IT’S RIGHT IN THE NAME, PEOPLE!
Bugaboo
- An object of fear and alarm
IKR? My first thought was, “What’s next…Baby Trebuchet?” After all, most kids love being tossed up in the air. 
Think of the time parents will save putting li’l “escape artists” back in their cribs! 
Follow the money. Always. This kinda stuff makes me furious.
As someone who’s on a lot of drugs for other things I often wonder how many of them are substandard or counterfeit here in the US.
I regularly search online for reviews and news about my medication manufacturer (especially when it changes without warning), because of stories like this:
Also, the number of people who report issues with ineffective products or varying dosage problems is scary. It’s why my doctors do routine blood tests to make sure all is well (or order a test if I have odd symptoms).
This one could be kind of a big deal. If I ate what I thought was cheese crackers that actually had peanut butter, I could die. Many others are in a similar situation. Watch out for this one!
The affected products, which are manufactured in the U.S. and distributed nationwide, include individually wrapped sandwiches that may be incorrectly labeled as the cheese variety, even though they contain peanut butter.
Nothing to add. Unsupervised kids + pools = dead kids. Do not do.
We have upgraded the pools to cover the compression straps with brass spikes harvested from discarded lawn darts. That’ll fix it.
Also, just because you can swim doesn’t mean you can’t drown.
The league I coached in back in the 80’s had a child drown in a swim meet. Things happen if you are not expecting it.
There’s a reason a pool, whether in-ground or above ground, permanent or semi-permanent causes your home insurance to skyrocket.
Unless it’s a tiny inflatable kiddy pool, it’s an Attractive Nuisance, and insurance companies assume it’s only a matter of time before someone is cleaning a body out of it instead of leaves…
This is unlikely to affect too many folks in the general population, since it is a prescription-only med, but it is not considered “vital” and hence has no emergency stockpile to deal with the shortage until the manufacturing issues are dealt with. Given that this is an old, fairly low-profit drug, I anticipate that Pfizer will not be in a huge hurry to make those corrections. And we are seeing a significant increase in congenital syphilis in this country, largely due to decreased accessibility of prenatal care. So, yeah, this sucks in a big way for unborn babies of low-income mothers. Which means, no one in power will care.
Magnet ingestions are not a big deal unless a kid swallows 2. The rare earth magnets are so powerful they can cause perforations of the bowel if they “find” each other and pinch tissue in between themselves. That can be very ugly.