Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond

[InkaUtexas 26860]

Just now, Anastasis said:

Elderberry extract. Prophylactic or at first sign of symptoms, or both. 

Did you forget what board you are on? You say Prophylatic and you know there are a few wondering how to get her to swallow some condoms. They are just wondering if the flavored ones are better. Or Ribbed and do you add bbq sauce.

[South Austin 53221]

11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah, definitely too late for Tamiflu. This has legit kicked her ass. Last time she had the flu was over 20 years ago. Yesterday, the fever and puking hit. But, that was the worst, as she got some rest last night, and can now eat some crackers and Gatorade. The plan is more rest and fluids today.
She’s sleeping in the guest bedroom, I’m taking all the Emergen-C I can.
And yes, the flu is the flu, not a cold.

For what it's worth, I now swear by lysine.  It's supposed to help suppress a virus from replicating itself, to either help with recovery if already sick, or to keep the viral loads at check if a family member is sick.  You might head to Central Market or People's and get some, taking 1,000 mg a day.

Whenever someone in my family gets sick now, or we start to feel anything like a cold or other illness come on, we start popping the lysine for a few days.  

[Pato del Muerto 53463]

Elderberry gummies as a daily routine are a good idea.  General immune support. 
 

If anyone cares, Pfizer has a test called Lucira that tests for Covid and flu a/b.  Don’t know how accurate it is, especially early enough to be able to use tamiflu.  But it’s available. 

[BrickHorn 18447]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

She’s sleeping in the guest bedroom, I’m taking all the Emergen-C I can.

Lol. Emergen-C won’t do shit to prevent a viral infection. You need to load up on raw milk, horse paste, and copper bracelets. 

[HenryJames 67328]

[atomheartbevo 90641]

10 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Lol. Emergen-C won’t do shit to prevent a viral infection. You need to load up on raw milk, horse paste, and copper bracelets. 

I didn’t have my glasses on and I read that as “horse penis”

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 05:26 PM by atomheartbevo

[atomheartbevo 90641]

Meanwhile, in California, squirrels are feeding on other rodents.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/science/california-squirrels-carnivorous-eating-voles/index.html

Spoiler

 

Edited Friday at 05:29 PM by atomheartbevo

[InkaUtexas 26860]

All of them and not just their nuts. Damn that is some odd shit. Squirrel zombies are going to be all the rage in 2026. Was that one of the plagues listed? Is this how Bubonic plague started?

 

[Pato del Muerto 53463]

3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

All of them and not just their nuts. Damn that is some odd shit. Squirrel zombies are going to be all the rage in 2026. Was that one of the plagues listed? Is this how Bubonic plague started?

 

Bubonic plague was from fleas, and traveled on rats. 

[InkaUtexas 26860]

1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Bubonic plague was from fleas, and traveled on rats. 

I know, just did not think of another transmission path. So fleas get on voles that are eaten by squirrels that live with tree rats (yes they exist).

Work with me here.

Edited Friday at 05:38 PM by InkaUtexas

[Incredulity 11875]

2 hours ago, South Austin said:

we start popping the lysine for a few days.  

are you a Velociraptor?  you have to tell us if you are.

[South Austin 53221]

6 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

are you a Velociraptor?  you have to tell us if you are.

I like cheeseburgers.

[Gatorubet 30711]

43 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Lol. Emergen-C won’t do shit to prevent a viral infection. You need to load up on raw milk, horse paste, and copper bracelets. 

Next I suppose you’re going to say that Brisket putting Oklahomans in the Big Tex wicker basket and burning them won’t bring a year of good crops. 

Do your research!!!

[Wiler77 1628]

2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Elderberry extract. Prophylactic or at first sign of symptoms, or both. 

We have Elberberry with Zinc chewables that I start eating like Pez at first sign of any of my kids with the sniffles or sore throat.  I'm a fan.

[flatdawgs 1338]

3 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Did you forget what board you are on? You say Prophylatic and you know there are a few wondering how to get her to swallow some condoms. They are just wondering if the flavored ones are better. Or Ribbed and do you add bbq sauce.

Negged for not going with "McRibbed".

[jimmyjazz 47137]

50 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I like cheeseburgers.

Sounds like something a velociraptor would say.

[South Austin 53221]

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Sounds like something a velociraptor would say.

Cheeseburgers did not exist in the Late Cretaceous epoch.

[Parliament 14593]

1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Bubonic plague was from fleas, and traveled on rats. 

 

[Pato del Muerto 53463]

6 minutes ago, Parliament said:

 

And some of the fleas are also carried via coonskin cap atop booger eaters that sing Rocky top as a reminder to breathe. 

[miguelito 11502]

1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

I've been giving Emergen-C to my plants.

[Incredulity 11875]

Oddly specific 

6 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

And some of the fleas are also carried via coonskin cap atop booger eaters that sing Rocky top as a reminder to breathe. 

Oddly specific 

[troph 25213]

9 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Did you forget what board you are on? You say Prophylatic and you know there are a few wondering how to get her to swallow some condoms. They are just wondering if the flavored ones are better. Or Ribbed and do you add bbq sauce.

