The good ol' days

"Tristan" (casselts) 01/30/2019 at 02:46 • Filed to: None

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facw > Tristan 01/30/2019 at 03:02

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The auto strap seems likely to be an improvement over no restraints. Not so different from using a tether attached to a harness to protect your dog (note: I’m pretty sure those things have never been scientifically tested)

Tristan > facw 01/30/2019 at 03:08

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The dog tether has been scientifically tested by me... It is 100% effective at keeping the dog out of my lap/face, this preventing the dog from being injured in an accident!

The kid strap just looks like it'll keep the kid from jumping out the window.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Tristan 01/30/2019 at 03:27

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bring back the old days of zero car safety (not sarcasm) that way we can thin the herd

Tristan > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/30/2019 at 03:30

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And ban warning labels and guard rails while we’re at it. But still make people get vaccinations. You window licking anti-vax er s in Washington better not give my 6 week old measles .

pip bip - choose Corrour > Tristan 01/30/2019 at 03:37

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i’m in Australia, vaccinations are a must or no school/kinder/daycare for the child

yes ban warning labels. guard rails can stay

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Tristan 01/30/2019 at 03:44

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Ignorance is still bliss...so at least something hasn’t changed!

Tristan > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 01/30/2019 at 04:27

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Idunno... there are a lot of really ignorant angry people all over these days.

Maxima Speed > Tristan 01/30/2019 at 06:54

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Ok serious question. I see people say all the time “anti-vax kid will get my kid sick”. Uhhh, I thought that’s what a vaccine was for?

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Tristan 01/30/2019 at 07:12

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Like I said...nothing has changed.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Maxima Speed 01/30/2019 at 07:27

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Once in a host a virus has the opportunity to mutate which can reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine in defending against that virus. That’s why you need a new vaccine every couple of years, the virus evolves and the old vaccine is no good against the new version.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Maxima Speed 01/30/2019 at 07:46

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New borns don’t get a bunch of shots immediately, a lot are done usually around 6 months. Also, there are some kids with compromised immune systems who simply can’t get the vaccine, so herd immunity is literally life saving for them.

Cash Rewards > Maxima Speed 01/30/2019 at 07:48

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Most vaccines take several doses to be fully effective, spaced out over the first year or two. Infants are still vulnerable during this time

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Maxima Speed 01/30/2019 at 08:02

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Not all kids can be vaccinated, and vaccines aren’t always 100% effective in every individual . But if every kid who can be vaccinated has been vaccinated, it makes everyone who was vaccinated significantly less likely to spread the disease to someone else who couldn’t get vaccinated. If 99% of people aren’t going to transmit the disease, the 1% of people with immune disorders or who could catch it regardless of a vaccine are that much less likely to encounter the disease, and contagious  diseases that aren’t transmitted really do just go away.

LongbowMkII > Maxima Speed 01/30/2019 at 08:27

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It’s not 100% effective. Not being exposed to the virus is the best prevention by herd immunity . It can’t spread much if there are few possible  hosts to incubate in.

Also I don’t remember the vaccine schedule but I think MMR is at 3 months or so. So newborns are susceptible.

DipodomysDeserti > Tristan 01/30/2019 at 08:46

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Fucking liberal environmental extremist and their EPA! It came out of the earth!

shop-teacher > Maxima Speed 01/30/2019 at 08:58

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Vaccines are far more effective when everyone who can get them, does get them. Why do you think there have been recent outbreaks of fucking mumps? MUMPS! That shit was totally erradicated until a bunch of dumbass hippy decided J enny fucking McCarthy was a gadamn expert in the field. 

punkgoose17 > facw 01/30/2019 at 08:59

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I was thinking the same thing, that this looks like what we use for dogs now.

facw > Maxima Speed 01/30/2019 at 09:25

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Basically vaccines don’t provide complete protection, and not everyone can get vaccinated. Some people have allergic reactions, some vaccines cannot be given to very young children or those with compromised immune systems, sometimes they lose effectiveness ahead of schedule, and of course sometimes there are irresponsible parents who don’t vaccinate their children. Herd immunity protects people in those cases. Also, it allows us to make progress towards eradication, no one needs to get the smallpox vaccine these days, because there is no more smallpox.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > Maxima Speed 01/30/2019 at 10:04

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Also some little ones aren’t vaccinated for a period of time from birth.  So in them at period they are at risk.  

Urambo Tauro > Tristan 01/30/2019 at 10:38

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Nah, don’t ban warning labels.  Give peop le one warning. Just one. Besides, I love seeing the little stick figure guy’s adventures.

Tristan > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 01/30/2019 at 13:55

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But bliss = happy. Our dumb are angsty petulant toddlers who suck the joy out of everyone else’s lives .  

Tristan > Maxima Speed 01/30/2019 at 14:02

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So, in my case, I have a 6 week old and a 2 year old. The MMR vaccine is administered in 2 doses. One at 1 year, and one at 4 years. So my 6 week old is unvaccinated and vulnerable because of NW hippy assholes, and my 2 year old has only had the first round which is something like 78% effective, so she’s also vulnerable because of NW hippy assholes.

And as other s have said, vaccines aren’t 100% effective, but if EVERYONE is vaccinated with a vaccine that’s 95% effective, that disease has no chance of spreading and will be essentially eradicated . That is, until flat-earthers spread Facebook memes about how vAcCiNeS cAuSe AuTiSm.

Tristan > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/30/2019 at 14:04

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That’s how it should be. You wanna make your crotch fruit a danger to everyone else? Keep them in your own leper colony away from my kids , thankyouverymuch.

MM54 > Tristan 01/30/2019 at 17:37

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What’s funny about the first one?

(slowly kicking snow over the dead gravelly spots in the yard)

(but yeah probably don’t do that)

The Ghost of Oppo > Tristan 01/31/2019 at 16:04

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What was Popular Science ’s reasoning for putting gravel in the hole? What difference did the gravel make?

Tristan > The Ghost of Oppo 01/31/2019 at 17:34

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If you dump it straight on the dirt it'll air on the surface and make a big puddle before soaking in. The gravel in a hole method allows for maximum penetration without a tripping hazard!

The Ghost of Oppo > Tristan 01/31/2019 at 17:48

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Science to the rescue! 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/02/2019 at 15:58

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Also the Land of No Guns. Not saying that’s bad, just mentioning it.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Tristan 02/02/2019 at 15:58

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What does “window licking” allude to?

Tristan > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2019 at 16:55

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An antiquated politically-incorrect colloquialism.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Tristan 02/02/2019 at 18:18

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Well, DUH! Like someone in an insane asylum?

Tristan > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2019 at 19:25

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From our friends at Urban Dictionary:

“ A windowlicker is a derogatory, informal description of someone with severe learning disabilities and/or a physical incapacity which renders them helpless when faced with the prospect of seeing a stranger through a window without smearing their mucus covered tongues all over the glass, possibly as some kind of retard greeting.”

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Tristan 02/02/2019 at 19:31

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The Urban Dictionary is likely not a bastion of political correctness, judging from this description.

Tristan > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2019 at 19:35

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No. No it is not.