So it's not just me? Is this one of the worst seasons we've had with non-COVID respiratory illnesses in recent memory? I see people getting sick constantly, like once a month every single month. My son's high school has been just full of sick kids since early November, kids are missing LOTS of days - ThreadSky

chadloder.bsky.social • 10 days ago

So it's not just me? Is this one of the worst seasons we've had with non-COVID respiratory illnesses in recent memory? I see people getting sick constantly, like once a month every single month. My son's high school has been just full of sick kids since early November, kids are missing LOTS of days

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It's so insane! And it's not just primary COVID infections. I really think COVID has damaged people's immune systems. Flu is brutal this year, we now apparently have an RSV season, norovirus is everywhere. About 1/3 of my coworkers are ill all the time. I can still remember 2019. It wasn't like this

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nekomimi.pet•10 days ago

norovirus knocked me out hard after christmas

kswenger.bsky.social•10 days ago

I thought I read worst flu season in 15 yrs.

sunnyb603.bsky.social•10 days ago

Almost everyone I know has been sick. Flu, RSV, pneumonia, etc. So far I’ve been spared. No kids here and I work at home, so l’m not going into the office every day to be exposed to plague. Food shopping is my riskiest activity.

It seems being a winter hermit is the best defense.

gumptionvo.bsky.social•10 days ago

I really, really wish more people still masked. I see a couple do it here and there (and I’m glad to see them, believe me). But how so many otherwise well-meaning folks can go through what we went through—what we’re *still* going through—and not take even the least precaution is so damn frustrating.

heldsteady.bsky.social•10 days ago

We've got an 18 month old that started daycare in December, so basically this is week 10 of at least one person in the house being sick.

gwencreates.bsky.social•10 days ago

Definitely not just you. We're wearing N95s everywhere because without them, we were sick for months straight.

parentingaspath.bsky.social•10 days ago

It’s been like this since the pandemic started. Mountains of research now confirm that Covid causes permanent damage including the immune system. I’m a public school educator and for the past few years staff and kids are constantly out sick.

lisag724.bsky.social•10 days ago

Local schools have been hit hard with that and norovirus. Norovirus has been brutal, lasting weeks.

stochasticburrito.bsky.social•10 days ago

I don't have kids but I have coworkers who need work remotely recently because their kids schools closed for in-person classes because too many teachers were sick

shatter.bsky.social•10 days ago

Marcus masks at school. The SO masks in her class. So far we're doing good.

His aid from region center called in sick for me today with all teh crud. She thinks it's covid. Told her to get her ass to urgent care and get a triple test and anti-virals.

devilvaginamagic.bsky.social•9 days ago

I manage a team of therapists, ¼ of our clients have cancelled this week due to flu. One of my staff called in sick x 2 days.

w1tchhunter.bsky.social•10 days ago

I think Covid permanently damaged our immune systems. We’re going to see much shorter life spans as this new administration tries to kill us.

hikikomorphism.bsky.social•10 days ago

I can't think of the last time I've been in a public place (street, shopping, etc) and not heard at least some coughing

primakrema.bsky.social•10 days ago

Hmm he was elect3d then too

zephhowell.bsky.social•10 days ago

This isn’t bad luck-it’s deliberate negligence. Mass illness was avoidable, but instead of fixing air quality, paid sick leave, and healthcare, they gutted protections, let public health collapse, and told us to cope.They chose profit over lives, and now we’re stuck in this endless cycle of sickness

aprimo224.bsky.social•10 days ago

Apparently norovirus is rampant. Bird flu epidemic, if not pandemic, seems inevitable now. Still wearing my mask, but I'm nearly alone.

tactical-grace.bsky.social•10 days ago

I've gotten more colds in the last three months, than in the last 10 years. I think, at best, I've had maybe 4 days in a row where I didn't feel unwell to at least some degree.

instunclear.bsky.social•10 days ago

Our ER has been overwhelmed every day for weeks. 75% of patients testing positive for some respiratory something or other, usually FLU A , COVID, RSV or just a general URI ( upper respiratory infection, unknown source )

robgalanakis.bsky.social•10 days ago

Same for us. Pneumonia too, including an otherwise very healthy 4th grader.

