Troika

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Knowing that many of my friends have different interests, I present several different items for comment:

1. This morning, when there's normally mindless pap, a local radio station accidentally allowed actual conversational debate to leak through: one DJ was defending his decision to never vaccinate his children, and the others were talking about how diseases used to wipe out thousands or millions every few decades, but vaccination has curbed this. His take was that "humans are the only species that does not allow nature to take its course," i.e. Darwinism. Thoughts?

2. The Pope has had a feeding tube inserted to help his caloric intake. a) would the reports have placed feeding tube in the headlines if Terry Schiavo hadn't taught us all the lingo? b) He is *so* not long for this world. Watch for the white smoke at the Vatican, kids.

3. Yesterday, school buses throughout large sections of Ontario north of London were delayed for two full hours. By fog. WTF?

Comments

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

1. On the other hand after taking a semester of immunology I can tell you that some people react badly to vaccinations (sometimes it can even cause your immune system to start an autoimmune response and lead to diseases like MS). Also, vaccines are just approximations to a disease and your body will create approximate antibodies as an immune response. So if your body does not create the correct antibodies, you could end up being worse off than if you didn't get the vaccine in the first place because your body does not mount a proper attack against the real disease.

Of course that only happens in a small amount of people, so the question is, do you want to take the chance?