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Re: what's a virus, Has McAfee itself become the virus our parents warned us against?
| Re: what's a virus, Has McAfee itself become the virus our parents warned us against? [message #415089] |
Sat, 16 July 2022 05:44 |
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Originally posted by: gareth evans
On 16/07/2022 05:04, Dave Garland wrote:
> On 7/15/2022 7:16 PM, Peter Flass wrote:
>> John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
>>> According to Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>:
>>>> And, on the other hand, syphillis and gonhorrea are both bacterial
>>>> rather than viral diseases. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus
>>>> was *also* unknown during my childhood.
>>>
>>> I suspect people had heard of smallpox and polio by then.
>>>
>>> (I'm wondering how much protection the smallpox shot I got in
>>> the 1950s gives me against monkeypox.)
>>
>> Monkeypox seems to be shaping up as another covid. First they say “it’s
>> rare, and hard to get.” Now it seems to be becoming less rare, and a lot
>> easier to get than originally thought.
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> Still sounds like it requires close physical contact, which is of course
> pretty common. Not an STD, but not airborne like covid unless your faces
> are very close together.
>
Herpes is known as the wounded disease, because it travels the World
on crutches.
Old Brit Navy joke ...
Doctor, I think I've been infected by Hermes.
.... I think you mean Herpes.
No, I'm definitely a carrier!
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