. law, could tear apart the international aid infrastructure built with bipartisan support over decades, and which would mean many more outbreaks and other disasters worldwide.

In the early hours of Monday, Feb. 3, Elon Musk—the businessman-turned-top Trump advisor—declared that he and the president had reached a decision about USAID—“we’re shutting it down.” USAID staffers were told that the agency’s headquarters were closed, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that he was the new head of the agency, and the White House confirmed plans to merge it with the State Department. Reporting suggests the move would include laying off many or most of the USAID staff responsible for crucial programs.

To be clear-eyed: This is neither good policy nor legal under the most basic elements of U.S. law and the Constitution.

There are many reasons to demand reform at USAID. Critiques of the agency have emerged from the left and the right. Too much aid is poorly designed for the world of 2025, the agency too often operates in a neocolonial model, and not enough of the investment reaches those who need it most. But many of the critiques from Musk are completely baseless.

And aid money saves lives. Halting it has shut down efforts to prevent children from dying of malaria, stopped clinical trials for various drugs and medical devices, threatened a resurgence of HIV, and more.

And any reforms should be done legally. The U.S. Agency for International Development is an independent agency with authorities legislated by Congress. Its history is complex, but its status is clear. The president—let alone Musk, who is neither elected nor confirmed by Congress—does not have the legal authority to abolish USAID or move it under the State Department unilaterally.

USAID traces its origins to a bill introduced by U.S. Sen, William Fulbright that passed Congress in September 1961 and became the Foreign Assistance Act. After signing it into law in November, then-President John F. Kennedy created USAID by executive order to implement the law. Originally, the agency functioned under the authority of the secretary of state.

However, after significant debate in Washington over the independence of the agency, President Jimmy Carter created the United States International Development Cooperation Agency (IDCA) in 1979, bringing development and security assistance programs together and moving USAID from the State Department and into the agency. The order delegated the authorities created by the Foreign Assistance Act to the director of the IDCA.

In 1998, Congress took up reform of the aid infrastructure, passing the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act, which abolished the IDCA. That act formally established USAID as an independent agency, stating that “there is within the Executive branch of Government the United States Agency for International Development as an entity described in section 104 of title 5” of the United States Code.

The law required the president to come up with a plan and provided the option to, within 60 days, alternatively move all of USAID’s functions into the State Department. President Bill Clinton declined to do so and, as a result, USAID was confirmed as an independent statutory agency created by Congress. As it had done since inception, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act provided that the secretary of state would give foreign-policy guidance to USAID.

Since 2016, Congress has passed five authorizing laws that define new authorities, oversight, and authorizations of funding levels, and USAID’s independence has been maintained throughout. As such, USAID remains a distinct statutory agency with separate authorization, appropriation, and authorities. Several senators have already weighed in to make this argument.

Dissolving USAID or merging it into the State Department without the authorization of Congress would be unconstitutional. Article I of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the legislative prerogative to create and abolish agencies. And that authority has been affirmed by the judiciary in the years since: “To Congress under its legislative power is given the establishment of offices, the determination of their functions and jurisdiction,” wrote the Supreme Court in Meyers v. United States (1926).

Because Congress established USAID by statute, the executive branch lacks the unilateral authority to abolish it or subsume it without a corresponding act of Congress. This is not a small or a limited issue: The separation of powers doctrine is central to U.S. constitutional government, and allowing the executive to reshape or eliminate an agency that Congress created and continues to fund would deeply weaken the legislature’s independence.

Rubio, in fact, has been among the most recent legislative architects of USAID. He was the lead sponsor of the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016, which enacted USAID’s obligation to establish measurable goals and monitor them with results posted online. Rubio also co-sponsored a follow-up bill that required USAID to publicly share which countries and organizations received the funds.

This is exactly why USAID needs highly trained, well-qualified professional staff of the type that is now threatened with dismissal.

Ongoing disease outbreaks demonstrate why attacks on USAID are not just unconstitutional, but also bad policy. Aid should be independent. Merging with the State Department and initiating mass layoffs do not serve U.S. interests as defined by Rubio in a Jan. 26 press statement. It does not make the United States safer or stronger.

A Jan. 27 report from the Africa CDC indicates that there have already been nine deaths from the Marburg outbreak—surpassing the total number of deaths from the last outbreak in Tanzania. It is occurring in the Kagera region, which borders multiple countries and is a major transit hub, creating a very real risk of spread to other Central and East African countries—and beyond.

