Long covid

[rockcasbah]

Isn't that w00t?

I see your w00t and raise you an Ascii Snoopy.

 

[dolf]

Nothing in particular, we just didn't get to grow up as spoiled white girls living the privileged 1st world life.

It's the reality of life that creeps in, not impotence....but I can see why Karens would say such a thing.

You got me! Absolutely, the spoilt princess of an overindulgent family. Woe is me!

 

[rockcasbah]

You got me! Absolutely, the spoilt princess of an overindulgent family. Woe is me!

His life must really suck!

 

[dolf]

Not a peer reviewed study, because this is early days, but it makes for interesting reading.

From the BMJ

 

[dolf]

His life must really suck!

Something we can agree on!

 

[Champakian]

What percentage is 17.3M cases in a total population of 350+ million?

What is the percentage of those locked down as non-essential?

And of 17.3M cases, how many of them are saddled with long-term health hazards and how many of them were like me? Is it possible that the Covid merely tripped something that was already lying under the surface just as it mainly kills only those who were one serious thing away from death anyway? Is it possible dolf that you are presenting us with the exception to the rule? Do we even know what we don't know...

 

[Ranger3753]

Same symptoms as stress. Take a chill pill.

Interesting. I've never known bilateral pulmonary emboli to be a symptom of stress.


Sit down and STFU.

 

[Champakian]

Interesting. I've never known bilateral pulmonary emboli to be a symptom of stress.


Sit down and STFU.

You're a doctor who can state unequivocally that stress cannot produce heart problems?

 

[dolf]

What percentage is 535K Cases in a total population of 350+ million?

What is the percentage of those locked down as non-essential?

And of 535K cases, how many of them are saddled with long-term health hazards and how many of them were like me? Is it possible that the Covid merely tripped something that was already lying under the surface just as it mainly kills only those who were one serious thing away from death anyway? Is it possible dolf that you are presenting us with the exception to the rule? Do we even know what we don't know...

I'm not in charge of policy, and I have no idea about the numbers. Really, there's a shitload of stuff that nobody knows yet. Time will tell.

But... Yelling "it's just flu!" is, at this point, almost as foolish as the ones who make out that everyone who gets it will end up on a ventilator, or dead.

Ignoring the human costs and fucked economies, I'm finding it fascinating. The way people behave, the way the whole world can be screwed up so much by a tiny mutation of one tiny virus. The virus itself, and way it is affecting such people in such varied ways. The random seeming impact, like the huge increase in one star reviews for Yankie Candle products, because the customers said they didn't smell.

Politics aside... aren't you interested?

 

[Ranger3753]

You're a doctor who can state unequivocally that stress cannot produce heart problems?

I've been a paramedic for almost 30 years. Pulmonary emboli are blockages in the pulmonary arteries in your LUNGS, dumbass, not your heart.

 

[Champakian]

Nobody is yelling it, but many are suggesting that we never reacted this strongly to the flu when the numbers are so similar, even with an annual vaccine. Have you not read that Covid, too, is mutating into different strains. It is imperative economically that we stop panicking and just learn to live with it as we do with the flu. I have read that the transmission of Covid is more likely in the living room than in public, but listen to me, listen carefully, for I am not going to shout, if we do not open up our economies and get back to living, then far, far worse things are going to happen to us than a new disease out of China that merely rivals the flu in reach and effect.

Anecdotally, I even have some underlying health issues, but again, being infected was no different than a bad bout of the flu (which I never get the shot for because the annual shot really is just a shot in the dark, an educated guess on which strain will emerge a year from the beginning of the development process and I suggest that it will be the same with SARS-CoV-2).

And, to me, this isn't politics past the now proven proclivity of politicians to take advantage of every "crises" to increase and consolidate their power over the rest of us who just want to work and enjoy life, not hunker down in a sea of endless unknown and unexplored fears. And when it comes to SARS-CoV-2, we have yet to even leave the shallows of that sea and begin our explorations into it.

 

[Champakian]

I've been a paramedic for almost 30 years. Pulmonary emboli are blockages in the pulmonary arteries in your LUNGS, dumbass, not your heart.

Caused by...

Not to be garrulous, but why did you then pick an example that you were sure was probably not caused by stress when it had heretofore not been mentioned? Is it that hard to make your point without such a machination?

 

[CornusKousa]

His life must really suck!

Something we can agree on!

Ah....spoiled brats gonna be spoiled brats I see.

Well, good luck with that!!

 

[Ranger3753]

...why did you then pick an example that you were sure was probably not caused by stress when it had heretofore not been mentioned?

I responded to Saint_Ann's comment about the symptoms in the article being the "same symptoms as stress." Since emobli were one of the main symptoms listed in the article (and indeed is one of the primary long-term symptoms following a COVID infection), why would it not be something that I would address? That'd be like ignoring asymmetrical functional deficits as a long-term symptom of strokes.

 

[Champakian]

 

[Champakian]

You do realize that despite being a long-term EMT that you are no more MD than is Jill Biden.


Right???

 

[Champakian]

Why government cannot be trusted to run a Covid clusterfuck:

...

In a statement, Pfizer rebuts rumors that there is a shortfall in doses for its vaccine due to production delays. "Pfizer is not having any production issues with our COVID-19 vaccine, and no shipments containing the vaccine are on hold or delayed," notes the company. "This week, we successfully shipped all 2.9 million doses that we were asked to ship by the U.S. Government to the locations specified by them. We have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse but, as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses."

...

https://reason.com/2020/12/17/pfize...s-are-sitting-unclaimed-in-warehouse-coolers/

 

[dolf]

Ah....spoiled brats gonna be spoiled brats I see.

Well, good luck with that!!

I'd say something, but I can't be bothered to take the silver spoon out of my mouth...

 

[dolf]

Why government cannot be trusted to run a Covid clusterfuck:

I'll agree with that. Our money grubbing Eton boys have been looking for ways to cash in from the outset. Insane amounts of money have evaporated in a cloud of cronyism.

 

[Champakian]

Sometimes I feel we're lucky to see a nickel back (see what I did there?) for every dollar we send to DC.

[.05¢ on $1.00]

 

[rockcasbah]

Something we can agree on!

I'll take it!

 

[BoyNextDoor]

The last report I read said that 91 percent of "recovered" patients have at least one long-term complication from the disease, usually headaches and fatigue.

 

[rockcasbah]

The last report I read said that 91 percent of "recovered" patients have at least one long-term complication from the disease, usually headaches and fatigue.

For a fake disease it sure is pernicious.

 

[MonaLittle]

Longlastingsymptoms


I have friends who have had it and do not have 100% of their taste back yet, have fatigue and back aches from time to time. We definitely do not know the long term effects of COVID.

 

[dolf]

Longlastingsymptoms

I have friends who have had it and do not have 100% of their taste back yet, have fatigue and back aches from time to time. We definitely do not know the long term effects of COVID.

Post viral syndrome has been a recognised condition for a long time, but covid seems to trigger it in higher numbers, on top of the difficult to spot tissue damage.

Some of my daughter's clients are also saying that they still don't have their sense of taste back too. I'm so glad I don't have that. So depressing... I wonder how common that symptom is.