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TheAlmightySpoon Apr 16, 2026 +742

I'm pretty sure I caught this at the end of January. I don't think I've ever been that sick in my adult life, I couldn't even get out of bed.

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ediks Apr 16, 2026 +233

I must have as well. Couldn’t even keep water down. Only time I got out of bed was every 45 minutes to an hour so I could get to the restroom

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Candid-Crazy2542 Apr 16, 2026 +37

When my son was a baby his dad and I both had a brutal virus at the same time. It was a 24 hour bug and for most of it I had at least 30-45 min breaks between toilet runs but there was a period of about 8 hours where I wasn’t even making it 10 minutes between events. We were literally tag teaming baby duty based on which of us wasn’t actively shitting and vomiting. I woke up in a puddle of my own diarrhea. It was coming out of me like lava. I’ve never felt so powerless. Death seemed near.

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fluffyfurnado1 Apr 17, 2026 +21

You are lucky your baby didn’t get too sick. My son was hospitalized at 11 months. They had a hard time getting his IV in (super scary as a mom). Also, it is one of the top killers of children under 5 in poor countries.

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Candid-Crazy2542 Apr 17, 2026 +10

The baby never even got it! Not that time anyway. A few years later we had another round of a less intense bug that the kids and their dad caught. I was spared which was good because I’d just had neck surgery and puking would have been an extra special type of hell.

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TheAlmightySpoon Apr 16, 2026 +87

Exactly what I went through. Starting at 2 AM, I'd get up, be sick and/or use the bathroom, then fall back asleep for another hour, for at least 14 hours.

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erossthescienceboss Apr 16, 2026 +76

That was probably norovirus. Norovirus and rotavirus have very similar symptoms… but rotavirus lasts *up to a week* instead of 1-3 days. It mostly impacts children because adults build a pretty decent immunity to it. And the reason it can be deadly is because of how long it lasts.

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ediks Apr 16, 2026 +23

Yeah mine was a week, then another week to recover. The best canned soup I’ve ever had was after all that

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Ripley825 Apr 17, 2026 +11

I think my whole house had the Norovirus. My kid got it first presumably from school, then I got it from taking care of her, then my husband got it taking care of me and finally our buddy who lives in the apartment attached to the back of the house got it because he came into the main house to help us. The whole mess started on a Friday and didn't end until the following Thursday. Just one after the other. Each person violently ill for 2-3 days. We've never been that sick before. When I was strong enough, I sanitized every surface, nook and cranny. Twice.

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Outside_Dimension187 Apr 17, 2026 +2

Did you use bleach?

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ediks Apr 16, 2026 +41

It's a good thing my bathtub is close to my toilet because I would fire out of both ends at times... It was awful.

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OverseerIsLife Apr 16, 2026 +43

The dreaded double dragon!

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who-are-we-anyway Apr 17, 2026 +27

I'm a woman so a bathroom trash can is fantastic for this purpose, highly recommend everyone have a bathroom trash can anyway! Also if you're someone who gets sick a lot or you have kids, disposable emesis bags are way better than a household puke bucket you have to clean out and way less risky than a Walmart bag which might have holes in it (even if you double up they likely both have holes)

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ediks Apr 17, 2026 +27

I have never had a bathroom in my living space without a trash can lol

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who-are-we-anyway Apr 17, 2026 +5

Well I assumed since you're throwing up in your bathtub that you didn't lol. I'd rather tie the bag up and deal with it than try to clean chunks out of the drain.

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ediks Apr 17, 2026 +6

Complete edit since I feel like I was overly defensive. Yeah I have them, but the vomit was just bile and easy to just rinse out of the tub that is right there lol

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BigSkySoHigh63 Apr 17, 2026 +2

I get migraines and a desperate visit to the ER for a terrible migraine helped me discover those bags. The nurse handed it to me as she chucked the ziplock I grabbed leaving my house. The plastic ring and the twist safely closed characteristic makes my life so much better…it feels stupid how much I love them. It saved me driving my nephew when he had a terrible migraine too! I have them in my purse and cars! Road trips with kids without them is just plain stupid! (Kidding about the stupid part obviously!)

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Wooden_Werewolf_6789 Apr 18, 2026 +2

Every household deserves a bucket a person, and just in case things go *really* awry and there's only one toilet in the house? Maybe 2 buckets. A 5gallon bucket with a toilet seat over it can save a *much* bigger cleanup.

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ediks Apr 18, 2026 +2

I live alone in a 3br 2 full bath house. Both baths have trash bins. On top of that, I also have two aquariums - so several 5 gallon buckets lol

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Pherllerp Apr 16, 2026 +66

Yeah this has been circulating in the Northeast since Jan/Feb, my whole household got it. Weird virus, I had it pretty mild, my son got nailed.

