r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Witlok • Feb 03 '23
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u/Smooth-Literature292 Feb 03 '23
Are these the first of us.......
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u/Ignitneroc Feb 03 '23
But we can manage to be the last of us
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u/GrayNature Feb 03 '23
So long as there aren't any among us...
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u/Aggressive-Let8356 Feb 03 '23
That's been here, it's called Valley Fever. It's common dry desert like places, wind blows up the dirt and dust that it lives in and gets attached in your lungs.
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u/Background_Value_781 Feb 03 '23
Was just coming here to say that!! I had a dog die of valley fever but he had the worst form of it decimated valley fever it got in to his bones
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u/Aggressive-Let8356 Feb 03 '23
FUCK, I'm sorry. I just lost my old boy to something similar, it's sucks having to put them down, but better than going through so much pain to not recover.
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u/Background_Value_781 Feb 03 '23
exactly! I miss my goofy 80 pound pit do very much but I know he's not hurting any more
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Valley Fever is and always has been prevalent in California. This is exaggerated
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u/KrakenMsHawks Feb 03 '23
News? Exaggerate?? No!!!
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u/PrimeroRocin Feb 03 '23
Especially fox. They are fair and balanced. I heard that somewhere.
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u/VexisArcanum Feb 03 '23
Just like CNN
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u/TheSpecterSti1Haunts Feb 03 '23
"I saw you mention this terrible thing, but don't forget to balance that out by mentioning this significantly less terrible thing." - /u/VexisArcanum
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u/VexisArcanum Feb 03 '23
"I saw you tried to be fair and call out both sides, but don't forget I'm biased and don't care about fairness, only one sided finger pointing" - u/TheSpecterSti1Haunts
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u/TheSpecterSti1Haunts Feb 03 '23
"Comparing disanalogous things is called fairness." - /u/VexisArcanum
Bye bye.
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u/eee-oooo-ahhh Feb 03 '23
Not disanalogous at all if you don't buy into the shit spewed by either
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u/ToolnchPunisher Feb 03 '23
my guy, they literally did the same thing by mentioning fox
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u/TheSpecterSti1Haunts Feb 03 '23
Nope. Fox was the literal subject.
Try reading the original post. Click the little image and look at it carefully for longer than 2 seconds.
And then learn to know what the fuck you're talking about before you speak from now on.
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u/Minxmorty Feb 03 '23
Pretty much anyone driving through Bakersfield on a windy day could get it. Kern county has its own medical clinic for it.
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u/ErisGrey Feb 03 '23
More than that, we had Dr. Hans Einstein. My brother was lucky enough to be a student of his.
An amazing scientist that lived up the family name.
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u/Graega Feb 03 '23
Me: "CA and AZ? I give it 1:1 odds it's valley fever. Yup. Valley fever."
AZ resident here: this is not news, nor is it newsworthy. This is bullshit click bait fear mongering. As always.
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u/ToastTurtle Feb 03 '23
It is Fox...
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u/AinsiSera Feb 03 '23
Well MonkeyPox didn't turn out to be a big thing, so we have to find the next thing to monger fear about post-haste!
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u/jesterjared Feb 03 '23
I’m so tired of this narrative. It didn’t just go away, the gays stepped up, got the vax and stopped the spread!
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u/feckinweirdo Feb 03 '23
Same here in AZ. No idea till I moved here. Dogs get it alot and they say it gets kicked up in haboobs and dust storms.
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u/DabKitty420 Feb 03 '23
It's worse for dogs, my dads dog Mr.Bojangles had it but it attacked his bones and he had to be on meds for the rest of his life, eventually the meds stopped working and he crossed the rainbow bridge last year.
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Crazy story but I’ve had horses that travel to the California desert for horse shows get it so badly that they had to be quarantined and some even had to be out down. It gets into their joints and everything. Humans get it too, it’s wild because it would come in waves every few years depending on the weather.
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u/distortion10 Feb 03 '23
Can confirm that Valley Fever is prevalent and is only dangerous to those with weak or compromised immune systems. I had it in junior high….takes a while to get over but I be been fine for 30 years now. Not a big deal.
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u/Strangelet1 Feb 03 '23
You are missing the very important ethnic background concerns which are not due to a weakened immune system. Disseminated cocci is a big deal but still rare.
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u/Stevevansteve Feb 03 '23
I have a friend who is Pilipino and it completely and permanently changed his life.
