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knox_harrington posted:A dumb rear end in a top hat micromanager colleague came into work sick last Thursday because she tested negative on a home rapid test. She cams and sat next to me I a meeting, I didn't feel I could just get up and go somewhere else. i got sick a few weeks ago and popped negative twice over three days but i still stayed home for like two weeks just to make sure nobody else would catch whatever i had even my bazinga boss told us if we're sick to stay home and he would tell off upper management if they complained (we're back to work 3 days per week and have been for awhile)
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why the gently caress do these people come into work sick even with a negative test "oh don't worry it's not covid, i'm just here to infect you all with the regular flu" ???
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a guy in my office knowingly came in to work with actual influenza a few years back and i got knocked on my rear end for a week and had painful pleurisy for like two weeks after that lol
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i remember that
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so do i
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if you didn’t remember it i wouldn’t have posted it. think about it.
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people always talk about having the "flu" but actual influenza is an awful experience i got my flu shot yesterday, I (almost) never get the flu but can't hurt
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i caught flu a earlier this year and it sucked massive rear end. i’d just as soon prefer not to get it if it’s all the same.
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Blinkz0rz posted:i caught flu a earlier this year and it sucked massive rear end. i’d just as soon prefer not to get it if it’s all the same. no. it's weird that you don't want to be sick all the time
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i had the "mexican flu" when that went around in 2008 or 2009 and it was super bad. like multiple days of fever and shivers bad, and blowing handfuls of snot out of my nose in the shower
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knox_harrington posted:A dumb rear end in a top hat micromanager colleague came into work sick last Thursday because she tested negative on a home rapid test. She cams and sat next to me I a meeting, I didn't feel I could just get up and go somewhere else. My wife's parents are wandering around with "the flu". They don't want to test for covid because it's over and the TV says it's a bad flu season. They don't want to stay home until they feel better because it's "just the flu."
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EricBauman posted:i had the "mexican flu" ¡Ay, caramba!
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Blinkz0rz posted:i caught flu a earlier this year and it sucked massive rear end. i’d just as soon prefer not to get it if it’s all the same. People are just fine with being sick all the fuckin' time now
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:¡Ay, caramba! did they not call it that in the us? it really was a more optimistic time after obama was just elected i wonder what lovely name trump would have pushed for a mexican flu virus
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EricBauman posted:did they not call it that in the us? I believe it was called the "swine flu" elsewhere around the world
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spankmeister posted:I believe it was called the "swine flu" elsewhere around the world so were they calling mexicans pigs, or were we?
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literally never heard it called "mexican flu"
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bad news, baby - I'm postiive for the German herpes
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fart simpson posted:think about it. no.
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haveblue posted:literally never heard it called "mexican flu" well, it was called that in various parts of the world. it mostly depended on whether or not local officials chose to stigmatize pigs, or mexico.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:bad news, baby - I'm postiive for the German herpes Mein Leben!
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spankmeister posted:people always talk about having the "flu" but actual influenza is an awful experience a major benefit of the flu shot is that it helps prevent you from passing on the flu to at risk populations, such as the elderly or young children ![]()
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got the flu vax yesterday, getting the bivalent on thursday
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The Canadian Cholera
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got a nasty case of the dutch swears
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godverdomme kankerkop! teringlijer! tyfushond!
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good news, covid might not be top of mind in terms of viruses going forward https://blog.ebola-cases.com/leaked-ebola-projections-uganda/
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whatever happened to monkeypox anyway
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it wasn't politically useful
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much less contagious, responded well to countermeasures, community took it seriously
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haveblue posted:much less contagious, responded well to countermeasures, community took it seriously this it is almost eradicated in montreal which was our epicentre here
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maybe they should have tried the 'there will be no gay sex until the disease has been eradicated' approach with covid. it still feels really dirty how it was presented as a gay disease all over the world. here, only gay men could get tested, I think. or maybe that was vaccination. i guess this all shows that we still would really mess up the response if aids would be a new disease now. attitudes really haven't improved enough, and we'll still pretend a disease is for gay men only
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Dr. Griffin from the TWiV podcast always says "Monkey pox isn't a gay disease, it isn't an African disease, it's an infectious disease." and it's just sad that anyone should even have to say that. we've made some fantastic strides in creating tools for preventing, diagnosing and treating disease and yet we are still so stuck in our ways that if monkeypox had been really infectious, we'd have another pandemic on our hands.
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tomorrow is my in-office day which is nice because I have a ton of stuff i need to bitch at my boss about. she just doesn’t get the full effect of my agitated gesticulations over teams.
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so you're one of those guys that gesticulate in public, beep?
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i do have a tan overcoat…
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Beeping Tom
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i only wish the best for beep
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PokeJoe posted:Beeping Tom the adventures of tom fondledilz
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spankmeister posted:Dr. Griffin from the TWiV podcast always says if aids was a new thing today in 2022 we would 100% absolutely not a joke let everyone get infected it’s mild, you can live with it, the antivirals will make pfizer a shitload of money, and npis are bad pr and don’t meet cost benefit analyses done by on-payroll pfizer economists
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