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OT: The News Thread

I think my balls are small. I know one likes to hide once in a while.

I did a leg workout last week and my nuts were most unhappy. It's not a great feeling.

Not sure what they weigh though...
 
Really like this story and when I look at the kids face I just can't imagine even thinking of belittling him I have such a strong urge to protect...such a cute kid.

http://www.today.com/moms/waiter-hailed-hero-after-standing-boy-down-syndrome-1B8038223

A Houston waiter who refused to serve a customer last week did not lose his job. Instead, Michael Garcia is being celebrated for standing up for a little boy with Down syndrome, with people stopping to shake his hand at the restaurant where regulars are made to feel like part of the family.
Five-year-old Milo Castillo has lots of friends in preschool and loves to give hugs.
Courtesy Kim Castillo
Five-year-old Milo Castillo has lots of friends in preschool and loves to give hugs.

One of those regulars, Kim Castillo, was at Laurenzo’s Prime Rib in Houston last week when several waiters stopped by her table. Her 5-year-old son, Milo, who has Down syndrome and whose speech is a little delayed, was showing off his new words and talking about his birthday the week earlier.

A family sitting nearby asked to move away from the Castillo family's table, and a man in the group made a disparaging remark about Milo.

“I heard the man say, ‘Special needs children need to be special somewhere else,’” Garcia told NBC affiliate KPRC-TV in. “My personal feelings took over, and I told him, ‘I’m not going to be able to serve you, Sir.’”

“‘How could you say that?’” Garcia said he asked the man before he left the restaurant with his party. “‘How could you say that about a beautiful 5-year-old angel?’”
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I'm actually nervous to say anything about vaccines because I think teeds might literally hunt me down and do something drastic... but I always get my flu shot and I think it's important to. I guess people think it's only affecting them by not getting it but it's pretty important for herd immunity and protecting people that are really vulnerable.
 
I actually agree with teeds on that account. I never get a flu shot. Surprise, surprise, the only time in my life I ever got it I ended up horrendously sick.

Never again. It's important to build immunity too as it prevents super-viruses from developing. If you're over-immunized they can become more powerful as we've witnessed.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
I actually agree with teeds on that account. I never get a flu shot. Surprise, surprise, the only time in my life I ever got it I ended up horrendously sick.

Never again. It's important to build immunity too as it prevents super-viruses from developing. If you're over-immunized they can become more powerful as we've witnessed.
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Teeds is against vaccines for none of the reasons you mentioned though. He thinks they're being used to intentionally decrease the world's population. He can send you a video or 50 if you're interested.

As for your second point, I'd like to see the literature on that because I think you're thinking more along the lines of superbugs - the MRSAs/VREs/CREs - that develop due to the overuse of antibiotics.
 
That was my understanding too Lover. Flu is a virus so the antibiotics wouldn't work anyway.

I get a flu shot every year and don't get the flu.
 
hockeylover said:
Teeds is against vaccines for none of the reasons you mentioned though. He thinks they're being used to intentionally decrease the world's population. He can send you a video or 50 if you're interested.

As for your second point, I'd like to see the literature on that because I think you're thinking more along the lines of superbugs - the MRSAs/VREs/CREs - that develop due to the overuse of antibiotics.
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The interesting thing about Teed's ranting in that case is that it's twisting around an interesting sociological/demographic phenomenon. Healthier people=lower birth rate=less overpopulation, but the conspiracy theorists clip points where people haven't fleshed out the argument and take it to mean vaccines are literally meant to reduce the population.
 
I don't get the flu shot and don't ever plan to, but it's not because I believe in some vast conspiracy theory around it. I just don't like to medicate period unless it's really necessary, and for me the flu doesn't qualify as "really necessary". There's very little chance that the flu will pose any risk to my life if I get it, and I rarely if ever get the flu anyways. As far as illness goes, usually I'll get one cold per year, and that's about it.

From my limited medical understanding, it also seems to me that the flu shot is a total crapshoot anyways. They pick a few strains that they think will be prevalent that particular flu season and vaccinate you for them, but they're really just guessing.
 
LeafGm said:
I don't get the flu shot and don't ever plan to, but it's not because I believe in some vast conspiracy theory around it. I just don't like to medicate period unless it's really necessary, and for me the flu doesn't qualify as "really necessary". There's very little chance that the flu will pose any risk to my life if I get it, and I rarely if ever get the flu anyways. As far as illness goes, usually I'll get one cold per year, and that's about it.

From my limited medical understanding, it also seems to me that the flu shot is a total crapshoot anyways. They pick a few strains that they think will be prevalent that particular flu season and vaccinate you for them, but they're really just guessing.
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I used to think this way too so I get it. I'm a normal reasonably healthy young woman in my 20s. Big deal, right? It's just the flu.

But there's a reason they try and get as many people as possible to get the flu shot and it's not to keep you healthy, so much as it is to stop you from getting the flu, infecting others, say at work or school, who will return home, visit family in nursing homes, hospitals, give it to their kids who'll take it to their school, etc. That's herd immunity.

And look, I'm not trying to be high and mighty about anything or lecture, it's just that the thought had never really occurred to me up until recently so I thought I'd share the mentality behind it at least.
 
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