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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

Wayward DP said:
yeah apparently she thinks this is her second omicron infection too as she had covid in December too... this fucking virus man...
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That seems unlikely, but not impossible (there are anecdotes in South Africa of this happening). Was her December infection mild? Some evidence that mild infections don't provide a very robust immune response...
 
LeafGm said:
Yeah, I really feel for people who have been kept apart from elderly family members during Covid. And for those elderly family members themselves. Must be hard and awfully lonely.

I almost count it a blessing that the last of my grandparents died before Covid hit, because neither of them would have done well at all with extreme isolation from their family & friends.
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anecdotal, but this has been absolute misery for the olds I know. I lost a grandmother back in September '21 and honestly I maintain the pandemic cut time off her life. other grandmother's mental health is not doing well.

both of them live/d on their own so at least they can see family but my one bubby is basically afraid to leave her house as she is immunosuppressed. got her fourth dose this week.
 
Preston said:
That seems unlikely, but not impossible (there are anecdotes in South Africa of this happening). Was her December infection mild? Some evidence that mild infections don't provide a very robust immune response...
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yeah I think her previous infection was a bit of a nothingburger
 
Wayward DP said:
yeah I think her previous infection was a bit of a nothingburger
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So all those athletes that got aysmptomatic infections in this last month or so? Maybe they'll be the first to get reinfections. I still think this is how we're gonna find out about reinfections and how soon they come and how common they are.

Any chance she was lying to get out of work?
 
Preston said:
So all those athletes that got aysmptomatic infections in this last month or so? Maybe they'll be the first to get reinfections. I still think this is how we're gonna find out about reinfections and how soon they come and how common they are.

Any chance she was lying to get out of work?
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considering she only started here earlier this month, highly unlikely.

and then she came to the office on Tuesday despite feeling off and I sent her home, at which point she tested positive.

and she tried to work all week and kept apologizing for being sick.

in sum, I believe her!
 
Wayward DP said:
considering she only started here earlier this month, highly unlikely.

and then she came to the office on Tuesday despite feeling off and I sent her home, at which point she tested positive.

and she tried to work all week and kept apologizing for being sick.

in sum, I believe her!
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Well for the worlds sake I hope the December infection was Delta! If it was late December it prolly wasn't. If it was early December, it probably was!
 
MindzEye said:
New enemy same as the old enemy. This is already widespread, they've just recently started identifying the two omicron strains separately, no?
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Yeah this has been around for awhile (it was discovered back in November/December and we knew one would outcompete the other, and there was a 3rd one that looked really problematic that luckily got squashed. BA.1 got the head-start so that's why it's the dominant one worldwide atm) but it is surprisingly vastly different from BA.1. Several mutations from the original; theoretically all it would take is 1 or 2 mutations for lung infectivity to increase again so this was not a given. It just became dominant in Denmark; appears to have a decent growth advantage on BA.1; more-so than the Delta sublineage that was growing had on OG Delta but obviously not like Omi vs Delta.

For the record it is nowhere near widespread in Canada or the US yet, but it is around in both countries in small numbers. So it's coming.
 
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Oh one more thing... According to a model from a beast ass dude, our vaccines are likely to work better on BA.2 compared to BA.1 in terms of preventing infection. Nothing drastic and any net gain may be balanced by the increase in transmissibility, but it's something!
 
Gonna amplify the last tweet in my last post. This is the kinda thing we need as individuals to assess our risk tolerance moving forward:

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Don't really see this anywhere despite it being the most important bit of info that we as individuals need. They're just estimations but if they're even remotely accurate, bravo.
 
Moderna was always the obvious choice -- Italian sounding brands never let you down
 
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