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Tall_poppee Apr 16, 2026 +50

AZ here, I either had this or norovirus a few weeks ago. Brutal but passed quickly. But there was about 12 hours I didn't pee (and I drink a lot of water so I'm peeing all the time and this was definitely unusual). I was one puke away from going to urgent care for an IV. Finally managed to get some water to stay down but it was brutal.

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erossthescienceboss Apr 16, 2026 +21

If it passed quickly, it was norovirus. That’s pretty much the best way to tell. Norovirus lasts 0-3 days. Rotavirus lasts 3-8 days, and you’ll still feel like shit for a few after.

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obiwanshinobi900 Apr 16, 2026 +18

I got it, my wife got it, and my 8 year old got it. I missed a week of work, ended up on antiboitics and steroids, so did my wife, so did my daughter. it was a mess. I'm just glad my kiddo made it through okay, she ended up in the ER.

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I_Heart_Sleeping_ Apr 16, 2026 +54

I just had a clerk at one of my job sites actually shit his pants in front of me and then told me him and someone else at that site have some bug. I’m glad I didn’t catch. I can’t be shitting myself at work.

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plsjustgiveme5 Apr 16, 2026 +83

So sad that he felt like he couldn’t stay home.

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aliquotoculos Apr 16, 2026 +22

So they're just... openly and willfully spreading it... Jesus f****** christ what has happened to the world I knew. Edit: Friendly reminder that most of these stomach illnesses are immune to alcohol, so hand sanitizer won't kill it. Gotta wash your hands with actual soap and warm water for an actual 20 seconds or so.

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ichoosewaffles Apr 17, 2026 +2

The world you know has turned into a "work or lose everything" dumpster fire. Most other civilized countries have health care and sick leave but not the US, what a joke that isn't a joke.

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aliquotoculos Apr 17, 2026 +2

This country has been there before. Revolution happened, and we got things like overtime pay, days off, an end to company towns. Now I guess people are just shitting their pants at work and behaving like its fine for them to be treated that way. Americans *let* this country become a 'work or lose everything' dumpster fire.

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temptationsensation Apr 16, 2026 +6

Just pop off the offended undergarments and bury them in a swamp. That's what I do when I shit my pants at work!

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Gerik5 Apr 16, 2026 +6

It went through my house mid February, couldn't keep anything down for three days. Never before had I seen *clear* diarrhea.

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birdsofpaper Apr 17, 2026 +2

Once in my life I was that sick. That was “praying for the sweet release of death” sick. Ugh.

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Defacto_Champ Apr 16, 2026 +13

Very unlikely is was rotavirus because most adults don’t have symptoms from it

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catsporvida Apr 16, 2026 +3

That sounds familiar except that was me about a month before we knew what Covid was. Please not a new pandemic 🫠

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Awkwardpanda75 Apr 16, 2026 +3

Got it last year. I had to hold the walls to navigate to the bathroom. Forgot what day it was. I was delirious and so sick.

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nrm64 Apr 16, 2026 +3

Me too, it didn't make me too sick but it triggered my underlying colitis

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Anteater4746 Apr 16, 2026 +2

same like half my fam went through it. i never get sick and it got me

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xeoron Apr 16, 2026 +4

I heard this was raging on Cape Cod a few weeks ago

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WiredPiano Apr 16, 2026 +11

That was a norovirus according to my doc. The upper cape and lower South Shore got hit bad.

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OakLegs Apr 16, 2026 +2

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I got it about a month ago. Was pretty awful for a day or three

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wpbfriendone Apr 16, 2026 +1222

Royavirus has a vaccine [https://www.cdc.gov/rotavirus/vaccines/index.html](https://www.cdc.gov/rotavirus/vaccines/index.html) So of course the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will fire anybody who brings that up. I was surprised the link still worked.

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InformationHorder Apr 16, 2026 +212

The stomach bug has been going around my office this last week. I was a bit dismayed that the vaccine is only available for infants because I would have signed up for that vaccine right away otherwise.

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Narrow-Key365 Apr 16, 2026 +193

Most adults are immune, more likely culprit is norovirus

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chaoticevilx Apr 16, 2026 +145

I'm a microbiologist and everyone always wants to know what my greatest fears are pertaining to my field. In general? Antibiotic resistance and reduced public health measures/pandemic preparedness. Day to day? Norovirus 😭🤣

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popopotatoes160 Apr 16, 2026 +55

As someone who has had it, entirely justified. It's like being hit with a lightning bolt by zeus, but it's explosive diarrhea and vomiting from the god of pestilence. It feels like a biblical curse or punishment for some sin

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Just_A_Dogsbody Apr 16, 2026 +27

First you think you're gonna die, after 48 hours you wish for it

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popopotatoes160 Apr 17, 2026 +15

My mom somehow has a standing prescription for Zofran (I don't look a gift horse in the pill bottle so idk) so I recovered pretty well after I could keep one of those down long enough for it work and get some Ensure in me. The biggest reason norovirus sucks is the malnutrition/dehydration since you can't keep anything in.