If the virus is not quickly contained, it could develop into a regional epidemic, as occurred in West Africa in 2014 when a small Ebola outbreak spread to more than 13,000 cases in a matter of months. Although they occurred primarily in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, infections spread as far afield as the United States and Spain. It took two years and the deployment of the United States military to contain it.

But the Tanzanian government has little interest in talking to the U.S. State Department about its outbreaks. Indeed, the Tanzanian government first denied there was any Marburg outbreak—much as it has done with mpox and did previously during COVID-19. The diplomatic arm of the United States government is very unlikely to be seen as a partner, since U.S.-Tanzania relations are complex and fraught. China, not the United States, is the country’s largest trading partner, while India is the largest investor.

Tanzania has worked hard to build a middle position between Washington and Beijing, and as such, U.S. diplomats are engaged across multiple strategic areas with the government of Tanzania—from military bases to trade to human rights and democracy. The independence of agencies such as USAID and the CDC allows them to engage differently.

USAID is both funding and personnel. It funds the local organizations around the world that can often be most effective in addressing health, while also providing expertise to secure accountability and transparency. USAID helped with the effective Marburg virus response in 2023, when it supported the Tanzanian government and UNICEF to secure needed equipment, medicines, and people. It funded the Red Cross to engage its network of community-based volunteers to respond. All of that capability is now frozen, and it could be lost altogether.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization currently reports 118 other separate health emergency events. There are new outbreaks of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Uganda. The clade I strain of mpox has been detected in the Americas. Bird flu is a growing regional and global crisis. The AIDS pandemic continues.

Every one of these outbreaks not only puts lives at risk around the world, but also has implications for U.S. foreign policy, existing within complex trade-offs of geopolitics and human need. None are best tackled by the State Department directly.

Usually, the World Health Organization would take the lead on such efforts. But Trump’s recent executive order cut off U.S. cooperation with WHO and ordered the secretary of state to find bilateral alternatives—which, in a more normal world, would include USAID.

Doing aid better—and with the outcomes and focus that Rubio has pushed for—requires people, infrastructure, and political independence.

That should give us pause. Is this move really about aid at all, or is it about auditioning tactics in the aid sector that Trump and allies want to use in other areas of government, no matter the impact?

[thoughtportal]

In November 2024, PEN America released its key findings from over ten thousand documented cases of book bans that occurred in the 2023–2024 school year: Thirty-nine percent of reported books included LGBTQ+ content. Concurrently, the United States saw a surge in anti-trans legislation, a trend that continues into 2025. According to the independent research organization Trans Legislation Tracker, at the time of this writing, there are 700 active bills across forty-nine states that would gravely impact the lives of trans people; thirty-two have passed so far. And the current Trump administration has been openly hostile in its stance toward the community: removing content related to LGBTQ+ identity as well as HIV from the White House and CDC websites, erasing nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ federal employees, and threatening essential funding to institutions that promote “gender ideology,” including organizations applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and hospitals offering gender-affirming care for trans youth. It is in this climate that queer authors persevere—not only writing and publishing novels, stories, essays, and poems, but also turning toward the broader community and capturing the wide array of experience and possibility in queer humanity.

Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall was published by Belknap Press in April; So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color is forthcoming in May from Algonquin Books.

Highlighting the numerous shades of queer life is part of the mission behind the new anthology Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall (Belknap Press, April 2025), a collection of fifty-one poems edited by poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt. Burt had been encouraged by Sharmila Sen, the editorial director of Harvard University Press, to write a follow-up collection to her book The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (Belknap Press, 2016). Both collections include essays by Burt, written in response to each entry. For Super Gay Poems, Burt wanted to expand the scope of writers beyond the United States, to consider the craft internationally as well. 

“I wanted demographic variety: poets from various nations, and ethnic groups, and regions, and poets with other identity markers, such as physical disability,” Burt says. “I also wanted other kinds of variety, the kinds that distinguish poems but don’t show up in the census. Shyness and boldness. Terseness and copious eloquence. Old forms and devices…also the new weird, the casual, and the semi-recherché post-avant-garde. Humor and mourning. Youth and old age.”

