Why not just mandate more sick/flex leave for everyone. Some women need days for menstrual pain. Some people have chronic migraines. Take gender out of it and give everyone better access to leave.

You can’t.

At the time, there was a great interest in being able to culture human cells in a petri dish, but scientists at the time didn’t really know how - what cells to use, how to make them survive, how to make them replicate, etc. Immortal cell lines were especially sought after because they would allow for better…

We also come in XXY, X alone, XYY, and on and on. The ‘it’s just science’ argument is lazy.

There really aren’t, at least not as a blanket ‘GMOs are bad’ type of way. It’s a term that defines a large number of techniques, not a specific thing.

Most of the world is laughing at you, Cheeto-in-chief

We also accept terrain colonized by beavers or elk.

It’s super easy to float in!

This. Which is also why they wouldn’t have looked to see if it was the antibiotic resistant strains that were surviving the treatment, since the mechanisms of action are hugely different between antibiotic resistance and whether the bacteria can survive alcohol exposure.

An hour isn’t really long enough to get much in the way of bacterial growth (maybe 2 doubling periods, maximum), so generally if you couldn’t see it after 5 minutes you won’t be able to detect it after an hour. A better metric is after 24 hours, but that means you have the chance that people will reinfect themselves…

I did find the insertion to be incredibly painful - I certainly couldn’t have safely driven myself home after having it put in. That being said, next time I get one (I only got the 3-year hormonal one because it was smaller and I haven’t been pregnant before) I’ll probably just ask for a single painkiller that’s…

Your kids are strong and healthy and can fight infections until they happen to catch one they can’t fight. Vaccines make the likelihood of catching something you can’t fight much, much less.

Scarcity isn’t normally a major issue for the seasonal flu vaccine - it has been for things like the swine flu epidemic because they were responding on a much shorter timeline compared to what they normally have to deal with. If there ever *is* a shortage, public health agencies will make the call to restrict access…