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[+] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They are mostly southern conservative states. I'm shocked, sir! Shocked.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even today I was catching shit from rightwingers about vaccines and general public safety (ie masks and staying home if you feel sick).

    It's so fucking frustrating, them and their pseudo science and "health hacks the libs don't want you to know - like drink a cup of water with a lemon to cure a viral infection" crap.

    I don't wish illiness and ruin on anyone, but I sure as fuck won't forget when the GoFundMe's start showing up again

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    They have literally turned their backs on basic science (the same science, by the way, that's prevented them from dying after getting a minor infection before reaching adulthood) because it "triggers the libs".

    That's all that matters to these people anymore.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I had a doctor's appointment at the end of November and figured I'd get the COVID booster then. Nope, they don't have it and don't plan to get it. I was able to get the flu shot, and I got COVID the next week so there's that. Also good luck getting an RSV vaccine around here if you're younger than 65.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    yeah I wanted to get the rsv and no dice. my wife got something four weeks back and it lasted about 3 weeks and now I have it. after the initial its not bad but its like omnipresent, light congestion that just won't go away.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I caught that :D not sars, not COVID. Mucus runs down your throat while you sleep. Not fun.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Everyone! Be sure to drink your bleach!

    (Obligatory /s)

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Why do these anti-science, anti-medicine conservative shitbags give up so easily when they get sick? They always overcrowd the hospitals when they get sick, demanding to be treated by the same medical science they still swear is fake.

    They need to leave the hospitals for the normal people. Stay home, de-worm, and pray instead. Fucking plague rats.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Remember, not every have a great health to win a flue or COVID battel. It is seniors, kids, immune compromised who get the worst experience.

    Stay home if sick amd wear a mask..

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I wonder what it could be…

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Interestingly, I don't know that it's COVID. I'm in CO and pretty much everyone I know, including me, has been sick recently, and we all tested negative for COVID. Could be a spicy new variant, but we all also had incredibly painful sore throats, which I never had the couple of times I had the rona.

    Anyway, not saying it's not, but I think we've all kind of forgotten other illnesses still exist.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If anyone actually read the article, the second sentence literally says it's all respiratory diseases.

    "In total, 15 states plus New York City are experiencing "high" or "very high" levels of respiratory illness activity, defined as people going to the doctor with symptoms from any respiratory disease including flu, COVID, RSV and the common cold."

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I did, and I know it's all respiratory. I was mostly responding to the implication in the first comment that it's all COVID. I got the newest COVID booster and a flu shot about a month before I got sick, so I'm leaning towards RSV for me personally. 0/10 would absolutely not recommend.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Both my parents have been fighting covid for the last 3 weeks. My mom hasn't tested positive the whole time, and my dad has. But she very obviously has the same symptoms, so a varying degree.

    I wouldn't trust negative tests with this variant. They even got brand new tests thinking their old tests were just not reliable for this variant.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Central Massachusetts horrible near strep like sore throat for a week. Fatigue and shit ton of mucus with coughing. Lost my voice. Covid test negative. In last day energy came back and throat is tolerable. No fever. Aspirin and CBD helped a lot.*UPDATE Today 15th throat almost normal but now first time in my life mucus in my eyes.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Exact same thing I experienced. Felt like I got hit by a truck first full day, woke up with an incredibly sore throat which all but went away by fifth day, followed by a couple weeks of stuffiness and stupid amounts of mucus. Today I realized I'm finally normal, and it started the day after Thanksgiving.

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