Wait A Minute Here...

@porwest (92589)
United States
August 27, 2022 6:08pm CST
Something dawns on me as we continue to deal with Covid. Granted, the cases now are MUCH milder. Not much worse than the common cold. BUT, this makes me think of something. When is the last time someone got sick and it WASN'T Covid? When is the last time you heard someone was out just because they had a common cold? I swear, it has been at least three years since I have heard of anyone just having a cold. Got a fever? Got the sniffles? Got congestion? It's never a cold anymore. It is always Covid. Every single time. I am not making this a point to dismiss Covid yet one more time. But think about it. Did Covid wipe out the common cold because no one seems to just get a cold anymore. When's the last time you are aware of someone who got sick and it WASN'T Covid, but just a cold?
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@RebeccasFarm (90474)
• Arvada, Colorado
28 Aug 22
Oh I read you loud and clear Jim.. I could rant here now about this, but I won't.. You know Covid is where the money is for these docs and hospitals..
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
Something has never been right with this whole thing from the word go. It's the weirdest thing. I am not even sure I see cold remedy commercials aired anymore—it's like the common cold just...disappeared.
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
28 Aug 22
My son and his wife are getting over bad colds and my little grandson has a cold too. He was out of school a couple of days
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
28 Aug 22
@porwest Yes, they did. It’s bad colds. I was afraid it was covid.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
@RubyHawk You did this just to spite me and my post. lol
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
Did they test?
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@GardenGerty (160952)
• United States
28 Aug 22
When I went in to be tested Urgent Care thought I just had the beginnings of bronchitis. They did a full upper respiratory panel. I had covid. Last year I was much sicker, for weeks and weeks. Tested multiple times, again, including the full respiratory panel. It was just a cold. Rhinovirus. I benefitted a lot by taking extra allergy medicines. No, we have not wiped out flu, RSV, Cold, strep, we just do not count all the cases like we do covid.
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@GardenGerty (160952)
• United States
28 Aug 22
@porwest I see what you are saying. On the other hand I hang around lots of people who deny they have covid. "Oh, it is just my allergies kicking in". I think there are pockets of believers and doubters and I know a few people who will never be led around by government, and that is a good thing. I do not doubt, however, that in some instances your theory is accurate.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
I am not talking necessarily about what we count. I am more referring to what people say and what the result is. I have heard no one say they had a cold or any other thing. It's always Covid. That is not a scientific conclusion, but rather an anecdotal one. However, when you talk to hundreds of people in your daily work and no one has had a cold for three years—or the flu for that matter—it just makes one scratch their head a bit. I have never discounted Covid. But I do think there is a purpose to keeping it alive as a narrative. Surprisingly, for the first time in a long time... When it comes to Covid suddenly everyone trusts the government like they never did before. Which begs even more questions. Is this all it took for the government to now control us in other ways? If we so easily bought the lie with this, who knows what else they can now lie to us about and have us believe all of it and be shoved around like the sheep they want us to be? It may sound tin-hatty and crazy. But.... If you think about it...
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@RasmaSandra (80748)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Aug 22
That is a good question, but right now, my old sinus problems have returned, and I know my sinuses are stuffed.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
It's probably Covid. lol
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@RasmaSandra (80748)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Aug 22
@porwest never get me with that one since I never leave my apartment, and if I do, I am downstairs in the yard talking to my friends and I know I am not going to get it but right now I would like to find a way to get more mobile with my bum knee so I can go walking once September arrives
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@Shiva49 (26774)
• Singapore
28 Aug 22
That rings true. The common cold seems to have been sent packing by the new kid on the block. And the new emperor seems to have a heart now too!
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@Shiva49 (26774)
• Singapore
29 Aug 22
@porwest There were a few emperors with a heart in our history. In this case, the villain has mellowed with age! Now our leaders are mere politicians staying in power by hook or crook and by dividing us too. The incumbent gets vilified and those who promise the moon prove worse. No idea how the greats from the past would have survived in the cesspool we have created.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
Which emporer has a heart? The one I see now is a blubbering fool who only seeks to destroy everything. lol But yes. Otherwise I agree with you.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
28 Aug 22
I have said this for a long time Jim. You never heard anything about the flu season. That was always news. Every year we hear how bad the flu was this year. Nothing. And you can't just have a cold any more.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
Yeah. Something rotten and strange here. The scarier part is that people are buying into it still. It's just gotten way too crazy for me.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
29 Aug 22
@porwest Some will believe anything. I question everything.
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@marguicha (223777)
• Chile
28 Aug 22
In my country, when there is what it seems like a bad cold, the health authorities order a PCR.
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@marguicha (223777)
• Chile
28 Aug 22
@porwest PCR, short for Polymerase chain reaction, is a test done to see if you are covid positive.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
What's a PCR?
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
28 Aug 22
Jay was bleeding, his hand was torn up. He went into the ER, without Covid they didn't even bother. He finally left, still bleeding and went to a different hospital! They treated him. He didn't have Covid, so couldn't get a doctor!
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
28 Aug 22
@porwest Had this happened three years ago, they would have treated him!
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
@kobesbuddy It's so backwards the way the world is today. I think the scarier part is that people are accepting it. It's nuts.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
What a load of crap. The world has gone mad.
