When Leif gets sent to his room, he likes to barricade the door.
Walking I get. But power walking? Why not just run for a shorter time?
Angel ,'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Gudanov - Oct 27, 2009 12:39:45 pm PDT #28143 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Atropa - Oct 27, 2009 12:45:27 pm PDT #28144 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Fay, that is a darling haircut on you!
There are a lot of people who, if exposed to H1N1, will probably get only mild disease (a few days off work, feel like shit, get better).
That was me, and I didn't interact with ANYONE other than Pete until I knew I was well, because I didn't want to infect anyone.
Hil R. - Oct 27, 2009 1:02:24 pm PDT #28145 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I guess I'm moderate risk, since I've got mild asthma. But I'm also on a college campus, where stuff tends to spread really quickly. The student health center doesn't even have the seasonal flu vaccine yet, and their website says that they don't know when they will get it.
Vortex - Oct 27, 2009 1:48:47 pm PDT #28146 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Okay, so I dropped a table on my foot, I've got some ice on it. Will taking aleve help?
Steph L. - Oct 27, 2009 1:50:38 pm PDT #28147 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
It should help, since it's an antiinflammatory.
ChiKat - Oct 27, 2009 1:52:42 pm PDT #28148 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
No more dropping furniture on body parts. I think this is a good policy for all.
Hil R. - Oct 27, 2009 1:53:59 pm PDT #28149 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Okay, so I dropped a table on my foot, I've got some ice on it. Will taking aleve help?
Yep.
Miracleman - Oct 27, 2009 1:58:13 pm PDT #28150 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
So will vodka and a steady stream of cursing.
Cashmere - Oct 27, 2009 2:00:12 pm PDT #28151 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm going to Dr. Miracleman.
I don't know if I've mentioned this before but I am volunteering with a local non-profit for a parent mentoring program. I met my mentoree today. She's very young, no education, no job, no money, an 18 month old daughter and a boyfriend in jail. I really, really hope I can make an impact on her life.
Trudy Booth - Oct 27, 2009 2:13:53 pm PDT #28152 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The swine flu vaccine in '76 killed more people than the flu did.
To be fair, it is a general rule that the more successful a public health prevention program is, the more likely it is that people will die or be injured by the prevention than by the disease. That's becuase as the effectiveness of the prevention goes up, the number of people harmed by the disease goes down, so that eventually even very small risks from the prevention will outweigh morbidity from the disease.
That wasn't the case in '76, however. Less than a third of the population was vaccinated and it appears that the flu didn't much spread past the initial Fort Dix infections.
'76 is interesting because a lot of power-plays were involved in the development of that particular vaccine. There was considerable scare-mongering that appears to have been politically motivated. There were drug companies leaning on congress. There was the CDC getting its britches in a twist. It was a clusterfuck. It was the kind of thing that make conspiracy theorists say, "See! Shit goes DOWN!"
So now even some of the not-so-conspiracy inclined see, yet again, a flu that caused school closures and borderline panic in its early stages and then... nothing?
Only this time, its NOT nothing. That time, with that particular flu, it truly was. This time it SEEMS like nothing becauase we aren't getting the early theorized horrors.
I'd love it if public health discussions could have some depth from the start. The initial ITS EBOLA AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO BLEED FROM OUR EYEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!! panic is a big chunk of what causes subsequent laxity or outright resistance. People feel like they've been sold a bill of goods (only because they have) and many become resistant to reason.