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Some sort of superbug is ripping through my factory on the far NW side right now. Out of 28 employees we have 9 that are at work today. All the others complaining of flu like symptoms but more severe. One 31 year old warehouse guy, great shape is in the emergency room having one of his lungs drained.

Are any of yall seeing this out in your area?
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This is not local but our Ohio headquarters has ~ 2/3 of staff out with flu/flu like symptoms. all hit within a 3 days window.
yesterday the entire IT staff was unable to report for work. Fun times!
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Multiple bugs ran through our kids school the last couple of weeks.
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Super China
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Out of 28 employees we have 9 that are at work today.
ICE raid? That's going around too.
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I'm just getting over whatever it is going around
El Gallo Blanco
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I don't know, but I do not remember people getting sick all of the time like this until that Fauci-funded-Chinese-virus-lab leaked the China-Virus out into the world...likely intentionally.
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the "flu" ran through my house last week. missed a couple days of school.
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Isn't this pretty typical during flu season?
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People playing outside in the snow and ice for two days during cold and flu season is probably attributable to or at least a contributing factor to an uptick in employees calling out sick.
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El Gallo Blanco said:

I don't know, but I do not remember people getting sick all of the time like this until that Fauci-funded-Chinese-virus-lab leaked the China-Virus out into the world...likely intentionally.
lol, people getting sick during cold and flu season is now a new thing. Seriously one of the dumbest things ever posted on this site.
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It got me last week and one person at the office this week. I tested positive for Flu A. Apparently this years flu shot is only 33% effective.
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That's what happens when you don't take your daily iwarmactin
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I don't know if's more than usual for this time of year, but my mom had to go to the emergency room last night and they were working the phone trying to find a hospital with an open bed. They were not in Houston though; may not have been an issue in town but the smaller hospitals apparently have been packed.
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I had it two weeks ago. Just the flu. 101 fever (not bad, but I'm the type that normally doesn't run a fever at all when I'm sick), cough, congestion. Just the normal flu crud.

Now it's going around the office pretty fast.
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FarmerJohn said:

It got me last week and one person at the office this week. I tested positive for Flu A. Apparently this years flu shot is only 33% effective.
Hit me back in October, waaay worse than the Vid
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It's nuts how the experts and doom seekers come out for stuff like mass illness, Houston winter storms and hurricanes.

Sometime in the near future, a psyc phd dork who will never be able to pay off his doctoral debt will defend a dissertation on online consumption and dissemination of fear porn in southeast Texas.
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https://www.cdc.gov/flu/whats-new/2024-2025-flu-activity-vaccine.html

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So far this season, flu vaccination coverage is lower among children compared to the same time last season. As of December 7, 2024, 40.8% of children received a flu vaccine, which is lower than last season at this same time point (44.2%). Flu vaccination coverage among children has decreased overall since prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Flu vaccination coverage is about 10.4 percentage points lower than during the same time in 2019-2020 (51.2%).

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WES2006AG said:

El Gallo Blanco said:

I don't know, but I do not remember people getting sick all of the time like this until that Fauci-funded-Chinese-virus-lab leaked the China-Virus out into the world...likely intentionally.
lol, people getting sick during cold and flu season is now a new thing. Seriously one of the dumbest things ever posted on this site.
Not saying that...I just do not remember people getting sick so often...not just talking about this winter. Last 2-3 years, I have personally noticed an increase in our office and also in my regular life. It's probably largely due to the possibility that Covid is here to stay, I don't know.

Maybe I am wrong on that, but one truth is certain...you're a liberal male feminist...your best and brightest leaders believe men can get pregnant, that they should compete with women in sport and shower and change with them afterwards...among a whole host of other supremely ret@rded things.

Do some self-reflection and try to drift back towards sanity before flinging poo online over someone else's honest observations. Praying for you. You got this!
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drumboy said:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/whats-new/2024-2025-flu-activity-vaccine.html

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So far this season, flu vaccination coverage is lower among children compared to the same time last season. As of December 7, 2024, 40.8% of children received a flu vaccine, which is lower than last season at this same time point (44.2%). Flu vaccination coverage among children has decreased overall since prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Flu vaccination coverage is about 10.4 percentage points lower than during the same time in 2019-2020 (51.2%).


It's no fun, but maybe it's good to get things like the flu a few times when you're young instead of being safeguarded from any and every pesky-but-non-life-threatening illness? I know that probably goes against the latest "science" from the party who thinks men can "chestfeed" and that it's good to chop off the breasts of confused 13 yr old girls, but whatevs.
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El Gallo Blanco said:

WES2006AG said:

El Gallo Blanco said:

I don't know, but I do not remember people getting sick all of the time like this until that Fauci-funded-Chinese-virus-lab leaked the China-Virus out into the world...likely intentionally.
lol, people getting sick during cold and flu season is now a new thing. Seriously one of the dumbest things ever posted on this site.
Not saying that...I just do not remember people getting sick so often...not just talking about this winter. Last 2-3 years, I have personally noticed an increase in our office and also in my regular life. It's probably largely due to the possibility that Covid is here to stay, I don't know.

Maybe I am wrong on that, but one truth is certain...you're a liberal male feminist...your best and brightest leaders believe men can get pregnant, that they should compete with women in sport and shower and change with them afterwards...among a whole host of other supremely ret@rded things.

