A bunch of news stories, and one NIH blog story.  Great evidence.  Even if we accepted them as all being accurate, they aren’t backing up what you say.  They’re supporting what cyberpizza is saying.  Did you even read them?

What evidence?

Seems to me that just about EVERYONE here is disagreeing with a lot of what you’re saying, so I don’t think anyone else needs to agree to disagree.

Yep, I’ve noticed my allergy suffering has not been as bad with the masks.

I really hope masks stick around for sick people. Most of East Asia has been doing it as long as I can remember, I really hope we keep it up.

And immunity varies GREATLY with different viruses.

There’s a reason why we don’t vaccinate for stomach bugs. Because there’s almost zero immunity after recovering from a foodborne virus. You can be spewing out of both ends for a couple of days, recover, and catch it again a few days later. Look at news stories about…

We’ve also seen cased of people catching another case of the ‘rona less than 6 months after recovering from their first bout with the virus.  There’s still so much we don’t know about this SARS variant.

When using a paper towel in the kitchen to dry my hands, I’ll set it aside to clean up some mess.

But once used for anything other than clean water, it gets discarded.  Reusing for more that that sounds like a bacterial breeding ground.

I get your point about price per sheet, but I absolutely love not having to tear giant sheets of paper towels in half all the time now!

Agreed.  Boneless/skinless thighs are still WAY better than any form of chicken breast.

Exactly. Chicken breasts are just OK in some dishes.

They should take a tip from the vegetable industry: Rejects go to a different line of products.

Start off trying to make skin on, boneless products, but do it quickly. If the skin gets mangled, then reject it to the next line over that does boneless skinless products. If it gets mangled there, it gets rejected to the…

Screw that, I can’t wait to retire!

Are you unfamiliar with Credit Karma?  It’s not a credit card company, but it does offer a free credit score like credit cards do. 

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I am also a fork lifter, not a forklifter.

This is why you’ll find I comment more on Claire Lower’s articles than Beth Skwarecki’s.

Like so many other things in the world, I don’t think it’s that younger parents are terrible, it’s that the internet has let the whole world see a slice of the terribleness. Those terrible parents were there with older generations, too, we just couldn’t see them.

Communications technology has shaken our understanding…

I really like the idea of using it as a teaching moment.

I despise the fact that Huck Finn is constantly proposed to be (and is, in some dark places) banned because it depicts racism. The fact is, though, that the book actually points out the absurdity of racism. Just like in song and film, the use of the N-word is…

I get medicine shipped from my pharmacy every three months.  It’s so incredibly simple.

State lines don’t matter because SCOTUS has clearly ruled that the Commerce Clause applies to items that have only been in a single state.

LOL, well, my watch data lines up with the data from the medical device that I’ve used, so it’s accurate enough for what I use it for (which isn’t much more than convenience in satisfying curiosity since I have access to sleep stats from a medical device).

What kind of smartwatch do you have, and why do you like it?

It’s difficult to use the sleep tracker if you’re not wearing the watch while you sleep, no? I’m particularly interested in the new oxygen saturation sensors that the latest watches are adding to the mix. Seeing sleep habits combined with O2 stats will be interesting.

More importantly for me, though, is that I don’t…