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First_Prime_Is_2 Apr 16, 2026 +11

Always fun to be sitting on the toilet with a bowl and it coming out both ends and the same time. That was one of my experiences with it.

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InformationHorder Apr 16, 2026 +12

Having to make a tactical decision in the moment which end to stick in the toilet and which one is gonna end up on the floor.

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popopotatoes160 Apr 16, 2026 +40

Rookie moment, always have a trashcan capable of holding liquid next to the toilet

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celica18l Apr 17, 2026 +3

I have so many little trashcans strategically around my house bc of kids.

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OpheliaRainGalaxy Apr 17, 2026 +3

Little cousin kept asking if I was mad while I cleaned his 2am puke off my bed and carpet. I told him no, this is my fault for not remembering to set up an emergency bucket by the bed. Next day he proudly showed his mom the stock pot he'd picked for his bedside puke bucket.

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Ahelex Apr 16, 2026 +6

Obviously just invent a spitroast toilet.

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techforallseasons Apr 16, 2026 +24

> Most adults are immune I am after first child had it ( and gave it to EVERYONE IN THE FAMILY ). Dr. offered the vaccine when 2nd child came about --- we told him we absolutely wanted that. Didn't even want to deal with even just our 2nd kid having it.

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Narrow-Key365 Apr 16, 2026 +3

No doubt, it can still affect adults, just that most are immune by adulthood. I've been sick with confirmed noro several times, and somehow my wife never managed to catch it either despite it being super contagious. There's some variation in genetic susceptibility, but any number of illnesses can cause similar symptoms, which is part of what makes the "stomach flus* so frustrating

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erossthescienceboss Apr 16, 2026 +35

The rotavirus vaccine was supposed to be on the “absolutely do this” list, and got downgraded to the “recommended” list almost entirely due to the efforts of RFK in the early-mid 2000s. The release was also delayed for quite some time thanks to him + Jenny McCarthy.

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celica18l Apr 17, 2026 +4

My son was born in 08 and the dr was so excited to tell me about the new rotavirus vaccine. He said it took the numbers of cases he saw down by around 90%. A friend of mine went to a family reunion with her 4yo kid just recovering from rotavirus and within a week all 50+ people had it. ⊙_ʘ I was so excited to give the vax to my newborn.

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idkcat23 Apr 16, 2026 +54

Yea, we didn’t start using it until 2006 or so so only those under 20 are likely to be covered

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erossthescienceboss Apr 16, 2026 +19

That said, it is far, far worse in children vs adults. That’s why we don’t do boosters for it: most adults have some level of immunity.

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ReignyRainyReign Apr 16, 2026 +11

We don’t do boosters for it because it causes intussusception if older than 8 months.

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CanWeTalkEth Apr 16, 2026 +16

And this vaccine is not even delivered via injection, it's just some goop squeezed into their mouth. Ez pz

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Former-Ad-7348 Apr 16, 2026 +11

If you look into his book on the vaccine stuff, he has a specific grudge against the rotovirus vaccine. If you're into podcasts, Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History is brilliant and has an episode on this. Very well researched, and goes deep into the virus and vaccine, even interviewing a pharmaceutical doctor and a hospital doctor from Uttar Pradesh, one of the areas most affected by the virus in the past and somewhere, if I remember correctly, which has gone from 16 million to 2 million cases a year. The episode is S13 E05: The RFK Jr. Problem. Edit: The principal problem, especially in the Third World, is that babies contract this and they both vomit and shit themselves so violently that they die of dehydration. The doctor from India described the ward they had (solely for this disease) and the newborns in it who's skin hung off their muscles like an old person's.

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waysideflower Apr 16, 2026 +15

My infant just had his first dose of this vaccine at his two-month appointment a few weeks ago.

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pbrandpearls Apr 16, 2026 +6

Ahhh thank you! I was getting anxious but both of my girls were vaccinated as babies. I remember now because this is the one where you have to treat their poop as radioactive for several weeks after.

