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I still follow an old high school friend who is full MAGA anti-vax, as are most of his social media followers.
Their new thing is that everyone e who got “the jab” is now getting “turbo cancers” - “he never had cancer before, then he was diagnosed with cancer and died in three months! It’s the jab!”
Because nobody was ever diagnosed with an aggressive cancer before 2020, apparently.

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On 1/8/2025 at 2:31 AM, Brisketexan said:

I still follow an old high school friend who is full MAGA anti-vax, as are most of his social media followers.
Their new thing is that everyone e who got “the jab” is now getting “turbo cancers” - “he never had cancer before, then he was diagnosed with cancer and died in three months! It’s the jab!”
Because nobody was ever diagnosed with an aggressive cancer before 2020, apparently.

"The jab." Do they also refer to everybody as "mate" now?

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2 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

"The jab." Do they also refer to everybody as "mate" now?

I use traditional and some functional medicine strategies with a common theme of trying to avoid pharmaceuticals, especially those those that have long term side effects or dependency issues. I still ended up on some but I try to strategize around them. Anyway, I’m getting an IV drip today at the functional medicine clinic and I’m telling the patients about latest Covid protocols from the Covid clinics - basically paxlovid and metformin are the primary meds but then also a few other strategies. Anyway, this woman straight up asked me if the Covid clinics prescribed ivermectin. The nurse straight up asked me if I thought my long covid was from the vaccine. I was like uh no. I had the first vaccine, got Covid a year and a half later and it was no biggie. I had yet to get the second round - frankly I was waiting for the update before a trip to Italy - and I caught the covid and it kicked my ass with 6 months of long covid. I then explained that the vaccine technology isn’t the problem, the problem is the NOVEL corona virus has a spike protein that is the best feature to emulate for a vaccine the problem is no one knew the spike protein would cause so much problems for SOME people because it’s - well - NOVEL. I then said did you know that the covid clinics treat vaccine injury and long covid from the virus exactly the same?  The freaking nurse had bought into the bullshit that long covid is a vaccine problem. Sweet Jesus. Look there are people who have micro clots from the vaccine spike protein facsimile but the vaccine isn’t the root cause of all long covid. My god. 

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2 minutes ago, troph said:

I use traditional and some functional medicine strategies with a common theme of trying to avoid pharmaceuticals, especially those those that have long term side effects or dependency issues. I still ended up on some but I try to strategize around them. Anyway, I’m getting an IV drip today at the functional medicine clinic and I’m telling the patients about latest Covid protocols from the Covid clinics - basically paxlovid and metformin are the primary meds but then also a few other strategies. Anyway, this woman straight up asked me if the Covid clinics prescribed ivermectin. The nurse straight up asked me if I thought my long covid was from the vaccine. I was like uh no. I had the first vaccine, got Covid a year and a half later and it was no biggie. I had yet to get the second round - frankly I was waiting for the update before a trip to Italy - and I caught the covid and it kicked my ass with 6 months of long covid. I then explained that the vaccine technology isn’t the problem, the problem is the NOVEL corona virus has a spike protein that is the best feature to emulate for a vaccine the problem is no one knew the spike protein would cause so much problems for SOME people because it’s - well - NOVEL. I then said did you know that the covid clinics treat vaccine injury and long covid from the virus exactly the same?  The freaking nurse had bought into the bullshit that long covid is a vaccine problem. Sweet Jesus. Look there are people who have micro clots from the vaccine spike protein facsimile but the vaccine isn’t the root cause of all long covid. My god. 

You overhear the dangdest things in those infusion cublicles. I fought ignorance for twenty years at lower-middle-class wages. Not even raising an eyebrow for free. Unless it's like a kid trying to stick a fork in an outlet. And even then, it'd have to be a nice kid.

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On 1/8/2025 at 1:31 AM, Brisketexan said:

I still follow an old high school friend who is full MAGA anti-vax, as are most of his social media followers.
Their new thing is that everyone e who got “the jab” is now getting “turbo cancers” - “he never had cancer before, then he was diagnosed with cancer and died in three months! It’s the jab!”
Because nobody was ever diagnosed with an aggressive cancer before 2020, apparently.

Well can the cancer hurry up, I’m tired 

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40 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

What did you expect?

