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General Disarray said:
I am not believing anything I read. I know of NO ONE who has died from this, an older woman I know was hospitalized with pneumonia that they had to knock out with two rounds of treatment (this is secondhand info from her husband), and she survived. Like me, she was a pretty heavy drug user back in the days. That's it, that's the only instance of anyone I know being sick and it wasn't even Covid. However, I DO know of several people personally who have been victimized by some random black person. When they say racism is health emergency, it's true - just not in the way they think it is.
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I've had the opposite experience.
Almost everyone in my social circle has had it. I've had it, my parents have had it, brother has had it, girlfriend has had it, roommate and roommate's GF have had it, two of my coworkers had it, all my brother's friends caught it the same week, my mom's coworkers all had it. Everyone survived and most had just mild cold symptoms (asymptomatic myself), at the worst was my roommate's girlfriend who had really bad fatigue and a high fever.

The dreaded apocalypse plague came and went without a single hospitalization for anyone I know.
 
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Fanatical Pragmatist said:
I've had the opposite experience.
Almost everyone in my social circle has had it. I've had it, my parents have had it, brother has had it, girlfriend has had it, roommate and roommate's GF have had it, two of my coworkers had it, all my brother's friends caught it the same week, my mom's coworkers all had it. Everyone survived and most had just mild cold symptoms (asymptomatic myself), at the worst was my roommate's girlfriend who had really bad fatigue and a high fever.

The dreaded apocalypse plague came and went without a single hospitalization for anyone I know.
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That's a lot of people! Did they get tested? Dumb question but have to ask, because the cycling differences between current and previous tests made it more sensitive in the beginning. Colds are in the Coronavirus family so maybe they tested positive when the cycling was high throwing false positive results.

At any rate, am glad you and yours only had basically a cold. It's not the fear of Covid that keeps me indoors half the time even before the pandemic; it's the terrible neighborhood I live in *sigh*.
 
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Fanatical Pragmatist said:
I've had the opposite experience.
Almost everyone in my social circle has had it. I've had it, my parents have had it, brother has had it, girlfriend has had it, roommate and roommate's GF have had it, two of my coworkers had it, all my brother's friends caught it the same week, my mom's coworkers all had it. Everyone survived and most had just mild cold symptoms (asymptomatic myself), at the worst was my roommate's girlfriend who had really bad fatigue and a high fever.

The dreaded apocalypse plague came and went without a single hospitalization for anyone I know.
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I have one friend who has died since last year. She was morbidly obese, type two diabetic and had been told repeatedly she was well overdue for a heart attack, and lo and behold, she dropped dead of one last July.


They swabbed her throat post mortem and ran a PCR test for enough cycles to generate a +ve result and bam, she is a covid death. Fact she ate her way to an early death is obviously nothing to do with it, nor is the fact she had no symptoms at all, right?
 
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General Disarray said:
That's a lot of people! Did they get tested? Dumb question but have to ask, because the cycling differences between current and previous tests made it more sensitive in the beginning. Colds are in the Coronavirus family so maybe they tested positive when the cycling was high throwing false positive results.

At any rate, am glad you and yours only had basically a cold. It's not the fear of Covid that keeps me indoors half the time even before the pandemic; it's the terrible neighborhood I live in *sigh*.
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(Most) Colds aren't in the same family (Coronaviridae), they're in the Rhinovirus family; but both families are in the same class (so like if they were animals both would be reptiles, while the flu would be a sea star and HIV a fucking mushroom), so technically still closer to "colds" than most anything else well-known. Also sometimes weaker Coronaviruses get lumped in as "common colds", and make up like 10-20% of "colds" IIRC.

My positive was from an antibody test.
Most everyone else was either PCR or assumed positive due to being sick while living with someone who tested positive.
The only X-factor is my brother's fiance, who was never tested but never showed symptoms. However if she also got a positive antibody test back I don't think anyone would be surprised.
 
