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NorthwestFresh
NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
edited June 2020 in Tug Tavern
Has anyone here actually ever been tested for influenza? I had what I was told was the flu a few times bad enough to get meds but no test was ever done on me to say that’s what I had. Would millions test positive for influenza each flu season if it were the norm? If you don’t test for things, you don’t have numbers and I don’t recall massive influenza testing in my lifetime.

Is this WuFlu/viral testing mania a relatively new thing? I remember having a Strep test as a kid but that’s a bacterial infection.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,573
    edited June 2020

    IMO the testing became important when the bodies failed to stack like cord wood. It became the reason to not open and of course to blame Trump. So we are America fuck yeah and we are testing and guess what we are finding the Wuhan

    But the bodies still refuse to stack like cord wood and the stats are being used to continue to scare folks like the ones who showed up last night demanding mask use

    The only time Race ever got concerned was when the Tatars began catapulting dead bodies over his castle walls.
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 18,085 Standard Supporter
    Have had the flu flu bad twice. Once turned into walking pneumonia and once bronchitis. Never tested for the flu. Never close to being hospitalized.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,443
    Never tested; never hospitalized. I've had it a few times here and there, some really bad. But anything involving throwing up usually tends to work itself out of my body within a couple of days max. Most of my flu experience is of the 24 hour variety.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    edited June 2020

    Never tested; never hospitalized. I've had it a few times here and there, some really bad. But anything involving throwing up usually tends to work itself out of my body within a couple of days max. Most of my flu experience is of the 24 hour variety.

    There is no 24 flu.

    Vomiting isn't a flu symptom.

    HTH
  • Blu82
    Blu82 Member Posts: 1,673

    Never tested; never hospitalized. I've had it a few times here and there, some really bad. But anything involving throwing up usually tends to work itself out of my body within a couple of days max. Most of my flu experience is of the 24 hour variety.

    Most "flus" are food poisoning.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Blu82 said:

    Never tested; never hospitalized. I've had it a few times here and there, some really bad. But anything involving throwing up usually tends to work itself out of my body within a couple of days max. Most of my flu experience is of the 24 hour variety.

    Most "flus" are food poisoning.
    No flus are food poisoning.

    Most people are dumbshits though.
  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    edited June 2020
    Back to mandatory masks today in Portland. I didn’t know but the Plaid Pantry I just stopped by reminded the 8 out of 10 of us in it without masks on an 83 degree day we need them next time.

    The Democrats really are looking to bankrupt people. How fucking stupid can one be to believe this is some plague that will kill millions after a month of massive crowds showing more positive tests yet the mortality rate massively declining?

    We’re? completely screwed if the masses are this easily manipulated.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,285 Founders Club
    47 million jobs lost

    I blame Trump

    There was an article earlier this week showing how blue states are about 5 points higher in unemployment with red states showing gains and a lowering rate
  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972

    IMO the testing became important when the bodies failed to stack like cord wood. It became the reason to not open and of course to blame Trump. So we are America fuck yeah and we are testing and guess what we are finding the Wuhan

    But the bodies still refuse to stack like cord wood and the stats are being used to continue to scare folks like the ones who showed up last night demanding mask use

    This was the poont I was getting at but wanted someone with more credibility to mention, so thanks @RaceBannon.

    Cases are way up!! Well no shit, how many tens of millions would test positive for a virus strain at any point? I do think the Chinese made a special blend, but it’s a failure in cordwood so we get this positive “case” bullshit instead.

    Also