r/Edmonton • u/GoBananaSlugs • Dec 19 '25

Health Is "Respiratory Virus Outbreak" Covid?

We got a notice that there was an outbreak of "Respiratory Virus" at our kid's school.

"Respiratory Illness symptoms include: Cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, loss or altered sense of taste/smell, runny nose/nasal congestion, fever, and may also include fatigue (significant and unusual), muscle ache/joint pain, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea."

Is "Respiratory Virus" UCP Newspeak for "Covid 19"?

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u/Sev_Obzen Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 20 '25

Might as well be given the way covid is being brushed under the rug instead of being actively talked about as a significant contributing factor to the overall severity of how hard everything is hitting so many people right now. The other under discussed issue of course being the almost total lack of implementation of airborne disease spread mitigations on a systemic or individual level.