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05C40 said:
Signed up for Flu and Covid (new) for tomorrow. Thank you. Only had Covid once (June 2000) and that was after I had been vaccinated. The extent of my symptoms were: One night, I sweated through four t-shirts. If the vaccine limited my symptoms to that, then it worked as far as I am concerned.
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Can you recheck your dates, please? 😀
 
TarHeeledTexan said:
Can you recheck your dates, please? 😀
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Checked the dates and realized that I had inadvertently disclosed the super top secret program to vaccinate the top Democratic donors with a vaccine that didn't rewrite people's DNA to make the more complaint to the plots, plans and machinations of the Overlords. Ordinarily, I would just pretend it was an a typo or I just got the year wrong. But at this late date, it really doesn't matter if I let the cat out of the bag. Just remember "Vote Harris!" and everything will be alright.
 
www.nytimes.com

An Obesity Drug Prevents Covid Deaths, Study Suggests

People taking Wegovy were not protected from infection. But in a large trial, their death rates were markedly lower, for reasons that are not clear.
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Wegovy, the popular obesity drug, may have yet another surprising benefit. In a large clinical trial, people taking the drug during the pandemic were less likely to die of Covid-19, researchers reported on Friday.

People on Wegovy still got Covid, and at the same rate as people randomly assigned to take a placebo. But their chances of dying from the infection plunged by 33 percent, the study found. And the protective effect occurred immediately — before participants had lost significant amounts of weight.

In addition, the death rate from all causes was lower among subjects taking Wegovy, a very rare finding in clinical trials of new treatments. The result suggests that lower life expectancy among people with obesity is actually caused by the disease itself, and that it can be improved by treating obesity.

“Stunning,” Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency room physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who wrote an editorial accompanying the study, said of the data. The study was published in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
 
My daughter just tested assuredly positive. Now the horrible wait till it gets the rest of us.
 
altmin said:
My daughter just tested assuredly positive. Now the horrible wait till it gets the rest of us.
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Ugh I think I feel it setting in. Head starting too hurt. Energy levels falling. Awareness of my swallowing (not scratchy or sore yet, just the throat nerves seem to be firing more,) a general malaise.
 
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Altmin, if you test positive, call your doc and get Paxlovid (anti-viral for covid). It may have been coincidental, but after feeling awful for 2.5 days, I started feeling better after just my first twice daily dose. Supposed to take for 5 days.

Good luck to you and your family. I had it about a month ago.
 
I was sure I had Covid, wasn't struggling to breath but there was a definite wheezing when I took a deep breath, on the inhale and exhale. Tested Saturday, came up negative. Wheezing was even more pronounced yesterday so I went to the doc in the box and they covid tested again, again came up negative. Doc said he thought it was brochitis (ain't nobody got time for that). Prescribed an antibiotic (although I thought bronchitis was viral) and I took a couple yesterday and felt a lot better this morning. Not sure I can recall ever having bronchitis before...
 
HeelYeah2012 said:
It’s always been the lab leak. The people who dismissed the lab leak theory really need to look in the mirror and consider what else their media of choice may be lying to them about.
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Gotta admit that I was pretty critical of the lab leak theory and anyone espousing it. But it was always a very real possibility, and maybe the most likely explanation. I shouldn't have dismissed it.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Gotta admit that I was pretty critical of the lab leak theory and anyone espousing it. But it was always a very real possibility, and maybe the most likely explanation. I shouldn't have dismissed it.
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Yes, you should have, because it's an idiotic theory with absolutely nothing going for it. The CIA doesn't know anything. If you want to know the current status of the Iranian nuclear program, don't ask microbiologists. Ask the CIA. If you want to know where COVID came from, don't ask the CIA. Ask microbiologists.

The scientific evidence for natural origins is robust. Probability analysis favors natural origins. This isn't a close question.
 
HeelYeah2012 said:
It’s always been the lab leak. The people who dismissed the lab leak theory really need to look in the mirror and consider what else their media of choice may be lying to them about.
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Listen up fuckface, I don't listen to the media. I read the peer reviewed papers by virologists. Did you? Of course not. So you have nothing to say. Nothing.