Abundant in forms and voices, the pieces in Super Gay Poems represent windows into individual lives that may variously feel new to readers or reflect familiar experiences that affirm their sense of self. “Poems let people who can’t live out their own stories—and who among us can live all our stories out fully?—put words that speak for ourselves out into the world,” Burt says.

The question of whose stories are lived, told, and listened to was vital for the novelist Caro De Robertis as they wrote So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color (Algonquin Books, May 2025). “When it comes to trans and queer experience, storytelling can save lives,” De Robertis says. Composed of interviews and testimonies from twenty queer elders, the book serves as evidence of a longer queer cultural lineage as well as a guide for finding a path forward during difficult times. “Our trans and queer elders paved the way for the extent of freedoms we have today,” De Robertis says.

De Robertis further acknowledges why they believe it is crucial for a book like So Many Stars to exist right now: “There’s no question that this book feels extremely urgent in our current time, when trans and nonbinary rights—when the very existence of trans and nonbinary people—are under attack. There’s so much fear and pain in our communities right now. We need each other—to hear one another’s voices, to know we’ve got one another’s backs—more than ever. I think about that constantly, in terms of my responsibilities as a writer. And yet in some ways our responsibility as trans and queer writers hasn’t changed: It has always been our work to write against erasure.”

So Many Stars and other LGBTQ+ books are doing just that—curating and amplifying the stories that some are trying to tear down. Irreverence is in some cases a tool in this serious work, as in Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley’s Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos, an anthology of short fiction forthcoming in June from Dzanc Books. A follow-up to their 2023 anthology, Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, also published by Dzanc, the upcoming collection relishes queer havoc, protest, and the counterculture that has been integral to the longevity of queer life. 

This culture of resistance and defiance, as present in the queer literature of today, and in the stories and movements from our past, is emphatically grounded in an ethic of joy and love. “If you’re young and trans or gender nonconforming, never think you’re not loved,” De Robertis says. “Your elders see you, cherish you, and are cheering you on.”

Christopher Gonzalez is the author of the story collection I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2021). He splits his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Providence.

[z-best1]

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[does-truth-matter]

The CDC has quietly changed who should AVOID the MMR vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html

They now state that ANYONE that “Has a parent, brother or sister with a history of immune system problems” should AVOID THE MMR VACCINE!

What exactly is an 'immune system problem?" Every autoimmune disorder.

* Achalasia

* Addison’s disease

* Adult Still's disease

* Agammaglobulinemia

* Alopecia areata

* Amyloidosis

* Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrigs)

* Ankylosing spondylitis

* Anti-GBM/Anti-TBM nephritis

* Antiphospholipid syndrome

* Autoimmune angioedema

* Autoimmune dysautonomia

* Autoimmune encephalomyelitis

* Autoimmune hepatitis

* Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)

* Autoimmune myocarditis

* Autoimmune oophoritis

* Autoimmune orchitis

* Autoimmune pancreatitis

* Autoimmune retinopathy

* Autoimmune urticaria

* Axonal & neuronal neuropathy (AMAN)

* Baló disease

* Behcet’s disease

* Benign mucosal pemphigoid

* Bullous pemphigoid

* Castleman disease (CD)

* Celiac disease

* Chagas disease

* Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)

* Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO)

* Churg-Strauss Syndrome (CSS) or Eosinophilic Granulomatosis (EGPA)

* Cicatricial pemphigoid

* Cogan’s syndrome

* Cold agglutinin disease

* Congenital heart block

* Coxsackie myocarditis

* CREST syndrome

* Crohn’s disease

* Dermatitis herpetiformis

* Dermatomyositis

* Devic’s disease (neuromyelitis optica)

* Discoid lupus

* Dressler’s syndrome

* Endometriosis

* Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE)

* Eosinophilic fasciitis

* Erythema nodosum

* Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia

* Evans syndrome

* Fibromyalgia

* Fibrosing alveolitis

* Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)

* Giant cell myocarditis

* Glomerulonephritis

* Goodpasture’s syndrome

* Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis

* Graves’ disease

* Guillain-Barre syndrome

* Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

* Hemolytic anemia

* Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP)

* Herpes gestationis or pemphigoid gestationis (PG)

* Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) (Acne Inversa)

* Hypogammalglobulinemia

* IgA Nephropathy

* IgG4-related sclerosing disease

* Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)

* Inclusion body myositis (IBM)

* Interstitial cystitis (IC)

* Juvenile arthritis

* Juvenile diabetes (Type 1 diabetes)

