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colemckenzies · 17 days

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#northern exposure #northernexposureedit #northernexposuregif #joel fleischman #rob morrow #russian flu #my gifs

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northernexposureonly · 10 months

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#the blue pickup #🛻#nx 1x05 #russian flu #northern exposure #joel fleischman #ausgerechnet alaska #doctor en alaska

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20y2 · 10 months

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#northern exposure #ed chigliak #russian flu #nx 1x05 #doctor en alaska #ausgerechnet alaska #ed and the movies #good morning vietnam #good morning cicely

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homovulcanensis · 6 months

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I was just doing research for a presentation. There, I came upon a paper that talked about the "Russian Flu" from 1889 to 1895. This flu was most likely not a flu, but a corona virus.

In 1894, Karl May catches "a flu", which leaves him suffering for quite a while.

It's not entirely unlikely that the dude got COVID.

That's it, that's the post.

#karl may #russian flu #covid

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northernexposuregifs · 4 months

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I don't want you to do any white-knucklers while you've got her up there. Try to keep any extraneous remarks or any bogus opinions you might have about me or any matters of consequence to yourself during the duration of the flight.

#northern exposure #90s television #90s tv shows #joel fleischman #maggie o'connell #rob morrow #janine turner #nx #1x05 the russian flu

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nando161mando · 3 months

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Estimated 28.5 million dead thus far during our ongoing pandemic (per Economist models)—including the near three quarter million dead in just the last 3 months—places it third among modern (through 20th century) epidemics:

⒈ 1918 Flu: est. 17-100 million

⒉ HIV/AIDS: 43 million to date (over 40+ years)

⒊ Covid-19: 28.5 million to date (over 4+ years)

⒋ Third Plague (Bubonic): 12-15 million (over 100+ years)

⒌ 1968 Flu: 1-4 million

⒍ 1957 Flu: 1-4 million

⒎ 1918 Russian Typhus: 2-3 million

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/

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hammill-goes-fogwalking · 3 months

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BALTIC COUNTRIES SWEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP 🇪🇪✨🇱🇻✨👊🇱🇹

#COMES FROM A GIRLIE FROM THE INDUSTRIAL WESTERN GERMANY AREA!!!!!! (yes I have that foreign patriotism flu!!!!!!! ☝🏻 )#I love #Eestiblr #Latvija #lithuania #24/7 reading something about the Singing Revolution #these people were just geniuses #HOW COULD THESE SOVIETS BE SO COLD HEARTED & MAKE EVERYTHING BALTIC RELATED ILLEGAL #Baltic flags- illegal #National hymns- illegal #they wanted to raise them as “Russians”#Soviets wanted them to erase the Baltic countries' histories #everyone who didn't speak Russian - DISCRIMINATED❕#(shut up your soviet country is big enough. losers)#(Iron curtain's hungry again. beware & don't lose patriotism)#communism #random mind

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humandisastersquad · 2 years

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My GP: oh I can give you a free flu vaccine bc of your asthma

Me: huh okay I thought my asthma wasn’t considered bad enough to qualify since I haven’t been hospitalised for it

GP: nonsense! Who told you that?

Me internally: literally you like 2 years ago

Me: oh some other GP

#anyway not complaining #love me some free shit #especially if it’s gonna help me avoid the absolutely awful strains of flus going around rn #wish I could get my second covid booster tho ://#it’s been nearly 7 months since I had my last shot so my antibodies are probably shithouse rn #not that being boosted would make me change my masking and isolation habits #since vaccines only offer ~15% decreased risk of long covid #and I refuse to play russian roulette with my health bc everyone else is living in a state of covid denial #holy personal post batman

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hermits-that-craft · 1 year

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twins asleep post the intro to the oneshot that im writing (this should be split into chapters with how fucking long its going to be but im too stubborn to admit to it)

Grian’s world ends when he’s three years old.

Maybe the statement isn’t entirely true. The first six months are nothing but pleasant, according to his father. Nothing but smiles and revelry as his baby sister is brought into the world and introduced to the family.

But then his mother got ill.

Her condition worsened over the year. Truly, his world does not end until a few months after he turns four. His mothers last breath within moment of his sisters first steps, toddling over to a mother who hasn’t had the strength to hold her since she was barely a few months old.

She dies surrounded by family, a proud smile on her face.

