Stephanie Sheme writes: >Animals do not judge you by religion, race, sexuality...< Nor do most of us FML animals, Stephanie. I believe I'm speaking for a majority of FMLers when I say I couldn't give a CA F&G commissioner's patootie about the race, religion, sex, nationality - whatever - of anyone here. Not because of any glowing nobility or enlightenment on my part, but because those details can't possibly make any difference. As Churchill once said: "This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put!" Or something like that... Re: ECE. It was quite a wait, but it's good to see the topic of intentional exposure finally tossed about. I knew there were strong and varying opinions when we tip-toed around the subject a year ago. Some unknown factors essential to the debate, imho, are how well youthful exposure confers immunity, and for how long if it does. Until we know these numbers, it's a tough call to make. In any case, I'd like to compliment ALL of the posters so far on handling themselves remarkably well given the emotional nature of the ECE issues, and for avoiding the unnecessary antagonism of some earlier teapot tempests. CA will face ECE soon, and your experiences and opinions are indispensable to us. Watching *this* debate closely, swampp [Posted in FML issue 1636]