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krissyface Apr 16, 2026 +9

Came here to say to say: if only there was a vaccine that would help stop the spread! /s

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fcatw Apr 17, 2026 +2

It’ll be taken down soon

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liittle_dove7 Apr 17, 2026 +2

Interesting, the link doesn’t mention the vaccine for adults

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Esplodie Apr 16, 2026 +311

I remember an anti-vaxxer asking "when was the last time you heard of anyone getting the rotavirus" and how unneeded it was. Wonder how she feels about that now. There's a reason you didn't hear about it as much... Something something vaccines.

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salamat_engot Apr 16, 2026 +110

"When's the last time you heard..." yeah dummy that's literally the point. The goal is to never hear about it ever again because we are so good at preventing it. If I ruled the world those people would pay a stupid tax for all medical expenses because they make it more expensive for the rest of us through their bad choices.

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lraskie Apr 16, 2026 +17

To be fair, virus stool testing just recently became readily available. Before you just didnt know why you had diarrhea and vomiting, you just assumed stomach bug. Also its affecting a lot of adults recently, so either immunity is waning or its just so prevalent that its evading

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MidnightSlinks Apr 16, 2026 +10

My friend in college got it while visiting Central America over spring break. She grew up in a northern European country where it's not endemic and therefore never got it as a child like other millennials did. She moved to the US as a teen after the vaccine became routine here and, unbeknownst to her, was kept safe by herd immunity. She likely got it from eating cut fruit. She was so weak from dehydration that she couldn't walk through the airport and customs refused to let her through to the plane for safety reasons. One of us stayed behind and took her to the hospital where she got several liters of fluids over two days.

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howdidigetoverhere Apr 16, 2026 +57

As a custodian, ive noticed an uptick in bio hazard emergencies lately.

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Wonderful-Pause1048 Apr 16, 2026 +478

Well, we can’t count on any help from the current health minister.

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Cohens4thClient Apr 16, 2026 +121

What, you dont think swimming jn sweage and snorting coke off public toilet seats is good for health? How DARE you try thinking on your own!! /s

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Donnicton Apr 16, 2026 +13

You should try some [whale juice](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a924/kick-kennedy-interview/) instead. >Kick's taste for the extreme was fed by her dad's eccentric environmentalism. Exhibit A: When she was six, word got out that a dead whale had washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port. Bobby — who likes to study animal skulls and skeletons — ran down to the beach with a chainsaw, cut off the whale's head, and then bungee-corded it to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour haul back to Mount Kisco, New York. "Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Kick recalls. "We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us."

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Lopsided_Tiger_0296 Apr 16, 2026 +7

If that’s not up your alley, how about a raccoon p****?

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Cohens4thClient Apr 16, 2026 +3

That was just normal day to day kinda stuff?? What the actual fk fk is going on?

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JussiesTunaSub Apr 16, 2026 +14

Many scholarly and philosophical papers typically start with "After a week long coke binge...."

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ailish Apr 16, 2026 +3

Snorting coke off toilet seats is the way to become immune to the rotavirus, as well as autism, but not brainworms. -RFK Jr, probably

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rora_borealis Apr 16, 2026 +4

DARE, lol Reminds me, the DARE program was a massive operation with goals that were not to keep kids away from drugs. Behind the Bastards covers the founder.

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morphias1008 Apr 17, 2026 +2

Wait what was their goal?

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OGLikeablefellow Apr 16, 2026 +30

"starttt licking doorknobs it's uhhh gooddd foorr the immune system" rfk jr probably

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doneandtired2014 Apr 16, 2026 +14

RFK Jr. and the dipshits he hand picked to destroy our disease prevention watchdogs are eugenicists, so it wouldn't be at all surprising to find out 10-25 years from now they were purposely spreading shit like this to "cleanse" the nation of the poor and "weak"..

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TheWorclown Apr 16, 2026 +9

Why is it the eugenicists always represent the **worst** parts of humanity? What superior genes are there in a guy who looks like deep fried shoe leather and speaks the way he does?

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Floreat_democratia Apr 16, 2026 +10

The eugenics arguments are deeply embedded in the ruling class and have carried over from discredited 19th century ideas that came before them. Wealthy people have to keep inventing new reasons to rationalize why they keep stealing the future.

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doneandtired2014 Apr 16, 2026 +4

>What superior genes are there in a guy who looks like deep fried shoe leather and speaks the way he does? Apparently the genes required to survive heroin overdoses and not develop aggressive cancers from blasting and cruising on "TRT" in amounts that are clearly in performance enhancement territory for years at a time as he also abuses the f*** out of HGH.

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Floreat_democratia Apr 16, 2026 +2

The eugenicists are also behind the push for AI. Lots of discussion about this today on Hacker News where people are having a principal Skinner moment.