#hermechanisms au #yeah that very brief one paragraph is what made me research the fucking russian flu <3 #peace and love

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thecolorsfucked · 1 year

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dear tumblr today i shitted myself

#flu farts are literally russian roulette

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eggmeralda · 1 year

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it's nearly the anniversary of when I got high for the first time and it was the most painfully boring experience bc I was trapped in my room bc my friend threw up downstairs and I didn't wanna go down there and every song I listened to lasted at least 3957383728 hours so I couldn't enjoy any music properly so I just lay on my bed for like 5 hours waiting to get sober bc there was nothing else to do

#idek if it was 5 hours? it felt like it anyway #tbf i spent the end of it watching russian ark and it was so good but that was about the only highlight of the night #also it was the worst possible time i could've done it bc i was inbetween hyperfixations #south park revival no. 67 had just ended and truffula flu revival hadn't happened yet so i had nothing to even think about #i literally just lay on my bed genuinely no thoughts head empty. for like 5 hours. or 2 hours. idk how long it was #anyway i think it was on the 8th so happy early anniversary to that i guess #ramble #drugs mention #emeto mention

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colemckenzies · 18 days

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#northern exposure #northernexposureedit #northernexposuregif #joel fleischman #holling vincoeur #shelly marie tambo #can't believe im gonna say this but this show might have too many dream sequences. this was funny tho #my gifs #russian flu

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northernexposureonly · 10 months

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[On the radio]

ED: …lines for the "Chris in the Morning Show". Who is this?

JEWELS [a caller]: This is Jewels up on the Kayak River.

ED: Hey, Jewels. How you doin'?

JEWELS: Lousy, with a capital Z.

ED: Yeah, it's goin' around. What can I do for you, Jewels?

JEWELS: I disagree with the last caller. Even if Dr. Fleischman is incompetent, that's no reason to ship him to Siberia.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE 1.05 Russian Flu

#the blue pickup #🛻#northern exposure #nx 1x05 #russian flu #joel fleischman #ausgerechnet alaska #doctor en alaska

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20y2 · 10 months

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#northern exposure #the blue pickup #🛻#joel fleischman #doctor en alaska #ausgerechnet alaska #russian flu #nx 1x05

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autismserenity · 3 months

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know someone who enjoys horror stories? share this one! it's true!

hahahahahahahahahaha aarrggghhhhhhhhhh 3,000,000 deaths due to COVID-19 last year. Globally. Three million. Case rates higher than 90% of the rest of the pandemic. The reason people are still worried about COVID is because it has a way of quietly fucking up your body. And the risk is cumulative.

I'm going to say that again: the risk is cumulative.

It's not just that a lot of people get bad long-term effects from it. One in seven or so? Enough that it's kind of the Russian Roulette of diseases. It's also that the more times you get it, the higher that risk becomes. Like if each time you survived Russian Roulette, the empty chamber was removed from the gun entirely. The worst part is that, psychologically, we have the absolute opposite reaction. If we survive something with no ill effects, we assume it's pretty safe. It is really, really hard to override that sense of, "Ok, well, I got it and now I probably have a lot of immunity and also it wasn't that bad." It is not a respiratory disease. Airborne, yes. Respiratory disease, no: not a cold, not a flu, not RSV.

Like measles (or maybe chickenpox?), it starts with respiratory symptoms. And then it moves to other parts of your body. It seems to target the lungs, the digestive system, the heart, and the brain the most.

It also hits the immune system really hard - a lot of people are suddenly more susceptible to completely unrelated viruses. People get brain fog, migraines, forget things they used to know.

(I really, really hate that it can cross the blood-brain barrier. NOTHING SHOULD EVER CROSS THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER IT IS THERE FOR A REASON.) Anecdotal examples of this shit are horrifying. I've seen people talk about coworkers who've had COVID five or more times, and now their work... just often doesn't make sense? They send emails that say things like, "Sorry, I didn't mean Los Angeles, I meant Los Angeles."

Or they insist they've never heard of some project that they were actually in charge of a year or two before.

Or their work is just kind of falling apart, and they don't seem to be aware of it.

People talk about how they don't want to get the person in trouble, so their team just works around it. Or they describe neighbors and relatives who had COVID repeatedly, were nearly hospitalized, talked about how incredibly sick they felt at the time... and now swear they've only had it once and it wasn't bad, they barely even noticed it.

