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yellowdogintexas

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23. Hopefully the extra precautions taken for COVID 19 will make the flu season less
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 11:29 PM
Jun 2020

deadly. I know I am washing my hands more frequently and more thoroughly than before COVID..

I'm reading that COVID is changing rather rapidly. It could end up that we have to get an updated COVID vaccine every year just as we do flu shots now. It makes sense if it starts morphing into new strains

Sounds about right. Dream Girl Jun 2020 #1
Trump ended program to detect potential pandemic-causing viruses before they spread TomCADem Jun 2020 #28
I wonder what would happen it they started giving the animals the drugs like they do over here? LiberalArkie Jun 2020 #2
Eureka! SergeStorms Jun 2020 #12
We go through the flu every year that starts from the animals. There is a reason a long time ago LiberalArkie Jun 2020 #14
No. That's not the reason. luvtheGWN Jun 2020 #21
It used to be that calves were given antibiotics because they made them grow faster csziggy Jun 2020 #26
I've been expecting a RW mantra, "this is a once in 100 years event" to head off big changes brewens Jun 2020 #3
1789 in France is an example of what can potentially happen to the 1% if they keep cstanleytech Jun 2020 #9
Covid 19, new swine flu and regular flu. I'll be in my basement, see you in May. dem4decades Jun 2020 #4
When the "warm weather" makes the virus disappear? SergeStorms Jun 2020 #11
+1 appalachiablue Jun 2020 #27
yet another gift to society from meat eaters nt msongs Jun 2020 #5
+1 Peregrine Took Jun 2020 #7
Meat Stinks! Now it's killing us faster and with more diseases. Ziggysmom Jun 2020 #19
Industrial meat producers, more directly. JudyM Jun 2020 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author CatLady78 Jun 2020 #29
You said it! All of this could be simply solved if people went vegetarian. Coventina Jun 2020 #24
I read a post yesterday bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #6
It's so weird RhodeIslandOne Jun 2020 #13
I just did some Googling bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #17
Virus attaches to Ace2 receptor Strelnikov_ Jun 2020 #22
Assuming people continue to travel less than they used to internationally due to the current cstanleytech Jun 2020 #8
I may never leave my house again. SergeStorms Jun 2020 #10
I bet a lot more people will be getting the flu shot this year Skittles Jun 2020 #15
No they won't, marie999 Jun 2020 #16
we'll see Skittles Jun 2020 #18
I can't find it again, marie999 Jun 2020 #30
Hopefully the extra precautions taken for COVID 19 will make the flu season less yellowdogintexas Jun 2020 #23
Poor 2020. What did it do to deserve this shit? GulfCoast66 Jun 2020 #25
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 #31
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