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Fanatical Pragmatist said:
I've had the opposite experience.
Almost everyone in my social circle has had it. I've had it, my parents have had it, brother has had it, girlfriend has had it, roommate and roommate's GF have had it, two of my coworkers had it, all my brother's friends caught it the same week, my mom's coworkers all had it. Everyone survived and most had just mild cold symptoms (asymptomatic myself), at the worst was my roommate's girlfriend who had really bad fatigue and a high fever.

The dreaded apocalypse plague came and went without a single hospitalization for anyone I know.
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If only you listed to your hero Dr. John Ioannidis, maybe you all would have avoided getting it
 
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Le enlightened centrist has arrived.
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thinking I'm surrounded by boot-licking jackasses doesn't make me a centrist. I may be fat, stupid, angry, a centrist, but I am not a porn star!
General Disarray said:
I am not believing anything I read. I know of NO ONE who has died from this, an older woman I know was hospitalized with pneumonia that they had to knock out with two rounds of treatment (this is secondhand info from her husband), and she survived. Like me, she was a pretty heavy drug user back in the days. That's it, that's the only instance of anyone I know being sick and it wasn't even Covid. However, I DO know of several people personally who have been victimized by some random black person. When they say racism is health emergency, it's true - just not in the way they think it is.
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I know of one person who died from it. They were old and fat. My sister in law has had it and it hit her pretty hard, but I've had it and only had one very mild symptom, while my dad and his arm candy got it and didn't even notice. He's old.

By comparison I've personally known more people who die from gang violence than I have from this plague. I understand the lovely cultural enrichers responsible for that are more susceptible to the ravages of the Shenyang sneeze. Got to wonder why.
 
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Product Placement said:
If only you listed to your hero Dr. John Ioannidis, maybe you all would have avoided getting it
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You're a boring and unentertaining troll and the only reason that you're getting some sort of reaction from people is that we're not living not in 2021 AD but in 2 YOFLTC (year of flattening the curve) and it's kind of getting on people's nerves a lot.
 
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Coronavirus: Pfizer jab 'stopping 91% of cases in first six months'​

Pfizer says its vaccine is preventing 91% of coronavirus cases in the six months after people are immunised.
And a separate study shows even people in their 80s and 90s are producing impressive levels of antibodies after receiving both doses of the vaccine.
Only 63% of them, however, also produce the T-cells that help maintain those antibodies in the longer term.
And the crucial question of how long the protection from the vaccine lasts remains unanswered.
Pfizer analysed data from 46,000 people on the original clinical trial, exactly six months after their second dose.
It also looked at 800 trial participants in South Africa and concluded the vaccine was equally effective against the variant identified there - despite laboratory studies suggesting people's antibodies were less effective at attacking this variant.
"The high vaccine efficacy observed through up to six months following a second dose and against the variant prevalent in South Africa provides further confidence in our vaccine's overall effectiveness," chairman and chief executive officer Albert Bourla said.
Similar, long-term studies are taking place for all the vaccines including Oxford-AstraZeneca, but Pfizer has been the first to report.

Brazil variant​

Separate research by the University of Birmingham looked at what happened to the immune systems of 100 80- to and 96-year-olds.
Blood samples showed high levels of antibodies able to effectively neutralise the original coronavirus.
Against the variant identified Brazil, however, they were 14 times less effective.
Although, the researchers were confident those who had received the Pfizer vaccine would still be protected against the Brazil variant because their levels of antibodies were so high.

Coronavirus factories​

However, only 63% of people in this age group produced a detectable T-cell response.
"It is not clear what that means for clinical protection in the longer term," one of the researchers, Dr Helen Parry, said.
T-cells can kill the cells in the body that have been hijacked and turned into coronavirus factories.
But they also help maintain levels of antibodies over time.
"That's something we'll keep an eye on very closely," researcher Prof Paul Moss said.



feels good, make sure to get your vax soon as you can
 
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Product Placement said:

