Pandemic 2020

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captainmorgan

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Looking like the lock down of Xi'an isn't covid, locals spreading rumor that it's Marburg. China has locked down info on the situation as usual and say everything is fine lol. What ever it is, China has them wearing the yellow hazmat suits and spraying disinfectant in the streets again, could it be this?


www.the-scientist.com

Newly Identified Virus Similar to Ebola, Marburg

Mengla virus, detected in bats in China, infects cells through the same host receptor targeted by the deadly pathogens.
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captainmorgan

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Covid attacks the brain and nervious system just like the rest of the body. Symptoms like brain fog, memory loss and lose of taste and smell are the virus destroying cells and this damage can be permanent. They have MRI brain scans of patients before and after covid and they show loss of grey matter that is noticeable to the naked eye, your brain won't grow back. If omicrons hospitalizations are lower only because of less lung damage but it still fucks up the rest of the body, is it really mild? Will omicron have as many long covid survivors, some studies show up to 60% have lingering symptoms after 6 months and many people don't seem to be able to clear the virus at all. I will be getting the boosters, wearing masks and limiting my contact with people, I don't believe catching it is inevitable unless you job brings you in contact with lots of people. For me it's a quality of life issue, I've been damaged by a infection already and any further decline would make living much harder than it already is.


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DIY-HP-LED

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captainmorgan said:
Covid attacks the brain and nervious system just like the rest of the body. Symptoms like brain fog, memory loss and lose of taste and smell are the virus destroying cells and this damage can be permanent. They have MRI brain scans of patients before and after covid and they show loss of grey matter that is noticeable to the naked eye, your brain won't grow back. If omicrons hospitalizations are lower only because of less lung damage but it still fucks up the rest of the body, is it really mild? Will omicron have as many long covid survivors, some studies show up to 60% have lingering symptoms after 6 months and many people don't seem to be able to clear the virus at all. I will be getting the boosters, wearing masks and limiting my contact with people, I don't believe catching it is inevitable unless you job brings you in contact with lots of people. For me it's a quality of life issue, I've been damaged by a infection already and any further decline would make living much harder than it already is.


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It's too early to tell much about omicron, other than if you are vaxxed and boosted, the case will most likely be mild. A mild case and fast recovery indicates less damage to the body, if you are vaxxed. It is best to avoid illness, if one can and as for myself, I will be following the same course of action, boosted on Jan 18th and limited social contacts after. I'll also be wearing a mask inside public places for quiet some time and keeping my vitamin D levels up with supplements.

Summer should see some respite between the better weather, vaccinations, boosting and natural immunity among the surviving Trumpers. I think this is gonna be seasonal after this year and if we are gonna get boosted again, it will be in the fall and winter, like the flu vaccine, also the booster might be different and more effective by next fall. Pandemics end naturally too and we are gonna see a combination of natural and vaccinated immunity deal with this disease. It will be endemic and might come back to bite us on the ass though, we need to be proactive, not reactive.
 
CunningCanuk

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My daughter goes back to school on Wednesday. No extra precautions. No testing and no attempt to contact trace. They aren’t even keeping records of cases in the schools. Ontario’s latest case counts were close to 20k and we are only testing a small percentage of the population. Accurate case counts are now a pipe dream.

I have a feeling the models are predicting everyone will get this in a matter of months. The reason they are keeping it quiet is because they don’t want to discourage people from getting vaccinated.

It looks like our provincial government has thrown its hands up and unofficially given up. The new strategy is herd immunity through infection, I’m afraid.
 
captainmorgan

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CunningCanuk said:
My daughter goes back to school on Wednesday. No extra precautions. No testing and no attempt to contact trace. They aren’t even keeping records of cases in the schools. Ontario’s latest case counts were close to 20k and we are only testing a small percentage of the population. Accurate case counts are now a pipe dream.

I have a feeling the models are predicting everyone will get this in a matter of months. The reason they are keeping it quiet is because they don’t want to discourage people from getting vaccinated.

