Reply #44: you are correct [View All]

[amazona]

This cruel disease took Jim Henson as well.

In theory it can be treated with antibiotics but in practice it is apparently not uncommon to think you have flu and that you will shrug it off if you rest at home.

Seems we're damned if we do, damned if we don't. Nostamj if I recall his last post correctly thought he had flu and a sprain and was resting. I think Jim Henson thought he had flu? So by assuming they had the viral disease and didn't need to/maybe shouldn't go to the doctor for antibiotic they maybe put themselves at greater risk.

It is so hard to know what to do. We can't run to the doctor every time we have cold or flu. And yet we are not ourselves doctors and we don't always really know what why we feel ill.

We don't want to create antibiotic resistant strains to anything but we don't want to die either.

It is a dilemma.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
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