rettisawesome.com•10 days ago

Strangely enough this is the first respiratory season I've avoided constant Illness in recent memory. But when I was in the ER for a cut, my small rural hospital was setting a new admission record that they'd only just established during Covid. Supposedly for influenza-a.

drunkenbard.bsky.social•10 days ago

My work has very strict rules regarding time off that has always meant people just come in sick. Lately I've seen more people taking off sick than in the entire 10 years I've worked there. Anecdotal and correlation =/= causation and yadda yadda but it really does seem worse than ever before.

darkarm66.bsky.social•10 days ago

My daughter got a week long fever, then my partner got real sick days later. Nobody out in Finland where Im at wear masks. It wasn't COVID but I believe that respiratory illnesses are still passing at a higher rate and people stopped taking precautions

azilizwood.bsky.social•10 days ago

Absolutely, all my coworkers been sick since November, I'm avoiding it like a game of whack-a-mole I didn't wanna be part of. And they come in sick even more!!

aslangk.bsky.social•10 days ago

Get your flu shots too people. My dr. said not as many people get the flu shot as they used too, and this one is particularly aggressive.

michael-witt.bsky.social•10 days ago

Dude, we (fam) got like 4 separate things that overlapped. Sick for 3 weeks straight. 3 separate viral, one bacterial.

ellevonhee.bsky.social•10 days ago

Caught some sort of lower res virus in Dec along w/ 3 colleagues after office Xmas lunch. High fever, coughed blood, & had mucus pouring out of my eyes. Very festive. Pregnant member of team: actual flu combined w/ walking pneumonia. Look at data (if avail?), though, not anecdotes, but also yeah...

karmamylanta.bsky.social•10 days ago

I'm privileged in many ways. I've been able to avoid sharing air with people outside my household, and have worn an N95 or KN94 was when that was unavoidable. I haven't had a single respiratory infection since 2019. Not even a cold.

chbsf.bsky.social•10 days ago

I got a flu vaccine this year and haven’t been sick. I’ve read that vaccination rates are low this year.

discographette.online•10 days ago

yeah it’s wild how avoidable this is with a little community coordination and info

tinyweasel.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yep, my coworkers are really sick constantly. I got like four small colds over Christmas as well.

parisafitzhenley.bsky.social•8 days ago

Not just you. Flu alone is huge, with flu deaths surpassing covid deaths for the first time since the pandemic began. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/11/health/intense-flu-season

ariannem.bsky.social•10 days ago

Kid has flu going around her HS. I read it’s worse in 15 years and that was a particularly bad season and the last time I had the flu. Out for a mont with two little ones

caragal.bsky.social•10 days ago

I have Covid.

dontgetkettled.bsky.social•10 days ago

It is legit wild this year. Everyone seems to be sick and getting sick over and over.

I avoid ever getting sick by simply never going outside, it’s a very helpful byproduct of depression.

cathoderituals.bsky.social•10 days ago

Never going outside is def my tactic, and by tactic, I mean completely involuntary self-isolation featuring occasional intake of Taco Bell.

islandofreil.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oh, you too, huh?

With a few exceptions I only really go out for errands and, in decent weather, for walks on an open dirt path anymore.

hobbiets.bsky.social•10 days ago

There have been several studies that show that covid damages your immune system lomg term. Everyone is sick all the time, and no one seems to be connecting the dots

roxconn.bsky.social•10 days ago

But if we connect the dots, the stock market will get sad—and as we all know, an imaginary line that represents the whims of America’s richest gamblers is clearly more important than actual people’s quality of life

hobbiets.bsky.social•10 days ago

Line must go up

cogfather.bsky.social•10 days ago

Glory to the Almighty Dollar

cyankatz.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yo this b has been sick for 3 weeks with a non-covid respiratory illness and I am at my ding dang wits end with it

blairbearglare.bsky.social•10 days ago

Influenza A took my whole house down for a month. It reminded me so much of early covid, I'm still waiting to see what new disease came out.

mlryjn.bsky.social•10 days ago

No, it’s not just you. Good time to remind folks mask are effective and you can find free ones through https://covidactionmap.org

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/university-of-guelph-norovirus-stomach-flu-latest-cases-1.7429696

drrxufa.bsky.social•10 days ago

Right under our noses, literally.

phat-bat.bsky.social•10 days ago

I saw an article just the other day saying that TB cases are up as predicted if covid would damage immunity

phat-bat.bsky.social•10 days ago

Hmmmmm, i wonder if all the mask wearers have an idea about what’s going on…. Nah!!

msmarvel.bsky.social•10 days ago

No lies detected.

