First time in years someone at the grocery store made an effort to get a photo of my wife and daughter wearing their masks.
Somewhere on reddit or Facebook or Instagram or somewhere, is probably a post mocking them.
Funny stuff.
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New Hampshire is competing for the stupid award currently held by Florida.
Proof of routine childhood vaccinations would no longer be required before kids are enrolled in child care, under a bill being considered by New Hampshire lawmakers.
That includes Polio and Measles.
Idiots
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Updates on trials for next generation and pan vaccines:
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I understand the science and what theyâre finding and why itâs still safe but it doesnât keep my germaphobia brain from thinking too long about it.
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See, now this is how you do a fine. More wouldâve been good, but this is a start.
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The comments people made while responding are funny but itâs more sad than funny.
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Hope to see more of this soon:
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One of the replies really rings true.
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I think it is the very core of this neocon/reactionary global movement. The lack of love/empathy entrained in the spirit of these people is sheer scary. Sometimes I think they canât see anyone happy, just living their lives, without feeling a rush of hate taking over their bodies.
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Just the term âvaccine injuriesâ is promoting anti-science. What a Douthbag!
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Fucking Sherri Tenpenny. Fucking Ohio. Fucking stupid timeline. So much for consequences for stupid, dangerous actions.
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While I appreciate a revival of a little discussion on measures that were taken and lessons to learn, I choked on my coffee when I read the discussion around school closures:
We now have solid evidence showing that was an overreaction. A study at McMaster University concluded that closing schools had ânot much impactâ on transmission because young kids rarely spread the disease. U.S. studies have found the same thing. Letâs not make that mistake again.
I dug out the study cited in the article and found the NYT article that was referenced and the other survey study. From the first study:
Secondary attack rates were low within school settings when infection prevention and control measures were in place (moderate certainty). Masks might reduce transmission, test-to-stay policies might not increase transmission risk compared with mandatory quarantine, cohorting and hybrid learning might make little to no difference in transmission (low certainty), and the effect of surveillance testing within schools remained inconclusive (very low certainty). Findings indicate that school settings do not substantially contribute to community incidence, hospitalisations, or mortality (low certainty).
Iâd imagine the picture would be different around community settings that are more careful, and using the metrics of hospitalization and mortality w.r.t. kids raises a red flag for me. In my experience, the kids were better behaved than most adults when it came to masking, but how many schools really did what (little) was required to filter air?
And from the study cited by the NYT:
There are few data available from the literature on coronavirus outbreaks to guide countries on the use of school closures or other school social distancing practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Available evidence is consistent with a broad range of impacts of school closures, from little effect on reducing transmission through to more substantial effects.
So really, we do not have that much of an idea whether school closures âworkedâ, and no idea what the next pandemic is going to look like anyhow. If it turns out to be something with high asymptomatic transmission and just enough nasty outcomes, like 
polio, then Iâd wager school closures will be back on the table promptly.
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Not being able to cite exactly which measure were effective does not counterargue that the whole suite was, in fact, effective. As we look at potentially a new outbreak of a much more dangerous virus (avian flu) the fact that we refuse to learn from the âwarm up actâ is incredibly depressing.
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