Posted on 09/15/2016 1:41:18 AM PDT by Pinkbell
Ella Dawson expected to find a Netflix bill in her Brooklyn mailbox. She discovered instead a letter from Hillary Clinton. The 24-year-old blogger, who writes often about living with genital herpes, figured it was a standard campaign mailer. She once donated $50 to Clinton.
She tore open the envelope. She froze. Did the Democratic presidential candidate, one of the most famous figures on the planet, just thank her for talking about sexually transmitted infections on the Internet?
“I am so grateful to you for not only speaking out against the stigma,” Clinton wrote, “but for also taking a courageous stand against the ridiculous, but very real, barrage of hate you received online.”
Dawson shared a photo of the letter Tuesday with her 7,600 Twitter followers:
Thank you, @HillaryClinton, for reading. I'm incredibly moved. To be accurate, I'm ugly crying. #ImWithHer pic.twitter.com/kt5tAVWrFX
Messages poured in:
Thank you for standing up.
I'm sorry you have had to suffer harassment, Ella, but thank you for fighting.
#UglyCrying too!! There are so many of these personal stories out there!
Politics aside, Dawson hopes the high-profile recognition will help change the way people talk about herpes — a condition she says is misunderstood and common. Two out of three people under the age of 50 have Herpes Simplex Virus 1, which can cause oral and genital sores, according to a January report by the World Health Organization.
That amounts to roughly 3.7 billion people with an incurable virus. Doctors say the majority never see an outbreak.
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Dawson’s diagnosis came days before she turned 21, she told The Post, and the news left her confused. She said she used condoms, but didn’t know herpes spreads through skin-to-skin contact and latex doesn’t always stop it. She feared she could never enjoy intimate relationships again.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Will we get a policy speech from Hillary on the issue of removing the stigma around STDs? Will it be delivered at Planned Parenthood or NARAL?
What a time to be alive!
I wonder if Hillary picked up an infection from Bill.
There isn’t a stigma associated with STDs.
There’s a stigma associated with people with STDs.
Why would I want to have sex with someone with genital herpes?
Bill gets this a lot from women...
Bosh. Who doesn't use automatic payment online?
I think we should spot the “Venereal Diseease Pride” vote to hitlery. The slogans write themselves.
Hillary...she’s as good as the clap!
My itching, oozing lesions are with her!
Hillary is my embarassing itch!
Hillary is looking to lock up the syphilitic vote. Good to know.
Well, yes. All of that. Anything to divert from the Parkinson’s disease thing.
“That amounts to roughly 3.7 billion people with an incurable virus. Doctors say the majority never see an outbreak.”
The larger issue “...incurable virus...” blame healthcare supplanting medicine.
KYPD
Did she bang Jeter?
For someone married to Bill Clinton, that would be a more serious worry than the Alt-right, a movement lead by Pepe the Frog.
she has been gestating for years
Awwwww
How BRAVE!!! What a HERO!
/sarc
Yeah, we get it. Let’s all strive to be inferior. There is no shame in being a dumbass. Hillary really cares. Yada, yada, yada...
One question. With all the liberal controls and policies in place protecting your every move, how could this have happened? Sex Ed, PP, free healthcare, public schools, voting Democrat, gazillions of tax dollars used, subsidies, courts, wars ended, Bush out of office, our first negro president, race barriers broken, women’s sufferage over, workforce equality, transgender rights, the internet, low unemployment, rebounding economy, Hillary healthy!!!!! How?
I don’t. I work in IT and I have learned to love paper trails.
Do you write a check for your Netflix subscription?
I don’t have television, hence no Netflix. I pay my internet bill with a check, though. I admit that my Amazon and ebay purchases are online.
I expect that in the specific case of Netflix, paper billing is nearly nonexistent.
Everything issue promoted by the Clintons have a bogus backstory. Some child who wrote Hillary a letter saying she doesn't get enough to eat, for example. And then Clinton runs with it. Same BS here.
Also, Netflix NEVER sends out a paper bill. They deduct monthly from your checking or savings account automatically.
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