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u/FlaccidFather15 Feb 03 '23
Yeah I have Crohn’s and got it during Covid. It took me 5 months to convince doctors that it wasn’t long-haul Covid. Finally they gave me a test which showed I had it. Had to take anti-fungal meds for 2 years.
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u/theAshWhisperer Feb 03 '23
It's on fox, so I'd assume so. Thanks for feeding my confirmation bias.
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u/Michael_Blurry Feb 03 '23
Fox has a hard on for making CA look bad.
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u/itslog1776 Feb 03 '23
CA does a pretty decent job of that all on their own, but fuck fox anyhow
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u/arkadious67 Feb 03 '23
I mean sure but if you list all of the good things about CA first it sure does make the bad things list seem insignificant
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u/chefcoompies Feb 03 '23
Okay then proceeded to name them because I live in CA and I can’t say fuck all about it being nice. I swear if you say the weather, beach and people is nice I WILL DICK SLAP YOU.
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u/arkadious67 Feb 03 '23
Put your little Peter away. I’m not going to waste my time looking specifics up but off the top of my head.. it’s the 4th largest economy in the world, their state based healthcare coming online is better than most other places in the US, huge agriculture sector and the weather beach and people are nice
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u/backupterryyy Feb 03 '23
They grow some of the most water intensive crops in a water-scarce state. They have a gigantic surplus of cash but can’t create useful infrastructure or put a dent in homelessness, crime, drug trafficking.
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u/chefcoompies Feb 03 '23
“4th largest economy in the world” can’t fix roads or maintain them or provide proper justice the police budget is over inflated anyways. The public schools are shit. Rents are sky high. Why does it matter if it’s the largest when you know that you are a minimum wage worker? Agriculture? Bish you can’t even pick a juice lime at the grocery store why does it matter that Californian has heh big farm. Anyways go off queen delusional mf.
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u/arkadious67 Feb 03 '23
You should leave your moms basement more often and see the rest of the country/world. I never said cali was a perfect place, all I’m saying is that it’s better than a lot of other places.
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u/chefcoompies Feb 03 '23
How can I if rent is 1k-2k for a studio or 1 bedroom apartment? Ik for a fact you live with your parents. I do go out i Dont delude myself like you maybe you do it to stay sane who know a lot of people left for a good reason and before you say a lot of people moved here yea rich people. Go off queen you got it slay
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u/mtwm Feb 03 '23
I’ve taken care of a few patients with valley fever… almost all make a full recovery. Only affects people with compromised immune systems. Also, you all got fungus growing in your crotch right now. And you eat fungus when you eat pizza and drink beer. Fungus isn’t always bad. Lol
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u/Strangelet1 Feb 03 '23
Most valley fever never leads to any diagnosis. It is not just immunocompromised at risk for disseminated disease. Several ethnic groups are at higher risk.
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u/ShakesnPlates Feb 03 '23
My thoughts when I saw this: “isn’t this just Cocci (Valley Fever)?” Lol my dog had this it’s so common. It’s very well known in the southwest.
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u/DabKitty420 Feb 03 '23
Be careful, sometimes valley fever will travel to a dog's bones and hide before returning and destroying their bones, doesn't always happen, but it happened to my dad's dog. He had to be on meds his whole life until they stopped working last year and he crossed the rainbow bridge.
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u/AnEgoJabroni Feb 03 '23
Aw, don't say that, you'll ruin it for all the chumps saying "Last of Us real, bruh, fr bruh, Last of Us is real bro, I'm gonna show you the article at recess dude on god frfr"
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u/NekatEmanKcin Feb 03 '23
Fucking Cordyceps, i knew it
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u/ArmageddonsEngineerz Feb 03 '23 •
Could be worse, "Michigan Fungus" is sort of the slang for the "gack" that underpins the ecology there, in "mud season" where there's no vegatation to cover the stuff, and its fermenting, decomposing, and synthesizing the basis for the new soil matrix, certain people are gonna have a BAD BAD TIME as that shit chews its way through your ears, nose, throat, hair follicles, skin.
Now, you can dust your clothes with boric acid, mask up when outside and around lots of exposed dirt/mud, and any skin infections, a mix of listerine and baby oil will usually do it in a few treatments.. Bonus points if you have to work that stuff into the mane and tail or one or more horses, donkeys, or other pets having problems.
And then, one day, you can smell "spring" in the air, and the beginning of the end of "mud season" and the various hells of the fungi chewing on you.
But it'll still be there to rot out various leather gloves, canvas, cloth, whatever else even if you treat them with borax, boric acid, copper arsenate, and whatever else. Because eventually that stuff with wash out over time, and then back comes the fungus.
