The Good Place described frozen yogurt better than I’ve ever seen anyone or anything: something humans get excited about and think they really love but then they eat it and just feel meh.

Next time you make pea soup, make it with corned beef. Boil that sucker in a full pot until it falls apart, then fill the pot back up, add your peas and potatoes, etc, and simmer. Much richer flavor than a regular ham. I did it one cold March after St. Patrick’s day and I’ll never go back to ham.

Agreed, however ham is the best meat to eat cold right out of the pan standing in front of the open fridge at 1am. And turkey makes the best gravy to go on french fries. But they’re both pretty terrible as they are.

AND, by the time they may figure it out, if the restaurant manager/owner doesn’t put two and two together quickly and report, patient 0 may have cleared the infection and wouldn’t test positive. It’s notoriously difficult and really unless there’s PCR testing with PFGE analysis to test strains, it’s still…

I have in the past, but most of my active friends know better than to post that bullshit where I can answer them. The simple explanation is that there is a time of year when influenza rates rise above the expected baseline per 1000s of people. This time of year is expected based on endemic patterns, and can vary but…

I tell people the mortality rate for hospital-acquired influenza (so, a person catches it while in the hospital being treated for something else) is 30-40%, and that that is the mortality rate of SMALLPOX and watch their eyes bug out.

I had H1N1 in 2009 when I was 25 right before they released the vaccine for non-floor healthcare workers, and I was down for 10 days. I wet the bed I was so weak. It took me months to get my lung capacity back.

This is actually a big deal for us; there’s a misunderstanding of what the “flu” is in lay circles. It’s come to mean anything that’s not a sniffles cold. So you have a whole host of respiratory viruses (RSV, paraflu, adeno, coronavirus, etc) and stomach bugs that are relatively benign for a healthy person being…

Fun story about that: cruise ships have started putting Purell all over boats and in service lines to combat noro. Other things too, but mostly noro because that’s what gets the headlines.

I know you’re joking re: chi squares, but seriously, I’d be PISSED if I was chipotle. Food poisoning is hard to nail down and it usually requires a lot of work and a lot of sick people before anything is known. Unless the DOH tells you where you probably got it from, keep your mouth shut.

A lot of people don’t, which then contributes to outbreaks, because employers don’t make the connection between noro (don’t even get me started on people calling it “stomach flu”) and food poisoning.

Norovirus is the top food poisoning germ. That shit (literally) gets everywhere and noro food poisoning is usually caused by a sick employee. But you can pick it up from door handles, faucet handles, there’s even studies it can go airborne from toilet droplets.

Norovirus IS food poisoning, or at least it can be. It’s actually the number one cause. Not all food poisoning is E. coli or salmonella, etc. The last time I got norovirus I got it from a local restaurant a few years ago. Traced back to the salad being handled by a sick line worker. Previously times I’ve gotten it…

I started laughing as soon as I saw the JP image because I knew immediately what is was.

1) Because a vaccine is a medication, and while very, very rare, there are risks (autism is not one), just like with any medication.

At least Budweiser will still get you drunk.

Jenny McCarthy meant well (mostly, at first).

I actually went to the mall today for panicked last-minute-cruise-shopping, and the most well-kept store was Old Navy. And even the smaller stores were a mess. I wandered into a Claire’s and it was AWFUL.

Then after what, 6 months, they went back to sales?

Less strategy, more him panicking and throwing a shit fit because something bad happened (or several things). No strategy, he’s just a demented 70 year old who likes breaking things MORE when he’s scared. He’s evil, but he’s also in over his head and it’s starting to show more and more.