Posted on 01/02/2025 2:42:47 PM PST by yesthatjallen
As you deck the halls and traverse afar this holiday season, taking precautions to protect yourself from a quartet of infectious diseases can lessen your odds of bringing an illness into the new year.
Flu, COVID, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and norovirus are making their winter rounds nationwide, and you may have heard the term “quad-demic” pop up online or in conversation (the first three are sometimes called a “triple-demic”). While the unofficial term for the four maladies circulating in tandem evokes a sense of impending doom, the quadruple threat isn’t so different from respiratory virus seasons past.
“All of the viruses are here, it’s just they’re affecting different areas a little bit differently,” Dr. Robert Hopkins Jr., medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases tells Fortune. “I don’t want to panic people, but I would say if you haven’t been vaccinated and you’re eligible for vaccination—that means everybody 6 months of age and older—get that COVID shot, get that flu shot.”
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What about monkey pox and bird flu? Throw them in the stew.
Public health officials should be tarred and feathered. Daily.
In ancient times (~30 years ago), people stayed home with colds and viruses because they knew there wasn’t anything to be done at the doctor’s office that you couldn’t do at home. We treated the symptoms, stayed home from work or school, and only sought medical care for severe symptoms. Schools let you back in with a note from Mom, and work didn’t require a doctor’s note, you just took a sick day or two.
Now, people clog up the ER and urgent care “to find out” if it is the flu/covid, for decongestants, notes for work and school, and to try to get antibiotics that have no effect except on the doctor’s satisfaction score. Everybody is tested, so the incidences of RSV and Covid and Flu are of great concern because we have names for them. Nevermind that most people would have completely recovered from all off those with just a couple of days of rest and chicken soup.
Drama, drama, drama.
My 2 cents,
Love, O2
You are wrong in my case. Before I knew I had Covid I thought it might be a bacterial infection.
So I decided to take Doxy. The reason I have a script was to experiment on how it might help my MMP problem.
There is absolutely no doubt that it helped me. Why it helped me is unclear. I suspect that anti inflammatory effect
Doxycycline for the prevention of progression of COVID-19 to severe disease requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission: A randomized, controlled, open-label, parallel group trial (DOXPREVENT.ICU)
Gargle with Scotch Whisky, then swallow.
Get on nicotine. Patches, gum, or pouches. Knocks spike proteins out.
Anyone have ideas for what to give a dog. My elderly dog has gotten really sick at the same time as me so it is possible I gave her Covid
We all know now they are gain of function and come out of our own biolabs. Our evil and corrupt government loose them upon us so they can kill and rob us.
It is disgusting how this smarmy article is still trying to goad people into the clot shots.
Get some Ivermectin.
I said most, not all.
Large controlled studies are different than a single event.
There is no way to know if Doxy helped you or not, because you don’t know what the course of the infection would have been without it. That is not to say that people with risk factors shouldn’t consider suppressive/supportive treatment. Most healthy people won’t need it.
We’ve progressed to a world where people believe a simple sinus infection warrents a trip to the emergency room on the first day of symptoms. And while I’m here, can you “check out” my 4 kids?
My 2 cents,
Love, O2
“Norovirus is spread fecal to oral.”
spread by vomit as well ... virus is extremely difficult to kill on contaminated surfaces ... requires a sodium hypocrite solution (bleach) to kill it on surfaces contaminated with vomit or poop ...
In the height of the panic I did something radical. I looked at the actual statistics from the CDC (yeah, yeah, I know. stop it).
In the age group 0-18 for the years 2020 and 2021, the number of deaths attributed to the China virus was ... drum roll please ... 770. The number of people in that age group in the US? 75 million. I’m an engineer and I still had to dive for my calculator to figure out the odds. Yet we had people absolutely convinced that their kids were going to die.
Eternal fear mongering. 🙄
Bring it on! I’m not taking any shots!
Why stop there?
Why not a penta-demic?
Maybe millions of animals will get rabies - and bite millions of people.
That happen all hav the flu, COVID, RSV, and norovirus.
At the same time.
Hmm. A week of time off sitting around the house, in front of the fire, with some nice whiskey.... I’m prepared.
People who get scared and put on masks and wash their hands a hundred times a day are the likeliest ones to get sick.
I had that wicked sore throat too. Day after Christmas. Then mucus mucus and more mucus. Didn’t test, but I am betting it is covid. And it is hanging on for so long! Sheesh. Hope you feel better soon!
Ivermectin.
I'm warning of a mega-demic of investigations and arrests of public "health" officials after January twentieth.
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