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I haven't gotten the full blown flu since I started getting an annual flu shot. I really like not throwing up.
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Feb 26, 2019 00:22
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I haven't gotten sick in like 3 years. I blame riding the metro every workday.
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Feb 26, 2019 00:24
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I only get bronchitis or sinus infections from November through March.
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Vasudus posted:My particular favorite part of all of this is the geopolitics of what's gonna happen when land dynamics greatly change. Montana/Wyoming/the Dakotas/Michigan UP/etc are going to be prime farm land in 2100. That also means a bunch of Canada is going to thaw and be prime farmland. Ehhh, the temperature and rainfall in those areas (in aggregate, so ignoring the massive fluctuations which will ruin poo poo all on its own) might be what is needed for farmland as the temperate climate bands retreat towards the poles, but the soil is going to be really lovely for farming on the scale that is needed. If memory from high school AgSci is correct it takes about a century of highly active plant and animal life to make an inch of soil that can be washed away in one of the increasingly common massive rain storm events. So naturally we will respond with even more intensive fertilization and nitrogen fixation. Have fun with that. Also plant growth on the high end of the CO2 predictions takes place crazy fast, but the nutrition gained from that growth goes through the loving floor as far as feeding populations is concerned. There is basically no way you can imagine that climate change is not going to turbo gently caress civilization.
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That Works posted:We're shuffling and worldwide spreading flu antigens more homogenously than ever before so I bet flu A isn't gonna be quite a killer like that again unless we get a particularly distant crossover from another host that happens to spread easily in humans. Do you have a resource where I can learn why the plague outbreaks happened when they did?
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Feb 26, 2019 00:43
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FAUXTON posted:Watch it turn out that the steady drumbeat of annual flu shots have conferred substantial immunity to the 1918 strain and nobody gets to fill the "flupocalypse" spot on their card. My brother got chicken pox when we were kids and I somehow didn't despite being forced to bathe with him. Many years later I got the vintage 1920s poo poo from my great grandma's shingles. Worse than death.
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Feb 26, 2019 00:47
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sharknado slashfic posted:Florida and Texas no longer being states would go a long way towards fixing the country at least No gently caress you Austin is good Everyone that has kids now days is dumb. Why the gently caress would you want to do that to your credit rating? You don't even get a good tax break...gently caress i thought that my gf would get some kind of tax credit for paying child support since her oldest moved in with her dad but she owes 2gs this year instead of getting something back. Children are bad for the environment and people should not have them. So glad the Russian and Japanese populations are in decline.
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Feb 26, 2019 00:50
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Reign Of Pain posted:No gently caress you Not an empty quote. I grew up there so I'm biased, but the food music, culture, and art intersection is so wonderful in Austin. It feels like a wonderland, and you're missing out if you're shunning Texas because of the worst if it's people.
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Feb 26, 2019 00:54
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Counterpoint Both Alex Jones and Andrew Wakefield live in Austin.
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Feb 26, 2019 00:59
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I am glad I have kids. I would likely be dead without them.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:08
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Soulex posted:I am glad I have kids. I would likely be dead without them. I love my kids too, and all the more reason I'm fighting for the Green New Deal. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Feb 26, 2019 |
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Feb 26, 2019 01:09
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Vasudus posted:I haven't gotten sick in like 3 years. I blame riding the metro every workday. December 2004 was my last serious sickness of flu poo poo. Haven't had a flu shot since 2012 or so, I think. The secret is to stay the gently caress away from children.
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Wasabi the J posted:Not an empty quote. I grew up there so I'm biased, but the food music, culture, and art intersection is so wonderful in Austin. It feels like a wonderland, and you're missing out if you're shunning Texas because of the worst if it's people. I'm shunning Texas out of the Union because it elects Ted Cruz and votes Republican in the Presidential.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:December 2004 was my last serious sickness of flu poo poo. Haven't had a flu shot since 2012 or so, I think. The secret is to stay the gently caress away from children. Get your flu shot, you rear end in a top hat.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:13
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It helps to be in one of the blue counties of TX. Also goddamn is the food here good and cheap.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:13
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I usually get some upper respiratory crap once a year, even with a flu shot.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Holy crap we are hosed. *In extremely simpleton voice*: Hurr hurr well shucks I hate the cold anyway. *lives in the deep south*
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Feb 26, 2019 01:18
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I get my shots every year. Even if they gently caress up the forecast and it isn’t as effective as it should be, you still get to carry that immunity to that strain forward for the rest of your life. If the numbers come up for something you’ve been exposed to/immunized against previously, well that’s just good fortune.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:19
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sharknado slashfic posted:I'm shunning Texas out of the Union because it elects Ted Cruz and votes Republican in the Presidential. san antonio is cool though
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Feb 26, 2019 01:21
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Love that loving boomers get to decide the fate of humanity Petition to rename them the worst generation?
