Pffft. the gay community got all upset when the same was suggested around the emergence of HIV. A little Monkeypox isn't going to stop them.
We love polyamorous unprotected chemsex in this country more than ar15s. I can’t tell though if some of the supposed first hand accounts of this on Twitter are just trolls or not. When I see someone that claimed they picked it up after a multi water sport orgy weekend it feels too on the nose. On the other hand the gays do know how to party. This is one of those viruses that shouldn’t be getting any headlines given it’s super low numbers and death rate(with vax ready). We are still just keyed up from covid and the media is never going to give up the fear porn.
It's not Monkeypox I'm worried about, it's Marburg. We've kept these kinds of hemorrhagic fevers in check by responding quickly and decisively to outbreaks any time they are spotted in Africa, but the damage we've done to our willingness to engage in preventive pandemic efforts has me spooked. A lot of Americans see these efforts as foreign aid (going to those people, to boot), and not the massively self-benefiting acts that they are.
Rebound case? That's weird, I haven't heard if that. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/us/politics/biden-covid-positive.amp.html
Guess it's somewhat common if he took Paxlovid COVID-19 Rebound After Paxlovid Treatment (cdc.gov) https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2022/pdf/CDC_HAN_467.pdf
Do we know if this occurs due to an incomplete/inadequate regimen, or if it's just one of those things that happens sometimes?
Yeah, that's what I was wondering. It may be one of those things that doesn't happen often enough that they have data to draw a conclusion.
HIV is famous for being undetectable-yet-not-eliminated when suppressed by antivirals, so I wonder if something similar is happening here.
Could be. Plus, it's something that has a vaccine and a treatment course with individual variability and young data sets.
I also wonder how much of it is due to the "special" treatment those in power got very early on in the pandemic. It might be that it was early, but less ineffective (or has long term issues) compared to the treatments that were mass produced and better tested later on.
I had it in WA, and it's surged just about everywhere around the 4th of July holiday. Paxlovid did wonders, it's a hell of a Pokémon. All I had was a lingering chest cough that my doctor suspected wasn't even viral, since the stuff I was coughing up was yellow/brown. The first two days I had scratchy throat, body aches, fever and a hell of a headache. The weird part was testing positive for a full two weeks. Doc said some folks test positive for months. I quarantined for 2 solid weeks, and it was kind of hard to get food and medicine without walking indoors. It wasn't cheap either, compared to my normal grocery bill. The other weird thing is the cdc guidance that said 10 days was good enough to go back to work, even though I had symptoms (at that point just the cough). For the record, I am fully vaxxed and boosted. I am back in VA, and don't feel any lingering symptoms, aside from being thrown off from workouts for 2 weeks.
Our oldest son tested positive last week. My wife had same symptoms a day or two later, and has tested negative three times until this morning, almost a week after symptoms started. Makes absolutely no sense.
I finally tested positive Saturday morning, but have had very minimal symptoms. It just felt like a mild flare-up of my allergies, but enough that I broke down and got out the home tests. I’m not allowed to go back to work until Friday, so I’m just being a lazy fuck for a few days.
Damn, y'all catching it. I'm over here bobbin' and weavin' keeping the 'vid guessing. Wonder what the percentage of the regulars on the board have caught it so far.
Right now, I'm going on almost three years of not even having the sniffles. I wonder if I ever caught it, and was just an asymptomatic carrier.
I’m convinced I had it around Christmas but never tested positive despite multiple doctors office test. I’d be interested to see if I have the antigens. We just had a wave a few weeks ago at work where five or six people had it. At a certain point if more contagious but less severe variants come along I could see them just ditching quarantine even for the positive sick.
I've had a few times where I think I may have had it, but systems were mild, but every test has been negative so far. I take that with a grain of salt as some of the variants will give false negatives unless you have bad symptoms. Our son has been tested the most and he's had all negative tests so far as well.
This is funny, I don't care who you are. https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/wohvux/how_brain_damaged_was_he/
Here's the original, someone fuzzied out the scribblings that read like an argument had on a bathroom stall wall: Spoiler