* Juvenile myositis (JM)

* Kawasaki disease

* Lambert-Eaton syndrome

* Leukocytoclastic vasculitis

* Lichen planus

* Lichen sclerosus

* Ligneous conjunctivitis

* Linear IgA disease (LAD)

* Lupus

* Lyme disease chronic

* Meniere’s disease

* Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)

* Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)

* Mooren’s ulcer

* Mucha-Habermann disease

* Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN) or MMNCB

* Multiple sclerosis

* Myasthenia gravis

* Myositis

* Narcolepsy

* Neonatal Lupus

* Neuromyelitis optica

* Neutropenia

* Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid

* Optic neuritis

* Palindromic rheumatism (PR)

* PANDAS

* Parkinson's disease

* Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD)

* Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)

* Parry Romberg syndrome

* Pars planitis (peripheral uveitis)

* Parsonage-Turner syndrome

* Pemphigus

* Peripheral neuropathy

* Perivenous encephalomyelitis

* Pernicious anemia (PA)

* POEMS syndrome

* Polyarteritis nodosa

* Polyglandular syndromes type I, II, III

* Polymyalgia rheumatica

* Polymyositis

* Postmyocardial infarction syndrome

* Postpericardiotomy syndrome

* Primary biliary cirrhosis

* Primary sclerosing cholangitis

* Progesterone dermatitis

* Psoriasis

* Psoriatic arthritis

* Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA)

* Pyoderma gangrenosum

* Raynaud’s phenomenon

* Reactive Arthritis

* Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

* Relapsing polychondritis

* Restless legs syndrome (RLS)

* Retroperitoneal fibrosis

* Rheumatic fever

* Rheumatoid arthritis

* Sarcoidosis

* Schmidt syndrome

* Scleritis

* Scleroderma

* Sjögren’s syndrome

* Sperm & testicular autoimmunity

* Stiff person syndrome (SPS)

* Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)

* Susac’s syndrome

* Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO)

* Takayasu’s arteritis

* Temporal arteritis/Giant cell arteritis

* Thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)

* Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS)

* Transverse myelitis

* Type 1 diabetes

* Ulcerative colitis (UC)

* Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)

* Uveitis

* Vasculitis

* Vitiligo

* Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease

Wonder how many doctors are paying attention?

~shared from Jodi Wilson

[cripplecharacters]

What sort of things (medication, other techniques etc.) would an asthmatic character use to manage their asthma day to day? Also, how are severe attacks managed in hospital?

Hi lovely asker!

So it depends on how severe of asthma they have and what type of asthma too.

So for some people they only have asthma that flares or is triggered during certain activities or when certain factors are at play. Extreme weather, allergens, exercise, smoke, fumes, are all things and for some people they will trigger an asthma attack. Here's a link from the CDC of triggers for asthma.

Medications: For the general person a Daily Steroid and an Bronchodilator are usually all that is needed. Here is an article from the Mayo Clinic that actually lists all the meds used to treat asthma. Its a bit heavy on the medical terms but it's a really good list the different types of Asthma and what meds are usually used to treat it.

Equipment: If needed there is home oxygen concentrators for at home along with portable oxygen concentrators as well. Nebulizers. CPT devices, percussion vest, PEP devices, are all also things that someone may or may not use. If needed Suction Devices also are an option for people who have a hard time clearing mucus/phlegm.

Techniques: CPT, and certain breathing techniques like Huff Coughing help. Here is a link to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation that talks more in dept about airway clearance.

If there are conditions in combination with asthma I would research to see how they would affect each other or if they exacerbate each other. Conditions like Cystic Fibrosis, GERD, COPD, Severe allergy conditions, connective tissue disorders, and others often cause complications with asthma. When conditions are in combination, often you'll need to treat one condition to treat the other condition. For example: Treating your GERD will decrease asthma symptoms because it's no longer irritating what it was, hence making it easy to breathe. Or something like Xolair and Cromolyn Sodium often can treat Asthma and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome together.

And In my experience, in a hospital setting, asthma attacks and the beginnings of them are treated with bronchodilators. If things get worse from there, things like steroid injections, epinephrine and of course oxygen as needed are used. If all that fails, intubation would be the next step if the person still isn't satting right and aren't getting oxygen.

That is all I can think of for now but if you have any more questions feel free to ask and good luck writing!

~ Mod Virus 🌸