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I'm puzzled by seeing about 1/3 customers at my regular mega food mart wearing masks. And I can no longer get a flu shot on demand due to full appointment bookings. No worries, since my once-in-a-lifetime pneumococcal vax has seemed to make respiratory problems a thing of the past.

While most of us who've ever had 2 of 3 y/o kids to care for know the strong temptation to rub out the over-active, little nuisances, most us resist the urge. Apparently neither the Mayans nor the Cartiginians had such good self control. Long thought to be anti-Carthage propaganda, Roman and Greek reports of child sacrifice there now have been confirmed by archeological evidence. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-23-ancient-carthaginians-really-did-sacrifice-their-children