One of the top 100 reasons I left.

Which brand did you go with?

Actually, account to the article you linked, “In the highest-risk group, teen boys, myocarditis occurred in 26.7 out of 100,000 cases after the second vaccine dose, while the condition occurred in 59 out of 100,000 cases after coming down with Covid, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

I did not realize, or else I forgot, that myocarditis is also a potential side effect of Covid. The fact that it’s more prevalent in those cases than from the vaccine is truly convincing. I’m not going back to high alert prevention, so booster it is

What do you all plan to do? My family all got the first available vaccines as they became available across the age groups. We all had Covid last October. We haven’t had any boosters yet. I’m thinking this seems like a good one to go in for, but I haven’t read anything recently regarding heart health for boys. But the risks associated with sickness at this point seem likely to be higher.

One key to happiness for me is to start from the assumption that I’ve been unclear.

This feels like reading a language that you only kinda know.

Ok so in defense of dumbasses, we don’t always understand the question. Eg, whose left? In those cases we don’t want to make your clarify the question and drag things out, so we give you what we hope is an unequivocally clear response. It comes from a deep-seeded fear of miscommunication resulting in too many mailboxes with their flags on the wrong side or whatever. We apologize for the pedantry, though. I get that it’s annoying.

Lol. That one makes me strip a gear.

Totally fair. I should have clarified. My kids are daycare aged and they are in an excellent early childhood program. It also happens to run on an academic calendar and it’s described as a “school.”

It’s worth the cost in stress and time because the program is so good when it’s open. But as it turns out there are also very few daycare programs available in my city that have openings. So we don’t have a ton of options.

Only. Nine. More. Days.

I can rant at length about how hard summer vacations are and how confused I am about the expectation that parents can just drop everything and become full-time daycare providers for months out of every year.

Edit: I’m an idiot. This thread was not really relevant for my situation. My kids are in early childhood and the only good option for them in my town was a daycare that operates on an academic calendar.

Although completely reasonable, I fear that your conclusion is inaccessible for most folks.

And as a pedestrian, I’m all for a system that’s capable of reducing distracted driving.

Awesome. Thanks folks.

I know it’s for advertising but there’s a paranoid little corner of my mind that imagines insurance companies paying for some of these, uh, “user insights.”

I’ve only heard that second one in Swedish. I don’t know if it’s originates from Sweden, but it rhymes.