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

I don't know a ton of people that had those lingering symptoms so it's kinda nice to hear I'm not crazy - had the jaw pain, short term hair loss, tingling hands and fingers, and shortness of breath. Tested positive in mid March but felt better by the summer at least.
 
The long covid support groups and twitter community is scary as shit and highly not recommended. Really happy you recovered because some of these people haven't been able to get out of bed since 2020. Perfectly healthy people too.

Need to find treatments ASAP because this is another ongoing health crisis right now... And with this omicron mass infection thing it'll only get worse. It's not quite as rare as we'd hope and vaccination doesn't eliminate it.
 
“I’m done. I’m done with COVID. I sprayed the Pringles cans that I bought at the grocery store, stripped my clothes off because I thought COVID would be on my clothes. I watched ‘Tiger King.’ I got to the end of Spotify. We all did it. Then we were told … ‘You get the vaccine and you get back to normal.’ And we haven’t gotten back to normal. And it’s ridiculous at this point … If you believe the science, you will look at the data we did not have two years ago. You will find out that cloth masks do not do anything. You will realize you can show your vaccine passport at a restaurant and still be asymptomatic and be carrying Omicron. And you will realize most importantly that this is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime." - BARI WEISS
 
yeah, i get it, we're all tired. but none of those things she mentioned are any more than mild inconveniences. if that's what she's complaining about she had it pretty good.

she just sounds like a child.
 
The moral crime is letting this thing rip willingly and disabling millions of people. We know what happened to SARS survivors... They continued to get worse with time. Covid is milder, yes, but to pretend there aren't going to be longterm consequences is silly. Oh yeah and deaths too.
 
Yeah, I thought her comments were quite a contrast to the data on kids with long covid. It's just a complete disconnect with reality, with a degree from the Greenwald School of Pretend Liberalism, I guess.

Then we were told … ‘You get the vaccine and you get back to normal.’ And we haven’t gotten back to normal. And it’s ridiculous at this point …
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This may be the best part. As others have said, it's exactly what a kid would argue.

"You said we'd get back to normal!"

"Well scientific knowledge is constantly changing. And this is a pandemic where thousands of people are dying every day."

"But YOU SAAIIDDD..."
 
I like how almost a million people died in her country and the only thing she could come up with that she stayed at home with her subscription to multiple streaming services and like, wiped down her groceries. Fack off.
 
Another article on this.. I know it's repetitive but:

www.rollingstone.com

Will Covid-19 Vaccine Nasal Sprays Be the Pandemic Game-Changer We Need?

Promising results from a study at Yale University are still undergoing peer-review — but offer hope for managing Covid-19 in the future.
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Other research teams including McCray’s are working on Covid sprays — as well as some in Russia and India — but in the West, the Yale scientists are showing some of the best early results. Their new spray can “elicit mucosal immune memory within the respiratory tract,” they wrote.

There’s a problem, however. It could take a long time to fully develop a mucus-only vaccine for Covid. It would have to go through large-scale human trials over a period of many months — years, even — before the developers could approach health regulators for emergency approval.

To speed things along, Iwasaki, Golman-Israelow and the other Yale scientists are developing the spray vaccine strictly as a booster for the existing mRNA vaccines.
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The Yale team is, in a sense, partially piggybacking on a vaccine that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has already authorized for widespread use. “There might be a lower bar to getting into human studies if they’re working with something that’s already approved,” Palmer said.

The idea is to get your first two prime doses of mRNA as injections, then follow up later with a spray booster. The Yale scientists call it the “Prime and Spike” approach.

That’s a reference to the initial “prime” injections that are the first part of a full course of vaccine, and the spike protein that the novel coronavirus uses to grab onto and infect our cells. A fragment of that spike is the key ingredient in the experimental spray.

“We show that Prime and Spike induces robust T-resident memory cells, B-resident memory cells and [immunoglobulin A] at the respiratory mucosa, boosts systemic immunity and completely protects mice with partial immunity from lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection,” Iwasaki, Golman-Israelow and their colleagues wrote.
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And since it’s so easy to use, it’s theoretically possible to develop a booster spray people can take at home. That “may make distribution easier,” Golman-Israelow says. And besides, any logistical hassle might be worth it if the spray booster offers better and more lasting protection — and is less scary, to boot.

The next step for the Yale team is to wrap up animal trials then test Prime and Spike on people and, if it still works and proves it’s safe, team up with a manufacturer to produce it–and ask regulators to greenlight it.

That could take months under the best of circumstances. But with the COVID pandemic entering its third year, a new booster that deploys months from now — or even in 2023 — is still pretty useful.
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TLDR: Let's go.
 
We do not have a full set of ammo available yet. Not even close. That's why the virus is kicking our asses. But advancements are coming if we can hold strong and try to limit infections in the meantime.

 
hockeylover said:
No! Fortunately I arrived to work with nary a soul in sight but the very distinctive smell of police horses still lingering in the air. Perhaps the people with lots of time on their hands went to Ottawa and everyone with jobs protested in Toronto.
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On the plus side, they could have scored more Invermectin.
 
hockeylover said:
yeah, i get it, we're all tired. but none of those things she mentioned are any more than mild inconveniences. if that's what she's complaining about she had it pretty good.

she just sounds like a child.
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so, a while back I noticed a significant turn in my dad's thinking about covid and lockdowns. he basically went from supporting them to being vehemently opposed.

then, later, I found out he has been listening to Bari Weiss' podcast religiously. ***loud sigh***
 
if you want to protest stuff you should be wanting compensation for having to close a business or if you lost your job / hours
 
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