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Flipboard Science Desk

Can chicken soup and other home remedies really fight off a cold?

@BBCNews looks at the science: flip.it/s.0Mmp

What's your preferred home remedy for colds (even if it only provides a placebo effect)?

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A ladle lifting chicken soup (Credit: Getty Images)
BBC · Can chicken soup and other home remedies really fight off a cold?By Jessica Brown
#Cold#Illness#Science
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Ed Suominen

@JessieHart @jik @novid With my few remaining IRL social contacts, anything I say now is just for my own mental well-being more than their physical well-being. I just don’t want to have to live with the knowledge that I could have warned people I care about and did not.

Mostly keeping quiet now, but I did send this to some on Signal the other day.

And yet I will self-boost and hashtag this #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #virus #immunity #LongCovid #sick #illness because I still can’t quite not care.

Sorry to be the Covid nag bot, but you’re getting this because I care about you. 1. Reinfections are common. In fact, there is considerable evidence that the first infection degrades your immune system for at least a while, making infection with other viruses more likely. And, after a month or so, the antibodies fade just like the ones from the vaccine and this so-called “natural immunity” appears to not help much prevent you from being infected with SARS-CoV-2 again. 2. The damage is cumulative. I sincerely hope every single one of you who has gotten infected is just fine and it’s like it never happened. But if there is some sub-clinical issue that you haven’t noticed and may never notice, a second assault on your body from this virus could change that. 2. The vaccines suck. Sorry, but it’s true. They keep you from dying and mostly from going to the hospital. A modest reduction in risk of Long Covid. That’s about it. 3. We are at the start of yet another wave. 4. Wearing a KN95 or (better yet) N95 respirator in public indoor spaces is an excellent way to cut your risk to a fraction of what it would be. 5. If you do get (re)infected, get Paxlovid ASAP. Sooner the better. 6. Rapid tests really don’t work anymore except to tell you when you are no longer infectious to others after symptoms have subsided. 7. I wish none of this were true. It’s impacting my life, too, because refusing to put myself in danger has resulted in basically the loss of my entire social life.
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Radical Resilience Film

Zine : Caring Movements – Chronic Illness and Activism

We've put together a #zine about the experiences of people living with chronic #illness within #activist movements.

We explore questions like:
What attitudes&behaviours towards health&care do we carry over from mainstream culture?
What hinders people with illness from taking part in our movements?
How can we make our movements more inclusive&move towards more of a culture of caring?

Reflecting on these subjects is key to growing stronger movements that are able to create real alternatives to the capitalist nightmare and to bring down this harmful system!

Here is the zine to read online or to print at home. If you want to print in a "professional" print shop, please contact us for the print layout version.

radicalresilience.noblogs.org/

If you like the zine, please share it with your groups and networks!

Thanks to EYFA eyfa.org/ for support and graphic design.

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