6 minutes ago, Talkingbirds said:

This is f’d up.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11197971/New-York-declares-DISASTER-polio-outbreak.html

This is America, damnit, and we have rights and freedoms! We don't live in fear and can't no nerdy doctors with them fancy degrees tell us what to do. If a parent wants to watch their kids suffer from a paralytic case of polio and live a life of misery, then that's their god given right!

Everything is a Fing emergency. Easier to bypass the levers of government by declaring one.

I wonder where in the under developed world Polio could be paying us a visit from. 🤔

Buddy just wrote to me and told me he tested positive.  He was over at my house on Sunday for the game.  We smoked a bit using a pipe.  Might be a decent test of my immunity and vaccine protection.

4 hours ago, DrPhilly said:

Buddy just wrote to me and told me he tested positive.  He was over at my house on Sunday for the game.  We smoked a bit using a pipe.  Might be a decent test of my immunity and vaccine protection.

You gotta be careful who you share your pipe with...

On 9/7/2022 at 7:22 AM, Gannan said:

After avoiding this thing for 2 and a half years, it finally caught up with me. Man has it hit me hard. I didn’t sleep much for the first 48 hours because I’d wake up in under an hour gasping for air. I can still smell and taste but otherwise I have every symptom I’ve ever heard of associated with Covid. Cardiologist recommended paxlovid. It was a tough call, trying to decide between the doctors recommendation of paxlovid and the horse dewormer recommended by Internet crackpots and Joe Rogan, but in the end I decided to go with the paxlovid. My fever has been gone for almost a full day and I finally slept last night. So hopefully turning the corner here. I’m relieved I haven’t had to go to the hospital. My blood ox kept dropping so it was close for a while.

You should be coming off of pax by now, you feeling any better?

4 hours ago, sameaglesfan said:

You gotta be careful who you share your pipe with...

maybe he should get tested for monkeypox too..

3 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said:

You should be coming off of pax by now, you feeling any better?

I came off it on Sunday. I feel much better. Still have a nagging cough and some stomach issues, but Im otherwise ok. I still tested positive as of yesterday. My wife was still positive as of today. Our kids don't have it. Apparently wearing masks around them is working. 

6 minutes ago, Gannan said:

I came off it on Sunday. I feel much better. Still have a nagging cough and some stomach issues, but Im otherwise ok. I still tested positive as of yesterday. My wife was still positive as of today. Our kids don't have it. Apparently wearing masks around them is working. 

Good to hear you're feeling better. I still have a lingering cough a month later from whatever it was that I had. So annoying when trying to sleep at night. I keep thinking it's slowly going away, then I'll have a coughing fit for like 5 min straight to the point where I give myself a headache. This friday will be the first time I'll be returning to soccer since I had it, curious if I'll even be able to play the whole game.

Just now, we_gotta_believe said:

Good to hear. I still have a lingering cough a month later from whatever it was that I had. So annoying when trying to sleep at night. I keep thinking it's slowly going away, then I'll have a coughing fit for like 5 min straight to the point where I give myself a headache. This friday will be the first time I'll be returning to soccer since I had it, curious if I'll even be able to play the whole game.

I'm back to exercising. My endurance and speed isn't quite back to what it was. 

BTW if anyone wants to lose weight fast, I suggest covid. I lost 8 pounds in a week.

On 9/10/2022 at 11:44 PM, lynched1 said:

I wonder where in the under developed world Polio could be paying us a visit from. 🤔

 

Oh yeah, let's look for some black and brown people to blame. Classic.

On 9/10/2022 at 11:44 PM, lynched1 said:

 

I wonder where in the under developed world Polio could be paying us a visit from. 🤔

West Virginia maybe?

https://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-americans-still-dying-covid-090403915.html

 

It has been more than two and half years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and despite a return to a new form of normality for many people across the country, there are still hundreds of Americans dying from the virus every day, a grim reality of the pandemic's continued destruction.

The U.S. is currently averaging just under 400 daily COVID-19 related deaths. Although the daily number of fatalities is far lower than it was at the nation's peak, in January 2021, 3,400 Americans died of COVID-19 each day.

"The seven-day average daily deaths are still too high, about 375 per day — well above the around 200 deaths a day we saw earlier this spring and, in my mind, far too high for a vaccine-preventable disease," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House press briefing with the COVID-19 response team last week.

Over the last seven days, the U.S. has reported 2,500 deaths, and since the beginning of 2022, more than 221,000 Americans have died because of COVID-19.

The vast majority of Americans who are currently dying of COVID-19 are over the age of 75. Although more than 92% of Americans of the age of 65 have been fully vaccinated, many are not up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations, and are at a higher risk for severe disease due to the virus.

What does she mean by "vaccine-preventable disease"?

22 hours ago, xzmattzx said:

What does she mean by "vaccine-preventable disease"?

That a vaccine is a sufficiently preventative tool for substantially reducing the incidence and virulence of the disease to endemic levels with with a highly compliant (90% or more) population.

3 hours ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

That a vaccine is a sufficiently preventative tool for substantially reducing the incidence and virulence of the disease to endemic levels with with a highly compliant (90% or more) population.

What about more than 6 months or a year after the last jab?

A bus transporting 47 people to a COVID quarantine facility in China has crashed, leaving at least 27 dead.

All listed as "covid" deaths to be sure.

The pandemic is over, per Biden.  Is there anything he can’t do?

7 hours ago, lynched1 said:

A bus transporting 47 people to a COVID quarantine facility in China has crashed, leaving at least 27 dead.

All listed as "covid" deaths to be sure.

Probably the opposite.  What do they have, 4,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic?

8 hours ago, RPeeteRules said:

The pandemic is over, per Biden.  Is there anything he can’t do?

Is Tony going to drop down to one mask in honor of this historic pronouncement?

Thankfully, this guy can re-hire himself again...

 

 

On 9/13/2022 at 2:37 AM, DrPhilly said:

Buddy just wrote to me and told me he tested positive.  He was over at my house on Sunday for the game.  We smoked a bit using a pipe.  Might be a decent test of my immunity and vaccine protection.

 

On 9/13/2022 at 7:04 AM, sameaglesfan said:

You gotta be careful who you share your pipe with...

Seriously, don’t put your friends pipe in your mouth unless it’s a redneck poker party and you’re doing it for splooge antibody boosters. 

9 minutes ago, DBW said:

 

Seriously, don’t put your friends pipe in your mouth unless it’s a redneck poker party and you’re doing it for splooge antibody boosters. 

Update on this one.  Buddy got pretty bad for a few days with the typical chills and body pains.  I was fine.  I'm probably immune at the moment from my three shots and latest positive stint back end of June.

55 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Update on this one.  Buddy got pretty bad for a few days with the typical chills and body pains.  I was fine.  I'm probably immune at the moment from my three shots and latest positive stint back end of June.

Plus it wasn't your first go around with monkey pox.