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  On 2/12/2025 at 3:46 PM, Gatorubet said:

“if the ship ain’t docked, the virus ain’t caught…”

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2025/02/10/holland-america-cruise-norovirus-outbreak-rotterdam/78392376007/

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The cases mark the seventh outbreak of gastrointestinal illness on cruises that has met the health agency’s threshold for public notification in 2025. There were 18 outbreaks last year – including on Rotterdam in December – most of which were caused by norovirus.

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  On 2/12/2025 at 4:34 PM, Incredulity said:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2025/02/10/holland-america-cruise-norovirus-outbreak-rotterdam/78392376007/

Think Tim Robinson GIF by NETFLIX

 

The cases mark the seventh outbreak of gastrointestinal illness on cruises that has met the health agency’s threshold for public notification in 2025. There were 18 outbreaks last year – including on Rotterdam in December – most of which were caused by norovirus.

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Image of How many people you lose on a normal cruise, 30, 40?

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https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/measles-outbreak-doubles-in-one-of-texas-least-vaccinated-counties/

An outbreak of measles in one of Texas' least vaccinated counties continues to rapidly expand, with officials reporting 24 cases Tuesday, up from just nine confirmed on Friday.

According to an update by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), all 24 cases identified in the two-week-old outbreak are in unvaccinated people. Nine of the patients (37.5 percent) required hospitalization.

Most of the cases are in children. DSHS provided an age breakdown that listed six cases as being in infants and young children between the ages of 0 and 4. This is the age group most vulnerable to measles because they have a heightened risk of complications from the disease and may be too young to be fully vaccinated with the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine. Children are recommended to get two doses of the MMR vaccine, one between 12 and 15 months and the second between 4 and 6 years. One dose of MMR vaccine is estimated to be 93 percent effective against measles, while two doses are 97 percent effective.

Of the remainder of the 24 cases, 16 were between the ages of 5 and 17, and two were 18 or older.

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I hope their parents can get to Tractor Supply in time to get their medication. 

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Posted
  On 2/12/2025 at 4:34 PM, Incredulity said:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2025/02/10/holland-america-cruise-norovirus-outbreak-rotterdam/78392376007/

Think Tim Robinson GIF by NETFLIX

 

The cases mark the seventh outbreak of gastrointestinal illness on cruises that has met the health agency’s threshold for public notification in 2025. There were 18 outbreaks last year – including on Rotterdam in December – most of which were caused by norovirus.

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Man no way I would get on a cruise ship. Those things are floating gain of function projects.

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  On 2/13/2025 at 4:17 PM, miguelito said:

Every time I read about this I think man, what are the odds.

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RFK Jr would tell you that there are no measles so the odds are negligible.

  On 2/13/2025 at 1:51 PM, Deej said:

I hope their parents can get to Tractor Supply in time to get their medication. 

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One of my relatives found out my kid is home with the flu (probably told by my mom) and she asked us on FB why we aren’t trying ivermectin.

If I didn’t listen to my wife on such matters, I’d respond with “there’s a reason why you still live in a mobile home.”

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  On 2/6/2025 at 8:38 PM, Brisketexan said:

Tangent:  My father died a bit over a week ago.  As my wife and I were taking care of immediate things in the house, that included checking the refrigerators for items that needed to be removed.  Turned out that he had 1 dozen eggs in the inside fridge, and another 18 pack in the outside fridge.  As I was talking with our probate attorney yesterday, I jokingly asked "shit, do I need to list those in the inventory of the estate?  That's like $100, right?"

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Those eggs were his retirement. 

 

On a related note, my daily breakfast burrito went up almost a dollar in price. 

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Hooray, our nextdoor neighbor state is no longer promoting vaccination!

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/louisiana-end-mass-vaccine-promotion-states-top-health-118807539

NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass vaccination” according to a Thursday memo written by the state's top health official and obtained by The Associated Press.

 

A department spokesperson confirmed Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham had ordered his staff to stop engaging in media campaigns and community health fairs to encourage vaccinations, even as the state has experienced a surge in influenza.

 

Abraham's announcement occurred the same day vaccine skepticRobert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in by the U.S. Senate to serve as President Donald Trump's health secretary.

 

In a separate letter posted on the department's website, Louisiana's surgeon general decried “blanket government mandates” for vaccines and criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID-19 vaccination push. Individuals should make their own decisions about vaccinations, Abraham said.

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Posted
  On 2/14/2025 at 4:08 AM, Captainant said:

Hooray, our nextdoor neighbor state is no longer promoting vaccination!

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I would say "good, fuck em, they'll learn real fucking fast what modern medicine has done for the civilized world".

But they are going to fucking wreck a shitload of kids and put a lot of people in the hospital who didn't need to be.

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  On 2/14/2025 at 3:09 PM, Deej said:

It's been real. Nice knowing all of you. 

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Yep, next one is going to be even more fucked up, but hey, at least he’ll do his own research and drive around in the family station wagon with a chainsaw cutting off the heads of cows.

