I gotta go withā¦ WTF CDC? It looks like they put this out yesterday.
NYC was the canary for the rest of the nation in 2020.
Wear a mask so you wonāt get sick.
Whatever happened to also wearing one so others donāt get sick?
I often think individualism is as bad a disease or worse than Covid.
ā¦ I thought the whole point was āwear a mask so other people wonāt get sickā 
Thatās my primary reason for doing so, even when not sick. If Iām carrying something, but am asymptomatic, I would hate to spread itā¦
I watched the video, and can only say so far that I sure hope itās true that relief for long Covid and more can be so simple. 
Another anecdotal report, Iām mainly over the viruseās immediate effects, but seem to be suffering some of the ālong COVIDā symptoms. Inflammation, especially. Itās hitting every single muscle or tendon Iād had previous injuries in. Sometimes itās just aches and pains, sometimes it feels like someone has a voodoo doll of me and theyāre poking needles into my knees or back, and it sends a fiery burning pain down the whole tendon or muscle.
I know itās different for everyone, but this is not something you want to fuck around with, or give to your family.
Be safe, fellow mutants.
Honestly, I did not know it was still around, but there you go.
This interested me. though:
Already, the World Health Organizationās vaccine advisory committee has advised that countries this year should switch to monovalent vaccines that target the XBB lineage, the latest omicron sublineage to dominate transmission. In a statement released May 18, WHO advisers recommended that countries ditch the current bivalent formulasāwhich target both the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 virus and an omicron subvariantābecause continuing to target the ancestral strain doesnāt seem to boost protection against current strains. Moreover, keeping the ancestral strain in the shots āreduces the concentration of the new target antigen(s) as compared to monovalent vaccines.ā
It is an ever-moving target.
Seems like we should give a moment to remember that they jumped in and created something that worked AT THE TIME when the world needed it, respect that, and then accept that now we have 2.0 versions that work better.
In other news, a formerly cheap diabetes drug is no longer cheap (probably)
Metformin has been demonstrated to have a plethora (we donāt use that word enough!) of health benefits. This is good news, but Iām not too shocked. This is a pluripotent just plain good drug.
A word of caution to everyone but you, @docosc: it can have severe side effects, as you can find out if you dive into the deeps of the medical information available. Or just do a quick check on the Wikipedia.
(I know you didnāt mean āplain good drugā to be interpreted as āgo get the stuff, it is safe and you should try itā. However, since I very recently had discussions about self-medication I did not expect to have with these particular persons, I am, yet again, a bit shaken in my assumptions. 
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Wackadoodle was wackadoodling today, notice she was also upset about using the word people instead of woman.
Iād also like to talk to you on behalf of all the pregnant womenānot people as you call them. To quote you on August 8, 2021, āCDC encourages all pregnant peopleāitās women, by the wayā[and those] who are thinking about becoming pregnant and those breastfeeding to get vaccinated to protect themselves from covid-19. [holds up a chart] This has also been ignored, the amount of miscarriages and stillbirths that increased drastically due to your advice to get vaccinated. Pregnant women again, not people.
