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  I’m guessing you’re referring to berserker barrage
context: I don't want any more Covid 19 DLC. >
  
  This is COVID 23 the surprise edition >
  
  Fucking pay to play life edition >
  
  Does anyone have the patch notes >
  
  Viral load +50%, infection rate +20%, vaccine effectiveness -80%, misinformation +100%
  Added new skill line to the Grifter class: multivitamin overdose cures COVID-23
  Skill cap on Depression increased from 99 to 149
  World settings for Inflation and Supply Chain Disruption increased.
  Gasoline price cap removed.
  Additional dialogue branches:
  Nazis are back. King of England dies and Ireland rejoices. Half of over 70s die in London due to cold front and inability to pay 400% heating bills. Elon Musk starts buying Reddit shares. Footage of abuse from Epstein island released with no following convictions. Governor Desantis takes lead of the Republican party. Trump starts own party. >
  
  It is also the dominant variant in the US. >
  
  I’m so confused about variants. How did we get up to Delta and Omicron so fast and now we are just stuck oh Omicron and different variants of omicron? >
  
  Variants are an interesting thing in virology. Bumpersticker version, as genes turn on and off in the code of the virus, the more gene switching, the more "distant" the variant is from the original, in a tree chart, as if it were branches from a trunk.  Omicron hasn't had a major enough change be replicated to do something huge like Delta did from Alpha or Omicron from Delta, but the newer variants are being able to escape of sorts from antibodies locking onto them and destroying them, creating a higher infection and transmission rate. >
  
  But are these variants more severe or deadly? If they are mild and escape antibodies then it doesn't really matter, does it? >
  
  The answer is, when taken in isolation, the more recent variants are probably in the same realm of deadliness as the earlier COVID-19 variants. There is virtually no evolutionary pressure on COVID to become less deadly due to the fact it spreads so well asymptotically.
  The big difference is that we now have better treatment plans for severe cases, there's vaccines, and prior infections can infer some immunity. Though there's some early research out of the University of Waterloo in Canada showing prior infections can also cause subsequent infections to be worse in certain cases.
  Still, I'm less worried about how deadly COVID is and more worried about long COVID. Every infection seems to be rolling the dice on long COVID and if you keep getting infected the odds are not in your favor. >
  
  I’m being treated for long covid, constant inflammation causing muscle and joint pain in random parts of my body during the day, not severe but enough of an issue I’ve stopped jogging and regularly take OTC codeine, breathlessness, dizziness, palpitations, general brain fog, anxiety etc etc. 
  Between therapy and diazepam (very rarely if I’m getting palpitations and panic attacks whilst trying to sleep) there isn’t really anything they can do at the moment. They’re still trying to work out how big an impact it’s having and if any treatments are working but as I tend to dissociate big time in these sessions with professionals it’s hard to get across how my daily life has been impacted. >
  
  Wow, I’m starting to wonder if I have some level of long Covid now.  Those symptoms sound spot on to things I’ve been dealing with for the past year—heart palpitations, light headedness, joint and nerve pain, really stiff neck etc.  All of these things started about a week after a sustained exposure to a Covid positive person last year, although I never tested positive (pcr on the second and sixth days after exposure) nor had respiratory symptoms.  I’ve also had to give up exercising and golfing, along with almost all sugar and caffeine, and been feeling kinda bummed out about it all.  Been to my primary care physician maybe 5 times but he just seems to think it’s general inflammation and prescribed a small course of corticosteroids a few months ago. >
  
  Can I ask about the sugar and caffeine?  Why have you had to limit those? >
  
  Caffeine and sugar both tend to increase general inflammation response in your body. When you have a normal immune system this isn’t usually too noticeable, but mix in autoimmune or post-viral disorders and it can run out of control pretty quick. >
  
  Omicron Super Variant XBB.1.5: Turbo Championship Edition HD Remix >
  
  Hadouken >
  
  Tiger, uppercut! >
  
  Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! Tiger Uppercut! 
  You Lose! 
  Man I hated Sagat for this reason. >
  
  I had someone tell the they thought he said fiber, and some other dummy tell me they thought Gambit said credit card. >
  
  I just want to know wtf Wolverine says.