And to use this as some wedge to make yet another idiotic point about "your media is lying to you" -- just why? Why are you here? Nobody cares about your opinion about anything. You have repeatedly humiliated yourself, dozens of times. You are a punch line.
 
superrific said:
Listen up fuckface, I don't listen to the media. I read the peer reviewed papers by virologists. Did you? Of course not. So you have nothing to say. Nothing.

And to use this as some wedge to make yet another idiotic point about "your media is lying to you" -- just why? Why are you here? Nobody cares about your opinion about anything. You have repeatedly humiliated yourself, dozens of times. You are a punch line.
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You are a POS. And demonstrate it often.
 
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heel79 said:
You are a POS. And demonstrate it often.
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How? Why don't you tell me how I am a POS? While I'm waiting for your response, I'm going to draft a column for my local newspaper whining about how poorly I was treated on a message board.
 
superrific said:
How? Why don't you tell me how I am a POS? While I'm waiting for your response, I'm going to draft a column for my local newspaper whining about how poorly I was treated on a message board.
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The way you gratuitously attack everyone who dares to have a different opinion than the self proclaimed smartest person on the board. While you write that column I will write one detailing my sexual escapades with the hottest chick ever.
 
heel79 said:
The way you gratuitously attack everyone who dares to have a different opinion than the self proclaimed smartest person on the board. While you write that column I will write one detailing my sexual escapades with the hottest chick ever.
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It seems as though you are another who needs remedial education about the meaning of words. The post I responded to was accusatory, and seeing as how the accusation came from an ignoramus who has never demonstrated knowledge about any topic, the derisive tone was justified. I am not going to be lectured from the likes of that fool. He wasn't expressing an opinion; he was expressing ignorance; and no matter how much people like you want to conflate the two, they aren't the same thing. Opinions have bases in fact.
 
heel79 said:
You are a POS. And demonstrate it often.
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Life is full of choices. You chose to live in a small town, and further chose not to read or study or learn about the world. And that's fine. If that choice made you happy, then props to you. I would be extremely unhappy in that situation, but that's why you're there and I'm not. I'm not going to tell you how you should live your life.

I do have a problem when you try to evade the consequences of your choice, pretending to be something you aren't. An intellectual, you are not. As far as I know, you've never directly claimed to be, but implicitly you want me to accept you as an intellectual peer and I won't indulge your presumptuousness. If you had studied and learned and had curiosity about the world, then maybe you'd have something intelligent to say about lab leak theories. That wasn't the choice you made. It's not a matter of intelligence or "smarts." It's a question of learning. You didn't do it. Don't show up here when you're on social security and say, "listen to me, my opinions are valuable" because that's generally not true. Stay in your lane.

I believe that you probably know about as much about Robeson County as any person alive. So if I needed to know something about that place, you'd be the person to ask. I also suspect that you know plenty about neighboring areas, though maybe not so thoroughly. I could not possibly have any basis to contradict you. If I was driving around in Robeson County with you, then I would be asking questions and listening to the answers. I would be learning, not talking, because I can recognize who is the expert.

By the same token, if you're driving around NYC with me, I'd expect you to ask questions and listen. I would expect you not to offer your views about whether the vegetable markets in Brighton Beach are mobbed up, or whether there is better Indian food in Jackson Heights or 28th and Lex, because you don't know.

And if the subject turned to international diplomacy, I would expect you to continue to ask questions and listen. But ideally, we'd be in a different car, one driven by someone with extensive experience in that field. That's not me. However, I've been in that car. I have asked questions and listened, and I acquired some knowledge, and formed some opinions on the basis of that knowledge, and didn't form more opinions because I came to understand the limitations of what I knew. What's frustrating is that you don't even know that car exists but you still want to pretend as if your opinions are as good as anyone's. They aren't. Ignorance is actually a thing. It's not just a word.
 
superrific said:
Listen up fuckface, I don't listen to the media. I read the peer reviewed papers by virologists. Did you? Of course not. So you have nothing to say. Nothing.

And to use this as some wedge to make yet another idiotic point about "your media is lying to you" -- just why? Why are you here? Nobody cares about your opinion about anything. You have repeatedly humiliated yourself, dozens of times. You are a punch line.
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You’ve been so mad for years now about the lab leak lol. Weird how willing you are to die on that hill.
 
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