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gradenko_2000 posted:is something happening in the north of China? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/23/china-respiratory-illness-spike-children-who they have off-the-charts levels of immunity debt quote:Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at Hong Kong University, told Reuters: “It is just a relatively large seasonal surge, perhaps partly due to chance and partly because there’s a bit of ‘immunity debt’ from the lesser winter surges in the last three years”.
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Nov 23, 2023 15:23
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The immunity debt narrative has never had a heavyweight factual foundation, but it’s a really goddamn awful hypothesis when one considers how much, or rather little, of the Chinese population was in LOCKDOWN and for how long.
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Nov 23, 2023 15:31
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oh I think we have an immunity debt because COVID cashed some checks in us
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Nov 23, 2023 15:54
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well half of the Thanksgiving guests aren’t coming due to illness. wondering if the plateau that’s been locally ia going to take off now
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Nov 23, 2023 15:56
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I clicked this link out of curiosity:  ..... and got a  in return
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Nov 23, 2023 16:08
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sonatinas posted:well half of the Thanksgiving guests aren’t coming due to illness. wondering if the plateau that’s been locally ia going to take off now kind of nervous that i haven't heard _any_ guests dropping out of ours due to illness. half of them work in or attend high school.
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Nov 23, 2023 16:17
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sonatinas posted:well half of the Thanksgiving guests aren’t coming due to illness. wondering if the plateau that’s been locally ia going to take off now haha yeah yesterday we got word that one of the guests for my inlaws' big thanksgiving has the flu but is coming anyway. it's my wife's aunt's second husband lmao, the least-connected member of the family, and clearly demonstrating that fact by not giving a single poo poo about them. just disgusting. stay home you fuckin old dingbat. good thing we won't be there at all!!
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Nov 23, 2023 16:23
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Yeah I'm in what is essentially *the* lung and heart transplant hospital for all of Australia. They sometimes fly people in from Perth 3,400km away just to do it. It just happened to be my local public hospital too though. When I arrived I didn't even know I had a heart attack and was just being extra cautious. Didn't even plan to stay one night. all the best. fingers crossed for you.
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Nov 23, 2023 16:34
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Did thanksgiving for just the wife and I, we already prefer staying in and chilling this time of year so selling it to the family isn’t too hard, (that’s tougher on Christmas). Everyone in my office was getting sick the week or two before this break, we can telework but they’d show up and go talk to everyone before dipping out early for reasons I can’t fathom. It’s probably just because I’ve changed jobs to more of an office setting since the start of the pandemic but I feel like it’s really been sweeping through people I know this year. previously you’d hear of cases but it’d be more like a coworkers friend/extended family whereas this fall it always feels like there’s someone sick around me. Of course it’s never Covid and of course they never test but even if it were just some mysterious super flu I wish they wouldn’t be so cavalier about spreading it. like we’re a cushy gov job you will not get reprimanded for calling in.
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Nov 23, 2023 16:40
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DarkLich posted:It's not always comfortable, but it doesn't get in the way of being social and friendly. My plan for Thanksgiving is to eat in the garage away from everyone else. I'm sure they'd rather have me at the dinner table, but in my experience, folks are generally glad you're just making the effort to be present. Is this one of those loving and supporting family things? I wish that I felt that way, because my lived experience has been that making the effort to Be There (in an N95!) resulted in getting told to take it off, with unhappiness when refused.
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Nov 23, 2023 17:27
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Gunshow Poophole posted:haha these ill people and other people removing from illness may be over tomorrow for a bigger event, just real cool…
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Nov 23, 2023 17:33
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My folks quarantined and tested and we did thanksgiving last weekend. Now their normal thanksgiving was cancelled due to someone else's illness. At least it happened beforehand. Now we're both having separate chill thanksgivings. Making thanksgiving Croque Madams with leftover ham. Hell yes.
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Nov 23, 2023 18:19
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gradenko_2000 posted:is something happening in the north of China? Sars Covid 3
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Nov 23, 2023 19:33
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Saw someone wearing a boat-style KN95 with the top nose flap either folded down and in or cut off entirely. ???
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Nov 23, 2023 19:57
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fosborb posted:2 year old nephew is staying the night in the hospital with rsv, flu and covid (negative for strep!) Are adults ever going to stop killing vulnerable kids?
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Nov 23, 2023 21:21
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annd I can't smell again. What a weird virus.
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Nov 23, 2023 21:53
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happy thanksgiving, friends!
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Nov 24, 2023 02:03
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lol indeed i couldn't really taste dinner at all but now my smell is working again so I had coffee at 9pm because my sleep is hosed anyway and who knows if I'll be able to taste coffee in the morning so carpe diem periodically just taking a huff of the smell of weed concentrate, too smell every terp as though it were your last, never know when it might be (I am not vaping the concentrate because of the COVID but I have had hella tincture)
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Nov 24, 2023 03:37
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if u can't smell microwave popcorn that's when u know it's bad
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Nov 24, 2023 03:45
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I'm basically getting all (at a muted level) or nothing, and weirdly, sometimes after I blow my nose it gets a LOT better, other times this has no effect. It seems like there's a combination of congestion and some specific COVID thing, which is sorta flitting back and forth.
