You havenāt heard of the most recent outbreak?
And
hmmmā¦
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I donāt get it. And thats ok.
Patient zero
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Lol, maybe close. Iām convinced it was here earlier than stated. Our daughter was an infant and got sick at daycare and I remember her doctors talking about a strangely potent bug going around in November ā19.
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Yes. My buddy had it in December. He said he hasnāt ever been that sick before. Went to the doctor and was told he just had a bug.
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Same here. Iāve heard others say the same thing. It must have arrived in the US sooner than the government claims. Or maybe, it was here all alongā¦
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Two of my siblings and I were told we had pneumonia about a month before the first recorded case in my county (brought by my family doctor, haha).
I really hadnāt heard of people getting pneumonia unless they went out in the rain in 1850 so I was surprised that multiple members of my family got it all at once. Always kinda had my doubts about the diagnosis. We were never tested for Covid, but it was on the news by then.
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Actually this also happened to my friend in Aus
It was around the time covid started spreading so Australia just shut down. This was the first wave that was actually much, much worse than the covid going round today.
He was healthy but in millitary basic training and he randomly caught pneumonia so bad he had to be rushed off to hospital
He had fluid drained from his lungs multiple times. He lost almost 20lbs in two weeks.
I suspect it was potentially covid but God forbid he came up with a positive test the whole base would have shut down. He wasnāt the only one who got sick like that
Perhaps immunosuppression from intense training but really odd for a group of 19-20 year olds training hard and eating well to suddenly fall sick like that.
No dude
If you go on the carnivore diet and it doubles LDL cholesterol which it seems to do for some without any genetic issue
How long do people stay on this diet for?
If theyāre gonna do it long term thereās no way to justify that from a healthy perspective. For those who arenāt affected, maybe itās fine if nutritional deficiencies donāt develop. The literature Iāve read seems to indicate itās not the best long term diet.
I donāt understand why someone would even want to follow this diet. Why exclude fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes. Esp vegetablesā¦ Why would anyone stop eating veggies?
If I recall correctly this diet is usually zero carbs (or near zero) per day. So in theory this is a very strict subtype of ketogenic diet?
I could maybe see the rationale if you had really high blood sugarā¦ But WHY would anyone eliminate fruits and veggies entirely?
Maybe there is something I donāt knowā¦ Iām not some nutritional expert.
But it sounds like a strict carnivore diet = unnecessary hardship and it doesnāt sound like itās good long term therefore I just donāt get it.
I actually donāt understand the allure behind any hyperspecific fad style diet. These super strict diets seem to come and go. There was once a craze over eating raw meatā¦
Eating a balanced, healthy diet should be the goal no? Whatever optimises your health or allows you to reach your goals and that will be different for everyone
Some sacrifice health to reach goals. Maybe this is a really good diet to get super lean? Wouldnāt exercise performance be worse with zero carbs?
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This made me laugh.
Humorless people - I donāt get it, but ok.
People who nurse grudges. I get being deeply, profoundly angry, but to want to remain a victim when thereās the possibility that an affront was unintentional - I donāt get it. And frankly, itās not okay with me. These people tend to be humorless, in my experience, which is unfortunately fairly broad as I listen to gripes for a living.
Me: Is it possible that she didnāt realize you were interested in having the curtains? [Real answer: absolutely yes.]
Client: No.
Me: Oh, well then in that case may she burn in hell for all eternity for saying she wanted the curtains before you had a chance to.
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This describes my wifes step dad very accurately.
I like to zing him. Its so easy.
My health, happiness and quality of life went in a total 180 for the positive once I did.
Seems like a good tradeoff.
And āhardshipā is the opposite of my experience. This has been very liberating
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Kinda scary ! Glad you beat it
No other species does the ābalancedā bullshitā¦ and they donāt suffer the myriad of diseases we do either
Itās just a buzz word bereft of context and substance
People that donāt understand nutrition, human biology / physiologyā¦ will use āfadā to dismiss efficacy.
The grapefruit diet was a fad
Carnivore style eating is completely in-line with human evolution
The LDL fear mongering needs to stop, too
Thanks man.
A guy I knew died from it. He was in shape, a police officer, didnāt drink et cetera. He spent a month in one of those rotating beds and it finally got him. He ultimately had a heart attack but the active infection put such a harsh strain on his body that it gave out.
Another friend is a doctor, and he told me that new viruses often start off strong, then their strength sort of wanes as they replicate.
The logic he explained is that viruses need hosts to survive, and if they kill everything they infect they arenāt able to spread so itās a sort of evolution for the virus. The most successful strains by nature are out in public given the infected person isnāt too sick to perform daily life functions, while the extremely oppressive infections naturally have people bedridden and sequestered for much of the infection.
Then people develop an inherent immune response after coming in to contact with a mild strain whether they get sick or their body fights it off and herd immunity does its job.
So thereās truth to the early strains being extremely harsh, plus we had never been exposed so we didnāt have a natural immunity, but a lot of the dialogue about a crazy Frankenstein strain is largely fear mongering, with a very slight chance for random environmental factors to kick off an even worse experience than the initial strain.
Couple of teammates got it pretty bad. I know itās realā¦ what concerns me is its origin, how absurd the reaction was, how many lives were destroyed due to the overreaction, etcā¦ our govt sucks at everything
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Agreed.
I donāt buy the conspiracies around population reductions or intentional population control testing, but I do believe it was an escaped research virus that we probably had an illegal hand in, and the overreach was because the govt had no clue exactly how dangerous it was. I still donāt think k we know. So many viruses present differently later on. Chickenpox comes back as shingles, genital warts as cancer, HIV as full blown AIDSā¦. and I remember reading it shared characteristics of the HIV virus, flu strains and the common cold all rolled in to one. Will be wild to see how things look in 20 years.
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Weāll all be mutants in 20 years from the vaccinesā¦ like Louis Gosset Jr looked in Enemy Mine
Given how easily people forget this stuff and thereās typically zero accountability in our governmentā¦ why not continue the charades ?
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Kids with tits is the norm