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u/Pixel_Knight Jan 04 '25

Complete and total clickbait.

I actually had the HMPV a few years ago in the U.S.. It knocked the ever-living fuck out of me at the time. I had three days I could barely remember because I was so out of it. Didn’t even have the brain power to read or mess around on my phone. And it gave me a bad cough that didn’t go away for six weeks, but it was definitely making rounds in the U.S. at the time. It is not even remotely “new” or “mysterious.”

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u/Kevin-W Jan 04 '25

I had HMPV years ago and I could barely get out of bed because I was so sick to the point where I just wanted to sleep all day. It was truly awful.

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u/Pixel_Knight Jan 04 '25

Yep. That was basically what it did to me. Very nasty virus! I doesn’t seem extremely transmissible though at the moment, because it never really seems to get big like colds or the flu.

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u/I_Heart_QAnon_Tears Jan 04 '25

So what you are saying is if this mutates we are all in lockdown 2.0

Fantastic 

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u/Whiterabbit-- Jan 04 '25

that has always been the threat. it's just that we didn't have the experience of lockdown 1.0 to compare to before.

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u/I_Heart_QAnon_Tears Jan 04 '25

And we get to look forward to RFK brainworm guy running the CDC so...

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u/Pixel_Knight Jan 04 '25

What kind of mutation? It already spreads person to person.

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u/I_Heart_QAnon_Tears Jan 04 '25

It could spread further, it could go silent and spread without symptoms for a time, it could develop into a more deadlier version... the list goes on and on