I’ll allow it.

Insert joke here about sitting at a coffee shop in any of the country’s colleges and universities.

I’m not there anymore. I’m at the Five Guys burgers.

It’s pretty clear someone up in New England called down to NY to have that call overturned, maybe even offered some hard cash. No one up there wants to live through another week of grumpy TB12. I hear he can be an ass to the underlings.

Meet me at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Akron, Ohio. I will fight you!

One of the only ways we knew a lot of children were sick with H1N1 influenza back in 2009 was because they presented with gastrointestinal issues. The difference with a norovirus infection (aka “stomach flu”) is that noro gives a fever to a small subset of people who catch it, while H1N1 in children in 2009 was giving…

Don’t let perfect get in the way of good enough, I guess?

No, I wrote that slightly buzzed is better, but it’s still not what we want. We want no drinking and driving.

Well, I’m not a doctor nor a nurse. I’m just your garden-variety epidemiologist. Yeah, I’m one of “them people.”

“Who exactly is “putting out a message”, and how are they doing it?”

I agree with everything before the comma on your above statement.

What do you mean “you people”?

A better way to frame the discussion around vaping is the risk of vaping versus the risk of smoking cigarettes, versus the risk of not doing either. Not doing either is best, of course. All the evidence points to smoking cigarettes as being the worst. So is vaping a happy medium?

Cheaper, but no physician worth their salt will do anything based on these results. So be careful if you do end up showing a result that you’re a carrier for something. A physician will re-order everything through more CLIA-compliant laboratories to confirm, which means a double-dip in the pocketbook, especially if…

Pop quiz: Decorticate or decerebrate?

“I’m thankful I’m not related to you in any way possible. Addendum: Not thankful we’re from the same branch of the evolutionary tree.”

The rest of Asians or the rest of illegal immigrants?

“Latinx”? I understand the ungendered language in Spanish, since we use As and Os for female and male gendered nouns and adjectives, respectively. But we don’t use that in English, do we? I thought the adjective was “Latin,” as in “Latin America.” What, it’s “Latinx America” now?

I’m sorry. I’m not writing my responses well enough. (English is my third language.) I didn’t say that having an immigration policy is weird. Having an inequitable immigration policy that is antiquated and treats people like animals is weird. (Unless other countries have similar immigration policies where people are…

You’re not attacking my argument. You’re presenting a different argument — that every country in the world has an immigration policy, a truism — as if that’s what I’m arguing against. Where do I go from that? How can I argue against a truism?