If only there was a cheap easy to use way to stop germs from spreading through the mouth and nose of people...
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more guns?
stop joking. this is serious. we need more assault rifles.
"More bullet spread to combat COVID spread!"
The only way to stop a bad germ… is a good germ with a gun willing to blast any living cell in its way…
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Yeah but bleach an ivermectin have been off the shelves since 2020 in Kentucky...
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Covid, strep throat, the flu, and other illnesses, i.e. covid covid covid and covid, but a lot of our parents have a very particular way of approaching what they're willing to accept about why their child is sick.
At least their children aren’t sleeper cells that can be activated by 5g.
Probably missing the point, but RN I'm stuck with a horrid ass flu that makes my entire muscles sore, couldn't sleep yesterday because of cold sweats, and just all in all feel like garbage, and you could not imagine the relief I felt when tested it turned out to not be COVID (And yes, I am up to date with the COVID vaccines).
(And yes, I am up to date with the COVID vaccines)
This doesn't really seem to matter with all the new mutations that are loose right now. The spouse and I are up to date as well, but we still caught it ~3 weeks ago after avoiding it for 3.5 years. We healed up fine, but it sure did suck. Looking forward to updated boosters.
Seems like everyone I know around the world (thanks, internet) is getting it right now, even if they've been taking things seriously.
If you’re alive the vaccine helped. It wasn’t meant to be a never-get-it vaccine. Just that if you did catch it your chances of dying were lower.
I tried to be as clear as possible that I appreciated the vaccine, still plan to keep it up to date, and don't blame its inability to catch every mutation, and someone still needs to get lecturey about it....
My bad, the way your sentence was worded it seems like you expected the vaccine to prevent infections not just severity. It’s an important point that is subtle.
Did you test for flu and get positive? I’ve been hearing a lot about false negatives with the newer strains. They’ve mutated enough that they don’t trigger the antibodies in the test, is the theory.
So far as I have heard, yes, mutations are emerging because people keep getting reinfected and reinfecting others, but the anosmia symptom is still pretty consistent.
Might not trigger a test, but if you suddenly cant taste your dinner, you have covid.
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The Covid test kits are largely useless with Eris, doctors have been finding. It's mutation that lets it escape immune detection also seems to let it escape the test kits primary measurement methods.
So you absolutely could still have Covid.
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No parents wanted to do covid tests, so a good trick is to stop carrying covid only tests and only provide covid/flu combo tests.
Our local hospital just switched from covid/flu/strep tests to individual ones, because they can bill more for 3 tests than one.
This has to be fake news. I was told that it was a hoax, and if it wasn't a hoax, it would be gone in a few days, and if it wasn't gone in a few days bleach injections would kill it, and if bleach injections didn't kill it, then horse tranquilizer would kill it, and if horse tranquilizer didn't kill it...
Sunlight into the body?
Perineum sunning?
If you can't get outdoors I heard just using a flashlight helps
Oh... I misunderstood, i thought it was a fleshlight...
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Schools find out diseases are infectious. Can our top scientists figure out something to do about it? More at 11
The school knows exactly what's up. They just can't say "COVID" in a place like Kenfucky without hundreds of parents screaming at the top of their lungs.
They can't scream when they're on respirators
McConnell's Kentucky.
I so absolutely want someone to find that asshole's last horcrux.
The highest attendance will be in a small district. The lowest attendance will be in a small district.
Smaller samples show more variation.
The Eris variant seems to be massively spreading here in the midwest. I know several people that have gotten it and, unfortunately, the test kits don't seem as effective in detecting this variant unless you're significantly along in symptoms. Meaning you've been contagious for a while already.
Additionally, Eris appears to have a different method of symptom development where you have somewhat minor cold symptoms after a few days and then it goes away. Then, a week later, you get much stronger and worse symptoms. The latter stage can be detected by the test kits, the former can not.
So you're contagious for a full week or more before you can even confirm you have Covid, making many people think they have the flu instead. (Which is also something you should isolate for and not expose other people to, but we have a bunch of idiots that live here in the US.)
Which is also something you should isolate for and not expose other people to, but we have a bunch of idiots that live here in the US.
Amen.
I still mask and social distance wherever possible.
For a while I believed we had a shot at stopping covid from becoming endemic, but here we are, with endemic covid, which will never not be a problem again.
Beyond covid though, I haven't gotten any other kind of sickness. It's been a nice few years not getting colds 2 to 3 times a year.
Conventional wisdom says plagues come in 3 waves. By my count, we have been through 2, and recent news certainly makes it sound like 3 is imminent.
At the very least, dealing with Covid has significantly improved our medical science and technologies. mRNA vaccines and other innovations will be incredibly useful in the future and are already branching out to be used as treatments against other diseases, even some forms of cancer.
As someone suffering with an illness similar to Long Covid, I too am pleased with all the medical innovations coming.
As conservatives cheer. The only thing conservatives love more than people being sick is people being uneducated.
Conservatism is a plague in desperate need of a cure.
I don't disagree about conservatives in general but what about this article caused you to post this? The article indicated the district was shifting to online learning, encouraged better sanitation and vaccination.
Some people just have tons of hate in their heart.
Nice, a whole one state over, I’m sure germs can’t travel this far though, we’ll be fine.
"hurr durr it's just the flu hurr durr"
I got strep for the first time a couple months ago. That shit is painful as hell.
I went to the emergency room when I was 19 because I couldn't swallow it hurt so much (they were not very sympathetic).
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