Winter Banter 24-25

[Brasiluvsnow]

33 minutes ago, North and West said:

This book was more than just that. A lot of basic stories of a lot of people who couldn’t admit that someone they don’t agree with (any politician) could be right about something and that themselves could be wrong; that closing beaches didn’t actually help (sunshine, vitamin d); school closings are hindering the poorest kids for many years on out and we’ll continue to feel the impact; the people making the vaccine didn’t have malicious intent; hospitals weren’t going to accept people if the beds didn’t make money.

Just a cluster overall.


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How much money did the hospitals make IF they labeled your admission as covid ? How much money was made when they put  patients onto a ventilator ? They literally made a killing and there were incentive$ from insurance companie$ to label admissions covid ! They demonized hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin and they told us that those drugs would harm or worse yet kill you when in reality they would have both saved countless lives. You have a better chance of having a bad reaction to taking a Tylenol than you do from taking Ivermectin as Ivermectin has been around for decades and there are countless studies on it being successful. Ivermectin won the Nobel prize in I believe 2015 for how it worked against many illnesses yet early on during covid I had a doctor fill a prescription out for Ivermectin and when I went to cvs to get it filled they denied me the drug = they would not fill the script even though they had the drug in stock ( how many times in your life has that happened ) they did not offer a generic they denied myself and others the drug ---> I wound up   getting it elsewhere but many drug store outlets would NOT fill an ivermectin script. It is very sad and scary what took place and even though Liberty said " he'd like to think that people were not prepared " = I guess that we all would like to say that but sadly that is not what took place , Enjoy your book N n W and now back to winter

[Rjay]

Holy hell

[SnowGoose69]

6 hours ago, North and West said:

This book was more than just that. A lot of basic stories of a lot of people who couldn’t admit that someone they don’t agree with (any politician) could be right about something and that themselves could be wrong; that closing beaches didn’t actually help (sunshine, vitamin d); school closings are hindering the poorest kids for many years on out and we’ll continue to feel the impact; the people making the vaccine didn’t have malicious intent; hospitals weren’t going to accept people if the beds didn’t make money.

Just a cluster overall.


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The bad part is when bird flu eventually jumps to go human to human which is probably within the next 10 years or so we'll probably have a ton of people who just ignore it.  The good news is I saw a fairly good program on TV a few weeks back that projects it likely won't be as deadly as COVID was, likely somewhere midway between the severity of the 2009 and 1919 outbreaks but its believed that since influenza causes bacterial vs viral pneumonia it'll be easier to control the secondary impacts.  COVID causing viral pneumonia is really what was most problematic.

[coastalplainsnowman]

we're doing it wrong

[Volcanic Winter]

Starting to feel better, but holy hell - not fun. I have a coxsackie viral infection, like Hand Foot and Mouth disease most common in young children. 

That first night I went from completely fine to pushing a 104 fever in something like six hours, but the fever itself broke by the 36 hour mark. I’m used to COVID lately where I’ve had low to moderate grade fevers for as long as ten days, so that was maybe the only good aspect of this. 

Then a terrible sore throat kicked in, total razor blades, tough to swallow and combined with near zero appetite. Just hellacious thirst for water (and tons of electrolyte powder , Ultima - really good stuff and a lifesaver when your body is depleted ). 

This also lessened in about a day, and I thought I was somehow coming out the other side already. My only nagging thought was that the initial fever was stupid high, which logically suggests your body was fighting something fairly significant. Sure enough within a few hours I began breaking out with super painful blisters all over my hands and feet that initially hurt so much it was tough to stand or do anything. Eventually it kinda morphed into a painful burning itching feeling.

Highly unpleasant. Do not recommend. Stay safe out there guys. It’s really wild how much stuff is circulating this year, and unfortunately there’s an argument to be made that having COVID in December at the back end of my trip (unfortunately) left my immune system weakened enough to pick this odd virus up. It’s not super typical in adults although I’ve read a lot the past two days that the idea adults don’t really or rarely catch this is false.

That said, I need a volcano or snowstorm to track - bad . Posting at 3:30am because it’s still extremely difficult to sleep due to the discomfort of this rash.

 

[LibertyBell]

9 hours ago, SnowGoose69 said:

The bad part is when bird flu eventually jumps to go human to human which is probably within the next 10 years or so we'll probably have a ton of people who just ignore it.  The good news is I saw a fairly good program on TV a few weeks back that projects it likely won't be as deadly as COVID was, likely somewhere midway between the severity of the 2009 and 1919 outbreaks but its believed that since influenza causes bacterial vs viral pneumonia it'll be easier to control the secondary impacts.  COVID causing viral pneumonia is really what was most problematic.

factory farming is unhealthy unsanitary and immoral and needs to come to an end.

so glad I stopped all that nonsense years ago.

