• zephorah@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    The flu is particularly bad this year, though definitely not pandemic level. It is knocking down and hospitalizing the elderly and those with crappy lungs.

    Also, it’s keeping our egg prices higher than meat right now. I can buy a family tray of deboned/skinned chicken breast for $10. 18 eggs: $12. Which is crazy. If COVID pricing is any indicator of things to come, egg prices will stay higher than meat.

    Flu is a fickle, ever changing, ever mutating virus. So, it’s possible. It’s also why King picked flu for his captain trips. The mutation thing made his story plausible.

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      Edit: whoopsies. The way my comments were formatted I erroneously thought you were talking about bird flu, not the regular flu. Dumb mistake on my end

      Okayyyy just going to stop you there. Bird flu is NOT knocking down and hospitalizing the elderly and those with crappy lungs. There are only 67 confirmed cases, almost all of them are from people working directly with the animals, almost all of them are very mild, and there’s no evidence of human-human transmission.

      I’m all for watching this and being cautious, but I’m also obligated to call out (even well intentioned) misinformation when I see it.

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      I got influenza a and have never had it so bad. While it was really only one day of the worst symptoms and I got Tamiflu to knock it down, itjust hit the threee week mark and the cough is not going away