Jodi and the struggle with optimism

Acetaminophen is called paracetamol in Australia, and we’re still quite happily popping it in pregnancy, within the recommended daily limits.

Therapeutic Goods Administration recent statement.

Vaccines are great actually! They reduce both your risk of disease and the severity of disease! And considering Australia has a type of socialised healthcare system (Medicare) that means if an Australian citizen gets sick, the government ends up paying for most of that medical care, and all of the care in hospital. So it’s in the interest of the government to make recommendations that will keep people out of hospital as much as possible.

So maybe if you are in a country where you would have to pay for your own hospitalisation, or that of your children, you would prefer to take vaccine advice from has a motive to keep its citizens out of hospital. Though keep in mind other countries may have other endemic diseases.

Australian Vaccination Guidelines (may vary by state)

Once again:

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

"not my circus, but those are my monkeys" = it's only your problem as far as figuring out how to retrieve them without being caught

"my circus, but those aren't my monkeys" = it's your problem until you figure out whose monkeys those are, and after that you make it their problem