Meanwhile, a lot of dumbass parents are sending their sick kids to school and many are not even bothering to mask them up.

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It’s still pretty wild to me that a portion of one side has taken the lead of the loudest anti vax group from the hippies over politics.  I think we’re possibly living in a simulation since about 2016. No CR that’s just actually how it is now and it makes no sense. 

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  On 2/14/2025 at 4:08 AM, Captainant said:

NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass vaccination” according to a Thursday memo written by the state's top health official and obtained by The Associated Press.

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“Who dat say we gonna super-spread dat event…..!?”

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West Texas.

The measles outbreak first reported in Gaines County, Texas, has doubled to 48 cases since a count released earlier this week, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Friday. The first two cases were identified in late January and the numbers have been rising since.

Forty-two cases are reported in Gaines County. Surrounding counties have also reported cases, three in Terry County, two in Yoakum County and one in Lynn County. With the contagious nature of the disease, the state health department says it expects more cases will be reported in Gaines County and the surrounding areas.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/health/measles-texas-outbreak/index.html

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Brisket encourages us to be entrepreneurs .  

I should reach out to the brewers of Old Milwaukee beer and see about getting them to bottle “No Flu Brew - the only light beer containing Ivermectin!”

(“triple filtered to eliminate nano bots”)

(”Each 6-pack costs less than a dozen eggs…”)

(“Bottles NEVER recycled”)

 

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  On 2/14/2025 at 10:13 PM, Goofyboy said:

I’d like to laugh at this, but those kids don’t deserve to suffer because their parents are fucking stupid.

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Yep, wanted to make a joke about Texas being #1 in the nation again, but it’s not funny for those kids.

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  On 2/14/2025 at 10:16 PM, Gatorubet said:

Brisket encourages us to be entrepreneurs .  

I should reach out to the brewers of Old Milwaukee beer and see about getting them to bottle “No Flu Brew - the only light beer containing Ivermectin!”

(“triple filtered to eliminate nano bots”)

(”Each 6-pack costs less than a dozen eggs…”)

(“Bottles NEVER recycled”)

 

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Just make sure and don’t pasteurize it, even if the shelf life is shit as a result.

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How many of these grownups who don’t wanna give their kids the vaccines for all the childhood diseases were themselves spared all the childhood diseases by the vaccines.  Seems unfair to the kids.  Dunno.

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  On 2/15/2025 at 1:29 AM, Parliament said:

How many of these grownups who don’t wanna give their kids the vaccines for all the childhood diseases were themselves spared all the childhood diseases by the vaccines.  Seems unfair to the kids.  Dunno.

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I'm about 99% sure the vast majority of the kids catching the measles are children of Mennonite adults, who likely also weren't immunized as children growing up in Mexico. I suppose they could ultimately have been when they ended up relocating from Chihuahua state to West Texas, but I would tend to think they'd have to be. Honestly, though, I don't have a firm handle on their immigration/residence status.

Regardless, there will also undoubtedly be some unvaccinated non-Mennonite kids who will soon (or already are) become exposed and fall ill. It's all so pointless and stupid that this is even a topic of conversation one-quarter of the way through the 21st Century, but here we are wallowing in mud and manure like fucking Medieval peasants.

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  On 2/15/2025 at 1:57 AM, bolverk said:

I'm about 99% sure the vast majority of the kids catching the measles are children of Mennonite adults, who likely also weren't immunized as children growing up in Mexico. I suppose they could ultimately have been when they ended up relocating from Chihuahua state to West Texas, but I would tend to think they'd have to be. Honestly, though, I don't have a firm handle on their immigration/residence status.

Regardless, there will also undoubtedly be some unvaccinated non-Mennonite kids who will soon (or already are) become exposed and fall ill. It's all so pointless and stupid that this is even a topic of conversation one-quarter of the way through the 21st Century, but here we are wallowing in mud and manure like fucking Medieval peasants.

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So for years we hear about the undomented masses coming across the border bringing in countless disease. And it ends up being anglo mennonites. Yep, makes sense.

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  On 2/15/2025 at 2:03 AM, InkaUtexas said:

So for years we hear about the undomented masses coming across the border bringing in countless disease. And it ends up being anglo mennonites. Yep, makes sense.

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Why are you surprised? They're GERM-ans, after all.

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  On 2/14/2025 at 10:47 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Yep, wanted to make a joke about Texas being #1 in the nation again, but it’s not funny for those kids.

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I'm sure Hot Wheels and Paxton will get right on it, since they care about kids so much.

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First the people that maintain and ensure the viability of our nuclear arsenal, now the folks who are trying to contain the avian flu outbreak

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.

The agency said it is now trying to quickly reverse the firings.

"Although several positions supporting [bird flu efforts] were notified of their terminations over the weekend, we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters," a USDA spokesperson said in a statement. "USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service frontline positions are considered public safety positions, and we are continuing to hire the workforce necessary to ensure the safety and adequate supply of food to fulfill our statutory mission."

