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Ocelot II

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3. I've managed to avoid covid so far (maybe on account of the vax and nine or so boosters),

Reply to Aristus (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 18, 2025, 11:11 AM

23 hrs ago

but I've never been as sick in my life as I was when I got the H3N2 variant of the flu during the 1968 pandemic. I was young and healthy then but I thought I'd have to get better in order to die; it probably would have killed me if I'd been as old as I am now. Once flu shots became available every year I've never failed to get one and I'm kind of a fanatical pro-vaxxer.

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