Ugh, trying to psyche myself up for yoga meant a half-hour of napping this morning, but at least the ibuprofen has started to kick in.
Conversely, once I get yoga-ing, I'll feel much better. It's just the run-up that really really sucks.
Nilly, you've never caused me any offence, inadvertantly or otherwise. If there's anybody here on the board that I've offended in the past year (or past years) without apology or comprehension that I've done so, I hope they'll contact me privately or publicly to let me know so I can attempt to atone, or failing that, at least understand where a difference arises.
I realize once again that I completely lack the ability to write anything concise
And we are grateful.
If there's anybody here on the board that I've offended in the past year (or past years) without apology or comprehension that I've done so, I hope they'll contact me privately or publicly to let me know so I can attempt to atone, or failing that, at least understand where a difference arises.
What the lovely Theodosia said too.
Sweet jesus, 18,000 people are dead from the earthquake in Pakistan. That's just horrifying.
I can honestly say I don't think I've been offended by a single person here this year. It's been a good year.
I can honestly say I don't think I've been offended by a single person here this year
My god, woman, it's like you just don't try.
On the other hand, no amount of trying has gotten me offended by Nilly. Hon, you must have a very simple Yom Kippur. You deserve it, by grace of your niceness.
Nilly's annual Yom Kippur post! Hard to belive it's been a year.
Nilly, every year your cyber addressing of an ancient ritual makes me see religion as a living thing. Thank you.
one of the things the researchers said was that they are trying to determine why some people were resistant and some weren't...and that if you are alive today, you are most likely resistant because your progenitors survived.
That doesn't make sense to me. If a hundred people had it for every person who died its not that my ancestors couldn't GET it, it's that they survived the infection for whatever hugely variable reason.
it's that they survived the infection for whatever hugely variable reason
Well, maybe their research was into those reasons, and they narrowed down the variables.
Well, maybe their research was into those reasons, and they narrowed down the variables.
But even if they did the variables would still be... variable.
Say my great-grandmother survived and her sister died because her sister's lungs were still recovering from an illness the previous year. If this year my sister and I catch an avian flu and we could end up living and dying for the same reasons. Or maybe I like carrots and she hates them and the vitamin A in our systems tips the balance. Or a million other environmental factors that we'd have no way of knowing our individual ancestors experienced.
But even if they did the variables would still be... variable.
Maybe they're ahead of you on this one, Trudy. They didn't say it was definite, just probable.
As I understood the article about the flu, they believe survival depended on a genetic weakness, as the vectors were strange (elderly and infants survived, young adults were wiped out). And it seemed to kill whoever contracted it. The number of people who recovered was miniscule. And it killed so many people that pretty much everyone alive today is a descendant of a flu survivor, so according to their theory we should all be impervious to that strain of flu.
You know the sucky part about these natural disasters? The lines of communication go down, so you have to wait forever to see if your friends and family are alright. After so many of these in the last few years, though, I'm managing to not freak out about my friends in Pakistan. I'll hear when I hear, and I can do no more than think good thoughts until then.