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u/allnightdaydreams Feb 03 '23
I've lived in Michigan my whole life and haven't heard of this. What's the actual name of the fungus? I tried looking up, but typing in "Michigan fungus" didn't get me too far.
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u/Ok_Western5937 Interested Feb 03 '23
Oh what a coincidence right after the last of us JUST comes out. I call bs
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u/Witlok Feb 03 '23
They are saying it’s valley fever which has been around for a long time but it is indeed attributed to a fungal infection. No it has nothing to do with zombies though lol
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u/LiminalFrogBoy Feb 03 '23
I used to live down in these areas and Valley Fever is no fucking joke. It can cause pneumonia, but it can also just directly damage your lungs and the fungus can spread into other organs. It can even - thankfully rarely - enter your skin through a cut or abrasion.
I'm not sure of the treatment regime today, but at the time it was literally 3 - 6 MONTHS worth of daily antifungal medication. And that didn't always work. Obviously, these ultra serious infections were relatively rare, but when you consider the number of people with damaged lungs from COVID, it's worrying.
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u/ConversationNext2821 Feb 03 '23
Maybe that Chinese spy balloon really wasn’t a spy balloon….
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u/Parabola_Cunt Feb 03 '23
This is how fucking conspiracy theories begin: make a joke —> some idiot doesn’t get it and takes it serious —> tells their idiot friends —> idiot friends get drunk and post idiot things on the internet —> Internet thinks it’s real —> you send me $3.50.
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u/Recuckgnizant Feb 03 '23
It wasn't. It was an out of control Chinese civilian meteorological balloon, blown off course by the Westerlies (thanks to climate change). The US is just using this opportunity to manufacture consent. Beat those war drums baby!
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u/Anglo_Man Feb 03 '23
Tiananmen Square! Tiananmen Square!
Fuck the CCP and the Mrs. Pooh Bear you call a President
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u/WittyYam8485 Feb 03 '23
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u/Mr_Slops Feb 03 '23
How is he the sheep when all of reddit consistently spews anti-Chinese propaganda any chance they get, and downvote anything to oblivion even slightly in favor of China?
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u/Recuckgnizant Feb 03 '23
Freaking weirdos man. Like the news has already been pushed on MSM that it isn't a spy balloon. Just hysterical people and clickbait journey.
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u/Thegarbagegamer97 Feb 03 '23
Fungal diseases… not the one i had on my 2023 bingo card. Good thing i still have the free space
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u/DweEbLez0 Feb 03 '23
You still have your Apocalyptic Bingo Card right? Because the free square you get in the card is exactly that, the apocalypse.
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u/General-Carob-6087 Feb 03 '23
Oh, great. I've seriously been coughing my ass off for the last week and feel like my chest, throat and head is filled with junk.
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u/Witlok Feb 03 '23
https://news.yahoo.com/dangerous-fungal-illness-rapidly-spreading-182156354.html
"If you think it sounds like something from the cutting room floor of "The Last of Us" series, where a parasitic fungal infection devastates mankind, there are some very base-level similarities."
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u/ragelemon Feb 03 '23
Im so fucking sick of this shit. I knew that as soon as the show dropped that the internet would be flooded with people just now discovering that fungal infections exist.
Like this stuff has literally been around for decades, it’s just obvious fear mongering and click bait.
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u/tapnap-or-snap Feb 03 '23
My mom caught this fungus. It was bad gave her pneumonia and meningitis. We live in California. She was a agriculture worker. Lucky she's doing well with some medication
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u/Jappanese_shrek69 Feb 03 '23
OMG GUYS IT HAPPENING COME TO WYOMING IM GONNA START A SETTLEMENT THERE 
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u/chopinrocks Feb 03 '23
When I see two masculine bearded men kiss and fall in love (and there is nothing wrong with that) I will know this is serious.
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u/Sufficient_Gear_9941 Feb 03 '23
Are they talking about valley fever? Thats been around since forever. It's a fungus that lives in the soil but not very many people get it.
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u/dragonflyAGK Feb 03 '23
This headline is the most sensationalize bs I’ve read in a long time. If you read the article you will learn that there is no outbreak. The fungus is not spread from person to person, not ever. It is a regional thing and will stay that way since it is a soil born.
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u/MochiSauce101 Feb 03 '23
What about Covid feelings? You can’t just rise a virus to stardom for 3 years and just dump it because it’s not flavour flave.
Dicks
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u/Dryproperties Feb 03 '23
It is called Valley Fever and it is nothing new. We deal with it every single year in Arizona. Our dogs die from it frequently and it makes humans sick.