Coronavirus: Pfizer jab 'stopping 91% of cases in first six months'​

Pfizer says its vaccine is preventing 91% of coronavirus cases in the six months after people are immunised.
And a separate study shows even people in their 80s and 90s are producing impressive levels of antibodies after receiving both doses of the vaccine.
Only 63% of them, however, also produce the T-cells that help maintain those antibodies in the longer term.
And the crucial question of how long the protection from the vaccine lasts remains unanswered.
Pfizer analysed data from 46,000 people on the original clinical trial, exactly six months after their second dose.
It also looked at 800 trial participants in South Africa and concluded the vaccine was equally effective against the variant identified there - despite laboratory studies suggesting people's antibodies were less effective at attacking this variant.
"The high vaccine efficacy observed through up to six months following a second dose and against the variant prevalent in South Africa provides further confidence in our vaccine's overall effectiveness," chairman and chief executive officer Albert Bourla said.
Similar, long-term studies are taking place for all the vaccines including Oxford-AstraZeneca, but Pfizer has been the first to report.

Brazil variant​

Separate research by the University of Birmingham looked at what happened to the immune systems of 100 80- to and 96-year-olds.
Blood samples showed high levels of antibodies able to effectively neutralise the original coronavirus.
Against the variant identified Brazil, however, they were 14 times less effective.
Although, the researchers were confident those who had received the Pfizer vaccine would still be protected against the Brazil variant because their levels of antibodies were so high.

Coronavirus factories​

However, only 63% of people in this age group produced a detectable T-cell response.
"It is not clear what that means for clinical protection in the longer term," one of the researchers, Dr Helen Parry, said.
T-cells can kill the cells in the body that have been hijacked and turned into coronavirus factories.
But they also help maintain levels of antibodies over time.
"That's something we'll keep an eye on very closely," researcher Prof Paul Moss said.



feels good, make sure to get your vax soon as you can
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Be a good goy beta-tester and take it yourself first. You're going to, right mate?
 
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Product Placement said:
Already got myself one just waiting for the second, feels good not be a pussy that follow crazy people on youtube blindly, you should grow a pair get it done your self, it really doesn't hurt.
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So we should not follow crazy people blindly, yet we should follow medical experts, who sold their soul and credibility for political power. What's the difference? Is it the suit that an expert is wearing?
 
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NotSendingTheirBest said:
So we should not follow crazy people blindly, yet we should follow medical experts, who sold their soul and credibility for political power. What's the difference? Is it the suit that an expert is wearing?
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Just because you don't like the truth doesn't mean they sold out for political power, not everyone is as bad as a fox news or cnn journo
 
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Sarah Palin says she has 'bizarre' COVID-19 symptoms and urges Americans to wear masks​


Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice-presidential nominee, announced on Wednesday that she had been infected with COVID-19 and urged Americans to wear masks, breaking from many of her Republican allies.

"Through it all, I view wearing that cumbersome mask indoors in a crowd as not only allowing the newfound luxury of being incognito, but trust it's better than doing nothing to slow the spread," Palin, 57, told People Magazine.

This comes just a few months after Palin campaigned for the Republican party in Georgia alongside Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an anti-masker and QAnon promoter, and spread the GOP lie that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged."

The former governor of Alaska said she tested positive after one of her daughters and her 12-year-old son Trig, who has Down syndrome, were both infected. She said she experienced "bizarre" symptoms, including loss of taste and smell, and warned COVID-19 can "really knock you down." People Magazine said that these were recent diagnoses but it's unclear when exactly they fell ill.


"I strongly encourage everyone to use common sense to avoid spreading this and every other virus out there," she said, adding that her case shows "anyone can catch this."

After making headlines last year for her performance on Fox's "Masked Singer," Palin joked, "History will show we Masked Singer visitors were masked before being masked was cool."

A host of mostly Republican-led states have lifted their statewide pandemic restrictions, including mask mandates, which experts say is helping fuel an uptick in COVID-19 cases. President Joe Biden has repeatedly called on GOP governors to reinstate their mask mandates and slow the reopening of their states.


Stay safe wear a mask
 
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