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With the CDC "going through some things," wanted to point out that there is a measles outbreak in Lubbock (an outbreak is 3 or more confirmed cases IIRC). The last I'd read it was at 12 confirmed cases and an ongoing investigation/tracking that officials believed might have more cases in the coming days due to the contagious nature of the virus and the reduced rate of vaccination (I think the article mentioned that one school had a rate of 46% with the two shots required for immunity. So, just as a reminder that post holiday global travel is often how measles lands stateside seasonally and then can spread among those that are unvaccinated (for various reasons), be on the watch if you have family members at risk. It is noteworthy that state data (kindergarten and 8th grade are the two groups reported) shows many schools have inoculation rates below 95% which is the level needed to maintain control/herd immunity. Around 1 in 5 cases require hospitalization.

 

 

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19 hours ago, gmr548 said:

I have been sick with respiratory illnesses twice in the past two months, once in December, getting over another now. That's never happened to me. My wife came down with something a couple weeks ago. Hit her pretty hard. She actually went to an urgent care and tested negative for both flu and COVID. All three instances we never passed anything to one another.

Rough season for sure.

I had RSV last year and the year before.  For me personally both cases were far, far worse than the times I had Covid.  That shit sucks.

 What’s kind of interesting is years gone by I would have chalked those up to a “cold”.  But, last year I ended up getting tested at urgent care and got an actual diagnosis. Year before my son got tested and diagnosed a day prior to me having the same symptoms he did, so that one isn’t absolutely certain but I’m pretty confident.

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3 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

With the CDC "going through some things," wanted to point out that there is a measles outbreak in Lubbock (an outbreak is 3 or more confirmed cases IIRC). The last I'd read it was at 12 confirmed cases and an ongoing investigation/tracking that officials believed might have more cases in the coming days due to the contagious nature of the virus and the reduced rate of vaccination (I think the article mentioned that one school had a rate of 46% with the two shots required for immunity. So, just as a reminder that post holiday global travel is often how measles lands stateside seasonally and then can spread among those that are unvaccinated (for various reasons), be on the watch if you have family members at risk. It is noteworthy that state data (kindergarten and 8th grade are the two groups reported) shows many schools have inoculation rates below 95% which is the level needed to maintain control/herd immunity. Around 1 in 5 cases require hospitalization.

As far as I've heard, the measles outbreak is in Gaines County (Seminole area), not Lubbock, which is the nearest "big city". One thing to know about this county is that during the 1990s and 2000s, a huge number of Mennonites relocated to the county from Chihuahua, MX, with many of them regularly traveling back and forth between their local community and the one in Mexico.

Many of their kids don't go to public schools and, like the adults, go unvaccinated. For example, the Covid vaccination rate for the county's total population was 22%, one of the lowest rates for a county in the entire US. Lubbock County was 49%, which is still far lower than Travis at 71% (Bexar 72%, Harris 65%, Dallas 61%, Tarrant 57%).

News on the outbreak in Gaines Co.:
https://www.kcbd.com/2025/02/06/lubbock-public-health-confirms-measles-outbreak-gaines-county-increased-risk-unvaccinated-individuals/

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9 minutes ago, bolverk said:

One thing to know about this county is that during the 1990s and 2000s, a huge number of Mennonites relocated to the county from Chihuahua, MX, with many of them regularly traveling back and forth between their local community and the one in Mexico.

That community is also responsible for this, which we used to buy when we drove by their farms in Chihuahua, but now you can get on the shelves at HEB:

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It's fucking delicious, perfectly melty for a quesadilla.  I guess you gotta pasteurize it to get rid of the measles, though.

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41 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

That community is also responsible for this, which we used to buy when we drove by their farms in Chihuahua, but now you can get on the shelves at HEB:

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It's fucking delicious, perfectly melty for a quesadilla.  I guess you gotta pasteurize it to get rid of the measles, though.

Cube it and fry it up.

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4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

They should be happy at this kind of stuff, because if it works out and a lot of us take it, it makes them safer.

Lol. Have you been asleep the past 10 years? Optimism is always unwarranted. These dumb fuckers will accuse us of “shedding vaccine virus” and get this shit banned. 

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I have the craziest sore throat I’ve ever had in my life. I sound like Robocop when I’m talking and my coughing sounds like a barking dog.

The weird thing is there is no pain in my throat, no congestion, no mucus, no fever, no body aches, nothing else. This type of barking cough usually hurts like hell too. I was dry coughing once or twice every few hours but the coughing completely stopped after I took some cough syrup. I just can’t seem to shake the “sore throat” sounding voice even though there is no pain at all. It’s so weird. I’m on Day 4 of this. 

Any SurlyMDs have a diagnosis?

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2 minutes ago, MrBig said:

I have the craziest sore throat I’ve ever had in my life. I sound like Robocop when I’m talking and my coughing sounds like a barking dog.

The weird thing is there is no pain in my throat, no congestion, no mucus, no fever, no body aches, nothing else. This type of barking cough usually hurts like hell too. I was dry coughing once or twice every few hours but the coughing completely stopped after I took some cough syrup. I just can’t seem to shake the “sore throat” sounding voice even though there is no pain at all. It’s so weird. I’m on Day 4 of this. 

Any SurlyMDs have a diagnosis?

no MD but sounds like whooping cough(pertussis) which adults can catch

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3 minutes ago, MrBig said:

I have the craziest sore throat I’ve ever had in my life. I sound like Robocop when I’m talking and my coughing sounds like a barking dog.

The weird thing is there is no pain in my throat, no congestion, no mucus, no fever, no body aches, nothing else. This type of barking cough usually hurts like hell too. I was dry coughing once or twice every few hours but the coughing completely stopped after I took some cough syrup. I just can’t seem to shake the “sore throat” sounding voice even though there is no pain at all. It’s so weird. I’m on Day 4 of this. 

