#immunity debt

[wat3rm370n]

Don’t fall for this nonsense term “immunity debt” - it’s not real.

This term that was made up in 2021 needs to go because it has no meaning except for disinformation.

Just stop it and don't trust news outlets or doctor pundits or economists who pump this sketchy PR out.

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[lenterablog]

Batuk Pilek pada Anak Akibat Immunity Debt

Batuk pilek adalah kondisi umum yang sering dialami oleh anak-anak. Hal ini biasanya disebabkan oleh virus dan dapat menyebar dengan cepat di antara teman sekolah, keluarga, dan masyarakat. Meskipun batuk pilek biasanya dianggap sebagai kondisi yang ringan dan dapat sembuh dengan sendirinya, namun ada beberapa kasus yang bisa berdampak serius, terutama pada anak-anak dengan sistem kekebalan tubuh…

[the-happy-man]

We should be developing and rolling out vaccines against flu (for which multistrain “universal” jabs are now being trialed) and RSV (for which a vaccine is on the near horizon) much faster, as well as thinking more seriously about non-pharmaceutical interventions such as wearing masks. “It seems absolutely insane to me that we should get on a packed tube at rush hour and there will be people sneezing and coughing and not wearing a mask to protect others,” says Levin. “In Asian countries, you have always worn a mask if you have a cold.” He adds that we should also stop encouraging ill people to go to work and continue to advise hand washing and good hygiene. Flu, for instance, is spread mostly by people touching infected surfaces and then their eyes.

[liminalweirdo]

Florida surgeon general urges public to use psychic powers in lieu of listening to experts -- lmfao literally

"In his Florida clinic, Osborn said he does not recommend the influenza vaccine to patients, as "the infection itself nearly always assumes a benign course in low-risk individuals, and similarly, I do not believe that our immune systems should be deprived of challenges.""

repeat after me. there is no such thing as immunity debt, there is no such thing as immunity debt, there is no such thing as immunity debt, you do not need TO CHALLENGE YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM, LITERALLY YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IS CONSTANTLY WORKING HELLO?!?!?!?

The state surgeon general urged Floridians to make their own decisions based on their particular "resonance of truth," rather than on "very educated people telling you what you should think." "When they try to convince you to be comfortable and agree with things that don’t feel comfortable, [that] don��t feel like things you should agree with, that is a sign, right? That’s a gift," he said.

Florida surgeon general urges public to use psychic powers in lieu of listening to experts.

[pandemic-info]

"Is anyone else's immune system totally shot since the 'COVID era'?"

Thread. Lots of informed comments, surprisingly.

The answer is yes: lots of peoples' immune systems are totally shot because that's what COVID does: attacks your entire body / vascular system / brain. It is not only respiratory. Long COVID is also a major issue with no reliable treatment.

And the idea that one should "exercise" their immune system by getting sick more is false, a misunderstanding of how immunity works.

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Your immune system is not a muscle. It does not require exercise. Stressing it doesn't make you healthier. That's not how vaccines work. Vaccines are information, disease is stress. You read books, you don't beat your body with them to "get stronger". emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 2:16 PM · Dec 3, 2023

[mistninja]

love expressing the tinniest hope for the future and getting a lecture about how immature and childish i am and how i need to realize im too poor to enjoy life. they hate me for my relentless optimism

[epitome-the-burnkid-viii]

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[albonium]

night time ramble

i haven't told my doctor about my adhd diagnostic last year because i'm scared he'll treat me differently afterwards or think i just have anxiety (which i do have a tiny bit but i've had mental health issues for a while now, i know how to differenciate what i feel thankfully). my previous doctor ignored all of my graves disease symptoms because she knew i have anxiety. i had lost 25+ kg, had arythmia, couldn't sleep, pooped about 234 times a day, had swollen red hands. she didn't even send me to a cardiologist or made me do a blood test. "it's just anxiety". i don't think smart watches are reliable when it comes to heart monitoring but mine kept telling me i had problems. it was all dismissed. "it's anxiety". untreated graves disease (hyperthyoidism) can have serious consequences if it's untreated. along with this i was so tired i could barely work and almost had car crashes, i drove through red lights bc of how sleepy i was.

so now i'm really worried about not being taken seriously if i even mention being slightly sad or anxious, let alone having adhd as a adult woman, which is so often dismissed. my life rn is really hard because of adhd i haven't found a single behavioural therapist that could maybe help me, even through i don't think organisation tips would help lol. i'd like to try a treatment but that would be dangerous for me because of other health issues aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[adalrikr]

🧃 “Here dear! Great job out there!”