In SD, flu is ~6x higher than last year during the same week & RSV 4x.

firegravity.bsky.social•10 days ago

There are lots of papers showing this for COVID.

Al-Aly, High-dimensional characterization of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19: https://nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03553-9.

Supp. Table 2: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-021-03553-9/MediaObjects/41586_2021_3553_MOESM4_ESM.xlsx,

1-year HR for viral infection: 4.42x.
Pneumonia: 3.28x
Flu: 3.01x

karlaliliana.bsky.social•10 days ago

It’s absolutely not just you. As a person who has to take tremendous precautions because of Long Covid, Lupus, and being immunocompromised - I notice it more than most. It is a definite shift. The length of the average sickness has been different too.

dulcet-abyssal.bsky.social•10 days ago

there's COVID, flu, pneumonia, rsv, and norovirus. wear a mask at all times. unless you live alone, even at home. make a Corsi Rosenthal box.

pixelfish.bsky.social•10 days ago

I mask at home when kiddo or husband shows signs of feeling unwell. (But not all the time at home because I think that personally would tax my sensory needs & im better able to mask up in my highest risk vectors bc I know I have time at home. We use ventilation, nasal spray, testing, mouthwash.)

dulcet-abyssal.bsky.social•10 days ago

the teenager coughed for 2 weeks. my brother got sick 3 days after that (he never leaves the house so he definitely got it from them). he was sick for a week and half. I got got sick 3 days after he stopped coughing. I was sick for a week. if I'm in the presence of another human I'm masked. I'm done

pixelfish.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah, different folks will have different needs and methods.

alexwenzel.bsky.social•10 days ago

I just wish I could tell you that grants are being submitted and funded to study these questions.

g--0.bsky.social•10 days ago

Instead public health is just ceding the entire conversation to the alt-right who are telling everyone it's the vax

maxwalrus.bsky.social•10 days ago

That's what I'm seeing... my coworkers are constantly sick, and really sick.

hopedespitetimes.bsky.social•10 days ago

My poor SO came down with about 5 or 6 cases of assorted lung crud—colds, coughing fits, etc.—plus one bout of COVID last year alone. Doctors aren't sure what's going on.

utopianparallax.bsky.social•10 days ago

Everybody didn't used to be sick all the time! It's crazy how people just act like this is normal!

learnbaseball.bsky.social•10 days ago

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

samhainnight.bsky.social•10 days ago

1) Yes, Covid is know to weaken immune systems. Among many other things, like increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke.
2) Covid is still around.
3) Masks work on Covid, RSV & Flu
4)This is why I still mask.

pixelfish.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah, Covid does interact with your immune system kinda like measles, in wiping levels of previous immunity.

samhainnight.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yep.

the-k-syndicate.bsky.social•10 days ago

Are folks not getting flu shots and masking? Couldn’t be me, the fucking morons

cfpdx.bsky.social•10 days ago

Very bad year. Lots of bad coughs, colds, and flu going around. All ages.

Knock on wood, I've been healthy.

heliocide.bsky.social•10 days ago

With COVID, we've finally been able to answer the question, "What if HIV was airborne?"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9608044/

a-dobbie11.bsky.social•10 days ago

Precisely why schools cannot staff regular classes each day.
Teachers, and their families, are sick.
Some people still go to work/school while unwell, which exacerbates their symptoms resulting in even more time away.
This problem WILL NOT go away until the root of it is addressed.
Prevent COVID.

lucylala80.bsky.social•10 days ago

I pulled my daughter out of school a week before schools shutdown in 2020 and she has been doing virtual learning since then. When I have in-person classes, I swab my nose, wear a KN95, and bring my air purifier. My husband also swabs and wears a mask while at work. We haven't been sick in years

pjbrissy.bsky.social•10 days ago

See also the significant spike in the number of young people under forty being diagnosed with cancer.

mlmccorkle.bsky.social•10 days ago

Stress increases the risk of illness. Chaos creates high levels of stress

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