Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@Free_Press I guess the Ukrainians aren't bribing them while the Russians are.

@jrefior @stevewfolds @ai6yr @bud_t @N1ZZZ It is.

@lauren Well, it does, you know. You can see it going around. Duh.

;-)

@knittingknots2 Not surprised. I took it long ago to cure malaria and studied the pharmacology carefully before doing so. It worked. It's not good for you and can kill you. After all, it's a poison designed to kill parasites in your blood.

Life is full of choices for the lesser of two evils.

@ai6yr Hahaha. You know.

@darwinwoodka @ai6yr Sorry to hear that. For the first two days, resting up wasn't an option. I could only stay up for 30 to 45 minutes and had to lay down and sleep for 90 minutes. At night I slept for 12 hours straight, which is double my normal.

Today I've been up for 2-1/2 hours so far with no trouble.

@darwinwoodka @ai6yr Yeah, skyrocketing. Rule of thumb is big surges always begin with a strong start.

Part of me is hoping that it is JN.1 because this will give me immunity through the surge yet to come.

I guess that would make me an early adopter.

@pomegranate_stew I wonder if he knows that he's one of the symptoms.

@ai6yr And thanks for the good wishes.

@ai6yr When the test came up positive, my first thought was, all righty. Finally, a chance to do radio.

But the first 2-1/2 days of symptoms included severe sinus headache so my brain wasn't willing to do anything more than keep my breathing going.

But today, the sinus headache is down, replaced by sore throat and severe body aches. So there's hope. As long as my brain is working I can do radio.

@ai6yr I assumed it was one of the XBB variants but then looked at the data. JN.1 is off to a supersonic start, accounting for 43 percent of new cases right now. That means a big surge is coming. Models predict it to peak at the end of January. And JN.1 has a new spike protein so it gets around all the vaccines.

We shall see said the blind man.

@ai6yr BTW, I'm in the middle of my second round of Covid. Had it two years ago. I'm fully vaxxed and boosted with the lastest as of 30 days ago so I'm guessing it's the JN.1 variant.

@ai6yr I'd take it if I could walk to the pharmacy and buy it, like in civilized countries. Lol.

@ai6yr Speaking of wicked fast, there's a roofing company in town here that employs 13 men from Guatemala. Talk about wicked fast. They can strip to the rafters and re-roof a house in one day. When they get to the nailing stage it sounds like a full-blown war going on. Haha.