Do some self-reflection and try to drift back towards sanity before flinging poo online over someone else's honest observations. Praying for you. You got this!
I understand your desire to use personal attacks and to try and assign political positions that I have never taken to minimize how incredibly dumb your original comment was. It ok though, I can tell you are just lashing out because you are embarrassed.
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I'm confused.

Are we blaming the China Virus or vaccine deniers for this recent bout of illness?
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El Gallo Blanco said:

drumboy said:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/whats-new/2024-2025-flu-activity-vaccine.html

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So far this season, flu vaccination coverage is lower among children compared to the same time last season. As of December 7, 2024, 40.8% of children received a flu vaccine, which is lower than last season at this same time point (44.2%). Flu vaccination coverage among children has decreased overall since prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Flu vaccination coverage is about 10.4 percentage points lower than during the same time in 2019-2020 (51.2%).


It's no fun, but maybe it's good to get things like the flu a few times when you're young instead of being safeguarded from any and every pesky-but-non-life-threatening illness? I know that probably goes against the latest "science" from the party who thinks men can "chestfeed" and that it's good to chop off the breasts of confused 13 yr old girls, but whatevs.
Yep, antibodies are good, and I agree that men can't feed babies via mammary glands (not have babies). This is standard.

13 year old girl's breasts shouldn't be cut off and I hope that doesn't happen.
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Diggity said:

I'm confused.

Are we blaming the China Virus or vaccine deniers for this recent bout of illness?
Obviously Fauci, the new China-flu chatgpt and DEI.
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Buck Turgidson
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My son is still getting over the flu and I have it now as well.
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Diggity said:

I'm confused.

Are we blaming the China Virus or vaccine deniers for this recent bout of illness?

Throw em both at the wall and see what sticks. Illegal immigrants too.
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WES2006AG said:

El Gallo Blanco said:

WES2006AG said:

El Gallo Blanco said:

I don't know, but I do not remember people getting sick all of the time like this until that Fauci-funded-Chinese-virus-lab leaked the China-Virus out into the world...likely intentionally.
lol, people getting sick during cold and flu season is now a new thing. Seriously one of the dumbest things ever posted on this site.
Not saying that...I just do not remember people getting sick so often...not just talking about this winter. Last 2-3 years, I have personally noticed an increase in our office and also in my regular life. It's probably largely due to the possibility that Covid is here to stay, I don't know.

Maybe I am wrong on that, but one truth is certain...you're a liberal male feminist...your best and brightest leaders believe men can get pregnant, that they should compete with women in sport and shower and change with them afterwards...among a whole host of other supremely ret@rded things.

Do some self-reflection and try to drift back towards sanity before flinging poo online over someone else's honest observations. Praying for you. You got this!
I understand your desire to use personal attacks and to try and assign political positions that I have never taken to minimize how incredibly dumb your original comment was. It ok though, I can tell you are just lashing out because you are embarrassed.
Darr darr mEn cAn GeT PrEgNaNt! TrUsT tHe sCieNcE! /Democrats

https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2024/06/18/yes-everyone-really-is-sick-a-lot-more-often-after-covid/

Again, white liberal male feminists have no business trying to fling poo at ANYONE. Your most recently appointed supreme court justice (much brighter than you and every other liberal on this site) has zero f-ing clue what a woman is. Your party is an embarrassing carney freakshow. Could clown on you and your brethren all day for the insane sh** you believe and support, but, even though I am a board certified alpha, I am merciful.
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Crap, am I getting this WES mixed up with another WES who used to be liberal/democrat? Sincere apologies if you are not a dem, even though I do not appreciate your childish and insulting tone. Especially since there is a lot of evidence online suggesting that I am right and you are wrong.
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El Gallo Blanco said:


I am a board certified alpha
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El Gallo Blanco said:

Crap, am I getting this WES mixed up with another WES who used to be liberal/democrat? Sincere apologies if you are not a dem, even though I do not appreciate your childish and insulting tone. Especially since there is a lot of evidence online suggesting that I am right and you are wrong.
Nope, that's me and I am glad you picked up on the insulting tone because your post was worthy of that sort of ridicule.
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WES2006AG said:

El Gallo Blanco said:

Crap, am I getting this WES mixed up with another WES who used to be liberal/democrat? Sincere apologies if you are not a dem, even though I do not appreciate your childish and insulting tone. Especially since there is a lot of evidence online suggesting that I am right and you are wrong.
Nope, that's me and I am glad you picked up on the insulting tone because your post was worthy of that sort of ridicule.
My opinion/observation that friends, fam and coworkers seem to be getting sick more often since Covid, which is backed up by numerous studies and articles such as this one (this is just the first result that came up)?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-06-17/yes-people-really-are-getting-sick-more-often-after-covid

Crazy how sensitive so many of you "mask up/stay home/in-this-house-we-believe!" fully vaxxed and boosted white liberals are when anyone brings up anything Covid related that might depart from the narrative Don Lemon and Rachel Maddow spoon fed you for years.
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I think COVID also just changed work environments. People are far more likely to call work and say they're sick and need to work from home than they were in 2019. And it's far, far more likely to not be frowned upon.

My anecdote/cool story bro....in 2017 I had some flu, bug, something, don't know what, but got it right before Harvey hit. Stocked up on over the counter meds and just planned to drug up and rest. But it kept progressively getting worse but we couldn't get to a doctor or even a pharmacy because of the floods. When flooding finally cleared, my wife took me to a free standing emergency room where they immediately called a hospital and ambulance to transfer me where I was in ICU for 6 days w/ pneumonia.
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Waifu has the flu. Got tested today.
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