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curious2garden

curious2garden

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:
Curious , do you think that the omicron will give us herd
immunity from Covid and finally end the pandemic ?
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In short no, sadly. I wish it would. There will be new variants that will evade immunity. Essentially this is going to take massive global vaccination drives of a more generic vaccine and iterations thereof. I believe we are probably in this until at least 2025 and it won't end with a bang but a whimper and that is merely my opinion and I hope I'm wrong.

Merry Christmas, Dr. Amber, do you have any plans? What did Santa bring you?
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

Dr.Amber Trichome

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curious2garden said:
In short no, sadly. I wish it would. There will be new variants that will evade immunity. Essentially this is going to take massive global vaccination drives of a more generic vaccine and iterations thereof. I believe we are probably in this until at least 2025 and it won't end with a bang but a whimper and that is merely my opinion and I hope I'm wrong.

Merry Christmas, Dr. Amber, do you have any plans? What did Santa bring you?
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Wow. That sucks. Thanks for your insight. I appreciate your honesty and reply. No plans really. Just enjoying the day off with some peace and chill time because I have been really stressed out this past month with work, health and home. Looking forward to the new year. I have a lot of places I plan on going. Did you get any presents? I hope you are having a good one.
 
raratt

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This "government oppression due to science" has been going on for 125 years.

“Spitting Positively Forbidden”: The Anti-Spitting Campaigns, 1896-1910 Chairperson: Kyle G. Volk Following the development of the germ theory of tuberculosis in the 1880s, American medical reformers crafted a series of policies devoted to eradicating the “great white plague.” Among these was the legal prohibition of spitting, a habit that had proliferated in step with Americans’ taste for chewing tobacco and had bedeviled social commentators for generations. Armed with increasing professional stature, medial professionals encouraged hundreds of cities, as well as several states, to ban spitting in places such as street cars, transit stations, sidewalks, and public buildings. This effort revealed the extent of medical authority at the turn of the century and sheds light on the ways advances in medicine encouraged Americans to reconsider popular notions of “liberty.” Medical reformers argued that the right to bodily integrity and the well being of communities superseded the right of any individual to indiscriminately spit, a position many journalists, social activists, and educators supported. In the process, their efforts not only altered municipal codes, but also sought to transform the meaning of individual liberty within the public sphere.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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I experienced first symptoms December 15. I thought it was asthma. “Oh crap, what is this new allergy?”
Monday previous was the worst. My Fitbit was awarding me zone minutes for crossing the house. At peak, my lung efficiency dropped to 25 or 30 per cent.
What distinguished this from allergy was its nonresponse to Benadryl. My best tactic was to be lazy, for which I have fiercely trained.

Day12 I turned the corner, and I can breathe again, and the info I just got from my sinus-rape test was “negative”! Argh and extra obscene srgh.
 
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curious2garden

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Fascinating article:
Abstract
Contemporary medical reports from Britain and Germany on patients suffering from a pandemic infection between 1889 and 1891, which was historically referred to as the Russian flu, share a number of characteristics with COVID-19. Most notable are aspects of multisystem affections comprising respiratory, gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms including loss of taste and smell perception; a protracted recovery resembling long covid and pathology observations of thrombosis in multiple organs, inflammation and rheumatic affections. As in COVID-19 and unlike in influenza, mortality was seen in elderly subjects while children were only weakly affected. Contemporary reports noted trans-species infection between pet animals or horses and humans, which would concur with a cross-infection by a broad host range bovine coronavirus dated by molecular clock arguments to an about 1890 cross-species infection event.

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ooof-da

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raratt said:
This "government oppression due to science" has been going on for 125 years.

“Spitting Positively Forbidden”: The Anti-Spitting Campaigns, 1896-1910 Chairperson: Kyle G. Volk Following the development of the germ theory of tuberculosis in the 1880s, American medical reformers crafted a series of policies devoted to eradicating the “great white plague.” Among these was the legal prohibition of spitting, a habit that had proliferated in step with Americans’ taste for chewing tobacco and had bedeviled social commentators for generations. Armed with increasing professional stature, medial professionals encouraged hundreds of cities, as well as several states, to ban spitting in places such as street cars, transit stations, sidewalks, and public buildings. This effort revealed the extent of medical authority at the turn of the century and sheds light on the ways advances in medicine encouraged Americans to reconsider popular notions of “liberty.” Medical reformers argued that the right to bodily integrity and the well being of communities superseded the right of any individual to indiscriminately spit, a position many journalists, social activists, and educators supported. In the process, their efforts not only altered municipal codes, but also sought to transform the meaning of individual liberty within the public sphere.
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this made me think of what my wife and I were just talking about lol - the amount of spitting that happens in baseball games…like the batter, the catcher, etc. etc. then comes the slide at the plate! It always seemed strange to me pre-Covid-19 but now it’s like barf..lol
 
