Pandemic 2020

DIY-HP-LED said:

Big agreement there, but staying uninfected will be difficult with this variant and I'm kinda viewing as inevitable, so are the governments apparently. Say Mooo Canuk, we're about to join the herd, this is the most contagious airborne disease known, more than measles and that is pretty bad. The next couple of weeks should give us a better idea where this is going in the short term. Ya just have to watch the hospitals to know what will happen to the schools.

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Stay as safe as you can and avoid people as much as possible until a couple of weeks after your booster. Having the booster makes a difference.

CunningCanuk said:

Stay as safe as you can and avoid people as much as possible until a couple of weeks after your booster. Having the booster makes a difference.

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That's my plan, if I make it. Snow storm coming on Fri and I'm going to the grocery store tonight when the crowds are thin to stock up for hunkering down. If there are a lot of people there, I'll go during old folks hours at 7:00 AM tomorrow, after 8 PM is usually pretty quiet. I plan on staying home for the next month, and if it hasn't got me yet or when I get grub, I should be OK.

CunningCanuk said:

Stay as safe as you can and avoid people as much as possible until a couple of weeks after your booster. Having the booster makes a difference.

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Once I get boosted plus a couple of weeks, I'll be much less concerned, but I figure the boost should get me through this wave and be good until summer, though immunity will be longer if I get the big O.

@zedd you're part of this place and we love you! who else am i going to learn about a pigs head being brought to someone's wedding? i love learning about your culture and cool that you're British too we get the 411 on what's the mood over there.

for we are the WATCHMEN.

CunningCanuk said:

Stay as safe as you can and avoid people as much as possible until a couple of weeks after your booster. Having the booster makes a difference.

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I have to go to the dentist before the booster is fully kicked in, no wearing my N-95 there. Hope I do not regret it afterward.

schuylaar said:

@zedd you're part of this place and we love you! who else am i going to learn about a pigs head being brought to someone's wedding? i love learning about your culture and cool that you're British too we get the 411 on what's the mood over there.

for we are the WATCHMEN.

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Bollocks

schuylaar said:

@zedd you're part of this place and we love you! who else am i going to learn about a pigs head being brought to someone's wedding? i love learning about your culture and cool that you're British too we get the 411 on what's the mood over there.

for we are the WATCHMEN.

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Quis custodiet custodes?

Don't know if this was posted

A read that everyone should read, especially the "It will not happen to me" crowd.

xtsho said:

Don't know if this was posted

New potential COVID-19 variant IHU discovered in France, reports say

It was detected in France earlier this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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Yeah it's been posted but I read today that it doesn't appear to be highly infectious so it may die off because of Omicron and Delta, it's early tho.

CatHedral said:

Quis custodiet custodes?

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Potroast

captainmorgan said:

BREAKING! U.S. NIH Study Shockingly Reveals SARS-CoV-2 Viral Persistence Throughout Human Body And In The Brain Even In Those Who Were Asymptomatic! - Thailand Medical News

SARS-CoV-2 Viral Persistence: A new study by scientists from the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) has found alarming evidence of SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence in the human host body and also in the brain even in those individuals that only had mild symptoms initially during infection and...

www.thailandmedical.news

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Other than getting boosted and living sensibly, there is little we can do about it at this point. I guess there will be a lot more morons walking around, hope I'm not one of them. Herd immunity seems to be the plan emerging, boosted and vaxxed the easy way, or unvaxxed the hard way, mooo. We might be able to slow it down, but we can't stop it.

"Omicron cases have had D-Dimer levels off the charts....I'm talking so high that the instrument cannot report a result. Previously, with Delta, we saw D-Dimers that required running in extended mode, but we were able to get results. Not now..."

D-Dimers is a protein that results from blood clot breakdown, this is really bad, I have a friend with long covid and her D-Dimers have been very high every blood test. The micro clots are what is doing so much damage to your organs.

captainmorgan said:

"Omicron cases have had D-Dimer levels off the charts....I'm talking so high that the instrument cannot report a result. Previously, with Delta, we saw D-Dimers that required running in extended mode, but we were able to get results. Not now..."

D-Dimers is a protein that results from blood clot breakdown, this is really bad, I have a friend with long covid and her D-Dimers have been very high every blood test. The micro clots are what is doing so much damage to your organs.

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Could that have serious effects for people with lung cancer ? I had a patient die on me at work from as blood vessel that ruptured and she bled to death . I was told that it was like incredibly rare event to happen . It was so horrrific. It’s like why????so scary and sad. There was blood on my lab coat that was all chunky like dry clots from her blood that came out of mouth.

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

Could that have serious effects for people with lung cancer ? I had a patient die on me at work from as blood vessel that ruptured and she bled to death . I was told that it was like incredibly rare event to happen . It was so horrrific. It’s like why????so scary and sad. There was blood on my lab coat that was all chunky like dry clots from her blood that came out of mouth.

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All the media talk is about the lung damage, covid attacks the whole circulatory system and does a lot of damage with blood clots through out the body. A lot of people are requiring amputations from clots and the micro clots block organs from getting oxygen, lots of reports of survivors developing diabetes, the symptom covid toes is blood clots.

zeddd said:

Bollocks

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see? you never disappoint.

DIY-HP-LED said:

Other than getting boosted and living sensibly, there is little we can do about it at this point. I guess there will be a lot more morons walking around, hope I'm not one of them. Herd immunity seems to be the plan emerging, boosted and vaxxed the easy way, or unvaxxed the hard way, mooo. We might be able to slow it down, but we can't stop it.

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you need a lot of people for herd. the whole south is basically peeing in the pool like that meme someone posted; then they travel.

South African scientist thinks she may have solved the mystery of long COVID-19, which afflicts 100 million people
A scientist in South Africa believes she and her colleagues have found a critical clue in solving the mystery of long COVID: microclots.

“A recent study in my lab revealed that there is significant microclot formation in the blood of both acute COVID-19 and long COVID patients,” Resia Pretorius, head of the science department at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, wrote Wednesday in an op-ed.

Pretorius writes that healthy bodies are typically able to efficiently break down blood clots through a process called fibrinolysis. But, when looking at blood from long COVID patients, “persistent microclots are resistant to the body’s own fibrinolytic processes.”

Pretorius’ team in an analysis over the summer found high levels of inflammatory molecules “trapped” in the persistent microclots observed in long COVID patients, which may be preventing the breakdown of clots.

Because of that, cells in the body’s tissues may not be getting enough oxygen to sustain regular bodily functions, a condition known as cellular hypoxia.

“Widespread hypoxia may be central to the numerous reported debilitating symptoms” of long COVID, Pretorius writes.

Symptoms of long COVID vary between cases, but primarily include fatigue, brain fog, muscle or joint pain, shortness of breath, sleep difficulties, and depression or anxiety.

The Department of Health and Human Services in June released new guidance in which some symptoms of long COVID could qualify as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

In December, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued an update to its own guidance, which now considers an individual who has contracted COVID-19 disabled if any of their symptoms “substantially limits one or more major life activities.”