Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

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knobslobbin said:
I hate what we (Americans) have become. Even 10 years ago it would have been unfathomable to have bureaucunts dictating how we can behave and every aspect of our daily lives. Now it's just accepted without any pushback. Shameful, we deserve all the misery that is coming.

Covid was just the straw that broke the camel's back on our morally and fiscally bankrupt society.

Sorry news out of Commiefornia always puts me in a doomsperging mood. On a happier note: some places are open with no restrictions or masks and are back to normal for months now showing the lie that is the rest of the country's new normal.
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I feel like the biggest thing is there's nothing to look forward to. The best case scenario is a lot of stuff I enjoyed is out of business, will be replaced with migrants for the economy, there's a lot of people I'll no longer see, and I've lost a few hundred thousand. In turn nature will be destroyed to make room for more migrants, and people will further be forced to bend the knee to government and businesses.
 
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The High Prophet of Truth said:
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Holy fuck, I thought this was a joke tweet.


Injection with the female sex hormone progesterone could improve outcomes for men hospitalised with severe COVID-19 infections, a study has concluded.

The finding by researchers from California follows multiple reports that men are at a higher risk of severe illness and death from coronavirus than women.

Progesterone has certain anti-inflammatory properties and thus, the team said, may be able to dampen the often fatal immune responses called 'cytokine storms'.

The research was undertaken by pulmonologist Sara Ghandehari of the Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and her colleagues.

'As an ICU doctor, I was struck by the gender disparity among COVID-19 patients who were very sick, remained in the hospital and needed ventilators,' she said.

Progesterone is produced in both men and women's bodies, although the latter produce considerably more of the hormone during their reproductive years.

Experts have also noted that premenopausal women tend to experience less severe cases of COVID-19 than their postmenopausal counterparts.

Premenopausal women tend to have higher progesterone levels while such tends to decrease to lower levels post-menopause.

In their clinical trial, which was undertaken from April–August last year, the researchers recruited 40 male patients who had been hospitalised with moderate to severe COVID-19 and randomly divided them into two groups.

One group acted as a control sample, for comparison, and received only the standard medical care given at that time for the disease.

The experimental group, meanwhile, also received 100 milligram injections of progesterone twice daily for five days during the time they were hospitalised.

All the patients were assessed by the team daily for either 15 days or until they were discharged from hospital.

On the seventh day, each patient was ranked on a standard seven-point scale of clinical status, which ranged from 7 ('not hospitalized, no limitations on activities') though to 1 ('death').

The researchers found that, compared with the control group, patients who received the progesterone treatments scored a median of 1.5 points higher on the scale.

The experimental group also had fewer days of hospitalisation overall and a lower need for supplemental oxygen and mechanical ventilation, although the team said the differences between the groups in these areas was not statistically significant.

No serious adverse effects were observed as a result of the progesterone injections. Two patients did die during the 15-day study period — one from each of the two groups — but such were unrelated to the experiment treatments, the team said.

'While our findings are encouraging for the potential of using progesterone to treat men with COVID-19, our study had significant limitations,' cautioned Dr Ghandehari.

Firstly, she explained, the sample size was relatively small and was primarily made up of White, Hispanic and obese individuals with a moderate burden of other conditions, which serve to increase the risk of worse outcomes.

Furthermore, while the trial was randomised and featured a control group, it was also unblinded — meaning that the research team, physicians and patients all knew who had received the experimental treatment.

'Further research is necessary in larger, more heterogeneous populations, including postmenopausal women and at other treatment centres,' Dr Ghandehari added.

This, she continued, will allow the team 'to establish the degree of clinical efficacy and to assess any other potential safety concerns of this treatment approach.'

The full findings of the study were published in the journal Chest.
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I got the vaccine yesterday because I had to through work. I'm not an antivaxxer or anything but was going to skip it if I didn't have to get it because I don't really know if the thing works for that long. I felt like shit this morning but feel good now, which I guess means you already had the virus if you feel bad after the first shot instead of the second. I guess I'm glad I can get on an airplane and go back to Amsterdam in the summer (hopefully) even if I'm a little more autistic.
 
