I’m sorry, but the scariest thing from Nickelodeon wasn’t even on AYAOTD. It was

Yes, a lot of the people who called her about their food poisoning claims were past the point where they could have taken a test to verify they had food poisoning. There were even a few cases where they called because a doctor told them (at least in their story) it might be food poisoning but that doctor never…

HOWEVER, it is still irresponsible to blame the last restaurant you ate at or thing you ate. Most food poisoning takes a bit to incubate, save Staph food poisoning. And it could literally be from anything, just gotta get something from your hand into your mouth. He shouldn’t have assumed it was the restaurant, or…

I’ve attended many county epi meetings and these investigations take months. Fortunately all my foodborne illness investigations were on secluded populations on military bases so less outside influences.

So I have an interview with a cruise ship for Public Health Officer job. Do I want that responsibility?!!!

That’s a good way to describe it to others, thanks for that. One of my friends had her second baby while her husband (an ER doctor) had influenza and he was able to get up for a moment, with a mask on of course, meet the baby, and then went back down to the basement for a week. Luckily she had family to help her out…

Yep. I wish Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book could be assigned reading generally, along with Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Actual influenza is up there with the plague in terms of mass death efficiency.

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.

The “stomach flu” thing bothers me too, because I know people who refuse to get the flu shot because they got one once and still got “the flu.” But when they describe the flu, they are clearly referring to gastro.

Joe & Megyn should check their facts. Hillary Clinton did go to those states. And she had a clear message. She states her campaign’s data showed that they were covered in Wisconsin, but if she found out they weren’t she would have been there more.

Like did he do a chi square with case controls? Not even a team of epidemiologists can always find the source of an outbreak. Buuuuuut Chipotle has a bad reputation so I’m not surprised they would be quickly blamed.

Thanks for the clarification - I guess when I think of food poisoning, I think of e.coli, salmonella, etc. I usually think of norovirus as something different.

I was perplexed by the response. And right after we’d gone through the cycle with Louis C.K.? Come on.

I posted this video all over the place yesterday here, on AV Club and io9 because so many people were denying and/or excusing George Takei. It just pissed me off.

It saddened me to see so many people commenting in the other story that they don’t believe Takei’s accuser, even when they believe accusers in other cases.

Literally what you’re describing is rape culture in a nutshell—the idea that going on a date automatically grants consent to any manner of physical contact. Psychic powers aren’t necessary when you use. your. words. No, you DON’T initiate any kind of sexual contact until you have verbal consent. You say, “May I kiss…

This is an absolutely fucking disgusting take and you should be ashamed. That’s literally the same gaslighting logic people used to try and discredit Cosby’s accusers.

I think what we’re seeing here — which is positive — is how toxic masculinity, patriarchy, etc works. Even ‘the good guys’ participate because that’s what it is. That’s the water, you know? The air? The things we take for granted.

It’s fucking awful and also presuming that we’re all on their apologist side too, fuck no, I believe victims and I especially believe victims when there is audio of Takei admitting to being a sexual assaulter.

Remember when we hated 2016 for killing all the famous people we loved? Good times, man.