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@aninditasen (16503)
• Raurkela, India
28 Aug 22
In India people with common cold are not hospitalized suspecting covid. Rather doctors advice us not to run to the hospital if you have a common cold.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
The problem is perceptions, right? No one went to the doctor before if they thought they had a cold. But when Covid was around, everyone rushed to the doctor for anything and everything. So... We had a lot of "cases." Supposedly. But can we confirm they WERE Covid cases? Or do we just take the government's word that that's what they were? Part of my point is that we need to be weary of what the underlying agenda(s) may be for governments to control their people and make the impression they have a valid, greater cause argument to do it. People have always held a bit of "suspicion" about government. That changed a bit when Covid hit, and then suddenly people trusted and hung on to every instruction and word the government said. Suddenly the government was the most trustworthy of all and people did not question a thing. As for not going to the doctor for a common cold now, the problem is that the new strains of Covid are just like the common cold, and so how does one know if they have Covid or a cold unless they test? Beyond that, if the government wants to continue to control its people through Covid, how can we be sure those tests won't confirm more cases of Covid than actually exist? In other words, how trustworthy are the tests? If someone wants you to believe in something, a test might be a good and easy way to help to confirm that belief... If everything now brings back a positive for Covid.
@nela13 (58720)
• Portugal
28 Aug 22
You're right on that. They say that is because we wear masks.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
The masks were a load of crap. Even the CDC finally had to come out and say they didn't do a damn thing. The whole thing from day one was innuendo, propaganda, insinuation and lie after lie after lie after lie... And the sad part is people still believe in some of this garbage. The world's gone nuts and I think brains have all turned to mush. lol It is what it is, I suppose. All we can hope for is that there is at least enough common sense and logical thinking left that the world can still be saved from what has otherwise become moronic.
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28 Aug 22
The "experts" just had to put a name on this common cold or flu to patent their billion $$ jab products.
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28 Aug 22
@porwest Thanks to Shakespeare. You might be interested. Dr. David Martin PhD "Weaponization of Coronavirus: When Nature is Conscripted to Harm" Spoke at Wise Traditions Conference, November 5, 2021 video on Bit Chute
@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
Something is rotten in Denmark for sure. By the way, where did that phrase ever come from? lol
@Kandae11 (55163)
28 Aug 22
I haven' t been around enough people to make a definite assessment so l can only speak for myself. I haven't had a cold in over 15 years and l have forgotten what it feels like.l hope covid stays away too because l am not vaccinated.
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@florelway (23286)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
28 Aug 22
Looks like Cold is gone. When our health officer hears somebody coughing or sniffing his nose she wants them to get a covid test.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
It has gotten to the point of almost being ridiculous. I mean, we all know Covid was real, but somewhere along the line it just became something else—and unfortunately people are still drinking the Kool-Aid I think.
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@florelway (23286)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
28 Aug 22
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@Beestring (14694)
• Hong Kong
28 Aug 22
You have a point there. Looks like Cold is gone. Before Covid, government here asked people to get vaccinated to prevent Flu. Now they just focus on promoting people to get vaccinated to prevent Covid.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
This is true. But we have to keep in mind that the flu vaccines were time tested and proven to be effective. The Covid vaccines were experimental, untested and unproven mRna vaccines that, according to everything I can find, did not work. More people who got vaccinated for Covid got Covid than anyone vaccinated for flu ever got flu.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
29 Aug 22
@Beestring I have heard that too, and I think it is a load of hogwash. My wife was vaccinated and got Covid months before I got it, and am not vaccinated, and her symptoms were ten times worse than mine were.
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@Beestring (14694)
• Hong Kong
29 Aug 22
@porwest Yes, you are right. The Covid vaccines were experimental, untested. The The authorities here claimed that The Covid vaccines cannot help to prevent getting infected, it just helps to prevent the illness from getting serious.
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@clrumfelt (5490)
• United States
28 Aug 22
I keep thinking that either everybody has Covid or nobody has it. It's a virus after all, and viruses are all around us .
@jstory07 (139965)
• Roseburg, Oregon
28 Aug 22
I have never had a cold but I get your point.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
Lucky to never have had a cold. That just means if you ever do get one it may just kill you. lol
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@LindaOHio (181642)
• United States
28 Aug 22
Several times. The ones that were COVID-19 were exactly that because the people were tested.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
How many of those tests, I wonder, are giving a positive for a cold, and has anyone checked to see if the tests push a positive for a cold? Funny no one has ever questioned that. What if the purpose of the tests was to push the narrative? And don't forget, Biden pushed the vaccine and then handed out free tests. How many of those may have been designed to actually also push vaccinations? Too many people fail to ask important questions and just do too much trusting I think.
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• Northampton, England
28 Aug 22
COVID will become another common cold, the point, what happens when everyone catches a virus.
@arunima25 (87854)
• Bangalore, India
28 Aug 22
Most are getting tested positive for Covid. And any symptoms just scare you. I was sick last week and not yet fully recovered. Still some sore throat and dull bodyache persists. I got covid test done twice and it was negative. I had viral. I had covid last year.
• India
28 Aug 22
Yes it was the doctors and the media which made people infected with that covid mess everytime they are sick
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
28 Aug 22
Yeah. There is something not right here and I wish we could get to the bottom of it.
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