It looks like our provincial government has thrown its hands up and unofficially given up. The new strategy is herd immunity through infection, I’m afraid.
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I think Doug Ford may be as stupid and evil as tRUmp, well at least as stupid.
 
DIY-HP-LED

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CunningCanuk said:
My daughter goes back to school on Wednesday. No extra precautions. No testing and no attempt to contact trace. They aren’t even keeping records of cases in the schools. Ontario’s latest case counts were close to 20k and we are only testing a small percentage of the population. Accurate case counts are now a pipe dream.

I have a feeling the models are predicting everyone will get this in a matter of months. The reason they are keeping it quiet is because they don’t want to discourage people from getting vaccinated.

It looks like our provincial government has thrown its hands up and unofficially given up. The new strategy is herd immunity through infection, I’m afraid.
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They delayed school here in NS until around the 10th of January. The gave up on contact tracing here too and testing is overwhelmed. The focus here has shifted from cases to hospitalizations, where the rubber really hits the road, I don't think cases are a very useful metric anymore with vaxxed and boosted people, hospitalizations and ICU beds are more important.

Your daughter has been recently vaxxed, but she can bring it home, even if she is not too sick or sick at all, best everybody in the household gets boosted. That might not last though, the schools could shut down again, if it gets bad enough with staff shortages, at the very least they should make covid vaccinations mandatory for school kids.

It's pretty much the same all across the country as covid cases explode, they have here too. Doug kinda fucked ya though, they should wait another week or two at least to see how things go, since post holiday cases are about to explode and swamp hospitals.
 
CunningCanuk

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DIY-HP-LED said:
They delayed school here in NS until around the 10th of January. The gave up on contact tracing here too and testing is overwhelmed. The focus here has shifted from cases to hospitalizations, where the rubber really hits the road, I don't think cases are a very useful metric anymore with vaxxed and boosted people, hospitalizations and ICU beds are more important.

Your daughter has been recently vaxxed, but she can bring it home, even if she is not too sick or sick at all, best everybody in the household gets boosted. That might not last though, the schools could shut down again, if it gets bad enough with staff shortages, at the very least they should make covid vaccinations mandatory for school kids.

It's pretty much the same all across the country as covid cases explode, they have here too. Doug kinda fucked ya though, they should wait another week or two at least to see how things go, since post holiday cases are about to explode and swamp hospitals.
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My wife and I are boosted. I expect we will get it by next week. Hopefully we don’t have it too bad.

We contemplated not sending her to school but that will probably cause her more harm than anything else. She takes the bus to school so I’m going to drive her to and from to at least help reduce her exposure.

It’s fucking criminal what the Ford government is doing.
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

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injinji said:
Our old neighbors from when we lived in town moved to Homestead for his National Guard posting. They have got really involved in the python catching in the glades. He just retired from the Guard and they bought a cabin in the mountains of NC. But they are going back south twice a year to stay involved in the python program. You have to put in so many days in each quarter, so they go down for the end of one quarter and hunt snakes a couple three days, then hunt again in the first days of the next quarter. That way they only have to make two trips a year.

Pigs have their own set of problems, but let's remember that cows and sheep are the big greenhouse gas emitters. And for anyone wanting to eat less meat for moral reasons, chickens are raised in the worse living conditions, and are not killed in a humane way.
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Lol, that’s awesome. I have Louisiana on my bucket list. Alabama and Louisiana .. places I have never been to but hold fascinating adventures ahead for me. There is a swamp boat ride that take you out to a thousand pound tame gator . The captain has befriended the monster over the years by feeding it chicken. The gator is massive and he pets it and can holds it hands . To see that live would be a dream come true. Do you eat gator?
 
Budley Doright

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Our company is down 4 service techs out of 23. We’ve dodged the bullet up till now with no cases but the way this thing is moving I do believe there is nothing that can be done except getting the shot and hope. Up till 3 weeks ago I could honestly say I knew of no one personally that had gotten it. Now I know probably 15-20 :(. I watched our health unit go from pretty much unscathed to the worst outbreak in Canada in a matter of 2-3 weeks, shits gonna get crazy :(.
 
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