How extremely shortsighted.
How extremely shortsighted.
How does one "not need" a vaccine? The point of vaccines is to Not . Get . Sick .
Insulin before GLP-1 agonist? Did I read that right?
Unlike many diabetes drugs which may lead to weight gain (often making T2 diabetes worse) - these lead to weight loss which often helps w/ T2. Also insurers will usually cover them for T2 which helps w/ the ability to pay issue. 2/2
They were originally developed for diabetes. They are great for diabetes & pre-diabetes, whatever you think about them as weight loss drugs. 1/
I managed to filter them out of my sight of the photo itself. Hmm.
Oh, there was a time once when New Englanders took off their overboots inside & then walked around in their shoes. I dimly remember overboots. I have no memory whatsoever to tell me how overboots worked w/ high heels, though.
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Engine I entirely agree that this should have been the norm & was given lip service as the norm, I do, regretfully, feel a strong need to bring the Dixie Chicks into this discussion.
Dorit is addressing OP's question, which WAS about going after Kennedy. She's saying that the article discusses a wholly different set of possibilities which wouldn't go after Kennedy.
Did he put the holes into a pattern spelling VR as Sherlock Holmes did at Baker Street?
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Try here: publications.aap.org/redbook/reso...
He probably needs extra money to pay for his family’s security with All these right wing extremists running around and trump cutting secret service protections for his political adversaries.
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"My thoughts turned to David Rose, who volunteered to try to prevent another such attack on our country, and then, when back home, ran toward danger once again to help his fellow Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-hero-dav...
USAmerican bishops are all or nearly all a lot more conservative than the current Pope Leo or the prioe Pope Francis. They also spend a lot of time in an info bubble. 2/2
I thought better of him. I wonder if he knows anything about Kirk besides he attracted young people, he espoused Christianity, & he was shot? USAmerican Roman Catholic bishops tend to be horribly conservative. Even the best of them (& Dolan was not the best of them) trend uber conservative. 1/
OK, but I feel compelled to point out that truth in advertising laws do regulate speech. In a very narrow context, it must be said. (Why yes, I *am* arguing both sides in this discussion).
Have to jump in to say that for my own part, I don't even agree w/ myself 100% of the time. Sometimes I change my mind. Sometimes I'm just ambivalent, & I stay that way.
Some possibilities there however.
Gotta set up a funding source though. Under our current economic situation, right wing funders have a lot more financial resources. More thinking needed.
Major waste of the court's time & resources. Too easy for deep pockets to wear down the other side. Still has too many possibilities for politicization. But I note that we have something like that already available w/ defamation law. Fewer possible plaintiffs though. 2/2
Hmm. An executive office Ministry of Truth is a really bad idea. But suppose it were possible for a private citizen to go into an ordinary court - the ones that determine facts all the time - & get a declaratory judgment that a published fact was untrue. Naah, I still fear the result. 1/
Agreed! Except that I very strongly wish that a somewhat larger %age of the population were *more* intimidated by experts. Well, not intimidated, exactly - but respectful of their expertise. NB: this includes politicians, govt leaders, & experts opining outside their own fields.
"Started the media down its path of destructive greed" - please look up William Randolph Hearst. Or schedule an old movie watch party w/ a few friends to watch Citizen Kane.
There is a pattern of the first woman to break the gender barrier being the spouse of a prior male office holder. That was one of the things I thought was going on w/ HRC. I also thought Obama put her in State to give her foreign policy chops so she could be his successor. But here we are. 2/2
The Catholic issue was a bridge too far for Adlai Stevenson, although tbf he was also hurt by the egghead issue. Times change, & yes, sometimes it's too risky to bank on times having changed enough yet. I really thought HRC would win. I now wish we had nominated Biden in 2016. But here we are. 1/
Reminder that in the way back when they said a Roman Catholic would never be President. Times change. Usually more slowly than we'd like.
Sorry, gotta disagree about everyone having the base knowledge in a perfect world. Jargon is needed for intra-expert communication. It can take months to learn the concept behind a jargon term. Outsiders don't have time & resources to learn the field's jargon. They're busy w/ their *own* fields.
Consider "efficiency." "Efficiency" has a very precise meaning in physics & mechanical engineering. It has a different very precise meaning in economics. Neither very precise meaning matches up very well w/ the ordinary, lay meaning most of us have in mind when we use the word. 5/5
The problem is even worse when experts in more than one field use the same word to convey a different, very precise meaning. 4/
Unfortunately jargon is often created by repurposing existing words. This makes it easier for the experts to learn and use the jargon term, but it increases the risk of confusing lay people. 3/
Lay people would probably also be confused by the very long precise phrase the experts have shortened into jargon. These are often concepts that required years of study to master. 2/
It's jargon. Jargon is not necessarily or always bad. Experts need a way to refer to complex things w/ a shorthand noun or verb to convey a very precise meaning to their fellow experts. Unfortunately, however, it's often confusing to lay people. 1/
ii/ Oh! How about a mnemonic? "I lay my head on the pillow when I lie down."
