(* What do we call people with a sickness?? My brain isn't working. "Victim" is definitely the wrong word.)

Patients?

Even if it is just through sexual contact how many parents can 100% guarantee that their kids aren't going to have sex? Many would like to believe that they can guarantee that, but the reality is, they really don't have that level of control.

Right, which is why I will vaccinate my daughter (and sons if safe and appropriate), but since my kids won't be spreading it in school, I don't think the state's need is pressing enough to make it a school entrance requirement.

My first instinct would be to give it the accusative, yeah.

Seriously. Pig Latin should be "um", not "ay"

Someone else gave me:

Gnarus verum per offa of vestri caput capitis

What do you think?

At then end, you've got "head" twice, in two different cases, for no reason I can discern. I'd lose the first. I also have no knowledge of "of" being Latin: could be wrong on that, I suppose.

At then end, you've got "head" twice, in two different cases, for no reason I can discern. I'd lose the first. I also have no knowledge of "of" being Latin

That's what I thought, too. I don't know Latin, though, so I thought I'd check with the Fount of All Knowledge, the Buffistas.

So what about "gnarus"? That's "knowing" isn't it?

Holy CRAP! I'm just watching the Grey's Anatomy Finale?

HOW MUCH DO I LOVE Burke's vows. "I am sure. I am steady. And I know. I am a heart man. I take them apart. I put them back together. I hold them in my hands. I am a heart man. So this, I am sure."

And I have to say, for all that Isiah Washington might be a prick in real life, his reading of those lines?

So amazing.

Also, sara, BATS AND COOKIES! Thank you so very much.

Have you finished watching the finale yet, Kat?

So, the risk wouldn't be to the male vaccinee; it would be to the herd, as it were. I didn't even think about that side of things. Interesting.

Right. Since the virus itself doesn't seem have much in the way of proven health risks for men, I doubt the vaccine could unless some seriously sloppy Frankenstein-style labwork went down. But for the time being I think concentrating efforts on voluntary inocculations for the people we know the vaccine actually works on (and who face the worst risks from infection) is the best way to go. If further studies reveal it to be similarly effective and safe in males age 9-18, then expand the push to include them and provide doubled protection.

I'm pretty proud of myself today, I did 2 miles of the Jamie Bamber cardio sprint/walk and another mile of just walking (30 minutes total for 3 miles) this morning and was only winded, not dead on my feet afterwards. Now heading to the Y to swim and see about doing some punching bag work.

No. Sumi, I haven't it. I guess there's a major HS moment, yes?