Expat Repeat

At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people nature.com/articles/d4158…

Masks have made gardening an accessible activity for me. They protect me from pollens, air pollution, wildfire smoke, bird flu, hantavirus, Covid, and all manner of disgusting animal poop and trash that finds its way into my tiny plot of dirt. I am grateful to have discovered 😷.

@DrFiliatrault @Doodletales_14 @GovCanHealth 🙄🙄🙄

@GovCanHealth "not offering tests to high or low risk asymptomatic contacts, Reimer also said" "the literature is not as well established” for hantavirus detection in asx pts. If anyone starts to show symptoms, they’ll be offered a test." Don't test, don't know and don't learn!

"Canada has been informed of 26 travellers who shared flight with person potentially infected wt hantavirus" "Canadian public health authorities consider those travellers to be “minimal, low risk” contacts, said Reimer." @GovCanHealth isn't requiring those people to self-isolate"

Friday evening a man was brought into the Royal Alex Emergency Department by EMS. He was left in the waiting room. Hours later he was found in his seat dead. The government hasn’t told anyone. Acute Care Alberta hasn’t responded to requests for more information.

Something very bad is spreading across the USA right now. Social media is flooded with people describing brutal respiratory illness: “This ain’t no normal flu bug.” “Miserable for days.” “I haven’t felt this terrible in a very long time.” “Throat is like swallowed glass.” “I feel like absolute trash right now.” “Headache is wildly bad!” “It FEELS LIKE Covid but I have some kind of cold or flu.” “I feel like I’m dying” “This new strain of flu or WHATEVER is no joke” “I can barely breathe!”

An acquaintance is about to graduate from medical school this weekend. And the events of the weekend are shaping up to be multiple superspreaders. And likely none of the new graduates will mask. 😭😭😭

@aparachick Somehow this strikes me as beautiful and hilarious at the same time.

Can as many followers as possible please send me pics or memes or something to cheer me up? All sorts of crap hitting the fan and difficult times ahead.

This seems significant. Ensitrelvir for Covid postexposure prophylaxis in household contacts. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

@StanWillenbring @MeetJess I’m still hoping that someone will have the foresight to sail a few of them through the Strait of Hormuz as minesweeper ships.

@MeetJess If we can keep this up, maybe we can rid ourselves of cruise ships. 🥳🎉

1,700 kept on cruise ship after suspected norovirus death rte.ie/news/world/202…

I’m just waiting for the WHO to announce that there’s no need to worry because the airplane passengers seated near hantavirus patients have only tested positive for COVID. Mildly.

Study: Presence and Persistence of Andes Virus RNA in Human Semen "We demonstrate that the ANDV genome persists within the reproductive tract for at least 71 months.... Taken together, our results show that ANDV has the potential for sexual transmission. PMC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…

@MaiZuKitchen @nyssabulous 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

My friend died today from covid, long covid 😢💔🙏🏿🕊

And for whatever it’s worth, I did formerly work in market research.

Maybe the concept of “quarantine” has a marketing problem. We should rebrand it as a “wellness retreat” and charge people for the privilege of the experience.

@Rocket_Worm My husband is a font engineer. I kid you not! It's a thing!

And on another subject that I care about, please enjoy this patriotic moment, 🇨🇦youtube.com/watch?v=eP-ILy…

@crisis_parade @CDCemergency @CDCgov I mean, it might be a very fiscally responsible approach too. It's not like trying to reign in a pandemic via optional self isolation is a low-cost strategy once it has proven to be ineffective...

@ExpatRepeat This is actually genius @CDCemergency @CDCgov Please adopt this strategy so we can get a lid on this

@GreenleyMaskVax @Lizzardo77 Oh good! And oh shoot- that’s awful. And I like that- post viral snark. Moment of self discovery there. Could explain so much about my communication patterns.

@ExpatRepeat @Lizzardo77 Nope not sick. Covid first wave Post viral snark.

@CarnivoraCC Lovely! And the movie that this GIF is from was filmed in my city. Very appropriate.

Just love my city… (Instead of isolating in a special unit of the Charité as announced originally, the hanta contact person is allowed to quarantine at home.)

@eatsthenews Oh- yes excellent call. And now for a dream scenario: hopefully by the time their hantavirus quarantine period is up, we will have developed a sterilizing nasal vaccine for SAARS2, and we give them an inhaled essential oil treatment with that before they depart.

@ExpatRepeat No! We are tricking them into public health. They can have whole milk. Pasteurized.

@eatsthenews And quench your thirst afterwards with a glass of raw rat milk!

@ExpatRepeat Daily quarantine pushup and pullup and calithenics routine. Free during quarantine!