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Feb 26, 2019 01:23
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I caught the flu this year. I spent a week feeling like poo poo and 6 weeks after waking myself up coughing phlegm but at least I didn't feel sick! Just perpetually tired
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CommieGIR posted:Get your flu shot, you rear end in a top hat. Maybe next year. I enjoy my casual death wish.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:25
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Maybe next year. I enjoy my casual death wish. You are risking other people's live unknowingly. Please help support herd immunity in this time of need.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:29
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Reign Of Pain posted:No gently caress you
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Feb 26, 2019 01:30
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Because of where I've lived, all those crazy Hong Kong flu and Brisbane flu and all those strains that were offing people every where ain't poo poo. But then some yokel from Idaho whose family hasn't left their home town in 7 generations has a sniffle and now I'm at death's door.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:30
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Vasudus posted:I haven't gotten sick in like 3 years. I blame riding the metro every workday. Neither had I then I got a bad cold followed up by norovirus a week after I recovered
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Feb 26, 2019 01:46
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last time i got super sick was norovirus when it stuck the rnc poo poo fuckin sucked
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sharknado slashfic posted:Florida and Texas no longer being states would go a long way towards fixing the country at least They'll just migrate to other deep south shitholes that go reliably red and the numbers of democratic voters will be too dispersed to swing them purple, let alone blue.
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Milo and POTUS posted:They'll just migrate to other deep south shitholes that go reliably red and the numbers of democratic voters will be too dispersed to swing them purple, let alone blue. Arizona, for example.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:53
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MA-Horus posted:Counterpoint I haven't run into them yet but I'll post pics after I do  Nostalgia4Butts posted:san antonio is cool though Yuuuuup....We went to Bohannons last weekend and I had a $125 40 oz. Porterhouse because gently caress paying the same for 9 oz. of A5. I did NOT drink the $260 a shot Japanese whiskey though I really wanted to.
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bengy81 posted:I think "The Water Knife" paints a pretty good picture of what the world will look like in 40 years. Pump Six and Other Stories is a short story collection Paolo Bacigalupi wrote before TWK and has some stories set in the same setting, and almost all of the others are in similar settings. Very great collection.
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Icon Of Sin posted:I get my shots every year. Even if they gently caress up the forecast and it isn’t as effective as it should be, you still get to carry that immunity to that strain forward for the rest of your life. If the numbers come up for something you’ve been exposed to/immunized against previously, well that’s just good fortune. I'm not calling you out, but is this actually true about lifetime immunization to that strain? I have never heard his and it's amazing if true.
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MA-Horus posted:Counterpoint Every time I read about Andrew Wakefield I think of Rick Wakeman and get really confused.
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I was thinking so, based on my experience in an immunology class and a being pre-med major in general. None of the articles I’ve found back that up, though...and are only suggesting immunity of up to a year, if even that  Depends on some things, but increase in age tends to run along with a decrease in immunity too. I’m around enough kids volunteering at an aquarium that I’ll likely end up being exposed, and I don’t want to be the one who brings it home to my 88 year old grandmother so it can kill her, so I still get it every year regardless.
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Well, looks like we're invading. https://twitter.com/DCoronell/status/1100193609423482880 Edit: yay https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1100213236664815617 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Feb 26, 2019 |
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Feb 26, 2019 02:23
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I got pics of my SA meat if anyone wants to see it
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All of the major cities in Texas are blue. And everybody hates the rednecks. Also, I just got over my flu. A week of fever hallucinations and Technicolor body fluids.
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