Any SurlyMDs have a diagnosis?

go for smaller dicks?

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15 minutes ago, MrBig said:

I have the craziest sore throat I’ve ever had in my life. I sound like Robocop when I’m talking and my coughing sounds like a barking dog.

The weird thing is there is no pain in my throat, no congestion, no mucus, no fever, no body aches, nothing else. This type of barking cough usually hurts like hell too. I was dry coughing once or twice every few hours but the coughing completely stopped after I took some cough syrup. I just can’t seem to shake the “sore throat” sounding voice even though there is no pain at all. It’s so weird. I’m on Day 4 of this. 

Any SurlyMDs have a diagnosis?

 

11 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

no MD but sounds like whooping cough(pertussis) which adults can catch

Yep.  My son came down with it when he was 17 or so.  At one point, I actually thought he was choking, and started to treat him as such.  It was wild to hear.  Doc diagnosed it, and it ran its course.  It sucked for him, but it wasn't nearly as dangerous as if he'd caught it as an infant -- just super annoying.

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49 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

no MD but sounds like whooping cough(pertussis) which adults can catch

I had whooping cough as a kid and this is much different. Whooping cough feels like you’re choking and can’t catch your breath. Cough syrup didn’t help much when I was a kid.

The cough I have now goes away with cheap HEB Tussin if I take it every 4 hours. It’s more like a scratchy allergy cough but my throat sounds like complete shit like I have Strep or something. I can’t even work remotely or take calls because nobody understands what the fuck I’m saying. 

It’s just so crazy there is no pain or redness in my throat nor any mucus or chest congestion whatsoever. I don’t even get allergies regularly so I don’t know what the hell is going on. 

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11 minutes ago, MrBig said:

I had whooping cough as a kid and this is much different. Whooping cough feels like you’re choking and can’t catch your breath. Cough syrup didn’t help much when I was a kid.

The cough I have now goes away with cheap HEB Tussin if I take it every 4 hours. It’s more like a scratchy allergy cough but my throat sounds like complete shit like I have Strep or something. I can’t even work remotely or take calls because nobody understands what the fuck I’m saying. 

It’s just so crazy there is no pain or redness in my throat nor any mucus or chest congestion whatsoever. I don’t even get allergies regularly so I don’t know what the hell is going on. 

That sounds very much like something I had in early December, which was the first time I'd gotten sick in a couple of years.

So far as I know, I never ran a fever and never really felt very bad elsewhere (just not 100%), but I don't think the glands underneath my jawline had ever swollen that large, my throat had ever been that soar (this part was really brief), or my voice more hoarse. It wasn't that terrible the whole time, but I think it lasted about a week and a half, all told. I don't know what it was, but it eventually went away.

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1 hour ago, MrBig said:

I have the craziest sore throat I’ve ever had in my life. I sound like Robocop when I’m talking and my coughing sounds like a barking dog.

The weird thing is there is no pain in my throat, no congestion, no mucus, no fever, no body aches, nothing else. This type of barking cough usually hurts like hell too. I was dry coughing once or twice every few hours but the coughing completely stopped after I took some cough syrup. I just can’t seem to shake the “sore throat” sounding voice even though there is no pain at all. It’s so weird. I’m on Day 4 of this. 

Any SurlyMDs have a diagnosis?

You got the AIDS

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

 

Yep.  My son came down with it when he was 17 or so.  At one point, I actually thought he was choking, and started to treat him as such.  It was wild to hear.  Doc diagnosed it, and it ran its course.  It sucked for him, but it wasn't nearly as dangerous as if he'd caught it as an infant -- just super annoying.

Wait until you hear how long he should stay away from work.

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41 minutes ago, MrBig said:

I had whooping cough as a kid and this is much different. Whooping cough feels like you’re choking and can’t catch your breath. Cough syrup didn’t help much when I was a kid.

The cough I have now goes away with cheap HEB Tussin if I take it every 4 hours. It’s more like a scratchy allergy cough but my throat sounds like complete shit like I have Strep or something. I can’t even work remotely or take calls because nobody understands what the fuck I’m saying. 

It’s just so crazy there is no pain or redness in my throat nor any mucus or chest congestion whatsoever. I don’t even get allergies regularly so I don’t know what the hell is going on. 

I've got a similar deal right now.  I took a 1 ounce shot of apple cider vinegar at 3:00 this morning, downed some water, and it still doesn't hurt anything like what it did last night as of right now.  

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2 hours ago, MrBig said:

I have the craziest sore throat I’ve ever had in my life. I sound like Robocop when I’m talking and my coughing sounds like a barking dog.

The weird thing is there is no pain in my throat, no congestion, no mucus, no fever, no body aches, nothing else. This type of barking cough usually hurts like hell too. I was dry coughing once or twice every few hours but the coughing completely stopped after I took some cough syrup. I just can’t seem to shake the “sore throat” sounding voice even though there is no pain at all. It’s so weird. I’m on Day 4 of this. 

Any SurlyMDs have a diagnosis?

Sounds like Croup. My son (8) had it a couple weeks ago and one of the main symptoms is this weird barking cough. 

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4 hours ago, bolverk said:

As far as I've heard, the measles outbreak is in Gaines County (Seminole area), not Lubbock, which is the nearest "big city". One thing to know about this county is that during the 1990s and 2000s, a huge number of Mennonites relocated to the county from Chihuahua, MX, with many of them regularly traveling back and forth between their local community and the one in Mexico.

Thank you for the correction and further information. The source I used was a Lubbock website and I looked no further to verify so my bad for that.

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