I've decided to run a hopefully brief GFM campaign to raise enough to keep me housed and my most essential meds covered as I get through this January hearing, await the judgement, and hopefully get approved 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽

gofund.me/002871687

YOUTUBE: you like history
ME: I do!
YOUTUBE: and you're white
ME: well, I mean
YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor--
ME: no no no No NO NO NO

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There is always something to be done, and that something makes a difference.

That is what optimism is: choosing to believe that you can continue to make a difference, and doing so, as much as you can.

You can be optimistic about climate the way that you are optimistic about a hurricane: by knowing what coming, by having a plan, by helping those most vulnerable.

They're finding out more information as it gets used about things like how long it actually protects against shingles. So one consideration is not giving it to people so early that it stops protecting them at the age where they're most likely to need it.

IIRC, the age for getting Shingrix used to be higher, and was lowered to 50 after further testing re: safety/effectiveness. So it's like the reverse of the HPV vaccine, where they've kept raising the age availability as they test effectiveness in older groups of patients.

Shingrix is a pretty new vaccine (2017). My understanding is that, typically, new vaccines are FDA-approved first for the group most in need of them (the group they would first be tested on), and in this case that would be older adults.

If you're in the U.S., it's 50+ to get the vaccine.