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doneandtired2014 Apr 16, 2026 +7

>The eugenicists are also behind the push for AI Yup, and they haven't exactly been quiet about it. What is kind of amusing and infuriating is that these pasty, skinny fat men think they're genetic perfection despite the fact all of their success can be attributed to being popped out of their mother or surrogate's birth canal 5 nanometers away from the homeplate and being handed opportunities that others spend a lifetime trying to earn. What's even more amusing is that nearly all of them, being the Ubermensch they are, have had some form of not great plastic surgery to fix some obvious physical shortcoming and about half of them are on some form of hormone replacement but seem to be getting exactly 0 out of it. Either they're not putting in the time, their diet isn't on point, or their bodies straight up do not have the requisite number of receptors or receptor sensitivity to make the PEDs anything other than cancer causing placebos burning their candle on both ends. Musk looks like a goblin shark, the Ellisons look like extras from "Repo! The generic opera", Thiel looks like he can hear electromagnetic chatter from space when his bug eyes aren't trying to consume the souls of children, Zuckerberg looks less alive than his wax mannequins, Altman could probably get mugged by a 5th grader, and Curtis Yarvin looks like a homeless man with a $1000 heroin habit but a $2 crackhead budget.

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Orangesteel Apr 16, 2026 +5

But RFK had a podcast on how to be healthy /s

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[deleted] Apr 16, 2026 +3

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DiscretionFist Apr 16, 2026 +30

Had this when I was maybe 13 or 14. Had to sit in the hospital for a couple days just so I didn't die. Lost 10LBs or something like that in like 2 weeks. continuous stream out of both ends. Worst sickness of my life.

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ChaoticSenior Apr 16, 2026 +26

Drink more raw milk in a hot tub wearing jorts. You’ll be fine.

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Downtown_Statement87 Apr 17, 2026 +4

Make sure Kid Rock is nearby.

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KimJongFunk Apr 16, 2026 +116

> doctors have fresh concerns that declining vaccinations could lead to more severe illness and a higher surge in the coming years. We have the science to protect us, but the stupidest amongst us are allowed to refuse it.

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mcclrd Apr 16, 2026 +20

Is this cousin of norovirus?

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boyga01 Apr 16, 2026 +18

“Washing your hands is woke”

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ilvevh Apr 16, 2026 +37

Realizing that I never truly recovered from my bout with rotavirus in January. It was absolutely torturous and I traumatizing. I would give anything to never have it again.

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Go_J Apr 16, 2026 +32

Why vaccinate when you can let your child shit their brains out for 8 days?? Makes sense to me.

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Smooth_Storm_9698 Apr 16, 2026 +14

I giggled Edit: uh oh anti vaxxers are mad :/

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Ok_Camp_7051 Apr 16, 2026 +15

Before a vaccine was available, my 18 month old baby got a rotavirus. He was hospitalized for several days. It was so scary. Glad this is now avoidable.

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Outside_Dimension187 Apr 16, 2026 +28

My kiddo just got her first vaccine for this yesterday. She’s having a rough time with the weakened virus for the vaccine, I can’t even imagine what having the full fledged virus must be like

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sashadelgreyx Apr 16, 2026 +13

my baby had a hard time with the first one too, but the second dose was fine. hopefully the same for you!

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Obh__ Apr 16, 2026 +9

Good thing the country has public authorities in office who listen to doctors and understand that vaccinations wor- oh wait.

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annaleigh13 Apr 16, 2026 +8

Don’t worry, the administration will stop testing for it soon, and it’ll disappear from the populace

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theredfantastic Apr 17, 2026 +9

I feel sick even saying the word rotavirus. I swear I can smell it

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littlelupie Apr 16, 2026 +27

I'm severely immunocompromised and basically couldn't take care of my baby for several days after he was vaccinated due to the potential of shedding. Can't wait to see what the virus itself will due to me since my kid is in kindergarten and brings home every single stomach bug on the planet. Weeeeeeee

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Outside_Dimension187 Apr 16, 2026 +9

I’m reading this while taking care of my baby who just got the rotavirus vax yesterday. I’m sooo scared I’m gonna get sick 😭

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Knees0ck Apr 16, 2026 +8

We are bringing all the plagues!

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NES_Classical_Music Apr 16, 2026 +212

wipe your butts, clean your toilets, and wash your hands often. it is not that hard.

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PatchyWhiskers Apr 16, 2026 +272

Even easier, vaccinate your children. There is a vaccine available.

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SeeisforComedy Apr 16, 2026 +18

Hm I wonder if I ever got it. I had noro virus as a teen and that was a rough 24 hours.