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Posted
  On 2/19/2025 at 12:44 AM, Captainant said:

First the people that maintain and ensure the viability of our nuclear arsenal, now the folks who are trying to contain the avian flu outbreak

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Leon and his band of incels are the dumbest fucking people in Washington D.C.

And that's saying something.

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  On 2/19/2025 at 2:02 AM, atomheartbevo said:
Leon and his band of incels are the dumbest fucking people in Washington D.C.
And that's saying something.

I mean…their thesis is that government employees are breathtakingly stupid, and sure enough…they’re proving it right.
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  On 2/14/2025 at 10:13 PM, Goofyboy said:

I’d like to laugh at this, but those kids don’t deserve to suffer because their parents are fucking stupid.

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Post-birth Darwinism.  Have stupid parents, win stupid prizes.  Tough shit. 

The only way this shit gets better is to completely crash it into the ground.  @Brisketexan has been right all along.  A shit-ton of folks (adults and kids) will have to die before this gets better.

We FA, we're gonna FO like a motherfucker. 

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https://www.newsweek.com/new-coronavirus-bat-chinese-lab-2034232

A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered.

HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a Chinese research team led by virologist Shi Zhengli, known as "Batwoman" for her work on coronaviruses, especially at the Wuhan Institute, which has been at the center of the theory suggesting COVID-19 came from a lab leak—something Shi has denied.

Why It Matters

Hundreds of coronaviruses exist but only a few can infect humans, including SARS, SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome).

This new one (HKU5-CoV-2) uses the ACE2 receptor to infect organisms—SARS-CoV-2 also uses the ACE2 receptor for infection.

What is HKU5-CoV-2?

HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging to the merbecovirusgroup, which also includes the virus that causes MERS.

It has a higher potential to infect humans than other coronaviruses because of the way it binds to human ACE2, making it similar to SARS-CoV-2 and NL63 (a common cold virus).

Researchers came to this conclusion after using a technique called Cryo-EM, which uses a powerful microscope.

HKU5-CoV-2 was able to infect human cell cultures in the mini-human organ models the scientists used.

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  On 2/21/2025 at 5:34 PM, crash_davis said:

HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a Chinese research team led by virologist Shi Zhengli, known as "Batwoman" for her work on coronaviruses, especially at the Wuhan Institute, which has been at the center of the theory suggesting COVID-19 came from a lab leak—something Shi has denied.

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  On 2/21/2025 at 5:34 PM, crash_davis said:

https://www.newsweek.com/new-coronavirus-bat-chinese-lab-2034232

A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered.

HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a Chinese research team led by virologist Shi Zhengli, known as "Batwoman" for her work on coronaviruses, especially at the Wuhan Institute, which has been at the center of the theory suggesting COVID-19 came from a lab leak—something Shi has denied.

Why It Matters

Hundreds of coronaviruses exist but only a few can infect humans, including SARS, SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome).

This new one (HKU5-CoV-2) uses the ACE2 receptor to infect organisms—SARS-CoV-2 also uses the ACE2 receptor for infection.

What is HKU5-CoV-2?

HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging to the merbecovirusgroup, which also includes the virus that causes MERS.

It has a higher potential to infect humans than other coronaviruses because of the way it binds to human ACE2, making it similar to SARS-CoV-2 and NL63 (a common cold virus).

Researchers came to this conclusion after using a technique called Cryo-EM, which uses a powerful microscope.

HKU5-CoV-2 was able to infect human cell cultures in the mini-human organ models the scientists used.

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No way.

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  On 2/21/2025 at 5:34 PM, crash_davis said:

HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a Chinese research team led by virologist Shi Zhengli, known as "Batwoman" for her work on coronaviruses, especially at the Wuhan Institute, which has been at the center of the theory suggesting COVID-19 came from a lab leak—something Shi has denied.

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i’m having trouble with my internal dialogue, telling me it would be fantastic if the bat virus crosses the bat-human barrier and requires vaccination to survive it.

That could solve multiple problems.

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Posted
  On 2/21/2025 at 9:48 PM, Born to Run said:

It was really the friends we made along the way.

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Yep, and sure, we had to bury some of those friends along the way, and disown others when their webcams shifted and we saw they were wearing nothing below the waist, or our webcams shifted and showed we were wearing nothing below the waist, but it’s the friends that we kept that are important.

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when their webcams shifted and we saw they were wearing nothing below the waist, or our webcams shifted and showed we were wearing nothing below the waist

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That’s why they called it “Zoom”

“Schwing!!” was taken. 

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  On 2/21/2025 at 10:02 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Yep, and sure, we had to bury some of those friends along the way, and disown others when their webcams shifted and we saw they were wearing nothing below the waist, or our webcams shifted and showed we were wearing nothing below the waist, but it’s the friends that we kept that are important.

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We also had to bury a brother and a mother in law (both died of cancer) and I we not visit either one in the hospital, or hospice.

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