Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

**summit** · 01-19-2023, 12:45 PM

^Yes and hand hygiene

**mcski** · 01-19-2023, 01:20 PM

What if you put the doorknob in your ass?

**riser4** · 01-19-2023, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by mcski

What if you put the doorknob in your ass?

Don't knock it til you tried it.

**SumJongGuy** · 01-19-2023, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by mcski

What if you put the doorknob in your ass?

Be sure to use hand sanitizer for lube...

**riser4** · 01-19-2023, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by SumJongGuy

Be sure to use hand sanitizer for lube...

Ouch.

**old goat** · 01-19-2023, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by bodywhomper

I wish there was more transparency among the cautious industries about how they are mitigating risk. I think it could help us mouth breathers.

I remember watching Judy woodruff’s final newshour anchoring show a few weeks ago. The turned the camera towards the support crew and they were wearing masks.

At the world economic forum meeting currently occurring, all people in attendance apparently had to have a negative pcr test (or molecular test?) immediately before entering the area. I’m unclear if this has to be repeated daily. Photos from within the meeting show portable hepa filters in all the smaller meetings rooms and bundled attendees, with speculation that they are bundled because windows are open to improve ventilation.

I can't think of much that would make me happier than Davos turning into a super spreader event.

**SumJongGuy** · 01-19-2023, 04:02 PM

Today Mrs Jong said someone at work casually mentioned that they had COVID last week. They were at work all week unmasked going in and out of everyone else's offices, break room etc.. NICE! They don't understand why everyone else is now pissed at them..

**bodywhomper** · 01-19-2023, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by SumJongGuy

Today Mrs Jong said someone at work casually mentioned that they had COVID last week. They were at work all week unmasked going in and out of everyone else's offices, break room etc.. NICE! They don't understand why everyone else is now pissed at them..

Is your wife and her coworkers wearing respirator-type masks at work?

**supermodel159** · 01-20-2023, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by SumJongGuy

Today Mrs Jong said someone at work casually mentioned that they had COVID last week. They were at work all week unmasked going in and out of everyone else's offices, break room etc.. NICE! They don't understand why everyone else is now pissed at them..

Shouldn't be worried if they are vaxxxed, right?

**The AD** · 01-20-2023, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by supermodel159

Shouldn't be worried if they are vaxxxed, right?

Yeah, because everyone should be okay with getting covid.

**SumJongGuy** · 01-20-2023, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by bodywhomper

Is your wife and her coworkers wearing respirator-type masks at work?

Is anybody?

They weren't alerted if the risk until after it was over... It was yesterday that they said "I had COVID last week" said person who was there working with them last week.

**bodywhomper** · 01-20-2023, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by SumJongGuy

Is anybody?

They weren't alerted if the risk until after it was over... It was yesterday that they said "I had COVID last week" said person who was there working with them last week.

Some sure are still wearing masks.

Note how the elite (WEF) are taking large measures to protect themselves and telling the masses and their governments that there is no pandemic, to get back to work, and because they need to be made richer. Only now are some of their advisors, eg mckensey, publicly noting that productivity is down due to covid and adversely affecting corporate capitalism.

**bodywhomper** · 01-25-2023, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by bodywhomper

Note how the elite (WEF) are taking large measures to protect themselves and telling the masses and their governments that there is no pandemic, to get back to work, and because they need to be made richer. Only now are some of their advisors, eg mckensey, publicly noting that productivity is down due to covid and adversely affecting corporate capitalism.

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/AM23_H...y_Measures.pdf

**frorider** · 02-04-2023, 12:59 PM

Got symptoms (sore throat, mega fatigue) potentially consistent with latest variants 48 h ago, still testing negative but the onset felt similar to the first day of getting omicron last Feb. Similar in terms of how my immune system feels. Hard to put into words but last year I knew it felt totally different than any virus I’ve had (despite 3 days of negative tests), this is similar.

**~mikey b** · 02-04-2023, 01:22 PM

I’ve been sick for a week

hacking like a camel, tired as hell

tested negative a couple times

thought I was getting better yesterday but I’m really not

just checked into the ED at my work

**old goat** · 02-04-2023, 02:00 PM

H5N1--ie bird flu. Spreding from domestic fowl to migratory birds. Also infects pigs and some other animals. Infecting humans pretty rare, but over 50% mortality. Folks are worried that it will make the leap to easily infecting humans. Fortunately there is a vaccine. Unfortunately, the vaccine requires eggs to make.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/o...smid=share-url

**~mikey b** · 02-04-2023, 02:11 PM

waiting on test results for covid, flu and rsv

doc says the crud going around is taking 10-14 days to resolve

**riser4** · 02-04-2023, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by ~mikey b

waiting on test results for covid, flu and rsv

doc says the crud going around is taking 10-14 days to resolve

Ya, I got a sore throat with cough that took about two weeks to mostly clear. My voice still gets a little hoarse, with occasional hack. Tested negative for COVID multiple times. And I'm on the opposite side of the continent.

**SumJongGuy** · 02-04-2023, 02:32 PM

Yikes mickey.. Vibes.. Hope it clears up soon.

**Rideski** · 02-04-2023, 02:34 PM

I had that crud, was sick for a solid two weeks with another full week of leftover snot. First time in my entire life my ears got plugged up. Was not fun travelling from the plains up to the mountains and back, ears popping a hundred times a trip.

**XXX-er** · 02-04-2023, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by ~mikey b

doc says the crud going around is taking 10-14 days to resolve

one of the pro's around here told me its either 3 days or 13 days and this was many years before covid, these guys were pretty active in the outdoors so they would be out running biking touring with cold and sniffles

**~mikey b** · 02-04-2023, 02:45 PM

yeah I skied last weekend a couple days but then was down hard a few days after that

I worked yesterday all day and this morning but when I got done today I said fuck it and went to the ED since it’s just down the hall

doesn’t look like I have an infection - flu, rsv and covid negative - just the fkn crud

**bodywhomper** · 02-04-2023, 05:09 PM

Dang. Hope y’all feel better soon.

I hate being sick. My work has no “sick days.” It’s been “PTO” or “flexible time off” for years, which incentives not taking sick leave.

Here’s a recent interview of Eric topol mostly discussing his recent paper in Nature about long covid https://25143.mc.tritondigital.com/O...3?t=1675413016

Here’s his paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2