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Just found out today that a friend of mine, and his son, are on ventilators due to Covid. The father, his wife and the son all refused to get vaccinated. The father has blood clots in his lungs, and now some sort of fungal infection. The son is in a hospital on the other side of the state, as the local ones are maxed out. Nice folks, very conservative, but I really don’t understand their thinking on this. I know that they will not look at anything from msn or cnn or really anything beyond some Facebook pages. Really unnecessary, and sad.
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

Dr.Amber Trichome

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Bubbas.dad1 said:
Just found out today that a friend of mine, and his son, are on ventilators due to Covid. The father, his wife and the son all refused to get vaccinated. The father has blood clots in his lungs, and now some sort of fungal infection. The son is in a hospital on the other side of the state, as the local ones are maxed out. Nice folks, very conservative, but I really don’t understand their thinking on this. I know that they will not look at anything from msn or cnn or really anything beyond some Facebook pages. Really unnecessary, and sad.
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Sorry to hear it.
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I feel it. I went out of network for blood work because my in network was 4 weeks out wait and I couldn’t get an appointment after work. I got a $1,000 bill that my insurance won’t cover. I called both billing Dept and told them I work in a cancer center with cancer patients everyday please help me. I am trying to appeal. If I knew simple labs would cost me that much I would have not had done them. Now yesterday a patient died in my arms . She had lung cancer and started coughing up blood uncontrollably and bled out . It was the most horrific thing I have ever experienced. I am on leave for the rest of the week and not sure if I will be able to return because I don’t want to do patient care anymore. Patients are coming sicker and it’s so hard.
 
curious2garden

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:
Sorry to hear it.

I feel it. I went out of network for blood work because my in network was 4 weeks out wait and I couldn’t get an appointment after work. I got a $1,000 bill that my insurance won’t cover. I called both billing Dept and told them I work in a cancer center with cancer patients everyday please help me. I am trying to appeal. If I knew simple labs would cost me that much I would have not had done them. Now yesterday a patient died in my arms . She had lung cancer and started coughing up blood uncontrollably and bled out . It was the most horrific thing I have ever experienced. I am on leave for the rest of the week and not sure if I will be able to return because I don’t want to do patient care anymore. Patients are coming sicker and it’s so hard.
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I'm so sorry, that is awful. I'd suggest getting psychological counseling now so you don't get set up later for post traumatic stress disorder. I personally recommend EMDR.
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

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curious2garden said:
I'm so sorry, that is awful. I'd suggest getting psychological counseling now so you don't get set up later for post traumatic stress disorder. I personally recommend EMDR.
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Thank you for reaching out . I have a lot of support from my manager and a counselor phone number to call. Right now I am doing alot mediation and stress , anxiety and depression and breathing mediations on my own because I don’t want to have talk about it right now to a stranger on the phone, it’s churning up some deep wounds from my past connected with my parents deaths . Tomorrow I will call the crisis management person. I will get this handled best I can . It’s going to take some time for me.
 
curious2garden

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:
Thank you for reaching out . I have a lot of support from my manager and a counselor phone number to call. Right now I am doing alot mediation and stress , anxiety and depression and breathing mediations on my own because I don’t want to have talk about it right now to a stranger on the phone, it’s churning up some deep wounds from my past connected with my parents deaths . Tomorrow I will call the crisis management person. I will get this handled best I can . It’s going to take some time for me.
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Be kind to yourself :hug:
 
raratt

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:
Thank you for reaching out . I have a lot of support from my manager and a counselor phone number to call. Right now I am doing alot mediation and stress , anxiety and depression and breathing mediations on my own because I don’t want to have talk about it right now to a stranger on the phone, it’s churning up some deep wounds from my past connected with my parents deaths . Tomorrow I will call the crisis management person. I will get this handled best I can . It’s going to take some time for me.
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:hug::hug:
 
lokie

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If you forget your mask improvise.

Woman strips down to her underwear to use her dress as a facemask at ice cream store in Argentina this is the moment a fearless woman entered an Argentinian ice-cream parlour in her undies because she wanted to use her dress as a face mask to be served. The bizarre scene was filmed in the city of Godoy Cruz in the western Argentine province of Mendoza


 
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