Jaspess’s brother got shingles before chicken pox as a kid. His shingles is how she got chicken pox. She’s also had mumps, which is why to this day it hurts her jaws to have anything that’s too sour or tangy.
My shingles vaccine side effects were not noteworthy. But I guess most with a bad reaction would trade it for shingles. SIL had a case of shingles that wasn’t fun at all.
my non-vax status for shingles is not for the well-known side effects. (very high percent say it kind of sucks)
MIL would get shingles. terrible places, like her eyes. that sounded super awful. do not want
My father had it in his eyes, and indeed awful.
The costs of at least 350 drugs in the U.S. are expected to rise in 2026, according to a new analysis, despite many of the drugmakers pledging to offer more favorable prices under new Trump administration policies.
New data from the health care research firm 3 Axis Advisors, first reported by Reuters, found that a higher number of drugs would see price increases next year compared with last year, when more than 250 drugs were slated for markups.
The median price hike hovers around 4 percent.
These projections come on the heels of the Trump administration successfully enforcing its “most favored nation” (MFN) policy on more than a dozen drugmakers this year, procuring agreements that ensure the companies will offer their products at MFN pricing — the same price as the lowest they sell it globally — and offer direct-to-consumer options.
This comment in the article caught my eye:
I wonder if there’s an objective source offers a verifiable comparison. In less crazy times, I might accept the idea of an agency acknowledging it had erred on the side of overcaution. These days, however, I’m inclined to automatically distrust anything claimed by agencies tied to the federal government.
More like “Mothers who tell other mothers to do their own research…”
She is lying. And she knows full well that she is lying, but is now being paid enough so that she is happy to continue the lying.
Thats the US right now.
An entire bunch of people being paid to utter complete nonsense for mass consumption.
Depressing.
I am willing to believe that her unvaccinated child is currently healthier than her vaccinated child and may even get less sick less often.
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Until she picks up a bug that she is not vaccinated for.
Which is the point here.
I can’t find it again, but I came across a table comparing vaccination recommendations between developed nations. Most countries in the comparison don’t recommend flu, and only the US recommended COVID for children, and the US was an outlier if you included those both but in line with almost all of the countries if you exclude flu and COVID.
And Trump’s count seems to count all doses and viruses for the US, but only series for other countries. E.g., if you have something like MMR given as a sequence of 2 shots in the US, the larger US number is based on counting that as 3 + 3 = 6 vaccines, while the smaller non-US number is counting it as 1.
New food pyramid has dropped.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5667021/dietary-guidelines-rfk-jr-nutrition
Where does beef tallow fit in the pyramid?
I think it’s hanging out with the beans and lentils.
Okay, I looked at the actual document: Beef tallow is recommended in the text along with olive oil or butter as a healthy fat to cook your food in. Beans and lentils are in the text alongside other forms of protein.
I hope this means McDonalds Apple Pies will be made great again.
Well, yeah, its a critical thinking failure beyond that. But the point in time observations are probably true.
They don’t recommend flu shots? Hmm, I guess that seems surprising. Are influenza patterns different across the globe that makes the vaccine less useful? Like we are picking flu strains for NA vaccines based on what is circulating elsewhere the season before.