If someone doesn't want to vaccinate their kids they are risking the lives of many other people in their community with this choice, not just the kids they decide not to vaccinate.
The problem is that infants can't be vaccinated for things like measles until they are 6 months old.
So people who aren't vaccinating their kids and have their kids running around spreading the measles virus in public places are risking the lives of any infants under 6 months of age who haven't even had a chance to be vaccinated.
> The problem is that infants can't be vaccinated for things like measles until they are 6 months old.
It’s not limited to infants btw. People with immune deficiencies can’t be vaccinated either and for some people the vaccine doesn’t work. They’re all protected by herd immunity and if the vaccination rate falls below the critical threshold they’re all at risk.
I think there are a lot more parts of "recycling" that are working besides putting recycling products in a separate trash can.
In Chicago now, you have to pay for bags (plastic or paper) at any major store. It's 7 cents per bag. I have no numbers on how effective it has been, but everywhere I go, I rarely see anyone getting the bags from the stores.
Programs like this and NYC's styrofoam ban seem to be very effective in the "reduce/reuse" portions of reduce, reuse, recycle. Can/bottle deposits are effective too. I doubt very many cans in NYC aren't recycled.
Treated at home vs. serious is woefully undertaught.
I had never been to the ER before a few months ago. I had an accident with a falling glass jar and sliced my finger open. I spent so many cycles doubting if this needed a hospital visit or if I just needed a bandage.
I later asked the ER doctor and he said that I definitely needed to be here, but maybe a quarter of the people out there in the waiting area don't.
I was in the 1/4th that didn't need to be there once. I was bit by a snake in an unfamiliar area. Having grown up in an area with deadly snakes, I assumed I needed treatment. The ER doctors laughed at me and told me that they don't have poisonous snakes in the area.
Now I do a quick google search to check what snakes are in the area when traveling.
I was bitten by one of our cats a while back and assumed that I didn't need treatment.
A couple of days later the wound didn't look to good and I wasn't feeling too well and I went to our local NHS "Minor Injury Unit" who rapidly redirected me to the full Accident & Emergency department where I was X-rayed and prepped for surgery within about 20 minutes! Was told I would be in hospital for at least a week - fortunately was out after only 3 days although I was getting intravenous antibiotics in both arms at once for a while.
Turns out cat bites can be very nasty - I since spoke to a nurse who told me she knew someone who lost a leg to a domestic cat bite.
>Turns out cat bites can be very nasty - I since spoke to a nurse who told me she knew someone who lost a leg to a domestic cat bite.
Same is the case with leopard or other big cat bites, I've read. Used to read books by Jim Corbett (the famous hunter of man-eater tigers (and leopards)), and similar, as a kid; that may be where I read about it. I guess the reason is that the food (meat) they eat sticks some in their teeth and decomposes and grows bacteria, which infect people when they are bitten. In fact I read that even if the big cat does not kill the person, there are high chances of dying from infection from the bite.
I guess its an advantage of systems like the NHS - the only concern I had about money was what the car park bill would be (I had parked in the first car park I saw). Turns out that the hospital in question has free parking so I didn't even have to pay for that.
Bandwidth on the free wifi was pretty good as well!
Yeah, their bites are /deep/. These teeth are like needles that can cut through and puncture bones, leaving behind whatever bacteria they had on their teeth and in their saliva. Bites from humans can be nasty too. The mouth is one of the most unsanitary spots on our body, and the bacteria there are adapted to live in or around humans.
Yeah - wasn't a scratch was a deep bite in my forearm. Cat was terrified as it had been attacked by a neighbours dog and it bit me when I rescued it - took quite a long time to separate it from my arm :-)
> maybe a quarter of the people out there in the waiting area don't
That's probably a very low estimate, depending on the ER and region anyway.
The ER is too often used as a general clinic / doctors office, psychiatric ward, or even homeless shelters in many areas. The latter issue with the homeless taking up considerable ER space and hospital beds may be unique to the west coast, where homelessness is far beyond crisis levels.
This is obviously a multifactorial problem at many levels.
> The ER is too often used as a general clinic / doctors office, psychiatric ward, or even homeless shelters in many areas.
A quick comment that this is a US-specific problem. In Australia, despite the attempts by our conservative governments to ruin our healthcare system, our universal healthcare system means only people who have actual emergencies (or at least think they do) are in ERs. Everyone else goes to a GP whenever they need to, for free. Similar things are true in with regard to the NHS in the UK, or most other nations with universal healthcare.
Also, the article doesn't mention how many users sign up in a regular 24 hour period (say on Wednesday a week ago).
3M in 24h is a lot of sign ups regardless (if they had 200M users a year ago, that's over a 1% jump in total number of users), but it would be interesting to know how many more than usual that is.
I don't find it appealing to use voice as an interface. I'd much rather have a button to press.
I think the new feature in iOS where it guesses what I want to do (send a message to ABC, for example) based on previous patterns is promising. A whole screen of these actions would be great.
It mentions "AWS S3 or compatible service". The S3 API is a de facto standard for object storage services, and there are numerous implementations of it.
(Including many which you can easily self-host like Minio, for those who are following along at home and weren't sure whether that was just limited to other cloud services)
As you mentioned, huge fan of Backblaze B2. No affiliation, just a satisfied customer. Can also pair it with Cloudflare for even less expensive traffic serving.
