Re:Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me ...
by debug-desperado on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:37PM
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Social stress gave me a case of the shingles once in my twenties. It didn't make much sense to me at the time, but for some reason being stressed out about buying a bunch of Christmas gifts late in the season caused it to happen!
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Re:Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me ...
by nostrademons on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:28PM
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Shingles is very commonly brought on by stress. It's latent chickenpox virus, which is usually kept in check by the immune system, but stress depresses immune response.
I had a coworker who developed shingles as we were nearing the deadline on a project that had all sorts of problems in layers of the stack we didn't control, and my sister developed shingles after being laid off. The first thing I associate with that disease is stress.