Wait, so mandating return to office in the middle of flu season has resulted in more people getting sick? Who could have seen that coming?
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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WHO indeed?
WHO doesn’t have a great track record on COVID either. They denied it was airborne for years even though we had sufficient evidence to say so in 2021.
Likely caved to pressure to not report on it.
Are you an idiot? The rona was only 4 or 5 years ago and you already don't remember the truth?
STFU and get back to your cubicle. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Nah it just makes us bitter, tough and stringy.
Line must go up. Our company is ~~prepared to sacrifice any number of employees at the altar of capitalism~~ “concerned” for your well being.
Not really. It's more about the anti vaxers not even getting flu shots for the past few years. There's a lot of those idiots.
Considering how repeat COVID infections can cause cumulative damage, which includes immune system problems, one could expect flu waves to become deadlier. All those laptop class academics who preached about "herd immunity" via infection must be feeling great right now.
One of those laptop academics was just promoted to head of the NIH 😭😭
I want to leave this timeline.
Please leave.
I've caught what I presume is the seasonal flu and it has absolutely put me on my ass. Blowing my nose every 5 minutes, coughing up phlegm, I've used so many tissues my trash bin is looking like I'm a teenager who just discovered pornhub. I think I'm past the worst of it, but I took a long weekend and bought a boatload of sick supplies like mucinex, sudafed, chicken noodle soup, and powerade anyhow just to be on the safe side. I've got a pretty strong immune system and basically never catch colds, so I feel pretty confident that regular folks that catch it are going to be absolutely demolished by it, possibly hospital time even.
Sorry to hear that. FYI this is unintuitive but “strong immune system” would mean you would have a worse reaction to the infection.
People often die just as much because their immune system overreacts to infections, than the infection directly killing them.
All that stuff, fever, coughing, phelm, is a consequence of your immune system fighting the infection. Not inherent to the infection itself.
(This is one of my pet peeves, sorry, a strong immune system is just as bad as a weak one, from your life experience it sounds like yours is perfectly balanced).
I’ve used so many tissues my trash bin is looking like I’m a teenager who just discovered pornhub.
Such a vivid description that I can see that trash can in my mind with the towering amount of tissues.
You don't have any school aged kids, do you.
It looks like you've replied to the wrong person as I am in no way sure how your comment is relevant to mine.
No. It was to you. "I've got a pretty strong immune system and pretty much never catch colds".
So, no school aged kids?
Considering I've been this way since I was a school aged kid, I don't think it's relevant.
Good thing I got my ~~autism shot~~ I mean flu vax along with the ~~radio chip shot~~ I mean covid vax before RFKJr does away with them.
It's sarcasm. Shut up.
I'm on day 16 of being sick. This flu SUCKS.
Dweeb lord level immune system.