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I know a number of people who think "lol" means "lots of love" & are constantly sending unintentionally inappropriate texts for this reason.
How embarrassing to have a typo in a grammar post. "Inransitive" was supposed to say *intransitive*.
When my toddler said "runned" instead of "ran" I ignored it - I knew he'd learn the correct form without my saying anything. The only errors I corrected were wrong-case pronouns & lie/lay mixups. I knew he wouldn't hear enough correct versions of those to learn the right form on his own. 3/3
If true, this lie/lay confusion would be the residue of something that once made sense. 2/
Does this help: >lie, lay, lain is inransitive (no direct object). >lay [the book on the table], laid, laid is transitive. There are a few other words pairs in English that operate similarly. I speculate that English once had transitive & intransitive forms. 1/
I tried using it recently to find a document I'd been told about but was having trouble finding. It completely made up the result. It wasn't a science matter, but it was similar to making up a wholly nonexistent scientific paper complete w/ journal citation when there is no such paper.
Whenever I had to check on my pre-verbal toddler in the middle of the night because he'd hit his head, I always used to ask him who was president of the United States.
My son & I got ours at Walgreens, but I had to tell them he was sedentary. Which he sort of was, by teenager standards, but he's just started a very intense sport so there's that problem taken care of as well.
Please please please remember this
ii/ Maybe the kids' pediatrician could give you a prescription for it & you could fill the prescription at the pharmacy?
Or, far better than *one* history book (which leads to forever fighting for, preparing for, or avoiding the wrong war), *MANY* history books.
The pharmacist administering the shot, to her great credit, was more interested in "his doctor recommended it" than the "sedentary" box-check the desk staff needed. But anyway, the shot went in the arm. And he has just started an intense sport, so "sedentary" is taken care of too. 2/2
My kid's doc offered it but I already had the appointment scheduled at Walgreens & I wouldn't have had to pull him out of school for an appointment. Not until I got there did I discover that Walgreens would require me to name his health condition. I told them he was "sedentary." They took that. 1/2
See if your kids' pediatrician will give it off-label. Doctors (in US anyway) are allowed to do that & many will.
I often refer to "vaccine-induced immunity" & "disease-induced immunity." To emphasize that the immunity is the body's natural process; the difference is what triggers it: vaccine or disease.
Ah. Thanks. The current CDC schedule very recently added RSV at birth.
Correction: HepB and RSV (RSV is new).
And now just for my own curiosity I have to ask which vaccine approvals you're referring to, because in US the birth vaccines are HepB & RSV & I'm pretty sure RSV approval is really recent.
When taking a standardized test, if wrong answers get a negative grade, don't guess unless you can narrow down the possibilities. When wrong answers & blanks both get zero points, guess something for every question you don't know. 2/2
Three points: A) I'd far rather get "I don't know" than the wrong answer. B) I spend a lot of time trying to convince humans to tell me "I don't know" rather than try to guess or make something up. C) Anyone familiar w/ standardized tests already knows the mathematical problem & the fix. 1/
I still believe that Trump is what Nixon would have been had Nixon not aspired to statesmanship. But now I must add, had Nixon been substantially more addled.
To be clear, health insurers should pay for preventive care that will save money years down the road- but for some other company, or more likely Medicare. And they should pay for care when it would be cheaper for the patient to just quickly die. But for vaccines, math beats political bs. 2/2
I actually would have expected this & in this particular instance I'm glad to see cold hard math winning out over bad magic nonsense. 1/
I have step-cousins by ex-marriage in more than one way. Sometimes I say step-ex-cousins (stepchildren of woman formerly married to my uncle) & ex-step-cousins (children of different woman formerly married to same uncle). Usually I just call them my cousins. Cousins by ex-marriage seems accurate.
Please don't trust CHD. They are notorious for antivax fearmongering. The table comparison in your screenshot seems to be correct, but CHD sometimes puts misleading info or misinfo into comparison of vaccine schedules across different years. Note that annual flu shots make the difference look large.
It really isn't "vastly different" today from 23 years ago.
When I last looked this up (shortly before covid), very premature babies did not get the HepB birth vaccine unless they were *known* to be at risk for birth-associated transmission (& there was no RSV vaccine then - that one is very new & it's good we have it because RSV can be a killer).
younger than 75 years old, you should get it before Friday. It is likely going to become FAR less accessible to anyone else.
