tyrannosaurus_r t1_iuhrjb3 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:04 PM

Reply to I’m back in Pakistan and needless to say I miss DC by JadeSinnParach

Hope you can return soon!

tyrannosaurus_r t1_itvq8d2 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 5:35 PM

Reply to Neema Roshania Patel, Post editor who cultivated younger audiences, dies at 35 by aresef

God, this is awful. And, seriously, something's up with digestive cancers-- it feels like a lot more young people are getting them, which is an extremely disconcerting thought.

tyrannosaurus_r t1_it7lg0y wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:48 PM

Reply to comment by Underscore_Guru in Multiple Children’s Hospitals Are At Or Near Capacity Across D.C., Maryland, and Virginia by Maxcactus

Indeed. If there’s a bright spot to the pandemic, it’s at least that some folks are now cognizant of how dangerous even “routine” illnesses are.

tyrannosaurus_r t1_it7juym wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:38 PM

Reply to comment by Keanu__weaves in Multiple Children’s Hospitals Are At Or Near Capacity Across D.C., Maryland, and Virginia by Maxcactus

Extremely common bug that I think was generally just called “a bad cold” or regarded as a generic respiratory infection until recent years. Not sure what the catalyst for public adoption of its real name (RSV) was— I’d guess the pandemic.