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- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
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Think about this before you party like it's 1999.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/31/health/covid-holida...Trends started to shift in early December, though, with levels rising from low to high by the middle of the month. In the week ending December 21, there was nearly three times as much Covid-19 circulating in the US than there was during the week ending December 7, CDC data shows.
This surge happened in all regions of the country, but there has been a particularly sharp uptick in the Midwest, where Covid-19 levels are nearly twice as high as they are in other parts of the country.
Some experts worry that the rapid rise after an unusually long lull could have left many people vulnerable to disease spread at the height of the holiday season.
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Just in time for a new much more virulent and contagious variant to rise up and test the Trump admin's response to it. I shudder at the thought.
Woo-Hoo! Happy New Year Everyone!
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Just in time for RFK to take over - he'll remake our health care culture and we'll have to import more nurses from the Philippines. :) Sounds like a lose win - more disease but Filipina nurses!
No. of Recommendations: 3
"Just in time for RFK to take over - he'll remake our health care culture"
We are almost certainly going to be collectively invoking " thoughts and prayers ", in place
of actual medical remedies. I can hear the fighting and idiotic calls for not
trusting the trained medical scientists and doctors already, and the call to place our fate
in the leadership of RFK jr, who as far as I know has only youtube-viewing expertise in medicine.
I remember that the GOP invoked the " are you better off now than 4 years ago " question
leading up to the November election. And a significant # of Americans couldn't remember
back to 2020 and the utter ineptitude with which Trump handled the Covid pandemic.
Can we drink bleach to kill the virus ?
Can we shoot a powerful light into the body to kill the virus ?
Take a medicine that kills parasites, that will take care of a virus.
I will be ignoring any advice coming from the mouth of RFK jr, and Trump.
Pity us all if another crisis hits under Trump. But we don't deserve any pity, we
( collective we ) brought this on ourselves.
No. of Recommendations: 2
I will be ignoring any advice coming from the mouth of RFK jr, and Trump. - UNJ
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So when the Trump Admin starts a long overdue review of what is going into our food supply, you will continue to chug yellow dye number 5. Me too, I love that stuff, way tastier than number 4.
Have you tried it on pancakes? Delicious.
No. of Recommendations: 1
I got the latest vaccine a couple months ago. So I did what I can.
I find it interesting that this virus seems to be much more transmissible than a standard cold or flu. Yeah, we had "flu season". Generally in the fall. But we don't seem to have "covid season". We get a resurgence of covid -it seems- a few times a year. I'm assuming every time is undergoes a significant mutation/evolution. Or maybe that's a misperception on my part.
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Aaaaand here we go. If it’s not COVID, it’ll be the bird flu. Amazing how public health is never a thing during lib administrations but we need to panic during Republican ones.
Pro tip, gang: We’re not doing that ever again. No idiot federal bureaucrat will ever be trusted with level of pose ever again.
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I find it interesting that this virus seems to be much more transmissible than a standard cold or flu.
It isn't as far as I can tell. I live with the sniffles during winter season. Keep sudafed handy. I've had 8 covid shots and caught covid once.
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Pro tip, gang: We’re not doing that ever again. No idiot federal bureaucrat will ever be trusted with level of pose ever again.
Please translate what "that" is and what "pose" is. I don't speak the idiot and stupid dialects. Can you at least upgrade it to imbecile?
No. of Recommendations: 3
I've tested positive twice. I've tested myself probably four or five times, and at least two pre-travel required tests. First was in 2022, I think. Our first big trip after the pandemic, and I ended up with it just before we got home**. Second was within the last year (forget exactly). Because I'm fully vaccinated, it's just a few days of lethargy and a cough (and fever for a day or so). Cough is the worst part, as it hangs on for at least a week.
Usually the flu season skips me. I seldom get that. I do have allergies, for which montelukast and loratadine are in order. I take them as needed.
**In those days, you were required to provide negative COVID tests to travel. So I was negative before the trip.
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Stock up on masks, TP, and read How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman.
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So when the Trump Admin starts a long overdue review of what is going into our food supply
The review ain't long overdue. It's long ignored.
California has been, again, a vanguard of awareness of dangerous additives like food coloring.
"Many modern synthetic dyes were invented around the same time; five of the six dyes banned in California were FDA approved by 1931. But their potential for harm wasn’t widely discussed until the mid-1970s, when the idea of a potential link between food dye and childhood hyperactivity was set loose into the public."
When Hamberder Donald is no longer the poster child for MickeyDs supersized crap .... nah, he'll be dead before he turns against his super-sized fast food lifestyle.
No. of Recommendations: 1
I married a Filipina. Don't need TP. The Philippines has a custom called "tabo".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabo_(hygiene)
We sort of upgraded it, but our TP demands are relatively low. The comedian Jo Koy did a whole routine on it.
:-)
No. of Recommendations: 2
The review ain't long overdue. It's long ignored. - sano
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OK. Good the information is out there although I m pretty sure that rocks exists that haven't been looked under in decades. Anyway, more good news, now the review is getting the attention and publicity it requires. Score one for the Trump Admin.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabo_(hygiene)
We sort of upgraded it, but our TP demands are relatively low. Ok, so a tabo is a sort of small water scoop, yes? How is it used after a BM? Plus, don't you still have to dry yourself somehow?
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Yes, it's a water scoop. Could even be a Circle-K thirst buster cup. Whatever you like.
In its base form, you direct the water with your hand, and dry with a towel. The upgraded version is a bidet (or, in our case, a bidet seat by Toto). I still use TP to blot dry, but a lot less than if you are trying to clean with only dry TP. Plus the bidet seat has a warmer, so the seat and water is not cold.
During the pandemic, everyone was panicking about TP. You can just use water. It's actually better (more gentle, doesn't like bits of paper).
No. of Recommendations: 0
During the pandemic, everyone was panicking about TP. You can just use water. It's actually better (more gentle, doesn't like bits of paper).
Yes, I actually use water too, but simply flush and while still sitting, dip my hand into the toilet water and hand clean. Then a single sheet of TP to blot dry. And, yes, it greatly reduces the amount of TP needed!
No. of Recommendations: 7
Anyway, more good news, now the review is getting the attention and publicity it requires. Score one for the Trump Admin.
You're not getting it. The elites you incessantly denigrate have been battling for health and safety regulations against corporations that have lobbyists, armies of lawyers, huge budgets to con the public with slick advertising and bogus studies.
Do you really believe Trump is going to actually let his minions take on his beloved fast food industry for the fat/sugar/sodium levels that are contributing to the nations obesity/diabetes/cardiovascular epidemic? Or the processed food industry? Or the corn industry?
FAT chance o' that.
Nah, he'll keep them on a short leash, letting them sell their books and 'wellness supplements' to a gullible market.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Yes, I actually use water too, For twenty bucks you can get a stainless steel bidet sprayer that easily attaches to a toilet. Besides greatly reducing the amount of paper one uses, it's very handy for rinsing the bowl on cleaning day.
https://www.amazon.com/hand-held-bidet/s?k=hand-he...
No. of Recommendations: 1
rinsing the bowl on cleaning day. - sano
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Every day is bowl cleaning day at the bhm barndominium.
