re: Dangerous fungal illness rapidly spreading across country, doctors warn

I'm gonna go with the internal application of a good mid-tier bourbon as a preventative. It worked with covid.

I'm wearing two masks for double protection

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Well Pfizer recently reported their 2022 profilts were down from their record 2021 profits (surprise!), so they will create a new panic & a new fungicide (which won’t protect or heal you despite their marketing). Then the feds will mandate businesses to require it and pay Pfizer for it with our tax $. Record profits again!

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Step 1) Release harmful and highly contagious fungus
Step 2) Sell "treatments" and "vaccines"
Step 3) ???
Step 4) Profit
Step 5) The Last of Us

The part that is rare is the severe illness or death. Most people who get it don’t even show any symptoms, about 40% have symptoms but most don’t have serious complications, that is more common for those over 60 or with compromised immune systems.

This article is 10 years old but I found this quote interesting:

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"Two-thirds of all Valley Fever infections occur in Arizona and 80 percent of those cases are in Maricopa County,"

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Since Maricopa is ground zero for this illness, I went to check Maricopa’s most recent stats:

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As of 12/7/2022

Total number of cases reported for the year
2019 - 7,268
2020 - 8,157
2021 - 8,559
2022 - 7,162

*Note: 2021 and 2022 data are preliminary and subject to change.

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I realize this data doesn’t include most of December but… 2022 had the lowest number of cases in the last four years Everybody panic!



This kind of feels like multiple news sources (entirely of their own volition I’m sure) all decided at the same time to whip up a little fearmongering over a fungal infection that has been prevalent for more than 100 years in the American Southwest. Some years are worse, yes it depends on weather - wet winters followed by dry, windy summers can spread more spores to areas further away. We can blame “climate change” but considering the disease got its name from an outbreak in the San Joaquin Valley in the 1930s… I’m skeptical that the Dust Bowl was caused by humans, more likely just natural climate variation.

Who'd win a fight between The Flood from Halo and the Fungus from The Last of Us?

God this board sometimes has some talent and effort. I do believe your post /thread’ed this unless anybody has a substantive response.

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How did you like episode 3????

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First 15 minutes of Episode 3 were the last 15 minutes of the series I will watch.