Wordle 1663 Hint

Hint: The nut that made Stuckey's famous.

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First Letter: P

Wordle 1662 Hint

Hint: Power of the pizzazz/zing type.

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First Letter: O

A MAHA Step in the Right Direction

One need not be "anti-vax" in general to believe that American infants and children get way too many shots at the recommendation (and in some cases mandate) of government. After one of our kids had a negative reaction (not fatal or permanently debilitating, but requiring an ER visit) to a vaccine as a baby, Tamara and I elected to forgo most of them with both kids. Now that they're adults, they've chosen to get some and to not get others, which is how it should be.

Anyway, The Hill reports:

The CDC will now recommend children receive 11 vaccines, rather than the current list of 17, putting it line with the much smaller country of Denmark. 

The CDC said it will recommend all children are vaccinated against diseases “for which there is international consensus.”

The Hill also describes that policy change as "seismic," which seems over the top. It's just a reduction in line with international medical consensus; that consensus may be right or wrong, but exceeding it by more than 50% seems more "extreme" than going with it. Why should kids get far more vaccines than they need? Any time you stick a needle in someone and inject a foreign substance there's some risk involved, and it's not clear that there's a positive risk/benefit ratio in e.g. three shots for a sexually transmitted disease (hepatitis B) between birth and 18 months unless maybe the kid is Jeffrey Epstein's.

RFK is right on some things, and this is one of them.