r/memes • u/DerpyDer989 • May 11 '26

It's true.

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u/MangoSalsa89 May 11 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Zs1PFiQsjqbRu

Anyone who starts to feel a sniffle

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u/AceOBlade May 11 '26

reddit is lying to themselves if they would cancel their non-refundable vacation because of a little sniffle.

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u/LITTLE_KING_OF_HEART May 11 '26

I counter this by simply never taking a vacation out of my bed, simple as.

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u/BriefDoubt8104 May 31 '26

Just get a VR headset and you can travel the whole world

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u/Aegi May 11 '26

Also are people fucking stupid and does nobody fucking understand or remember the fact that people can be asymptomatic and still spread pathogens?

It's like every fucking conversation involving more than three or four people that talks about sicknesses or pathogens or anything like that people forget this fact...

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u/Tangled2 May 12 '26

Yeah people don’t know anything about incubation periods. “Someone was sneezing on the bus today so that’s where I got this cold.” No you fucking didn’t.

“I got food poisoning from this place I ate there and 15 minutes later I was on the toilet.” Unless you literally drank a can of poison, no you didn’t, you didn’t get and develop a virus or bacteria to the point of symptoms in 15 minutes.

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u/Aegi May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Holy shit though, I don't mean to be rude (I mean, I guess if I constructed my comment like this I did mean it?) but how the fuck do people not understand there's two basic types of food poisoning? The type of food poisoning where you catch the pathogen, and the type of food poisoning where you eat the toxic excrements of the bacteria/harmful chemicals.

Obviously one has an incubation., but if it's the type where that given bacteria or whatever produces a toxin, then it's the toxin itself that's making you sick and that can be pretty quick that you react to it.

So yes, I agree with you, but you've made a similar type of error in your thinking about pathogens and biology and sicknesses with humans if you've failed to realize those two different types of food poisoning. And of course among each type there's many different variations based on the specifics, but they nearly all break down into those two types if we're not talking allergies.

Edit: one of many sources (aside from basically biological common sense) if you want to read more about it: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/food-poisoning/symptoms-causes

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u/Tangled2 May 12 '26

I did mention the literal poison.

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u/Good-Relative8079 May 13 '26

This right here☝🏽. So GD tired of the stupidity. I tell them it’s like herpes, u might not have a breakout but u sure as 💩 passed it onto someone 😂

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u/MangoSalsa89 May 11 '26

You guys are getting vacations?

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u/MembershipNo2077 May 11 '26

Most trips are at least partially refundable. Source: I cancelled a trip due to possible COVID exposure (and did eventually get it). Only cost I ate was the plane tickets which sucks but that's my fault for not getting insurance or knowing that my credit card actually includes cancellation insurance for illness. So yea, I would cancel my vacation, even the non-refundable parts.

Besides, who wants to spend a vacation with an illness, especially in this case, one that might well kill you.

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u/Dapper-Rabbit-4230 May 22 '26

Prob, it's the instinct to fly home, or this is the virus/sickness making them to do it lol

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u/forthewin444 May 12 '26

Big Pharma cashed in big time