TheATrain218

I'm curious. . . did you flea-bomb your car, too? If there were that many on you, I'd imagine they had a chance to get into the seat upholstery, too.

When this ebola vaccine becomes official I will be in line for it.

Actually, you won't. Unless you're in line for it 2 days before flying to Liberia. Here's why:

I'm assuming from your language and typing that you're in the US. Ebola is not endemic to the US, so there is such an infinitesimal chance that you will get Ebola that the CDC would never, ever recommend (nor probably even allow) US citizens on US soil to get the vaccine unless traveling to an endemic area.

"But it will prevent me from ever getting Ebola, why wouldn't they just give it to everyone to make sure it doesn't become a problem here?"

The reason for that is the reason that this gentleman, OP, is participating in a research study and being asked to keep a diary of side effects. Approved vaccines are safe and effective, and assuming this ebola vaccine gets approved, it will known to be safe and effective too.

But "safe" and "effective" don't mean 100% in medical science. For every vaccine ever created, there is a non-zero proportion of patients who have adverse events. Side effects. Many people will get injection site pain, minor cold- or flu-like symptoms, things like that. A very small number may have anaphylactic responses or other serious, life-threatening complications. [PSA: no, not autism]

For the general US population (and this applies in European countries as well to a great degree, just with different set of organizations controlling it), the CDC, FDA, insurance companies, etc. etc. will compare those two key probabilities (rate of vaccine adverse events, rate of getting Ebola in the US) and determine that your chances of getting Ebola in the US are so infinitesimal that they are outweighed by the slightly less infinitesimal chances of the vaccine harming you.

Question. . . should I stop using CreditKarma now, because there's some gaping hole in their system you've already discovered, or were you just asking nicely if you can try to hack into their shit?

The joke here is any time a guy's shoes fly off in an internet video that you're not quite sure yet is a gore video: he's dead.

Check out the bottom of one of those unsolicited mailings (you should be opening them to shred them anyway, helps prevent identity fraud).

Hidden somewhere in all those pages is a phone number listed next to a phrase like "opt out of preapproved offers of credit". Call that number, type in the info they request, and you get pulled off the lists for something like 5 years.

I promise it's not bullshit. . . I did it about 7 years ago and really never got another credit card offer until the opt-out expired. Helps to reduce chances of identity theft via mailings in the trash, and the amount of junkmail going to landfills / recycling.

I think I'm going to opt back out again the next time I get a mailing, thanks for reminding me!