It varies by state & by pharmacy. I got mine at Walgreens in Texas. So did my 15yr-old, whose doctor recommended it. But I had to tell them he was "sedentary." Well, he *was* sedentary, by teenager standards anyway, but he has just taken up a very intense sport, so he's solving that problem too.
I take that back! My info was out of date. They now recommend both the HepB AND the RSV vaccine at birth. It's still true that the Vitamin K shot is a vitamin, not a vaccine, & other vaccines are given later. Wrong info in my old post in screenshot.
Yeah, that fits.
Not sure what you mean by "interrupt"? Vaccines cause your body to form immunity by the same mechanism as exposure to disease. The difference is that you don't actually contract the disease, which can have life-long consequences. Also HepB is the only vaccine given at birth.
Infants can be exposed through the birth process. There was a time when they tried vaccinating only infants at risk of exposure through birth. It wasn't effective enough because it turns out to be a lot harder than you'd think to identify all of those infants.
Have you ever seen the cartoons of Richard Nixon as the imperial president? And how much do you know about LBJ? Granted, there was a major retrenchment after Nixon (because he went further than outside were ready to stomach), but you really can't say this started w/ Reagan.
Nixon imposed wage & price controls (actual wage & price controls! And he was a Republican!). Ford passed out buttons that said "whip inflation now" (I wish I were joking; I liked Ford, but that wasn't one of his better presidential moves). 3/3
*string* of presidents 2/
OK, but he did run on lowering taxes & reducing regulations. I think it should be mentioned for the record that the inflation of the 1970s predated Carter by a lot. Carter was one of a strong of presidents who failed to solve it. 1/
Conventional conservatives were not Reaganesque prior to Reagan. After Reagan, they were. He was not a right-wing populist because he was not a populist (although there were elements of populism in his appeal). He did cause a radical makeover of the right wing.
More like 40M left.
OK nerdy grammatical point: "put" is the same in past & present tense. So I'm not sure if you're deliberately contrasting past "waved" w/ present "put" or if you've put both in the past tense. Interesting tension of possibilities there.
Ha!
"She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like an imperial scholar."
> "Eventually we found some common ground with ‘fine, thanks. Been a bit under the weather’. The autistics liked this because it hinted at something darker they were bravely keeping inside. The neurotypicals liked it because it mentioned the weather.”
I also have very faint memories of the networks going to all news, all the time for JFK assassination. 2/2
I was at a hotel in (gulp!) Boston, having flown in the night before. I kept turning off the TV because it was all non-stop news but they had nothing new to say, & reading NYT on my computer instead (& they took off their paywall). 1/2
No, the updated COVID vaccines are available in US *NOW* Except there are issues w/ availability, because FDA approved them only for >65, or <65 & high-risk. It's a confusing state-by-state & even pharmacy-by-pharmacy patchwork. bsky.app/profile/kath...
You have made a logical inference but it is incorrect. This season's covid vaccines are available NOW, even though ACIP hasn't met.
Or at least indifference to them.
And it does seem like a highly dangerous activity that a lot of people would be incompetent at. Well, incompetent at surviving after attempting it, anyway
I remember Sam "the Mouth" Donaldson. OTOH I also remember "Mush from the Wimp." The press probably undermined Carter more, but the Press certainly went after both men.
I remember the political assassinations in US in the 1960s/early 1970s. That was bad. And - bad as it was, it was nowhere near as bad as it can get.
I did not wait. But - I'm scheduled for surgery at the end of October. It's much more important to me that I not get the flu just before surgery (really don't want to reschedule!), or while recuperating, than it is that I not get the flu in February.
I understand. It is not YOUR shame who did not vote for this or ask for this and, no doubt resist it, but the shame of the country as manifested by its Government, the GOP and the Supreme Court facilitators…and the 70+ million voters that gave this rotten, reckless President the power.
of course you're allowed & the guy in the hallway is allowed to just keep walking
Got really discouraged by the sheer quantity of stupid misinformation on Bluesky the past couple of weeks. Really dumb stuff, too. Most people don't need to know when a baby is eligible for MMR vaccine. But if you don't know, why would you authoritatively post the wrong info? Silence is an option.
wow, that took me back
Yes, but and - surely there's still room for "are you kidding me?" in response to something as ridiculous as the Haitian immigrants eating pet cats & dogs thing? Or is there?
I'm confused. Are we talking about an interview or a drive-by in the hallway?
Glad my son & I got our covid boosters Saturday. I had to tell Walgreens he was "sedentary" to get the shot into his arm. (He *was* sedentary, at least by teenager standards, but he just started rowing, so he's fixing that problem too).
A coyote of math books? I'm trying very hard to come up w/ some sort of image or concept for this because it sounds as if it should be interesting, but I'm not coming up with much. *all you have to do is crack a few history books (& a couple of math books) to figure it out*
That's how the insurance co gets into it. 2/2