Erk flusters at the visage of the woman who hands him yet another juice box, taking it with a bashful bow of his head. He really didn't need anymore, but she seemed nice enough.

"Thank you... milady..." He gets the feeling that he doesn't want to stick around for too long as his cheeks burn slightly though. She seemed like she would be the coddling type, and Erk certainly didn't feel like being coddled right now.

"I... I did my best..."

[jjsanguine]

My face is still asymmetrical from having bell's palsy as a kid, and I can't prove it but I feel like whatever virus paralysed my face when I was 5ish also kneecapped my immune system because as a nominally healthy person I was getting sick, like too sick to leave my bed, for days at a time multiple times a year even before the pandemic and everyone just being straight up pro COVID propagation now

You know how sometimes you catch someone in a lie, and so they tell an even bigger lie to try and cover up the first lie they told?

Well, that’s happening right now.

Last winter, a handful of celebrity doctors went on mainstream news networks to assure us that Omicron was “mild.” They carpet-bombed us with articles and tweets, doing their best to brainwash everyone.

They were wrong.

In the end, real science junked that idea. An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that Omicron killed more people than previous variants, even when adjusting for other factors. Another study by doctors at Massachusetts General and Harvard Medical found that Omicron was just as deadly. In fact, “the risks of hospitalization and mortality were nearly identical.” As it turns out, the entire idea of “mild” Omicron was based on an old, flawed idea known as the law of declining virulence, developed by a doctor who was studying tick-borne disease in cows. It was debunked decades ago.

Most epidemiologists know that viruses don’t magically evolve to become milder. Virus evolution is random and chaotic.

In some cases, viruses evolve to become more deadly.

A handful of actual scientists tried to explain all this last winter, including disease experts at Johns Hopkins. A handful of other established experts spoke out against this myth. As a microbiologist at Penn State told Politifact, “You can’t just say it’s going to become nicer.” They were largely ignored, because everyone already sort of believed the misinformation. If they knew it was based on a study about cows, they probably would’ve thought twice.

This year, the makers of “it’s mild” are back.

They’re selling “immunity debt.”

We should be skeptical.

Schools and daycares are sending letters home to parents talking about this “immunity debt.” They’re saying that healthy children are getting sicker, even dying, because they weren’t exposed to enough germs over the last two years. Newspapers and TV stations across the country are running with it, proposing it as a “possible reason” for this year’s explosion in pediatric hospitalizations. Meanwhile, major medical organizations have sent a letter to President Biden urging him to declare an emergency over an “alarming surge of pediatric hospitalizations” due to a range of respiratory viruses, including Covid.

A lot of people are drinking the “immunity debt” kool-aid.

After all, Americans have believed for generations that getting sick is “good for you.” We think our immune system behaves like a muscle. We worry that if we’re not giving it a workout, we’ll get weak.

It’s a myth, just like the law of declining virulence.

Here’s why.

[ghost-sharks]

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[doggirlnarcolepsy]

Help Two Disabled Trans Women Survive the Holidays, Finally Move Out of Mold Hell, and Get a Fresh Start

Basically, my wife and I need to move as soon as possible. Our apartment is a death trap to stay in and our landlord is annually billing us thousands in extra heating bills because of the leaky moldy windows and shitty construction.

Multiple tenants keep contacting him regarding mold and window installation, but he just shrugs it off, does some shoddy contract work or mold removal, and charges us for it. (for reference the balcony door with the shelf was installed less than 4 years ago, 1½ years after we moved in, when the last one wouldn't close).

On top of debt from unforeseen utility bills, they slapped us with an "extra heating expenditure bill" covering all of last year and tried to charge the extra 11000dkk onto that month's rent. We managed to get them to generously negotiate a 3-month payment plan instead and they agreed (raising our rent further). The very next week they informed us that they're suddenly raising our annual base rent by almost 900dkk and monthly heating bill by 825dkk, meaning we're currently paying over $1500+ a month for a frigid mold-infested shit hole that leaves us with almost nothing to actually live off.

Please I'm begging someone to get us out of this place, it actually killing both of us after living here for almost 6 years. We're both feeling it heavily affecting our health (like my wife having to be hospitalized multiple times due to pulmonary/respiratory issues, our terrible immune systems and the constant coughing with black specks in our phlegm).

Any donations people are kind enough to share are going towards moving-out costs, damages incurred to this apartment in the 6 years we've lived here (we're both psychotic), any landlord-move-out-bullshittery they will undoubtedly try to get away with (the housing union we live in is notorious for this kind of behavior) and helping towards the new apartments security deposit/first month's rent

My Paypal: https://paypal.me/queensizeddonger

$0 / $3500

[empresa-journal]

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