I just finished reading, The Lost City of the Monkey God where a Nat Geo reporter follows some archeological expeditions to the jungles of Honduras and comes down with leishmaniasis. Holy crap, I may never go outside again.
2 years in and I finally caught it. A āmildā case of COVID so far but fuck this is miserable. I think the paxlovid supply is getting better, as both my doc and my husbandās doc prescribed it. Kid is ok, she had a strange night of stupid high fever, she woke from a nap with 105.5. We got it down fairly quickly after some vomiting. She tested negative at the doctor (thank all that is holy for after hours pediatric clinics). Which the pediatrician said was unusual for covid. Iām grateful she seems to be better now with no other symptoms.
So yeah. All those ppl who are like āCOVID pandemic is over!ā Fuck you all
Sorry.
Sorry to hear you and the kid are dealing with that.
If the kid was sick at the same time as you and youāre sure that you had Covid, I wouldnāt put too much faith in the accuracy of one negative test, even if it was a PCR test at a doctors office. My kid tested negative on his first antigen test and first PCR test even though heād been symptomatic for days at that point. Eventually tested positive on a PCR at day 4 or 5.
Yeah, sheās the only infection vector we could figure out and even if she didnāt bring it home, thereās just no way such a cuddly kid didnāt catch it from us. The doc said the very high fever was unusual for COVID but also said we may have tested to early. At this point, we are assuming she has it. It makes little difference anyway, since we pulled her from school as soon as she had a first fever.
i seriously wonder, is there any reason to think weāll have more pandemics sometime soon? this seems unique to me i guess. like are there factors that made covid and other diseases more likely, or just statistically every 50 or 100 years thereās going to be something?
kind of rhetorical maybe. hereās to hoping things become more normal before all the glaciers melt
this could fall under multiple topics
Some Seattle police officers routinely ā and illegally ā ignored state and city mask mandates during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and refused to obey direct orders from the chief to comply, exposing what accountability officials called a āserious cultural issueā within the department, according to a recently released review by the Office of Inspector General.
edit: i left out the best part
No officer was ever disciplined for refusing to wearing a mask, according to the report and a statement from the Office of Police Accountability. Inspector General Lisa Judge concluded this decision set a questionable precedent.
As a biologist, I think yes, the risk for pandemics are statistically increasing. But I am no specialist, and not really qualified to say for sure.
The arguments are simple, however.
Many more humans them ever before are in close contact with the pitiful tests of wildlife, itself being exposed to more and stronger stressors than before, and humans are much more mobile and available in much larger quantity than ever before.
If you have a look for it, you will find plenty of news, reports, and scientific studies in that line. Some, I remember vaguely. Most, I donāt even look at because they seem to corroborate my slightly informed belief I outlined above.
So Iām reading comments under news stories about the Avian Flu where some states or some counties are asking people to take down their bird feeders temporarily.
Itās like reading comments on mask wearing stories.
No one is going to tell them they canāt feed the birds. Iām going to get two more feeders just to show them. Weāve had bird flu before and the government never told us to stop feeding, itās just another way to control us. And on and on.
Oh, right, the US. Well, what could possibly go wrong.
Meanwhile, in Europe the UK:
