Someone asked “is it lifesize?” 😂

Pfizer's dose for 5-11 is only 10 µg — that is 1/10th of the dose that Moderna used for 12 yr olds, and 1/5th of the dose that Moderna tested on 6-11 yr olds, so even two doses of Pfizer would only be equal to 40% of a single dose of Moderna. Personally I would not be concerned at all about Pfizer at such a low dose.

Yes, this is for 5-11. They are planning to apply next month for 6 months to 4 yr olds

That is the most hilariously random halloween decoration ever, lol. The monolith never disappoints!

This is false information being circulated on social media. The Japanese government has not approved ivermectin for covid and is still using Moderna.

The current CDC figures for total "excess deaths," including covid, are even higher — around 850,000. Add the 50K or so currently hospitalized for covid, and all the people still recovering or with long covid, plus parents who can't work because their usual child care providers (grandparents, other relatives, or paid providers) are sick or died or just don't want to be exposed, plus people who were laid off when the pandemic first hit who either found other means of support or decided to tighten their belts and get by on one income or just live on retirement income, plus people who are high risk and don't want the exposure of working in restaurants, grocery stores, and other public facing jobs, plus people who recently quit their jobs because they were being treating like crap by businesses who dealt with being short-handed by demanding that existing workers work longer hours with less predictable shifts and less time off, etc...

I think a huge part of the problem is that the people who quote that figure do not understand that it represents an average across the entire population, and that the actual odds for any given person will vary dramatically depending on age and comorbidities. They seem to think that every person who catches it has an equal 99% chance of survival, so they're shocked when someone they know ends up in the 1% — as if dying from covid is just really bad luck that randomly happens to some people. It's crazy how often people who are in their 40s/50s/60s and seriously obese, who likely have other comorbidities like diabetes and hypertension as well, post memes about how only brainwashed sheeple would be afraid of a disease with a 99% survival rate, completely oblivious to the fact that their own odds are way lower than that.

This is such a common pattern — months of FB posts full of misinformation and antivax memes, then "I tested positive, but it's just a mild cold," then "wow, covid is no joke, heading to the ER now," then "please pray, they say I may need to go on a ventilator." Then there's a series of updates from a relative with increasingly bad news, followed by the announcement that so-and-so got his/her angel wings (and here's link to the Go Fund Me), and then lots of posts from friends and relatives saying how shocked they are, this is so unexpected, this is so unfair, how could this happen??? The worst are the ones where they blame the HCWs for refusing to give horsewormer to someone who was prone, paralyzed, and unconscious, with tubes in every orifice, because that would have totally saved them. It's insane.

It's not controversial in terms of being safe or effective — the controversy is whether it can be sold as a supplement because it was apparently patented as a drug in the 1960s, and the FDA seems to be taking the position that since it was originally patented as a drug, it's still a drug not a supplement. I totally disagree with that, as do a lot of companies that manufacture and/or sell it and who are currently fighting the FDA on it. But Amazon seems to have gotten spooked by the controversy and has pulled all NAC supplements from their site.

N-Acetyl-Cysteine (ETA: It's a bit controversial as FDA claims it's a drug and cannot be sold as a nutritional supplement. Amazon has stopped selling it, but it's still available from WalMart and other sellers, as well as directly from manufacturers like Thorne.)

My ex had an elderly uncle who was developmentally disabled. He had lived in group homes most of his life, from the time he was child, and the family rarely visited him. I adored him from the moment I met him, and when we moved from the UK to the US, I insisted on bringing him with us. Our first Halloween in the US he mentioned that he'd never been Trick or Treating, and I told him we definitely needed to remedy that! So at the age of 75 he went TOTing for the first time, dressed as the Lone Ranger. People were so sweet to him and he had a blast.

Yep, the famous Bard of Springfield, lol

The more details come out the worse it gets. Williams (mother) and Coulter (boyfriend) have been together for several years, during which Coulter frequently and severely beat the kids. He beat the 8 yr old to death, in front of his siblings, in November of last year, then just covered the body with a blanket and left it there. They continued to live there, with the rotting body, for 5-6 months, then Williams and Coulter moved out and left the surviving kids in a filthy, unfurnished, roach-infested apartment with the corpse of their brother. Police say the kids didn't even have any blankets or bedding. Williams would occasionally drop off food, and Coulter continued to beat them — the 10 yr old was punched in the face, fracturing his jaw, a few weeks ago, and due to lack of medical care now needs surgery. Williams' explanation for failing to notify authorities when her son was killed: Coulter told her not to, she didn't want CPS to take the other kids, and she didn't want to go to jail. https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/10/27/woman-man-charged-after-childs-remains-were-found-inside-apartment-expected-to-appear-in-court-wednesday/

CDC hasn't voted yet, they are meeting on Tues & Wed next week, so the absolute soonest that pharmacies can be giving shots would be November 4th — and that's only if the pharmacy received a preshipment of pediatric doses, which are packaged and labeled separately from adult doses. It's a different situation than boosters, which people could get immediately since providers were just pulling doses from the same vials they already had in stock.

