you think pet owners should have tens of thousands saved up for their animals' health problems? Really? Gobsmacking. Pets only for the rich, says this person.

Of course, that would result in most pets never being adopted in the first place, and a whole lot of younger and healthier animals getting euthanized as a result.

From my point of view - better that I adopted my cat from the county shelter and gave him several years of a happy and healthy life. If I can't afford…

You could also say that about marriage in monogamous societies up until the last century or so. Monogamous marriage was for centuries a property exchange that also led to the unhappiness and oppression of women. By this logic, why should we allow couples to get married?

What is frustrating to me about this whole debacle is that, once again, a woman's issue is being reframed as a talk about men. Just paragraphs and paragraphs about men and who is harassing and their race and just every possible permutation of that and racism against men of color and white male privilege etc, etc.

I love Christmas Eve too. We usually spend it at home, low key, with yummy "party food" and the tree and music. No going anywhere/buying anything/doing anything. Just chilling.

I always liked Christmas Eve better too. That's when my extended family all gets together. Christmas Day was always sort of a let down. My mom would be like, "welp, that's done" once our presents were opened, and the tree would be taken down and hucked into the woods across the street before sundown.

THIS! I love when my boyfriend says I'm pretty. When strangers say it I assume they want to remove my skin and wear my face.

How did he not properly self-assess? He took his temp a few times a day, as instructed, and as soon as he had a fever, he went to the hospital. In fact, he went in to the hospital at a lower temperature than is recommended. That's pretty much the protocol. The protocol is not, "Lock yourself indoors and avoid human…

I was, weirdly enough, recently briefed by a doc coming back from the hot zone. They usually check temperature twice a day. It generally takes a few days after a fever to begin spewing bodily fluids, and apparently a person becomes more contagious as the illness progresses and as the symptoms peak. Human remains are…

He did not show poor judgement. He was following the protocol of MSF, which has proved more than adequate as only 4 out of 300 returning health workers have contracted the disease, and not a single one has passed it to anyone else. The case in the Texas was a man who had been exposed and did not know the symptoms, not…

In what way? People keep insisting Spencer was irresponsible, but there's no evidence that he spread the disease to anyone, and it seems extremely unlikely that he would have.

But there has to be some sort of standard of regulation here.

It's not even stupid people. I work in Navy public health and my coworkers - PhD, MD, MPH types - are all for mandatory quarantine! And I feel like all my risk communication training is useless if the knee jerk reaction is to lock everyone up even for just knowing how to correctly spell Ebola. (But let's not make…

I guess I am just contrasting her behavior now to the entirety of last season when she was separated from Glen (and didn't know where he was either). WHERE'S GLEN I HAVE TO FIND GLEN THE REST OF YOU FUCKERS CAN JUST DIE I NEED GLEN.

This is excellent, but I think it's important for people to understand that sweat and saliva, which are the two things people most fear coming into casual contact with, are very very poor methods of transmission for Ebola.

Grandchildren do not exist to be forced into hugging someone just because they have a blood connection. Children, all people, deserve to set the terms in which they are touched. Arguing against that is really creepy and sad to me.

Children do not exist to meet adults' emotional needs. They're not pets, they're people. They have emotional needs of their own, and perhaps the greatest one is that they get to say who is and isn't allowed to touch them. It's really frightening that you don't see any problem with what you wrote.

It doesn't really matter what you "seriously doubt". All humans have ownership of their own bodies, and kids have a much harder time learning that if they're constantly being forced to touch people or allow themselves to be touched against their will. No one here is advocating that kids be allowed to scream and yell…

To the contrary, it's very important to send an early and consistent message that your kid is the boss of their body and bodily interactions, and if they don't feel like hugging or kissing today (even if they did yesterday) then that's the end of it and no one is going to make them feel weird about it.

Ah, what a lovely society we live in where not touching people you don't want to touch makes you socially inept. No rape culture here people, nothing to see here.