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PatchyWhiskers Apr 16, 2026 +59

Sadly no vaccine for norovirus. Unless you are a kid you probably didn't have a rotavirus vaccine - the first safe and effective one was released in about 2008.

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SeeisforComedy Apr 16, 2026 +16

Ah yeah I’m one of the olds at this point

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idkcat23 Apr 16, 2026 +3

We only give it to infants.

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FatBoyStew Apr 16, 2026 +24

I had norovirus 2-3 years ago and I would rather go through another shoulder surgery than that again. I went from 285 to 250 in 3 days. Absolutely 0 food intake for 3 days and maybe had 2 cups of water a day for 3 days. Even a SINGULAR SIP of water was all it took for me to be back on the toilet after approximately 90 seconds... Day 4 was when I was finally able to start holding the majority of my liquids down.

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Little_View_6659 Apr 16, 2026 +9

Dear god. How did you not die from dehydration?

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FatBoyStew Apr 16, 2026 +10

The big factors were that I had 0 energy so I was glued to my couch (one could argue I spent more time on the toilet than anywhere else on the first 2 days) so my exertion level was minimal and slept as much I humanly could. I was likely getting JUST ENOUGH water to not have a complete shutdown. Once I could keep liquids down I pounded electrolyte drinks like no other. Its amazing how much better I felt after being able to keep an entire glass of water down on day 4. The other thing is that I generally drink 1-2 GALLONS of water in a day. So I definitely had some excess water from the day prior to me actually showing symptoms of being sick.

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Little_View_6659 Apr 16, 2026 +2

I hate the drugs they give you to stop vomiting so damn much. I have a bad reaction every time. I get bad migraines and I’ve had to be rehydrated and get anti nausea drugs into me. I swore after the last time that I’d rather stay home and die from the dehydration. This whole conversation is making the think c***, maybe I would put up with being pumped full of anti nausea drugs lol.

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Hippopotasaurus-Rex Apr 16, 2026 +6

I got norovirus a few weeks ago. I hadn’t been that sick in decades. I was down for a week. I lost probably 5lb and I’m not a big person.

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Infinite-Jelly-452 Apr 16, 2026 +4

That was my experience too. It was awful. I set up a sleeping bag in the hall by the bathroom but still spent most of my time on the toilet with a bucket to puke in at the same time. I would sip water and try eating a singular oyster c****** at a time but nothing stayed down. On the last day I was sick sick I was starting to get dizzy when I puked. Luckily I started recovering after that but it was at least a week or more before I could comfortably eat or drink anything.

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FatBoyStew Apr 16, 2026 +3

I don't believe I ever actually ended up vomiting even though I wanted to a few times, but I will go above and beyond to keep myself from throwing up in 99% of scenarios lol. Literally got to the point where as soon as I ran into the bathroom I would just turn the shower on. My stomach was definitely uneasy at times for a week or 2 afterwards though as well. I was never happier to gain weight again though.

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wpbfriendone Apr 16, 2026 +10

Best we can do is put an anti-vaxxer to run the CDC, and still wonder why things are geting worse.

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June_Fatality Apr 16, 2026 +194

I work in retail. People cough with their mouths wide open, their children are filthy, and we're all gonna die.

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reddfawks Apr 16, 2026 +39

I still have trauma of finding a half-eaten burrito lodged behind the sign for one of our Pokemon promotions when I worked at GameStop over a decade ago.

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blueboxreddress Apr 16, 2026 +12

I work in a furniture store and someone pissed in a display trashcan. And that’s just one example of the decrepit things people have done.

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ConsiderationDry9084 Apr 16, 2026 +5

Worked as a janitor at a federal facility. We had a phantom shitter that would c*** in trash cans, in the bathrooms...

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SecretLettuce5 Apr 16, 2026 +2

When I worked retail near a military base the soldiers would come in and spit out their chewing tobacco into the coffee mugs we sold.

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Chazkuangshi Apr 16, 2026 +30

Not once but twice in my time working fast food, I saw someone take out a wad of cash, *lick the wad,* and count the bills out to me. Post pandemic.

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olivinebean Apr 16, 2026 +13

At the start of the pandemic, I was on the bus home and a bloke opened a full rotisserie chicken and proceeded to eat with his hands until his stop. Then he licked each finger individually, just sucking on them like teets...And then f****** touched every railing on the way down the bus.

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EdwardoftheEast Apr 16, 2026 +8

I saw a video telling you to cough into your elbow or sleeves back in elementary school and I’ve done it ever since

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LunarBIacksmith Apr 17, 2026 +2

Based on your profile pic, you’ve been forced to see a lot of videos, eh?

