Over 60 years ago I had mumps and measles in the same 2 week time frame tho I do not think there is any documentation. And there’s no relative to recall that either. It’s on my list to talk to my care provider about boosters. I had several childhood diseases but measles helped me understand what being sick can really mean. And how slow recuperation can be. That’s a disease that really needs protection against.
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Sigh. I don’t even know where to start.
~25% of HSS staff have been cut, from 82,000 to 62,000. Including Peter Mark’s, who oversaw the FDA VRBPAC, among other duties.
They are pulling back all Covid allocations because “the pandemic is over”. This includes things like infection-related infrastructure that was intended to be in place for any future pandemics, Long Covid research money, improved vaccine research…so much for my hopes that Long Covid research might benefit those of us that likely have other post-infectious conditions.
Much of the “bird flu” reporting and human-risk preparation work has ground to a slow or stop and it is being treated as an agricultural issue.
USAID staff have been cut from 10,000 to 15.
I can’t even imagine the heartbreak of researchers that are having the funding pulled years into multi-year research that is now being scrapped.
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It’s overwhelming, isn’t it?! It feels like we are living in a sci-fi movie.
How are you doing?
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This happened to a coworkers fiancé last week and my daughter’s research is currently day-to day. Her quote was “it’s a wait and see situation.”
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Probably about as well as can be expected? As hard as it was to leave my kids with my ex, being able to make control of my symptoms be my primary focus has made a huge difference in my quality of life. Picking the least bad of not-great paths. 
But, yeah…my life feels surreal on sooooo many levels.
Who knew I’d be so much happier living out of my car? Yet, here I am. (Well, not literally. Just got back from 3.5 weeks on the road and am currently staying with DM for a couple of weeks to visit her and the kids before I hit the road again. Tentatively planning to be gone until September and fly the kids to visit during that time, wherever I am.)
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That’s good to hear. I know it’s a lot. Sending good thoughts, as always.
This is exciting! I hope you’ll share more of your travels on the food forum, or wherever.
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If you (or anyone else) would like to follow along, I’m treating my Facebook account as a food & travel blog, so feel free to friend me there. Just private message me here with what name to look for since I ignore friend requests that I don’t recognize. And if you’d rather friend me with a faux Facebook account instead of your primary account, that is absolutely ok. (I limit my privacy on posts to “friends” to avoid trolls.)
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TP is the only social media I do.
If I ever decide to get on there, I’ll come back here to PM/look you up 
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Wisdom
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Lazy 
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sent DM
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@motherofdaughtersthree and @davej
Bit of both
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