Flu Season in Austria: Updates from the Frontiers of Sanity
Courtesy of the Comment Section of Zero Covid Hawk daily Der Standard
Lo and behold, dear readers, for the notion that ‘Covid’ is, above all, a neurodegenerative issue has been near and dear to me from the beginning:
Today, I have a particular gem for you, and it comes to us courtesy of Austro-Covidian’s Zero Covid Hawk-ProVaxx ‘newspaper’ Der Standard. Long-time readers are aware of the absurdities and misinformation peddled by that salmon-coloured daily. Of course, there’s a glaring, canyon-wide chasm between reality-as-is and the ideologically-driven obscurantism of that particular ‘newspaper’, but this one is quite…stunning.
Translation, emphases, and bottom lines mine.
Are you ill right now?
A month before the start of winter [21 Dec.], people are sneezing and coughing everywhere, but more serious illnesses are also spreading. How are you feeling?
Discussion, 23 Nov. 2023 [source]
This is the first autumn since the coronavirus pandemic in which there are no prescribed measures to combat or contain infections. This also means that hardly any masks are being worn to protect yourself and others from contracting various diseases. This means that viruses of all kinds can spread quickly, which you are probably currently seeing more of in public spaces, among friends and acquaintances, in your own family, or in yourself.
These include a wide variety of viral infections such as bronchitis, flu, the RS virus, and the common cold, but coronavirus is also making itself clearly felt again and even dominating the incidence of infection. Whether it's a sore throat, a constantly runny or blocked nose, cough, fever, aching limbs, or headaches—anyone who is currently ill is very likely to be struggling with one or more of these symptoms.
Even user ‘I have an opinion’ caught something:
I have an opinion
and in reality only facts matter
20 Nov. 2023, 11:41:08I have the feeling that we are already in the middle of it.
I've already gotten it myself, and it feels like half the people in my line of work are ill.
Bigglesworth
20 Nov. 2023, 11:21:19Unfortunately, I was also allowed to ride the wave.
And no, it wasn't a mild cold.
More like a nasty flu with a high fever and a raging headache.
At least I don't have to think about the 5th jab now.
Schokobanane_schmeckt
19 Nov. 2023, 17:01:19I've just had it for the third time. I've been vaccinated just as often. Symptoms definitely easier this time than the first two times. But still very unpleasant with constant headaches and severe cold symptoms.
How are you feeling?
Are you ill at the moment? Are many people around you affected? What symptoms are you currently experiencing? And do you know if you have corona? Share your thoughts in the forum!
Bonus Comment, Pinned By the Editors
laurent f.
I'm seriously considering wearing a mask again on my morning and evening journeys on the U6 (almost terminus to terminus), even though it would make me feel stupid. What does the community think?
Green—sensible and recommendable
Red—scared to death also leads to demise: an excessive measure
Note that ‘the community’ here consists of the same wonderful people who are still favourably reading Der Standard—after almost four (!) years of fear- and hate-mongering.
At the time of me typing these lines (around 7:30 p.m., 25 Nov. 2023), there were 235 ‘likes’ in support of ‘wearing a mask…even though it would make me feel stupid’. (There were but 11 ‘dislikes’.) Go for it, moron.
Bottom Lines
It’s getting increasingly hard for me to read such ‘news items’ and stay focused very long. I mean, this is like watching a train wreck—it’s late November 2023, and if you’re still considering wearing a mask or getting ‘it’ after the umpteenth jab, if these things don’t get you to think straight, I don’t know what would.
Hence, I re-emphasise that ‘Covid’ is also a neurodegenerative disorder, and those who are wearing their proverbial (intellectual-cognitive) nakedness proudly in late 2023 deserve, above all, ridicule.
Like this guy, one Florian Klenk, editor-in-chief of the heavily (Vienna) state subsidised woke’n’Covid hawkish weekly Der Falter who, two years ago on an overnight train ride from Vienna to Venice, Italy, locked himself in on the toilet because virtually everyone else wasn’t nearly as ‘fearful’ (stupid) as him:
Enjoy, if you will.
Epilogue: Four Years w/o a Cold
As an aside, I herewith proudly declare I’m now entering my fifth year without even a common cold (I’ve had the last run-in with it in early 2019). Come, partey with me!
Here’s what I do: lots of outdoor activity in any kind of weather; note that I live at 61 degrees North (think: Alaska), bike to work 365 days a year, very little alcohol (a beer every now and then), and 2-3 cups of ginger tea a day, in winter ‘fortified’ with Vitamin D.
I don’t wear face diapers, I don’t disinfect my hands every time I enter a store (some people amazingly still do that), and I don’t fear germs all that much.
Oh, while I follow ‘the news’, I don’t take them seriously.
I sometimes do think ‘reality’ is quite hard to endure, though, but after about 1-2 moments, I get on with my life.
Have a nice weekend.
That's a LOL [laugh out loud], as we say in English. Tip top!
I well remember, it was bananas-rhinocerosness to the max.