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2024-08-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Democratic National Convention surprise guest turns out to be COVID-19 as multiple attendees test positive

[NY Post] Karma is a bitch
Karmala?
Maybe there was a surprise guest at the Democratic National Convention after all.

Multiple attendees at the convention in Chicago last week subsequently tested positive for the COVID-19 respiratory illness, as health officials worry about infections spiking across the country.

"When you spend five days in Chicago for the DNC and come home with COVID-19. Womp womp," Christopher Wiggins, a reporter at The Advocate, an LGBTQ magazine, posted on X.

Several others also shared their diagnosis on social media.
See Monkeypox
"Indeed. I arrived at the DNC healthy and hopeful and left very sick and disillusioned," human rights lawyer Yasmine Taeb wrote on X.

"Oh man! I brought home so much sweet swag from the DNC! Coffee mugs, stickers, t-shirts, poster, buttons, bags, pins, and....COVID! SWEET!" "On Democracy Pod" host Fred Wellman exclaimed.

Posted by Frank G 2024-08-26 04:55|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 Too bad it only harms humans.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-26 05:26|| 2024-08-26 05:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I woulda thot monkey pox.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2024-08-26 06:14|| 2024-08-26 06:14|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Longer asymptomatic incubation period.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-26 06:53|| 2024-08-26 06:53|| Front Page Top

#4 About monkeypox: although the infection is ugly and distressing (not to mention revealing about behaviours that in too much of the world are safer left unannounced), would it — like Dr. Edward Jenner discovered about milkmaids and cowpox — confer immunity to the much nastier smallpox?

Interestingly, according to the FDA they approved a joint smallpox/monkeypox vaccine in 2019 — for at-risk adults only — in response to the first reported monkeypox outbreak in the US, which occurred in 2003 and was the first reported outbreak outside of Africa.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-26 10:20|| 2024-08-26 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Separately, reportedly this month’s version of Covid is short but nasty. I wonder how many of this year’s DNC participants will risk returning in the future?

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-26 10:37|| 2024-08-26 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ or even make it to the polls.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-26 10:47|| 2024-08-26 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 More likely they got it from the airplane flights to and from Chicago.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-08-26 11:40|| 2024-08-26 11:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Still better than Beyoncé..

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2024-08-26 14:16|| 2024-08-26 14:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Or its a bullshit election campaign ploy to condition the stage for a record number of mail-in ballots.

Now, Crissy Wiggins could be using it as cover for Monkey Pox.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-08-26 15:51|| 2024-08-26 15:51|| Front Page Top

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