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SpaceLemming Apr 16, 2026 +4

I once watched a woman cough up a lung in her hand and then immediately when to use the keypad

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NES_Classical_Music Apr 16, 2026 +11

none of this is new. still terrifying and frustrating.

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NorCalBodyPaint Apr 16, 2026 +31

Rotavirus can survive basic hand washing, as well as casual surface cleaning. (and kids are notorious for doing neither)

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anonyoudidnt Apr 16, 2026 +10

Only bleach deactivates it, so it's very easily spread! Hand washing is the best tactic to avoid it, but kids spread it everywhere and the surfaces need to be bleached to deactivate. Good thing is, there's a vaccine!!

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iamfeenie Apr 16, 2026 +6

Did you read the article?

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DDisMe56 Apr 16, 2026 +6

You forgot, Dont touch anything while using public bathrooms.

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Wingnutmcmoo Apr 16, 2026 +11

Don't forget: don't eat food prepared by or touched by anyone else. Avoid shopping in public places. Avoid touching any public surfaces. Lol with things like this it's not as simple as "just wash your hands" because it relies in everyone washing their hands. But they don't. They don't and then they go around touching doors, rails, your food, money, cards, they wash the fork you just put in your mouth. We can pretend it's a personal responsibility thing but that's a lie. I'm not saying that people shouldn't do what you are saying OR that it doesn't help, because it does help alot. But it won't avoid the problem because humans are gross animals so more concrete protections (like vaccines) are usually a better strategy then hoping everyone actually washes their hands and stuff.

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LMGooglyTFY Apr 16, 2026 +2

If you don't wipe your butt then you don't even need to wash your hands. Checkmate.

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aftocheiria Apr 16, 2026 +5

What about snorting coke off of toilet seats and collecting roadkill genitalia though? I hear that's a pretty good alternative. /s

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pepperoni7 Apr 16, 2026 +12

we had this when my kid was 2. She had diarrhea and vomit for 3 weeks … and my self for an entire week. I slept on the toilet for a night … It ended sending her to the children’s for 3 days because eventually she stopped walking. They suspected virus went up to her spine attacking her brain . In the end after 45k bill it was huge constipation due to the constant diarrhea and Dr asking to feed c****** , dry things 🤦🏻‍♀️ Norovirus we had it yearly it was just diarrhea but rotavirus 🤦🏻‍♀️ harsh. although my husband only had slight upset stomach but he has gotten it two times as kid.. and he was very sick during those two times

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TheUkrTrain Apr 16, 2026 +6

I had it it too when I visited my brother and sister in law - it was very bad. My sister in law had it a week before I did.

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Odd-Syllabub-3642 Apr 16, 2026 +7

My mom was in the hospital last week for something unrelated but she said nearly everyone in the waiting room was puking. Makes me wonder if that’s what it was

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Cambwin Apr 16, 2026 +5

Wife and I both caught it in early february. Healthy active 30-somethings completely out of commissiom for a solid week. I can only imagine it's much worse for the young/old/comprimised.

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salesmunn Apr 16, 2026 +18

Govt. Response: more jesus.

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reddit_ending_soon Apr 16, 2026 +9

more AI* jesus

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salesmunn Apr 16, 2026 +2

jAIsus maybe?

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j____b____ Apr 16, 2026 +21

“On January 5, 2026, the CDC, under the directive of the Trump administration, cut the number of recommended childhood vaccinations, removing the universal recommendation for the rotavirus vaccine.” - Gemini

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No_Maintenance_120 Apr 16, 2026 +15

If only there was a vaccine for this

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AggressiveSkywriting Apr 16, 2026 +11

A highly effective one, at that. If only.

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SqigglyPoP Apr 16, 2026 +6

No worries! The best and brightest minds in the US are on it!

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lilybat-gm Apr 16, 2026 +5

Is America healthy again or whatever?

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Slightly_Unethical Apr 16, 2026 +7

Good thing we've got an uneducated health secretary who cuts the penises off of roadkill for "research" whilst his family waits in the car on their vacation.

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turb0_encapsulator Apr 16, 2026 +5

this is because people are not getting vaccinated. leaving that out of the headline is ridiculous.

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cidavid Apr 17, 2026 +6

Surprised we even still have a CDC

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Finngrove Apr 16, 2026 +4

Way to go Trump! Making Russia great again.

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Other-Key-8647 Apr 16, 2026 +24

Cool, another potential pandemic under the Trump administration, only it would be handled worse than covid-19.

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Prestigious_Tax_4970 Apr 16, 2026 +21

Time to get a bidet if you dont already have one. The toilet paper shortage with covid was bad enough. And it didn't even make you shit like this one does.

