The Evil Genius Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 Yes Covid is still happening. RSV has seen a huge uptick in some states as well. Do what you got to do but I'm still masking and sanitizing. It's a minor inconvenience that has worked 3+ years for me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just654 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 19 minutes ago, Fergasun said: I got sick in in March. In April and early May was like, "Mask is back!". Now I am double thinking myself. Soely due to peer pressure. Is COVID going around or not? I read somewhere that we catch virsues more than we know, but many are really assymtomatic. Are we getting assymtomatic cases of COVID? People wouldn't be like "Everyone else is drinking and driving... I'm gonna do it too...". COVID will never go away officially. I havent masked in over a year. I see plenty of people that still do. I think each their own. The people that I laugh at are the ones that are masking outdoors not in a crowd just walking by themselves or in a car by themself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 I imagine that if you do the opposite of whatever the average American is doing you’ll probably be healthier. So I wouldn’t let anyone shame me into not wearing a mask. I mean, I don’t wear a mask nowadays, but that’s because I’m lazy about it, not for any real reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 I still wear a mask in stores, but I also try to keep distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 6, 2023 Author Share Posted July 6, 2023 1 in 4 Americans hadn't contracted COVID by the end of 2022, CDC estimates By the end of 2022, about one in four American adults and older teenagers still hadn't contracted COVID-19, according to new federal data. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been tracking seroprevalence -- antibodies in the blood -- by collecting samples nationwide from blood donors between January and December 2022 The data suggests 77.5% of those aged 16 and older had antibodies from COVID-19 infection by the time 2022 ended, according to the agency's final estimates, which is up from the 48.8% estimate at the beginning of the year. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 (edited) Glad to be in that less than 22.5% I wonder what percentage of those who have contracted, have had it more than 1x? Seems like most people I know who have had it, have had it more than once. Somehow the wife and me have stayed away from it. Edited July 6, 2023 by The Evil Genius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted July 12, 2023 Author Share Posted July 12, 2023 GOP rep. blames 'penguins' for ruining the Covid lab leak theory Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) suggested "penguins" were to blame for convincing some scientists that Covid-19 was created in nature. At a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday, Malliotakis asked two professors why scientists initially discounted a theory that the Covid-19 virus leaked from a lab. "All of a sudden, you did a 180, and [said] it couldn't possibly come from a lab or maybe, but you're all saying that you know, this was by sure from nature," Malliotakis said. "What happened in those three days?" Tulane University School of Medicine Professor Robert Garry explained that researchers were following the science. "Where did that data come from?" Malliotakis pressed. "The scientific literature, you know, the publication of the pangolin genomic sequence showed that there was a receptor binding domain," Garry said. "And it was a very important piece of data because it showed that a lot of the theories about, you know, the virus having been engineered or put together in a laboratory were not true because here was a virus in nature that had a receptor binding domain with exactly the same structure." Malliotakis confused the research on pangolins, which resembles an anteater, with penguins. Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 12, 2023 Author Share Posted August 12, 2023 Ron Johnson Says COVID Was ‘Pre-Planned’ in Batsh*t Fox News Rant Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) went on an epic fear-mongering rant on Friday, telling Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that COVID-19 was “pre-planned” by unnamed elites with the goal of taking away human rights. “This is all pre-planned by an elite group of people,” Johnson said when discussing the pandemic and vaccines with the right-wing TV host, adding that this group wants “to take total control over our lives.” Of course, Johnson failed to mention a single member of this “elite group” that has such an influence over the nation, and suggested no motive for them wanting to take “total control” over our lives and freedoms, either. But apparently, according to the senator, the group is already accomplishing their goals “bit by bit.” “They do it by massive government spending, increasing the size of government, taking over the WHO,” he said. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 13, 2023 Author Share Posted August 13, 2023 It's baaaack! No, you don't have the 'August flu.' It's probably COVID. Feeling feverish? Got a cough or a headache? You probably don't have an "August flu," but actually COVID-19. "We know that flu really is seasonal," Dr. Noha Aboelata, an Oakland, CA-based family medicine physician told Insider. "We can even look at wastewater and see that while COVID is certainly still circulating in the environment, there actually isn't a flu A or B circulating at the moment." Aboelata recently took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to post an interaction she had. "Recently overheard: 'I think I got a summer flu.' Highly improbable!" Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfitzo53 Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 Yeah my brother just tested positive. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 I got a second round of Covid back in June. It was mild and it only bothered me for 3 days. Didn’t know I had until my dad said get tested. So, took the test twice. I got it from my sister. What’s ironic, my roommate who was sick first didn’t even test positive; so he was just sick with no covid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 The reason the flu has a season is cause more people are inside interacting with each other correct 🤷♀️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 1 hour ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: The reason the flu has a season is cause more people are inside interacting with each other correct 🤷♀️ No. Flu season is temperature driven. Cold temps = drier air = dehydrated mucous membranes = less protection against respiratory viruses (viruses also live longer on surfaces in colder temps). 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 6 hours ago, The Evil Genius said: No. Flu season is temperature driven. Cold temps = drier air = dehydrated mucous membranes = less protection against respiratory viruses (viruses also live longer on surfaces in colder temps). Seems like all the same stuff that would apply to COVID as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 16 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: Seems like all the same stuff that would apply to COVID as well. But I remember it being made clear it didn't work quite as well against COVID, why countries like India was getting it's ass kicked, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 Still haven't tested positive 🤞 Was sick last week for one day, went and got tested including for RSV, negative for everything. In retrospect it might have been some wack pozole I kept in the fridge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMP Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 18 hours ago, The Evil Genius said: No. Flu season is temperature driven. Cold temps = drier air = dehydrated mucous membranes = less protection against respiratory viruses (viruses also live longer on surfaces in colder temps). Not sure about mucous membranes. I see it normally explained by viruses living longer in drier air too (dry cold air good for viral survival). But that's at least incomplete because places without winter, normally have flu "season" during the rainy season which contradicts the drier air theories. It is probably a case where there isn't one simple cause/explanation. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 I'll get the jab when it's available. Treating it as an annual shot like the flu shot is the right mindset for me. 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 Hey now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 13 minutes ago, TradeTheBeal! said: Hey now! Now we get to see the GOP talking points for the debate. They've got their marching orders. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 On 8/14/2023 at 1:34 PM, The Evil Genius said: I'll get the jab when it's available. Treating it as an annual shot like the flu shot is the right mindset for me. Amen. If I can time it to get this and the Flushot at the same time, on a Friday. Then I'll have all weekend if I feel crappy from the Flooster combo again. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 32 minutes ago, TradeTheBeal! said: Hey now! Wow. I guess "no collusion" goes both ways, now. Usually, the talking points only flow one way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 The Maga chuds on xitter already are talking about Biden manufacturing another covid wave and mask mandates. It's almost as if they got word from Mother Russia what to say. 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 I mean, it never happened under Trump. Or DeSantis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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