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

Kenney leading the charge and caving to the loons. REP program done as of tonight, masks K-12 done as of Monday and no more indoor masks as of March 1st

The nutters will claim victory and use this going forward as a tactic to push for other things they dont like
 
LeafOfFaith said:
What is long covid technically? Does the person remain sick for a long period, or is it the lingering of some of these shitty random symptoms like brain fog and loss of taste/smell?
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All of the above. Some people have to sleep for hours after taking a 1 mile walk. Some can't even get out of bed. Some have weird vascular issues. Some don't have any taste or smell. Some have shortness of breath. Some have brain fog and trouble concentrating/lack of memory. Some have their immune systems destroyed and are prone to all sorts of infections. Some have all of this.
 
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Coz it’s the most visible way to poke a stick in the eye of virtue signallers. Gotta own librul, cuck soi bois 😂😂😂😂.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go watch Braveheart.
 
This is the new buzz in town, especially now since omicron ran a train on the world. Just an anecdote but I'm seeing it everywhere now.



The hopes of increased infection becoming milder and milder are sorta fading. The disease seems degenerative with each exposure. I don't know what the solution is other than wait for more sterilizing vaccines but.... We can't live with this thing long-term.
 
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And I suppose the mutation undermines the effectiveness of rapid tests? Because if the best we can do is render it “endemic” then testing/masking protocols would need to be reinforced. Gathering with people outside immediate bubble will come with some kind of etiquette, before and after contact.

Long-term I guess it’s just total uncertainty. Spanish Flu lasted 4 years, I think.
 
lecoqsportif said:
And I suppose the mutation undermines the effectiveness of rapid tests? Because if the best we can do is render it “endemic” then testing/masking protocols would need to be reinforced. Gathering with people outside immediate bubble will come with some kind of etiquette, before and after contact.

Long-term I guess it’s just total uncertainty. Spanish Flu lasted 4 years, I think.
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Have to hope we either get lucky as shit and the disease mutates into something milder or science saves us with near-sterilizing vaccines.

The intranasal thing is fascinating because if it works we can quite literally be mailed the spray and take it up the nose as much as we need to with self administration. It's pure spike protein and nothing else so it should be very safe to use as much as we need to. And easily scalable so supply wouldn't be an issue. If we have to spray it up our nose every 3 months to maintain sterilizing immunity so be it. And you can combine that with maybe annual boosting of the needles, ideally one of the variant-proof vaccines that are being worked on.

Other than that yeah, I don't know the way out. The hopeful thesis before was that each passing reinfection gets milder and it becomes a mild nuisance at some point like a cold. But I've seen enough that it's more likely to be degenerative and once we start racking up 3, 4, 5+ infections (and if we all lived normally that would only take a year or two) we'll be in rough shape with a lot of likely irreversible damage.
 
Why is this virus so different from the countless others over the last 10 - 20,000 years of human existence? I don't really understand how this thing is just so completely alien that it has the experts predicting basically a never-ending stream of sickness. Have you seen any good background articles on that angle, Presto? It really is a mind bender of a virus. I guess, it really isn't all that different from something like HIV?

Man, what a depressing thought.
 
SundinsTooth said:
Why is this virus so different from the countless others over the last 10 - 20,000 years of human existence? I don't really understand how this thing is just so completely alien that it has the experts predicting basically a never-ending stream of sickness. Have you seen any good background articles on that angle, Presto? It really is a mind bender of a virus.
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It's actually very close to the original SARS by composition, although SARS mortality rate was about 3-4x higher when it was completely novel. A lot of the long-term effects are VERY similar though. Most of the SARS survivors had a rough time and are still having a rough time (they were similarly ignored and there was a lack of research on "long SARS" but it's getting too noisy to ignore long covid since it's impacting way more people). The nice part about the SARS gang is that they only caught it once.. Same with measles. The main issue with this one is the transmissibility and the lack of durable immunity so it's possible to catch it over and over and over again and even if it's identical to the flu, that's gonna take a toll on anyones body.

It's different than the flu tho. It doesn't appear to just be a respiratory illness. It's vascular, respiratory, neurological, etc. Lots can go wrong, especially if you catch it over and over again. I'm all for living your life and I get being sick of the pandemic but it's prolly worth trying to avoid it and hoping that the nerds can find a long-term solution within the next year or 2. If you catch it, can't blame yourself.. It's probably gonna happen to everyone over the next couple of years, but it's worth at least trying to limit I think. It's hard tho because we don't know if a solution will be found that soon, so it makes one wonder what you're even waiting for. But I have faith in the nerds. And I want to really try to stay healthy for the kiddo.
 
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