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Just to reinforce the point about the importance of encouraging everyone to have vaccinations: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/21/measles-cases-at-highest-for-20-years-in-europe-as-anti-vaccine-movement-grows

Sounds like people have some knowledge of this. Please check my understanding if you do. This is a really important topic and i do think it's important to be knowledgeable in it. Immunisation often fails to have any or any meaningful effect on a given individual. ( ive had a BCG but it probably won't stop TB if I'm unlucky enough to be in effective contact with a sufferer ) The principle aim of immunisation campaigns is to ensure that enough people are immune that, taken as an average, sufferers will pass the disease onto to less than one more person. In time the disease will leave the population as the number of sufferers is constantly halving. This is why guess work and supposition about vaccines is so dangerous. As soon as people stop getting their kids immunized the spread rate goes up and everyone is at risk. And it doesn't matter if jabs have been taken or not, deadly diseases can hit anyone and stay in a population.

Really need him back soon.

Hanley has quite a bit of experience playing at LB; I've seen him play there for Scotland for example, when paired with Russ Martin. I think DF's selection may hinge on his assessment of the type of attacking threat Blackburn are most likely to pose.

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Spot on👍

Luton to beat Burton who I believe will struggle to get their feet back on the ground after their midweek heroics. For City's game 2-2 Rhodes to score at any time. Good luck both!

Becuse never in the world of football has a player or manager ever said they love a club and then moved to another club.

Could not agree more

I am sorry to hear that it's that bad, but I am glad you have found a way to manage it. You're not actually talking about homeopathy though KG. Homeopathy is a very specific pseudoscience, this may class as alternative medicine, but to me just sounds like a sensible thing to have to help you see past your problem and cope. Lakey, I take back some of my support of your comments (which I know will hurt you deeply), I misunderstood your meaning based on the last couple of posts... If you have a medical problem you should always seek professional help before scouring the internet and self diagnosing, yes, look at alternatives when you actually know what you are looking for and what the 'conventional' options are. Drs are not infallible, but they are extensively trained, not just in specific symptoms and treatments, but also in how to diagnose and reaserch conditions. Things like acupuncture, whilst not fully explainable have been accepted because empirically it can be shown to be effective, the internet and social media, however, can be a very dangerous place to go looking for treatments, it is full of people selling miracles to desperate people and trying to use the 1 person in 5000 that happened to get better as evidence that something works.

So much to go at here... Define natural. Aspirin is derived from willow bark, is that a "natural" remedy? Because a treatment worked for you, or your wife or even both of you, does that mean it is proven? No. Do you know that you would have caught flu without it? No. Correlation is not causation. "what has been around for so long is now labelled 'alternative' as opposed to the medical breakthroughs that have come about in the last 100 years or so" - I'm not so sure. I would suggest that it's the stuff that is tested and that fails those tests which is labelled 'alternative'. Please, please, please don't throw aspersions on vaccination, unless you have some very concrete evidence - just listing some potentially iffy ingredients in no way invalidates the enormous, in fact enormously enormous improvements in public health they have delivered. Look at the damage Andrew Wakefield caused and the recent growth in diseases that were previously considered beaten like mumps and measles. People who spread unjustified rumours about vaccination need to understand their responsibility for the damage it causes to children and think carefully before doing it. I can't see the link between your overriding point about taking personal responsibility for one's own health and alternative medicine. Yes, absolutely educate and treat yourself before calling on our creaking health service, but it's irrelevant whether the treatment you choose is "natural" or not, what matters is if it's effective. Run out of time, but I could go on and on ...

Jarvis coming back to score the goal that secures us promotion. It couldn't happen could it?!