Salutations once more, dear readers! We here at your friendly neighborhood Snake Oil Bulletin took a short sabbatical to recollect our chakras and get the fuzz off our heels for a while (it's like a honest businessman can't even sell a magical miracle elixir no more without some busybody shoutin' "Fraud!" or "This smells like drain cleaner" or "Why does it have to be taken rectally?"). But now we're back, and we're rarin' to go with a heapin' helpin' of brand new tales of woo to satisfy any appetite. Let's waste no more time and get right to it!
My Hebrew heritage means that I have that leathery old desert-dweller skin; however, I still don't tempt fate. Most of the time, I stay completely out of the sun and rarely venture out. On the rare occasions when I have to be out, I'm loaded up on sunscreen.
So I'll lend you my SPF 50, but don't bogart the stuff. I'll need it, too.
When I was in the hospital, I did a total brain fart about the last time I had vaccinations, and now I can't find the paperwork for when I last had them. I remembered my flu shot in August, but everything else is now a complete blank. I asked if they could bring me up to date since I was in the hospital (hey, two for one), but they said no, not with my surgery. The staff did, however, give me a list of all that I need to get up to date, just in case I am behind. I'll be taking care of that as soon as my medical team clears me for it.
I was also spared a lot of sun damage when i developed vitiligo when I was 14. If I tanned, I would look like a spotted deer--seriously. That summer I'd done a lot of swimming so I had tanned to a medium shade of brown, but then I started developing white patches on my chest that would not tan. They soon spread everywhere and looked disgusting Since we had no sunblock back then, I had to stay out of the sun after that. It became a habit.
Ha! We were having a debate in one of my college groups, and I had to take the position against more labeling of foods. One of my arguments was that the labels were a waste because people had no idea what they even said as they currently stood. To prove the point, I asked the other side, Would you consume dihydrogen monoxide? They all--ALL--said no.
I asked them how they would survive without water, which is all that dihydrogen monoxide was. And they thought that listing more things on labels would help them? Seriously? How many of them had even looked up anything on a label that they didn't understand? How many of them had done so even once?
I believe every bit of that. Frankly I believe some people would be would line up to consume undiluted sulphuric acid as long as it was named "Volcano Juice" and had a trendy, polished, minimalist Facebook ad campaign with dancing silhouettes and starkly contrasting colors.
The representative of the rich in San Antonio up to Austin. He's not there to be smart. He's there to make them richer and to keep the blahs in their place.
Not necessarily. Vaccines themselves work only so much. They're not always 100% for everyone who takes them.
The real power of vaccines is in how they provide herd immunity. The more people vaccinated, the less chance the disease will affect the population at large. The fewer people vaccinated, the higher the chance that people will get sick and die from the disease, even the vaccinated.
That's why it's important for everyone who can be vaccinated to be vaccinated.
I'm old enough to have had classmates who went deaf or blind from measles outbreaks before the vaccine, or whose mothers would have stillbirths from being exposed to rubella.
My uncle has an arm shorter than the other after contracting polio in the 30s. One of the worst years for polio was apparently 1951 or 1952. This was a common sight in most major city hospitals that year:
I'm both a student and work at the college I attend, so I deal with way too many people, and way too many of them are woo-woo types.
My Hebrew heritage means that I have that leathery old desert-dweller skin; however, I still don't tempt fate. Most of the time, I stay completely out of the sun and rarely venture out. On the rare occasions when I have to be out, I'm loaded up on sunscreen.
So I'll lend you my SPF 50, but don't bogart the stuff. I'll need it, too.
No kidding.
When I was in the hospital, I did a total brain fart about the last time I had vaccinations, and now I can't find the paperwork for when I last had them. I remembered my flu shot in August, but everything else is now a complete blank. I asked if they could bring me up to date since I was in the hospital (hey, two for one), but they said no, not with my surgery. The staff did, however, give me a list of all that I need to get up to date, just in case I am behind. I'll be taking care of that as soon as my medical team clears me for it.
OMG. I remember the people who did baby oil and iodine. The only thing that made people more orange was QT.
I was also spared a lot of sun damage when i developed vitiligo when I was 14. If I tanned, I would look like a spotted deer--seriously. That summer I'd done a lot of swimming so I had tanned to a medium shade of brown, but then I started developing white patches on my chest that would not tan. They soon spread everywhere and looked disgusting Since we had no sunblock back then, I had to stay out of the sun after that. It became a habit.
Some people out there have quite a bit of Neanderthal in the genes.
My red-headed son has one of the higher Neanderthal percentages. He definitely didn't get that from my side of the family, so it came from his father.
When we found out, I couldn't help it. I had to say that I always knew his father was part caveman.
The blueheeler doesn't have a racist bone in its body.
Unlike Republicans.
Sorry, but they'd just find another enem--Look! Jews! Atheists! Gheys!
Thank you :) I will do it!
Ha! We were having a debate in one of my college groups, and I had to take the position against more labeling of foods. One of my arguments was that the labels were a waste because people had no idea what they even said as they currently stood. To prove the point, I asked the other side, Would you consume dihydrogen monoxide? They all--ALL--said no.
I asked them how they would survive without water, which is all that dihydrogen monoxide was. And they thought that listing more things on labels would help them? Seriously? How many of them had even looked up anything on a label that they didn't understand? How many of them had done so even once?
I believe every bit of that. Frankly I believe some people would be would line up to consume undiluted sulphuric acid as long as it was named "Volcano Juice" and had a trendy, polished, minimalist Facebook ad campaign with dancing silhouettes and starkly contrasting colors.
The representative of the rich in San Antonio up to Austin. He's not there to be smart. He's there to make them richer and to keep the blahs in their place.
They only care about the science that makes them money.
It's all they've ever cared about.
Not necessarily. Vaccines themselves work only so much. They're not always 100% for everyone who takes them.
The real power of vaccines is in how they provide herd immunity. The more people vaccinated, the less chance the disease will affect the population at large. The fewer people vaccinated, the higher the chance that people will get sick and die from the disease, even the vaccinated.
That's why it's important for everyone who can be vaccinated to be vaccinated.
"That's a rather tender subject... Another slice?"
I'm old enough to have had classmates who went deaf or blind from measles outbreaks before the vaccine, or whose mothers would have stillbirths from being exposed to rubella.
My uncle has an arm shorter than the other after contracting polio in the 30s. One of the worst years for polio was apparently 1951 or 1952. This was a common sight in most major city hospitals that year:
http://circ.ahajournals.org...
That's what used to happen every time there was a bad polio outbreak, once upon a time. And that's what these anti-vax scumbuckets want to go back to.