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Ilikecrazypeople t1_j6hry5q wrote

I'm just curious and not trying to start anything...was covid testing done?

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[deleted] OP t1_j6hs94n wrote

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Ilikecrazypeople t1_j6hsccy wrote

Thanks, I'll keep an eye on my niece.

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[deleted] OP t1_j6hsgz1 wrote

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brayners t1_j6htaa5 wrote

I can attest to RSV in central CT. Recovering from it now.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j6kqi0z wrote

It's always around.

It's extra around right now because of COVID, in two ways. First, peoples bodies are busy fighting off COVID basically all the time, and as a result other pathogens are able to survive a bit better, sometimes much better, and RSV is surviving long enough in the body to make it to the lower airways, where it can cause breathing issues and normal viral fever, aches, etc. Second, people aren't being as sanitary with distancing, masking, hand washing, cleaning, and eating urinal cakes again and so forth, and so lots of people who didn't have it for a long time are getting it again, lots of kids getting it for the first time, so their RSV antibodies are low or non-existent, and it survives long enough to become symptomatic, which includes cough-spraying droplets of lung fluid, spreading the virus.

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Knineteen t1_j6icm7k wrote

That’s the standard question for everything now. Achy knee? Covid test! Blind in one eye? Covid test! Bullet in the abdomen? Nurse, run and get that Covid test!

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Ilikecrazypeople t1_j6ik6tz wrote

I'm trying to keep my invalid father alive, so you can fuck right off with your attitude.

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Knineteen t1_j6inhl5 wrote

Odd response.

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Ilikecrazypeople t1_j6io6pt wrote

Excuse YOU? Sorry, my dad has parkinsons and has been a vegetable for 3 years now. Pardon me for being curious about something that could end up killing him. I haven't had a night out in 3 years. Sorry if you can't understand that.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j6koekk wrote

Look up COVID conjunctivitis and COVID toe.

COVID is so hard to kill off, it preoccupies your immune system and you end up with flare ups of your toe fungus and your eye boogers.

Most people probably don't even notice that their athletes foot flared up when they got COVID or woke with a bit more crust in their eye than usual.

Severe COVID toe, 🤮. Large, yellow, puss-filled fissures of the skin, severe swelling, and bleeding. IV antifungal, surgical debridement, and partial amputation in the most severe cases; could progress to necrosis, sepsis, organ failure, and death.

Imagine getting tricked by antivax conspiracies and then getting killed by essentially severe athletes foot, secondary to COVID-19. 🤣

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