I’ve been dealing with the kooks for six months just sharing my experience. But if you want a high dose vit c IV or high quality supplements you gotta deal. I’m not on either side I’m on the less harsh pharmaceuticals side especially when it’s clear those drugs treat symptoms not the root cause. In the end the 5 top treatments were (1) stellate ganglion block (traditional), (2) EECP (traditional), (3) valerian root, kava, CBD, skull cap all for sleep and mental health (functional or non-traditional), (4) strict anti-inflammatory low histamine diet (non-traditional), and (5) ketamine infusions (quasi-traditional). 

what helped but hurt just as much was prednisone and Xanax.

other things that I think helped but aren’t traditional include red light therapy, IV drips especially high dose vit C, and infrared sauna. 

what failed miserably was albuterol and other steroid inhalers. 

in the end I avoided long term use of SSRIs - fucked everyone wanted me on these - Z drugs for sleep, gabapentin for nerve pain and low dose naltrexone… all of which would require long term use under the circumstances I was in and/or significant withdrawals upon discontinuation. 

so in the end some of the kooky shit helped but yeah holy fuck there are some loons in the IV drip rooms. 

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16 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Some serious shit going around the schools in Austin.  My friend’s kids’ school supposedly had almost 30% out, my oldest’s Kissel school had 100+ put.  Seems like flu and some stomach bug.

A friend's family had their kid test positive for Flu A and now they all have it.

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Flu A and Norovirus seems to be everywhere right now.  Can’t even count the number of co-workers/friends/acquaintances that are either sick or dealing with sick kids.  My schedule has become a joke with cancellations and rescheduling.  Complete chaos.

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Just now, Incredulity said:

It’s headed that way.

Sounds like my son stayed home from school, so I’m going to play flu russian roulette when I get home.  Good times 

Meh, ran through the house.  Not a big deal.  We were away at a soccer tournament in FL and the kid was able to play.  Wife had a very low grade fever for a day, I had a cough but otherwise, not much to report on.  

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Just now, miguelito said:

That's good you were still able to hang out with other people when you had the flu. Not everyone is that lucky.

Hit us in route.  Maybe we picked it up on the plane?  Either way, back in the hotel room we all felt it's impact.  It was a soccer showcase, so all we did was to/from the fields, then we chilled in the room.  Worst part was my snoring ass keeping wife/kid up.  I think I need a CPAP machine, as my mouthguard isn't cutting it anymore.  

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3 minutes ago, wong said:

I've never had a flu shot and never had the flu in my life. Some say I have a great immune system, but in reality I'm just better than everyone else.

You’re not wong about that.

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5 hours ago, wong said:

I've never had a flu shot and never had the flu in my life. Some say I have a great immune system, but in reality I'm just better than everyone else.

Have you had the fru?

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So yesterday, one of the new people in charge put a hold on external communications for the FDA, CDC, National Institute for Health, Health and Human Services, and a few other agencies.

hopefully there’s nothing on the horizon that could cause any problems.

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14 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

So yesterday, one of the new people in charge put a hold on external communications for the FDA, CDC, National Institute for Health, Health and Human Services, and a few other agencies.

hopefully there’s nothing on the horizon that could cause any problems.

Nintendo, please shadow drop a new Animal Crossing to get us through pandemic 2, electric boogaloo 

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11 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Well, there is the Switch 2 coming out this year. 

I know, Nintendo needs to hurry up and announce what's coming with it besides MK9.  That's not going to sustain me through another 60 day lockdown 

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37 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I know, Nintendo needs to hurry up and announce what's coming with it besides MK9.  That's not going to sustain me through another 60 day lockdown 

We made it through with a Wii, so we can survive with a switch.  I can get the Zelda games for them.

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Welcome back to the limelight, measles!

https://www.houstonhealth.org/houston-measles-advisory#4257225834-2515353578

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Possible Measles Exposure Locations:

Anyone who was at one of the above locations at the listed date and time should make sure they are up to date on the measles vaccine (MMR).

 

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my son had covid and flu A this week, we were able to banish him to his room for 5 days, plus tamiflu and paxlovid (mostly for my benefit) and that shit stayed quarantined, no one else got sick. do not fuck around with ms. troph and her post covid vigilance. I'm a ninja. fuck that virus to hell and back. kiddo did great, his last day before he went to his other mom's house we were wearing masks he was symptom free and I told him of the stories of being grounded to my room for being a hellion. he was not amused. hey, at least I didn't make you pull a switch for me. his response, "what's a switch?" next time bud, next time.

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