What stage of grief am I technically in if this has me imagining they'll sign both Tucker and Bichette

Michael if you actually had a contact email that made the "books" singular I would not be able to emotionally handle it

Even putting aside the huge moral/ethical issues with pretending trans folks don't exist as a demographic group, there's risk that data sets get diluted when we start misclassifying people or are inconsistent in how we approach designating a person as "male" vs. "female" in a forced binary.

I know y'all cowrote this but this feels like a quintessentially Britton graf

Mmm. Feels like one of the subtler things we’ve lost in this era: the ability to disagree without it feeling existential. (And with good reason! It just is a real bummer.)

The routes are similar, but HBV is a lot more transmissible than HIV. I also think part of the convo is about who gets to make the call when it's a big public health thing. Research pretty consistently shows that ppl underestimate health risks; *you* might have a sound rationale, but does everyone?

Lol, it's definitely a journey. 😅 If I'm remembering right, I think there are settings you can mess with to make the window of time you have to parry/dodge more generous?

Dieffenbach was 'detailed' to an NIH institute (Fogarty) that has much less authority, in a lesser role. This is a way to move him out.