neocolonial malcontent chic<p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a> bc I need a refresher:</p><p>Were there, or were there not, studies during the *designated pandemic years (2020-21)* (/s) re: <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> + <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> impact on gut health, with one major symptom being something like the stomach flu?</p><p>If anyone has the links and receipts, PLEASE REPLY!</p><p>Even a local newspaper here in West Bengal, India, carried a headline recently re: the outbreak of a kind of stomach flu, with symptoms such as lack of appetite, exhaustion, indigestion, and diarrhoea. My BFFs are down with it, and I am, too. And yesterday the news announced an oncoming heat wave this weekend 🫠</p><p>EDIT 15:33 HRS: following <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@hopeward" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hopeward</span></a></span> 's clue, I think this could be a norovirus outbreak, because reading up on it, the symptoms all match. I don't know if the TV news channels have covered it at all.</p><p>Masking is sporadic here, almost rare. I still mask up, but ~ it does get difficult to breathe in a mask at 12:30 PM at 36°C ~ especially when chronic pain makes it hard for me to breathe even at home. Outside, there's also significant shaming and peer pressure to NOT mask up.</p><p>And as always, it's way worse for people with <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Disabilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disabilities</span></a> and <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ChronicIllness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChronicIllness</span></a> (for instance: me), but people in this ableist, fascist hellhole of a country never want to talk about it.</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a></p>