And I've seen it before and I'll see again

[sovay]

Good afternoon! I aten't dead. I'm just really, really, really tired. Normal service will resume when . . . something.

1. R.I.P. Lucien, a Good Cat.

2. We are not shopping at Stop & Shop, because their workers are on strike. Don't cross picket lines. Let's hear it for Market Basket.

2. Der Yid, the Yiddish-language weekly of the Satmar Hasidim, has strongly condemned ultra-Orthodox anti-vaxxers in a rare dual publication in English and Yiddish: "Senseless! Heartless! Torah-less and Reckless."

The current state of the MBTA may be judged by the following anecdote: I needed to get to Harvard Square yesterday evening, so I walked from Winter Hill to Porter Square because it was faster than waiting for a bus to take me to Davis to catch the Red Line. spatch and I have to get out to Lexington this afternoon for my father's birthday. Wish us luck.

[edit] The punch line: the bus came seven minutes early, just as we rounded the corner. We walked the half-hour into Davis Square.

Comments

[sovay]

I was really pleased to see crownheights.info also taking a strong stance in favor of vaccination.

I hadn't seen that! Cool.

And when I get my annual physical, I'm going to ask them to verify my measles immunity status, because some people my age only got one shot rather than two.

Good call. spatch and I got reupped on our MMR in 2014 when we discovered I was still immune to measles, but not mumps or rubella. My parents are not recommended for booster shots because they have the immunity of childhood survivors of all three diseases. They agree they would rather have had vaccines.

[rosefox]

They just posted this open letter from a group of Chabad medical professionals and all their news pieces about the outbreak have also included background info on how awful the disease is and how important it is to be vaccinated. They also posted a very blunt op-ed from a doctor that describes measles symptoms in detail and concludes, "For the uneducated or the supposedly-educated parents who assume the privilege of not vaccinating their kids until now, know this... When someone loses their life to this, it will not be on the head of the medical community; it will be on yours. You will have to answer for this on your day of reckoning." They are not fucking around.

I know we all got TDaP boosters when we were planning to have Kit; I just can't remember whether we got MMRs as well.