 

100,000 ducks had to be killed at a duck farm out on Aquebogue, it's absolutely tragic.

[LibertyBell]

3 hours ago, Volcanic Winter said:

Starting to feel better, but holy hell - not fun. I have a coxsackie viral infection, like Hand Foot and Mouth disease most common in young children. 

That first night I went from completely fine to pushing a 104 fever in something like six hours, but the fever itself broke by the 36 hour mark. I’m used to COVID lately where I’ve had low to moderate grade fevers for as long as ten days, so that was maybe the only good aspect of this. 

Then a terrible sore throat kicked in, total razor blades, tough to swallow and combined with near zero appetite. Just hellacious thirst for water (and tons of electrolyte powder , Ultima - really good stuff and a lifesaver when your body is depleted ). 

This also lessened in about a day, and I thought I was somehow coming out the other side already. My only nagging thought was that the initial fever was stupid high, which logically suggests your body was fighting something fairly significant. Sure enough within a few hours I began breaking out with super painful blisters all over my hands and feet that initially hurt so much it was tough to stand or do anything. Eventually it kinda morphed into a painful burning itching feeling.

Highly unpleasant. Do not recommend. Stay safe out there guys. It’s really wild how much stuff is circulating this year, and unfortunately there’s an argument to be made that having COVID in December at the back end of my trip (unfortunately) left my immune system weakened enough to pick this odd virus up. It’s not super typical in adults although I’ve read a lot the past two days that the idea adults don’t really or rarely catch this is false.

That said, I need a volcano or snowstorm to track - bad . Posting at 3:30am because it’s still extremely difficult to sleep due to the discomfort of this rash.

 

it's bad out there, I intend to be outside as little as possible until the weather warms up.

what you have sounds so awful, with all the blisters you mentioned I thought at first you had chicken pox.....

[North and West]

we're doing it wrong

oh no



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[Nibor]

12 hours ago, Volcanic Winter said:

Starting to feel better, but holy hell - not fun. I have a coxsackie viral infection, like Hand Foot and Mouth disease most common in young children. 

That first night I went from completely fine to pushing a 104 fever in something like six hours, but the fever itself broke by the 36 hour mark. I’m used to COVID lately where I’ve had low to moderate grade fevers for as long as ten days, so that was maybe the only good aspect of this. 

Then a terrible sore throat kicked in, total razor blades, tough to swallow and combined with near zero appetite. Just hellacious thirst for water (and tons of electrolyte powder , Ultima - really good stuff and a lifesaver when your body is depleted ). 

This also lessened in about a day, and I thought I was somehow coming out the other side already. My only nagging thought was that the initial fever was stupid high, which logically suggests your body was fighting something fairly significant. Sure enough within a few hours I began breaking out with super painful blisters all over my hands and feet that initially hurt so much it was tough to stand or do anything. Eventually it kinda morphed into a painful burning itching feeling.

Highly unpleasant. Do not recommend. Stay safe out there guys. It’s really wild how much stuff is circulating this year, and unfortunately there’s an argument to be made that having COVID in December at the back end of my trip (unfortunately) left my immune system weakened enough to pick this odd virus up. It’s not super typical in adults although I’ve read a lot the past two days that the idea adults don’t really or rarely catch this is false.

That said, I need a volcano or snowstorm to track - bad . Posting at 3:30am because it’s still extremely difficult to sleep due to the discomfort of this rash.

 

Oof. Keep an eye on your finger and toe nails in a few weeks…

[Volcanic Winter]

3 hours ago, Nibor said:

Oof. Keep an eye on your finger and toe nails in a few weeks…

[Nibor]

16 minutes ago, Volcanic Winter said:

Yeah… when I got coxsackie about a decade ago I lost every fingernail and toenail a few weeks later. It doesn’t happen for everyone but it’s pretty common. 

[Volcanic Winter]

49 minutes ago, Nibor said:

Yeah… when I got coxsackie about a decade ago I lost every fingernail and toenail a few weeks later. It doesn’t happen for everyone but it’s pretty common. 

Ugh - I’m sorry that’s absolutely horrid. I did read that can happen, no way of knowing what will happen in my case so I’ll just have to wait and see. 

Just underscores what an unpleasant virus this is.