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Tathagata said:
Fau-Xi is really pushing this variant shit. As if one is a coronavirus and the variant is a necrovirus from 28 Days Later. This man really can't get it past his retard head that he undeniably, undoubtedly, 100% lied on the record about wearing masks, and so many people find him hard to trust. He didn't even deny that he wants people wearing masks forever. And he so clearly considered Rand Paul below him, like talking to him was a chore. Rand Paul is an elected senator and an MD. Fauci is an unelected loser who can't even tell the public the truth. I'll take Rand over Fauci any day.
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"BUT LOOK AT HIS CRENDTIALS AND RAND PAUL IS NOT A DOCTOR BECAUSE HE'S AN EYE DOCTOR"
 
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Save the Loli said:
Look on the bright side, at least this means that some powerful people want the plandemic to have an end date. Also they wouldn't hike the prices so high unless they assumed the government would be paying for the vaccinations year after year (so bad) or they assumed it will be like flu shots that no one took (meaning no vaccine passport).
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Thats been the plan all along I think, back when I worked in the industry, no one seemed to be panicking, rather just planning for when this ended. I think big pharma realized pretty quickly this would just be the new flu, with a new shot accordingly, only this time they can artificially raise the vaccines value.
 
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Jar-Jar Fanboy said:
This is a disturbing trend I keep seeing. Some reddit commenter on a recent post was excited about how she and her mom were almost fully vaccinated, and then they'd finally be able to hug, and man, that's so fucking sad to me. It's been a whole year of this shit, and you know what I've done? Hugged my mom when I've seen her around holidays, and guess what? Neither of us are vaccinated, and we both work with the public to some extent, we both just follow very basic safety precautions. All these people talking about how excited they are to finally be "allowed" to hug family members just bums me out. This is the result of fear propaganda being pumped into your brain 24/7, where you need permission from the government to have contact with people. There's a healthy level of caution, and then there's living in a paranoid little bubble, far away from reality like these dorks. Just hug your mom, you fucking weirdos, but put on the masks if you really feel the need to
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I'm one of those idiots who has followed nearly every single recommendation. My mom lives several hours from me and while I have broken the rules and traveled to see her a couple of times, I stayed 6 feet away and met outside her house. I didn't hug her. She has COPD and I know covid for her is a death sentence.

I spoke to her on the phone a couple of times a week. She told me she was feeling tired but didn't make a big deal out of it. Two weeks ago, she sounded so terrible, I got in the car the next day and drove down and actually went inside her house. I couldn't believe what I saw. My mother was so weak that she couldn't even walk into the kitchen or the bathroom without needing a break halfway there. Her house was filthy. Dishes unwashed, dust everywhere. Her little dog had matted fur and looked like it hadn't had a bath in a long time. She couldn't take care of herself but didn't tell anyone because she "didn't want to worry us" and didn't want us to travel to see her because of covid. She also avoided seeking treatment for her worsening COPD because of fears of being exposed to covid at the hospital.

I took her to the hospital when I got there and when she got stable, I brought her back to my house. She's back in the hospital again because she is apparently in the end stages of COPD, though she might be well enough to come home in a few days. I am devastated that I lost out on probably the last years of my mother's life because I was trying to "do the right thing". And my mother has been so lonely this last year. Her sister would come by, but like us, stood outside socially distanced to say hi for a few minutes. Other than doctor's check ups or trips to the grocery store and pharmacy, my mother has been in solitary confinement. I wanted her to come live with me when it first hit, but I live in an area which had very high covid cases and my husband works retail, so I was terrified she'd end up getting covid, so thought it safer that she stayed where she was.

Sometimes the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I have massive amounts of regret. Was this past year of social distancing really worth it if my mother still dies anyway? I have a feeling I'm not going to be the only one with this kind of story. How many aging parents are suffering out there because no one is around to notice that they've gone downhill and get them help when they are too proud to ask for it?

Feline Supremacist said:
I have three zits on my nose, a place I never get them, from the mask. I won't be wearing one until they clear up, fuck anyone who complains.
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I have rosacea and when I wore masks this summer, I ended up with a horrifying rash under the mask because heat is a trigger for it. I'll have to go back on daily antibiotics once warm weather gets here to try to prevent it from happening again. Ironically, that kind of rash makes me more susceptible to getting covid because my skin can get raw in some places if it gets bad enough.
 
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Mealy Mouth Spittle said:
I have rosacea and when I wore masks this summer, I ended up with a horrifying rash under the mask because heat is a trigger for it. I'll have to go back on daily antibiotics once warm weather gets here to try to prevent it from happening again. Ironically, that kind of rash makes me more susceptible to getting covid because my skin can get raw in some places if it gets bad enough.
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Same thing happened to my mom. She was absolutely livid. Rosacea is brutal
 
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greengrilledcheese said:
I'm probably late with this, but I just saw it. Now you have to.
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Why is always Disney with these people? Other than the bit about implanting chips, the bird is unironically bringing up some really good points, only to be ignored and shut down at every turn. It's so weird to see liberals simping for the pharmaceutical corporations so fucking hard that anyone questioning the safety or effectiveness of all this has to be painted as a loon. But hey, I guess art imitates life, right? Question nothing, do as you're told, and live in fear
 
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