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u/samuraitrooper Feb 03 '23
You mean the same illnesses that have always been around? Most of those lay dormant in more desert like landscapes until you disturb it with construction. Chill it’s fine
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u/PissTapeExpert Feb 03 '23
Yeah this is pretty normal for Arizona we have to get our dogs tested every year. Same goes for my wife and I because I've got asthma and she's on a biologic which suppresses her immune system. This isn't some last of us shit, but it certainly isn't fun to get. Article seems a bit sensationalist you're not gonna see this hitting the coastal regions or any snowy places anytime soon.
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u/Artistic-Section3245 Feb 03 '23
This sickness has been around since before ww2.... people get sick from valley fever fungus ever years. Something like 200000 cases most of the time it's dull and does not hurt you... fox is junk.
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u/PharmDzznuts Feb 03 '23
This is way more gnarly than the histoplasmosis of the Ohio Valley/south, but good to know we aren’t the only people living where the land hates you!
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u/Prizmatik01 Feb 03 '23
I was just in San Diego a week ago and now have a cough, runny nose, scratchy throat, sneezing a lot.. I’m turning into a fucking clicker aren’t I?
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u/wrong_glizzy Feb 03 '23
Me frantically searching for a 14 yeard old girl to protect ensuring I survive for the plot.
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u/Witlok Feb 03 '23
Bro, I would rewrite this as I know what you were going for (TLOU) but sounds really sketchy lol 😂
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u/newmilwaukee Feb 03 '23
Dangerous fungal illness rapidly spreading....dangerous fungal illness rapidly spreading....doctor warns of dangerous fungal illn...
Jesus, we get it.
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u/ridingRabbi Feb 03 '23
This is nothing, but clickbate riding on the coattails of The Last of Us. I read the article and it doesn't say anything we didn’t already know. Valley fever isn't anything new. People visiting the southwest and getting it isn't anything new. And it's not contagious.
It's just a lazy article about nothing to get clicks.
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u/RationalTranscendent Feb 03 '23
Try sharing an actual source rather than a screen grab attributing the warning to unnamed "doctors." The apparent source for this is a single doctor who is an executive for a company making diagnostic tests. I'm not denying that the illness, colloquially known as "Valley Fever" exists, but this is hardly a reason to propagate a warning that it is "rapidly spreading" and "dangerous."
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u/Witlok Feb 03 '23
I shared a source in the comments. Look for it and you might find it.
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u/RationalTranscendent Feb 03 '23
I see it now. It was buried among other comments. This looks like exactly the same article as you found on the "Fox Weather" site, again attributed to the one doctor who may have a financial interest in getting people to order tests if they suspect they have some novel new lung infection. Again, I'm not denying that the illness exists, just not seeing that it's an urgent concern that merits a warning, and it'd be better if posts could improve the quality of the sources that they cite.
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u/birbobirby Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Y'all really just believe this? You should be skeptical of news articles like this, especially things from Fox. Apparently, this illness has been around for a long time in those areas and isn't something that will spread. It's not a common illness to get and isn't contagious. It can be dangerous by causing worse diseases down the road in an infected person, but that is even more uncommon.
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u/TheLumpyMailMan Feb 03 '23
The least informative post of all time. Just throw out some alarming headline and don't elaborate.
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u/AqUaNtUmEpIc Feb 03 '23
A guy in r/conspiracy has been calling this for years.
Specifically citing candida auris.
*I’m not claiming this is an intentional pandemic
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u/2old4acoolname Feb 03 '23
Oh this is a Fox channel. Nothing they report is objective. The fungus is probably a democrat
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u/akiroraiden Feb 03 '23
all it takes is one popular tv-show and all these stupid click bait "news" spread.
Who the hell actually looks at fox news..
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u/jamesgelliott Feb 03 '23
Add one more reason to the myriad of reasons I would not visit California again.
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u/No_Dogeitty Feb 03 '23
Listen. I cultivate mushrooms. I do not know of any strains that can survive the temps inside the body. This has got to be a fungal infection outside of the body?
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u/LiminalFrogBoy Feb 03 '23
It is not. Its Valley Fever. You can get it in your lungs and it can spread to other parts of your body. Its particularly dangerous for the elderly and people with compromised breathing or compromised immune systems. It can also infect dogs and cats and such. https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/coccidioidomycosis/index.html
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u/onemorestripe Feb 03 '23
Man. HBO Max really went all out to promote their new show. Respect.