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Still feeling quite sick today and a bit worse. Have lost my voice entirely 😢 It's not Covid-19 though thankfully 🤞 -- But I'm _really really_ quite angry. 🤬 Why? 🤔 Because...
- I don't go anywhere.
- For the past couple of years I've deliberately avoided humans I don't know or trust, crowded places, indoors with recycled air, public transport, etc.
- I even took an entire season off of Table-Tennis because I wasn't sure of the health practices of the hall, the people that play there and whether there was enough "open air".
Then one day my child comes home from school feeling "unwell". She tells her mother she has a sore throat and points t her throat. But she gets over it pretty quickly. Two days maybe?
Then my wife comes down with something on Saturday.
Then I start feeling unwell, sore throat, Sunday.
Anyone that knows me and has ever heard me exclaim how selfish humans are can hopefully empathize with how I feel right now. I'm so fucking angry, you can't escape stupidity and selfishness 🤦♂️ 🤬
Still feeling quite sick today and a bit worse. Have lost my voice entirely 😢 It's not Covid-19 though thankfully 🤞 -- But I'm _really really_ quite angry. 🤬 Why? 🤔 Because...
- I don't go anywhere.
- For the past couple of years I've deliberately avoided humans I don't know or trust, crowded places, indoors with recycled air, public transport, etc.
- I even took an entire season off of Table-Tennis because I wasn't sure of the health practices of the hall, the people that play there and whether there was enough "open air".
Then one day my child comes home from school feeling "unwell". She tells her mother she has a sore throat and points t her throat. But she gets over it pretty quickly. Two days maybe?
Then my wife comes down with something on Saturday.
Then I start feeling unwell, sore throat, Sunday.
Anyone that knows me and has ever heard me exclaim how selfish humans are can hopefully empathize with how I feel right now. I'm so fucking angry, you can't escape stupidity and selfishness 🤦♂️ 🤬
@prologic
what does becoming sick have to do with selfishness or stupidity?
you have an immune system for a reason. when you isolate like you do your immune system weakens. after a lack of exposure to community pathogens your immune system falls back to your tuned antibody instructions (basic immune response vs targeted response from learned immunity) this ultimately makes it tougher to fight off whatever comes your way.
increase your intake of zinc, c, and d3/k2. increase your hydration.
unless you plan on living by yourself for your life in a cave in guatemala or some shit you're going to need to expose yourself to microbes so when you do catch a bug your immune system is better equipped.
before you say it, no im not an internet doctor. years of medical training and saving lives on the ground during and prior to wuhan.
@retrocrash Heh by that logic I _should_ work in a child care center just to have a rock solid immune system 😅 You are right though,anecdotally people that work as teachers with children or in child care centres with todlers tend to either a) not get sick or b) when they do, they get over it quickly.
Same is true of my children, they interact with other children of varying health conditions and pathogens. They are younger. They have strong immunse systems.
However. It doesn't refuse my statement and ager, you only catch a virual infection from someone carrying said virii.
@retrocrash Heh by that logic I _should_ work in a child care center just to have a rock solid immune system 😅 You are right though,anecdotally people that work as teachers with children or in child care centres with todlers tend to either a) not get sick or b) when they do, they get over it quickly.
Same is true of my children, they interact with other children of varying health conditions and pathogens. They are younger. They have strong immunse systems.
However. It doesn't refuse my statement and ager, you only catch a virual infection from someone carrying said virii.
@prologic ice blocks in hell before i deny anyone a feeling regardless of how delusional i may perceive it.
but how does one logically chastise another human being for being human? we all carry pathogens and microbes. evolution has given us the ability to adapt over time. without it you'd drop dead from a mild cold.
@retrocrash Maybe.
But another part of me also _thinks_ we just don't have "good enough" medical technology and information to be more effective. I jokingly said to my wife today that I wished we had something like a smartwatch or something that could alert you of close proximity to a personal or animal with a viral infection.
Wouldn't that be great? 😅
@retrocrash Maybe.
But another part of me also _thinks_ we just don't have "good enough" medical technology and information to be more effective. I jokingly said to my wife today that I wished we had something like a smartwatch or something that could alert you of close proximity to a personal or animal with a viral infection.
Wouldn't that be great? 😅
I wasn't really joking though... I would want such a device, just like I'd love the "medical tricorder" we all dream about (aren't we all SciFi fans?) 😂
I wasn't really joking though... I would want such a device, just like I'd love the "medical tricorder" we all dream about (aren't we all SciFi fans?) 😂
@prologic then you deal with the privacy concerns of contact tracing.
@retrocrash No. Contract tracing is a joke. 😂 I'm talking about medical sensors that can detect all kinds of pathogens in real-time. We're not there yet obviously.... But maybe one day, but we'll probably be long gone by then 😅
@retrocrash No. Contract tracing is a joke. 😂 I'm talking about medical sensors that can detect all kinds of pathogens in real-time. We're not there yet obviously.... But maybe one day, but we'll probably be long gone by then 😅
@prologic im theorizing we've got another 10 years as a species. we've gone and fucked everything up. nature is furious. rightfully so.
one could ponder the idea that if we weren't so population-dense life could be more sustainable.
but like you said. humans are stupid and selfish. im not excluded from that blanket statement.
@retrocrash Yeah there's a lot of supporting growing evidence to suggest we're basically "fucked" as a species, let alone how we've ruined the planet beyond repair (maybe?) -- I'm not even talking about the world population either, I'm talking about genetic diversity. The human gene pool is allegedly degrading at an alarming rate, we may not be able to recover without some kind of miraculous solution 🤔
@retrocrash Yeah there's a lot of supporting growing evidence to suggest we're basically "fucked" as a species, let alone how we've ruined the planet beyond repair (maybe?) -- I'm not even talking about the world population either, I'm talking about genetic diversity. The human gene pool is allegedly degrading at an alarming rate, we may not be able to recover without some kind of miraculous solution 🤔