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That sounds backwards. Shouldn't those with weakened immune response be first in line for the vaccine? The vaccine would give them a boost. Those with strong immune response have a better chance of fighting off the virus.

The problem (my opinion, not necessarily the op's) is using the cell phone number as the public id. An alternative id would promote better privacy. If Signal scales to even a fraction of the user base of a Facebook or WhatsApp, it needs to reconsider using the cell phone number as a public id. I can see where a group invites you to join and there's a bad egg in the group. That bad egg (randomly or intentionally) uses your cell phone number for all sorts of nefarious intents. I like to keep my cell phone private and not have it out in the wild.

I reuse them until it becomes mildly discomforting at which time I know the lancet has dulled. Of course AccuChek prefers that you use it once;)

Dominique Wilkins has type 2 diabetes. I would imagine his body fat is pretty low.

Did you mean, can a person with low body fat get Type 2 diabetes?

I think there's a lot of confusion/ignorance with Type 1 and Type 2 and most people just lump them both under the same diabetes umbrella. Diet and exercise will never be enough for Type 1's since the disease is an autoimmune disorder where the pancreas is attacked to the point where it makes little or no insulin (thus the need for external insulin). Type 2, as I understand it, is a progressive disease where the cell's insulin receptors become nonreceptive. I think, in some cases, though, Type 2's can become Type 1's due to their pancreas being overworked to the point where they need insulin. And on the flip side, Type 1's can become Type 2's as a result of eating poorly and overusing insulin. But I wish each disease had it's own name to avoid confusion over how each one should be treated.

I was on a CGM (Dexcom) for about 3 months until my new insurance would not cover it. Even though it's convenient, it comes with its own set of problems - having to restock every month (with copays) got tiring and somewhat expensive compared to strips. I also had false low reads a number of times. And the amount of wasted plastic (the applicator gun) is concerning if you are environmentally conscious.

As for lancets, you might want to try the AccuCheck fastclix. It's a pen shape device with a cartridge that holds 6 lancets. One cartridge can last me a couple months as I tend to use the same lancet 10 or more times (I know, probably not recommended). It's also the most painless lancet I've ever used and it's easy to carry around.

right, c#'s nullable types are the ultimate in syntactic sugar in that you can just use them like regular value types in most places without realizing they are monads underneath.

I knew I had seen this somewhere else. I don't understand why C# doesn't support this since most C# code is mutable anyway. I can see why it doesn't fit well with functional languages but C# usually espouses pragmatism over purity and having this would clean up a lot boilerplate null checking.

Technically speaking, C# does not have optionals so I don't think it can be argued that C# violates the patent unless it's generalized to include null propagation which operates on reference types.

one thing though, in swift you can actually mutate fields using optional chaining, e.g. person?.name = "Bob". you can't do that in c#. not sure about rust but in scala you would unwrap the optional with a foreach or something.

I agree, the pharmaceutical companies in the US use dirty tactics to get their products to market. They put out these clinical trials claiming their product is superior or worse, are behind bogus claims of a cancer link to a drug - I was suspicious when my insurance stopped covering lantus and forced me to switch to levemir.

Interesting, for me (and your dog's mileage may vary), humulin and novolin are interchangeable. I bought humulin at walmart before they switched to novolin but I rarely use NPH. I only need it when either I don't have insurance or I need a new prescription because my insurance decided to switch to another preferred basal insulin. It's easy for me to see any changes since I can monitor my blood sugars but for a dog, that could be a challenge and probably requires a stay at the vet to run tests.

You can get novolin-n at Walmart for about $26 a vial without a prescription. I’m a type 1 diabetic and fallback to this when I’m unable to get a prescription.