My wife asked if yall were hero worshipping Luigi I said I dunno but check out the thread on DT. She goes there, says “your boys are talking about pegging?” It all comes back to dicks and fake dicks in bodily orifices  for you fellas. 

[Deej 77812]

34 minutes ago, troph said:

My wife asked if yall were hero worshipping Luigi I said I dunno but check out the thread on DT. She goes there, says “your boys are talking about pegging?” It all comes back to dicks and fake dicks in bodily orifices  for you fellas. 

[Bevo 13870]

Had to get my wife tamiflu today. She travelled from Montana to Austin on Tuesday and started having symptoms on Thursday night.

[Deej 77812]

Sorry for infecting her.

[Bevo 13870]

1 minute ago, Deej said:

Sorry for infecting her.

It’s fine. I’m still in Montana. 

[Sawbonz 28215]

12 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Elderberry extract. Prophylactic or at first sign of symptoms, or both. 

[atomheartbevo 90641]

10 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

Next I suppose you’re going to say that Brisket putting Oklahomans in the Big Tex wicker basket and burning them won’t bring a year of good crops. 

Do your research!!!

Are we still forgetting August of 2021?

[Anastasis 23717]

53 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

It’s gonna be hilarious when elderberry suppresses h5n1 after the ivermectin debacle. 
 

Oh, and ftr this is what a natural spillover looks like. It’s not optimized for human to human transfer and that takes some time to acquire. Hopefully it doesn’t. 

[atomheartbevo 90641]

Louisiana bars health dept. from promoting flu, COVID, mpox vaccines: Report - Ars Technica

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Louisiana's health department has been barred from advertising or promoting vaccines for flu, COVID-19, and mpox, according to reporting by NPR, KFF Health News, and New Orleans Public Radio WWNO.

Their investigative report—based on interviews with multiple health department employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation—revealed that employees were told of the startling policy change in meetings in October and November and that the policy would be implemented quietly and not put into writing. Ars Technica has contacted the health department for comment and will update this post with any new information.

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The health department provided a statement to NPR saying that it has been "reevaluating both the state's public health priorities as well as our messaging around vaccine promotion, especially for COVID-19 and influenza." The statement described the change as a move "away from one-size-fits-all paternalistic guidance" to a stance in which "immunization for any vaccine, along with practices like mask wearing and social distancing, are an individual's personal choice."

According to employees, the new policy cancelled standard fall flu vaccination events this year and affects every other aspect of the health department's work, as NPR explained: "Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines. They also could not put up signs at the department's clinics that COVID, flu or mpox vaccines were available on site."

[Sawbonz 28215]

8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Louisiana bars health dept. from promoting flu, COVID, mpox vaccines: Report - Ars Technica

[Bevo 13870]

27 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Interesting that social media has more power over public health than physicians.

[jimmyjazz 47137]

I get my elderberry extract at the chiropractor's office.

[Brisketexan 106883]

I get my elderberry extract at the chiropractor's office.

I’m only interested if it’s offered in suppository form.
Pour one out for Now This.

[Sawbonz 28215]

1 hour ago, Bevo said:

Interesting that social media has more power over public health than physicians.

At the height of Covid I saw an adult patient with special needs. She came in with her mid 70’s mother who was her caregiver and only living relative.
 

As a certain type of person was wont to do, she worked Covid into the conversation, basically saying it wasn’t that bad and the vaccine was more dangerous than the infection. 

By this point each of my children had a friend who had lost at one grandparent to Covid, and I had lost one of my best friends from HS and one of my wife’s best friends had lost her husband, both late 40’s and otherwise healthy.

Knowing her age, I asked her if she remembered polio. Turns out she fucking had it as a toddler!! Luckily a mild case. Showed me her calf atrophy and mild leg length discrepancy. I said don’t you think your parents would have given you that vaccine had it been available? She said of course, but that was different (??!)

Finally I told her about the people I knew who had died and the healthy general surgeon I knew who spent a month on the vent as one of the first cases in DFW, looked at her daughter and said if you die what happens to her?

She wound up getting the vaccine, but Jesus people can be thick headed 

[Sawbonz 28215]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

I’m only interested if it’s offered in suppository form.
Pour one out for Now This.

 

 

[Deej 77812]

27 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Showed me her calf atrophy and mild leg length discrepancy

[raw dog 10]

Get wife on zinc. May help shorten duration. Also will boost testosterone so when she’s better she’ll be after you. 

[Bevo 13870]

3 minutes ago, raw dog said:

Get wife on zinc. May help shorten duration. Also will boost testosterone so when she’s better she’ll be after you. 

@NowThis?

[Parliament 14593]

13 minutes ago, raw dog said:

Get wife on zinc. May help shorten duration. Also will boost testosterone so when she’s better she’ll be after you. 

Or be after me.

[atomheartbevo 90641]

5 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

We are headed for Idiocracy.  We have people who have spent the last 40 years surrounded by modern medicine, and they’ve forgotten things like polio and mumps and measles when it comes to vaccines (and even milder things like chicken pox), even after living through a pandemic that killed a million Americans. They see some FAA-mandated running lights in the sky at night over Dumpsterville, New Jersey and automatically think aliens or Iranians or Chinese or Russians.