New guidelines on boosters say that severely immunocompromised people who got full-strength 3rd shots are also eligible for an additional booster shot 6 months after the 3rd shot. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/covid-19-vaccines-us.html#considerations-covid19-vax-booster

New CDC guidelines say that severely immunocompromised people who received a third full-strength dose may also get a booster dose at least 6 months after the 3rd dose: "Moderately and severely immunocompromised people aged ≥18 years who completed an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine primary series and received an additional mRNA vaccine dose may receive a single COVID-19 booster dose (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or Janssen) at least 6 months after completing their third mRNA vaccine dose. In such situations, people who are moderately and severely immunocompromised may receive a total of four COVID-19 vaccine doses. A person who is moderately or severely immunocompromised and has received two doses of an mRNA vaccine and ≥28 days has elapsed since the second dose, should receive an additional mRNA dose immediately (if Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is used, administer 100µg in 0.5ml), followed ≥6 months later by a single COVID-19 vaccine booster dose (if Moderna vaccine booster is used, administer 50µg in 0.25ml)." https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/covid-19-vaccines-us.html#considerations-covid19-vax-booster

If your kids ever question the value of a classical education, show them this...

Boyfriend has been charged with murder, mother charged with injury to a child by omission, failure to provide medical care, failure to provide supervision, and tampering with evidence / human corpse

"the medical examiner's ruled the 9-year-old's manner of death was homicide, caused by multiple blunt force injuries" https://abc13.com/houston-abandoned-children-child-skeleton-boy-death-brothers-live-with-corpse/11169868/

Removing blackheads and pimples

Oregon State allows a maximum of 18 dropped courses, and a maximum of 4 attempts at the same course. I can't find anything about a maximum number of dropped courses at UO, but after 3 attempts at the same course students need prior approval to try again. I don't see anything about paying OOS tuition after a certain number of hours for either university. I know there is a limit of 150% of required hours for federal financial aid, but that would be 180 total hours for a degree with 120 required hours, so the limit of only 30 hours over seems really restrictive to me.

Maybe you don't eat it that way, but it appears to be very commonly served that way, including in restaurants. If you're only taking half a cup of one high-glycemic, no-fiber food and half a cup of another high-glycemic, no-fiber food, and filling the rest of your plate with protein and vegetables, then, as BaseballandHockey said, two half-cups of simple carbs are no worse than one cup of simple carbs. But when that's the entire meal, that is not healthy.

I think the issue some people have with this particular dish is that the noodles and potatoes aren't small servings on the side of the plate with a piece of grilled chicken and a large helping of vegetables, they are the whole meal. If you look at the Bob Evans restaurant menu that was mentioned upthread, they serve the noodles and mashed potatoes on top of a biscuit, so that's a 1000-calorie, high glycemic meal with no fiber and not a lot of nutrition. There's a big difference between a plate where the carbs are from white flour and peeled white potatoes and a plate where the carbs are beans, brown rice, and a bunch of veggies, or lentil soup with potatoes and carrots and whole wheat bread on the side.

https://abc7chicago.com/abandoned-children-houston-9-year-old-dead-skeletal-remains-found-harris-county/11169206/ Lots of new details in this report: Truancy reports were filed on the mother in 2019 and 2020; kids were last enrolled in school in May 2020. One neighbor complained to management about the horrible smell for at least a year, but nothing was done. She said the smell was so bad she would turn off her AC to keep it out of her apartment. Two neighbors who gave him food said they never saw the other kids and and didn't know the teen had siblings. They say he was very afraid of being poisoned and would only eat packaged food from the store, not anything home cooked. The mother does appear to be the custodial parent, the 15 yr old said his mother had moved out months ago. The mother and boyfriend live 15 minutes away, and residents said she would occasionally drop off food that the 15 yr old would come down and pick up. Before calling the police, the 15 yr old texted his mother saying he couldn't take it any more.

Harris County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the mother and her boyfriend were released: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/10/25/mother-of-3-children-found-living-with-skeletal-remains-of-9-year-old-sibling-questioned-and-released/