Comments on Diary of a Modern Matriarch: Because it feels like a bullet sort of day

You are one of few bloggers who can make me go "AR...

2009-11-02T09:50:31.528-05:00

You are one of few bloggers who can make me go "ARGH" and "Aww" and "ROFLCOPTERS" all in one bullet-pointed post. I love you. And yes, I'd like to come to Boston and booze it up with fun women and NO KIDS. Wanna buy me a plane ticket?

Funny, I've got all of those symptoms, save the fo...

2009-10-29T15:39:16.052-04:00

Funny, I've got all of those symptoms, save the forcible evacuations, and my doc said that I don't have the pig flu just a virus.

Boston and Booze sounds like a great time. Also, D...

2009-10-29T13:59:24.322-04:00

Boston and Booze sounds like a great time. Also, DST sucks with children. It totally messes with their sleeping schedule. And yes, we'll be up way too early with eager, hungry children too. As for vaccines, I'm usually one of those people that are all for vaccines, and luckily have had children that haven't had any adverse reactions to any vaccine. We even got the H1N1 for our oldest, although not our toddler. However, I did skip the Hep A vaccine since we don't do foreign travel.

Well, like I said, I DO vaccinate but on an altere...

2009-10-29T11:41:58.009-04:00

Well, like I said, I DO vaccinate but on an altered schedule and on my own terms.

I believe vaccination is important to help keep deadly illnesses at bay, but until they offer me a SAFE way to get the vaccination into my child, there's no way in hell I'm goving them certain vaccines at such a tender age while they're still developing their own immune systems. WHICH THEY NEED TO FIGHT DISEASE.

For every video/article someone sends me regarding vaccinating, I have 11 more for not. And I imagine it's the same the other way around.

That's what I left it at what it was: You do for yours and I'll do for mine.

To me, it's not a debatable topic.

I usually avoid internet conflict like the plague....

2009-10-29T11:29:06.380-04:00

I usually avoid internet conflict like the plague. In 99% of cases, I agree that you make your parenting decisions, I make mine, and nobody gets judged. Unfortunately, when it comes to vaccines, your parenting choices affect my kids. This article in Wired makes a lot of good points: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience

The part that most struck me was about a study in the Netherlands.

"...the study found that the risk of contracting the disease was lower if you were completely unvaccinated and living in a highly vaccinated community than if you were completely vaccinated and living in a relatively unvaccinated community. Why? Because vaccines don’t always take. What does that mean? You can’t minimize your individual risk unless your herd, your friends and neighbors, also buy in."

First I have to ask the obvious question - how doe...

2009-10-29T11:16:25.188-04:00

First I have to ask the obvious question - how does your daughter know what the dog's butt smells like? Wait, I don't want to know.

Second, your company is awesome for making it a corporate policy to stay when home when sick. Every year there is a whole problem called Presenteeism because workers are afraid to call in sick. Then they get sicker, they get other people sick blah blah blah. Although the thermometer is a bit of a silly thing - they chose to spend how much money on those??

And YEA!!!! for your mortgage refi. Congratulations!

That thermometer is crazy. Want to see pandemoniu...

2009-10-29T10:34:27.250-04:00

That thermometer is crazy.

Want to see pandemonium? Try living here, where a 13 year old kid died of H1N1. ONE person died, people. Sure, it was a kid and that's horrible, but that doesn't mean he would have survived the shot.

I thought it was a pregnancy test too. I was reall...

2009-10-29T10:08:41.550-04:00

I thought it was a pregnancy test too. I was really grossed out for a minute, thinking that a coworker ANNOUNCED that way or something. Ick.

I like the concept, though, that they're supporting health. At my office you better be damn near dead to stay home, and even then I usually get calls. But we're a small company, so that's to be expected I guess.

Also - you had me at Boston. And booze. SO wish I could be there!

1st, I thought that was a pregnancy test before I ...

2009-10-29T09:36:14.705-04:00

1st, I thought that was a pregnancy test before I read what it was. LOL!!
I am surprised my son's school hasn't sent them home too.
I just sent him in with the sniffles, I know I will be in trouble later. But tough sh*t. If I keep my son home fore every cold he will never go to school. No fever, going to school.
Wanna get the kids together in the cesspool play place?? Just kidding!! :)

I agree with you on that - it gives people an out ...

2009-10-29T08:53:42.175-04:00

I agree with you on that - it gives people an out to stay home if they ARE sick, rather than fearing their bosses for calling out. Yesterday, I sat in a cubicle basically coating myself in Purell because so many people were hacking and sneezing. STAY HOME CESSPOT.

Eh, I agree with you about mumps. It would suck, b...

2009-10-29T08:45:24.591-04:00

Eh, I agree with you about mumps. It would suck, but it wouldn't do any long-term damage. (And I'm a vaccinator.)

Wait, so you're saying I should cancel the swine flu party I had scheduled for this weekend?

As for your company, I think the thermometer is NUTS. HOWEVER, I like that they're encouraging people to stay home if they're sick. I think since there IS no vaccine available for most normal people that programs like that (and taking the stigma away from people if they choose to stay home) are the only way to prevent this thing from getting worse. I guess. Oh hell, I don't know.