if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this
No one seems to be acknowledging the far funnier element of this, which is, that when you go to the commenter’s account, you find out they are actually fucking roleplaying as a sexually repressed skeleton and jjst really committed to the bit while everyone in the reblogs is talking about how much they hate minors or whatever. thank you kharak the skeleton servant of the almighty lich king
The article above also describes how Covid is reactivating other herpes viruses, which is true: people are also getting shingles after Covid because it’s reactivating their latent chicken pox. If you’re born after 1995 you may already be vaccinated for chicken pox, but you may also need the booster; two shots are the standard now but might not have been available for 90s babies. Check your immunization records and talk to your doctor.
If you have ever gotten chicken pox at any point in your life, there is always a chance you can get shingles later. It is painful and contagious, and I personally know of THREE people who got Covid and then only a month or so later had shingles. Luckily there is a shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine, which is separate from the varicella (chicken pox) vaccine.
This is one of many reasons why those of us who are “covid conscious” stress the importance of prevention: even if you get Covid and it’s “mild”, any infection can still trigger a cascade of more severe health problems down the line, especially if you’ve had Covid more than once. As OP said, EBV can cause mono, and mono can lead to ME/CFS, of which Long Covid shares many symptoms.
Do your part in prevention: wear a mask, stay home when sick, and keep up to date with all of your vaccines. Get your shit today!
we’ve had shingles four times since we got covid – and in the bloody uk you can’t get a shingles vaccination until you’re 65 (we tried to get special dispensation through our neurologist but nobody would play)
and we’ve had ME/CFS since the 80s thanks to mono (and possibly a penicillin reaction) – and other illnesses (and traumatic experiences) will just lower our immune system enough to kick off an ME/CFS spike – we’re in the middle of one rn thanks to a flu vaccination and then an opportunistic virus we caught while we were recovering from that
and yes, covid has made all this shit more frequent, so please try not to get it or give it, y’all know how
actually im gonna be honest some rules should be followed. people aren’t “boring” or like losers or whatever for not wanting you to smoke in the back stairwell directly next to their dorm room when school policy is 25 feet from any buildings. like that’s genuinely a matter of public health it doesn’t matter if you think smoking is cool or whatever.
the selective breeding of music to get shorter and shorter for tik tok has resulted in devastating negative long term health effects on the songs
what do you mean this album is 12 songs and only 24 minutes total it’s not going to survive the winter
I did notice that like. A lot of these popular songs are missing like….a third verse. You sound like a car commercial. Where is the rest of the song?? Hello??
Louisiana students Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson wowed their teachers in 2022 when they discovered a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem in response to a bonus question in a high school math contest. But that was only the beginning.
A volunteer at their former school, New Orleans’ St. Mary’s Academy, encouraged them to submit their work on the famous mathematical theory to a professional conference, and in March 2023 they became the youngest people to present at the American Mathematical Society’s Southeastern Sectional conference in Atlanta. Their appearance elicited a wave of media coverage, including a spot on “60 Minutes.” The pair also received symbolic keys to the city of New Orleans and a shout-out from Michelle Obama.
Now Jackson and Johnson, who started college last year, have notched another achievement: authoring an academic paper detailing their original proof — plus nine more. Their work published Monday in the scientific journal American Mathematical Monthly.
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