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Shopworn_Soul Apr 16, 2026 +8

> badet I feel like that would only spray ice-cold water at high pressure, while a bidet would be somewhat more comfortable. A goodet, if you will.

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justpssingtime Apr 16, 2026 +3

That makes so much sense! I work in lab and got more than usual the number of positive rota virus samples.

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NewWorldOrder- Apr 16, 2026 +3

Scariest part with stuff like this is that you realize none of this stuff is to far away from being a problem and the problem is always there. We walk around not even thinking that the world could drop us like flies, like if we stopped all human effort, how long would it take for everything to go t*** up and wipe most of us out with virus/diseases.

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FijiBeef Apr 16, 2026 +3

I believe my parents and grandmother had this the past 2 weeks. Non-stop vomiting & diarrhea. Grandma ended up in the hospital after a few days. She's doing better now.

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Not_Sure__Camacho Apr 17, 2026 +3

I'm sure diet coke will cure it.....

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digibox56 Apr 17, 2026 +3

If only we had a vaccine

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Doniguy Apr 17, 2026 +3

I had this in high school. My grandma thought I was lying to get out of school. One hospital visit and 4 bags of saline later, she believed me.

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Ninjacatzzz Apr 18, 2026 +3

My mum's a retired nurse and she remembers the awful days before the rotavirus vaccine with extremely ill babies coming into the hospital. She remembers how much that decreased after the vaccine was introduced. Why we would want to go backwards it's beyond me, it's not even an injection vaccine - it's oral drops!!

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KneeDragr Apr 16, 2026 +5

Was at a multi state youth competition this last weekend, I overheard a LOT of people talking about the stomach bug. Unfortunately I had to dump crazy bad so I used the 1 toilet in the place that probably had hundreds of shits dropped in it that morning. So far no symptoms so I'm guessing washing my hands like crazy and not eating any finger food helped me avoid it.

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Mundane_Opening3831 Apr 16, 2026 +4

Can we get diarrhea to be a leading cause of death again

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wotton Apr 16, 2026 +5

Are we sure it’s not just a national hangover

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OFFICIALMUGWUMP Apr 16, 2026 +2

I wonder how many people in this section are dumb enough to still believe the US government has their best interest at heart.

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FaerieKnotz Apr 16, 2026 +2

The efficacy of Vitamin D [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6678911/](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6678911/)

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l3onkerz Apr 16, 2026 +2

Got this when I was a toddler and had to be hospitalized. Luckily I just needed fluids but yeah it’s no joke.

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iiTz_SteveO Apr 16, 2026 +2

Awww shhiitttttt hereee wee goo againnn

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peskyghost Apr 17, 2026 +2

I had this as a child and my parents always acted like it was the plague (for them to deal with lol)

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Intrepid_Advice4411 Apr 17, 2026 +2

Nasty and it primarily effects kids. Kids dehydrate quickly which is what makes it so dangerous. I had rotovirus when I was pregnant. Absolute misery for 4 days. Ended up in the ER around the 24 hour mark. Ever time I moved I vomited. I had puked and shit so much that not even bile was coming up anymore. I was vomiting nothing it was so painful. The though of water made me vomit. Husband had to call an ambulance because I was unable to get off the bathroom floor. Spent a lovely 8 hours in the ER getting fluids and zofran. Made it home and slept for nearly 2 days straight. Do not recommend.

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hippiechick725 Apr 17, 2026 +2

This was years ago but my son was hospitalized for a week with this as a toddler. This is a nasty, nasty virus.

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Defiant_Eggplant_909 Apr 16, 2026 +4

Does it cause high levels of vomiting and diarrhea or does it only cause vomiting and diarrhea at high levels of the virus?

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KindToSpiteTheCruel Apr 16, 2026 +9

I almost didn’t survive the pandemic. Wrote my will at 30. It forever changed my health. I don’t like my odds of surviving this administration.

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kaaron89 Apr 16, 2026 +5

You're not alone, I feel the same way. I've been so ill since getting Covid in 2020. I've seen so many doctors who don't know how to help me, and we keep seeing headline after headline about more illnesses and diseases. Really not feeling great about the future.

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swagonflyyyy Apr 16, 2026 +4

This article is clickbaity. Its highly dangerous for children while being a mild inconvenience for adults. Most people have probably been infected by rotavirus many times in their lifetime and there are only vaccines available for children since they're the most vulnerable population. If you get it, in most cases you can expect watery diarrhea, mild fever, etc. nothing to be worried about.

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techforallseasons Apr 16, 2026 +8

Liquid out of both ends for 24 hours is hardly "mild".

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jimtow28 Apr 16, 2026 +1

If you just slow the testing down, soon you'll be down to almost no cases!

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