(As someone who lived with severe dissociation for most of my life, this is a genuinely terrifying idea to me. I've already spent my whole life being like, "but what if I told them that already? but what if I did do that? what if that did happen to me and I just don't remember?") One of its known effects in the brain is to increase impulsivity and risk-taking, which is real fucking convenient honestly. What a fantastic fucking mutation. So happy for it on that one. Yes, please make it seem less important to wear a mask and get vaccinated. I'm not screaming internally at all now.

I saw a tweet from someone last year whose family hadn't had COVID yet, who were still masking in public, including school.

She said that her son was no kind of an athlete. Solidly bottom middle of the pack in gym.

And suddenly, this year, he was absolutely blowing past all the other kids who had to run the mile. He wasn't running any faster. His times weren't fantastic or anything. It's just that the rest of the kids were worse than him now. For some reason. I think about that a lot. (Like my incredibly active six-year-old getting a cold, and suddenly developing post-viral asthma that looked like pneumonia.

He went back to school the day before yesterday, after being home for a month and using preventative inhalers for almost week.

He told me that it was GREAT - except that he couldn't run as much at recess, because he immediately got really tired. Like how I went outside with him to do some yard work and felt like my body couldn't figure out how to increase breathing and heart rate.

I wasn't physically out of breath, but I felt like I was out of breath. That COVID feeling people describe, of "I'm not getting enough air." Except that I didn't have that problem when I had COVID.) Some people don't observe any long (or medium) term side effects after they have it.

But researchers have found viral reservoirs of COVID-19 in everyone they've studied who had it.

It just seems to hang out, dormant, for... well, longer than we've had an opportunity to observe it, so far.

(I definitely watched that literal horror movie. I think that's an entire genre. The alien dormant under ice in the Arctic.)

(oh hey I don't like that either!!!!!!!!!) All of which is to explain why we should still care about avoiding it, and how it manages to still cause excess deaths. Measuring excess deaths has been a standard tool in public health for a long time.

We know how many people usually die from all different causes, every year. So we can tell if, for example, deaths from heart disease have gone way up in the past three years, and look for reasons. Those are excess deaths: deaths that, four years ago, would not have happened. During the pandemic, excess death rates have been a really important tool. For all sorts of reasons. Like, sometimes people die from COVID without ever getting tested, and the official cause is listed as something else because nobody knows they had COVID. But also, people are dying from cardiovascular illness much younger now.

People are having strokes and heart attacks younger, and more often, than they did before the pandemic started. COVID causes a lot of problems. And some of those problems kill people. And some of them make it easier for other things to kill us. Lung damage from COVID leading to lungs collapsing, or to pneumonia, or to a pulmonary embolism, for example. The Economist built a machine-learning model with a 95% confidence interval that gauges excess death statistics around the world, to tell them what the true toll of the ongoing COVID pandemic has been so far.

Total excess deaths globally in 2023: Three million.

3,000,000.

Official COVID-19 deaths globally so far: Seven million. 7,000,000. Total excess deaths during COVID so far: Thirty-five point two million. 35,200,000.

Five times as many.

That's bad. I don't like that at all. I'm glad last year was less than a tenth of that. I'm not particularly confident about that continuing, though, because last year we started a period of really high COVID transmission. Case rates higher than 90% of the rest of the pandemic. Here's their data, and charts you can play with, and links to detailed information on how they did all of this:

Here's a non-paywalled link to it:

https://archive.vn/2024.01.26-012536/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates

Oh: here's a link to where you can buy comfy, effective N95 masks in all sizes:

Those ones are about a buck each after shipping - about $30 for a box of 30. They also have sample packs for a dollar, so you can try a couple of different sizes and styles.

You can wear an N95 mask for about 40 total hours before the effectiveness really drops, so that's like a dollar for a week of wear.

They're also family-owned and have cat-shaped masks and I really love them. These ones are cuter and in a much wider range of colors, prints, and styles, but they're also more expensive; they range from $1.80 to $3 for a mask. ($18-$30 for a box of ten.)

#covid isn't over #covid 19 #disability rights #disability advocacy #wear a mask #covid conscious #covid cautious #mask up #wall of words #public health #health care

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northernexposuregifs · 4 months

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If you have anything you want to say or hear, you can say or hear it right here on the Minnifield Communications Network.

#northern exposure #90s television #90s tv shows #ed chigliak #darren e. burrows #nx #1x05 the russian flu

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