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Nov 24, 2023 03:47
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maxwellhill posted:happy thanksgiving, friends!
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Nov 24, 2023 03:51
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lol i got more grief about my mask from my generic dem, vegetarian, environmentalist mom than anybody else. my never-trumper truck driver uncle just thought the valve was neat and asked me where i could get them because truck stops smell like rear end.
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Nov 24, 2023 04:11
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I had thanksgiving with 3 other COVID positive people 
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Nov 24, 2023 04:16
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Cabbages and Kings posted:I had thanksgiving with 3 other COVID positive people based positive thanksgivign
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Nov 24, 2023 04:36
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our kids table thanksgiving went about as well as expected but my MIL just spontaneously came by, clearly ill herself, to take one of our nieces home at the end of the dinner. which then triggered an hour long serious conversation with my wife about my obvious anger issues, me drinking, and her family's proximity and cavalier disregard, with a soupçon of our obvious communication failures as regards risk generally. hoo boy go holiday love da holidays, worked five hours today, goin righ back to the shop tomorrow
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Nov 24, 2023 04:48
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My step mother texts us on Saturday saying they have covid but its ok because they're on day 3 so they'll be fine for today....except she cant get Pax and is doing infusions of remdesiver....but my father decided to tell me on Monday he was not taking any meds at all....but they still wanted to come. Whyare people trying to kill us?
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Nov 24, 2023 05:11
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Pillowpants posted:
tradition
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Nov 24, 2023 05:23
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Most peoples internal monologue at this point is probably just a constant death metal blood curdling scream "N O R M A L"
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Nov 24, 2023 05:32
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Pillowpants posted:My step mother texts us on Saturday saying they have covid but its ok because they're on day 3 so they'll be fine for today....except she cant get Pax and is doing infusions of remdesiver....but my father decided to tell me on Monday he was not taking any meds at all....but they still wanted to come. Covidyceps mixed with cognitive dissonance unfortunately. I'm half-not joking. Before covid, it was mostly acceptable to miss a social event if you weren't feeling well. Now it's a loving mind crime to even suggest not going somewhere while visibly sick.
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Nov 24, 2023 05:32
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 had Thanksgiving at my sisters. ate on the patio while everyone else ate inside. They opened the patio doors so that we could yell at each other  sister‘s friend brought her kids, who had a pet bird Pretty good Thanksgiving
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Nov 24, 2023 06:26
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Steve Yun posted:
Smart little budgie, hanging out with the one person guaranteed to keep it safe from bird flu
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Nov 24, 2023 06:33
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Had thanksgiving in an aurs and other people started talking about covid with no prompting from me. general consensus: not really a thing they think about anymore despite having lost multiple friends every single year for the past three years directly to covid and knowing a lot of people who have lost family and friends to covid every single year. wait times at the er tho grrrrrr aaaahhh
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Nov 24, 2023 06:35
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Over here I had a lovely Thanksgiving with my husband and kitties. I baked last night and finished cooking, save for the usual basting, by mid-afternoon and he made the rest fresh. All together was a whole chicken (juicy!), 1 lb. stuffing, roasted potatoes, steamed asparagus, mini cornbread muffins, biscuits, and pumpkin pie. We did our usual holiday tradition of loading up on RiffTrax and have leftovers set for days. So drat thankful we've got each other.
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Nov 24, 2023 08:19
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I made a career best roast bird today, home was well ventilated and my cats are still dickheads to each other
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Nov 24, 2023 08:23
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https://x.com/bnofeed/status/1727789994595496388?s=46
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Nov 24, 2023 08:36
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oh well if it's just a huge wave of illnesses we already know about, unprecedented in volume and severity, that's ok then.
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Nov 24, 2023 08:42
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CDC urgently inquiring as to whether dogs and not COVID might be to blame.
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Nov 24, 2023 09:55
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I could totally believe that Covid immunocompromise let other respiratory viruses run unfettered
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Nov 24, 2023 10:06
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Platystemon posted:CDC urgently inquiring as to whether dogs and not COVID might be to blame. Boy are we going to have egg on our faces if that mystery dog respiratory disease makes the jump over to humans
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Nov 24, 2023 10:15
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Mola Yam posted:oh well if it's just a huge wave of illnesses we already know about, unprecedented in volume and severity, that's ok then. lol the desire to go “it’s not covid, it’s just something normal” has mutated over time to the point where “it’s not a new covid, it’s just covid” is a headline that can happen. Proving once again that all we got herd immunity to was giving a poo poo. The main take home from this story isn’t that something bad is happening, or something unexpected, it’s that the bad unexpected thing that’s happening is because of stuff we’re already fine with, do not change your plans Here’s reuters in case somebody wants something other than bno https://www.reuters.com/world/china/who-asks-china-details-respiratory-illness-outbreaks-2023-11-23/,
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