The article is confusing. Are they saying COVID causes long colds? In other words now that COVID is like the common cold when you get it, they are just saying you have mild long COVID I think?
The visibility of long-COVID has led people to reevaluate whether other viruses cause “long” syndromes. It looks like rhinovirus (aka “the common cold”) can, too.
There are other viruses that were already known to cause “long” symptoms, often due to damage caused to the nervous system by the virus or the immune response. Post-polio syndrome has been known for a long time, for example.
Android. I tried a couple of browsers. When i look very closely now i see a tiny little rectangle that i can click on and it brings up the decade options
Here in the Philippines, we’re on full-blown Christmas decors since late August. Complement Halloween decor will be temporarily around a few weeks in late October. The Christmas decor is dismantled early February and replaced by Valentine’s decors.
I find the complaints of other people on this thread weird, for me I see nothing wrong with early Christmas decorations, and your region is already too late anyway. But I do want to hear about why some people find this infuriating.
In Australia, they start selling hot cross buns and Easter eggs the day after Christmas. All these “special occasions” are just an excuse to sell more stuff.
When department stores and commercially made decorations became a thing in the US it was “traditional” to start decorating the day after (American) Thanksgiving, the last week in November. A lot of people still go get a Christmas tree that day.
Now that the “Christmas season” creeps earlier every year, it is tradition to complain about it, note how it’s just a capitalist gold digging opportunity and be annoyed by the Christmas music that usually accompanies the decorations.
Even though a lot of the US never sees snow, most of our decorations are snow related because Christmas replaced Winter Solstice as a holiday and is our opportunity to celebrate winter. It’s strange seeing snow men on sheets of fake snow with snowflakes dangling and hearing music about going on sleigh rides and frosty the snow man when it is still 90 degrees out.
When Christmas finally arrives, it’s not so much “Yay! Christmas!” as “FINALLY I don’t have to listen to that goddamn jinglebell song until next year… well… 8 months anyway…”
Ah, well maybe certian parts of North America. I used to work with a guy who ate seagull eggs (from a small fishing outport in NFLD) and appartently they are not much different from chiken eggs. TIL.
Guinea Pig is on the BBC’s list of 50 foods to eat before you die. Or it was when I started eating my way through it years ago. I think it’s the only one I haven’t had.
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