Took my daughter fishing at my favorite western Washington lake up near Mt St Helens. I’ve been fishing this lake for 2 decades, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than 10 people at a time. The parking lot was packed, overflowing really. A bunch of assholes took all of the truck&trailer spots. I had to wait for a place to fit my rig. Took about 30 minutes to launch the boat in between kayakers, and 30 minutes to pull the boat in between kayakers.
You can’t tell because I was being inconspicuous, but EVERYBODY was wearing a mask for the bapti… Just kidding, not a mask in sight. Guess they left it in Jesus’ hands. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
ETA: The shoreline is protected on this lake because it’s fragile, post - eruption growth (not where the baptism folks are, that’s an allowed area). There’s a trail that goes down the lake, but you’re not supposed to go off of it. Of course there were a ton of people all over the shoreline fucking shit up.
The issue with your option C is that even in the world where it happens (it’s definitely not happening in this world so it doesn’t matter), people will still get sick and die from the virus. But then there will be a bunch of people that claim that the deaths were all from “weak” people who should have stayed home. It’s a problem.
Regarding the cardiovascular complications of COVID, elevated troponins aren’t super meaningful and in any case it has been known for ages that respiratory viruses in general, and influenza in particular, have cardiovascular complications.
The association is so good that you can fairly accurately predict rises in heart attack numbers in the wake of influenza epidemics.
Likewise, post-viral fatigue is nothing new:
Post-viral syndrome, or post-viral fatigue, refers to a sense of tiredness and weakness that lingers after a person has fought off a viral infection. It can arise even after common infections, such as the flu.
Recovery from post-viral fatigue varies from person to person, and there’s no clear timeline. Some recover to the point where they can return to all of their daily activities after a month or two, while others continue to have symptoms for years.
While the reports of lung damage are concerning, with most of the other complications, it’s not clear to me that COVID is any worse than other viral infections. When millions of people get a virus you are going to get complications. The article upthread says:
Despite the novelty of SARS-CoV-2, its long-term effects have precedents: Infections with other pathogens are associated with lasting impacts ranging from heart problems to chronic fatigue. “Medicine has been used to dealing with this problem” of acute viral illness followed by ongoing symptoms, says Michael Zandi, a neurologist at UCL. Even common illnesses such as pneumonia can mean a monthslong recovery. “I see a lot of people who had [the brain inflammation] encephalitis 3, 4 years ago, and still can’t think, or are tired,” Zandi says.
What my wife and I are struggling with right now is losing friends. People are just back to normal life and are slowly giving up on asking us to come out. Hell my best friend who I have known since we were kids just rode out to Sturgis. Say anything back to then about how that’s a horrible idea and your called a sheep or crazy.
That’s an underrated crisis facing America. People will feel so validated in rejecting the ‘hysteria’ when this is over and nobody they know/care about is dead. They owned the libs etc etc
Yep. My wife lost two of her grandparents back in April to Covid. I have friends that still tell me it’s just the flu or a cold. One even said you don’t know if they actually died from covid.
That’s the nature of bureaucracies, especially global bodies, no matter how good their intentions. It takes a long time for information and decisions to pass through the organisation’s layers and result in actions even if it’s just a statement.
So apparently Sweden’s top epidemiologist told our yellow press that he doubts that masks are very helpful in preventing infections and wonders why there aren’t better studies for that. Wont be long before the anti mask crowd quotes him and can feel good about their choice. F this.
Hawt take: Deplorable schools that have done the stupid and opened will not close for any significant length of time despite the inevitable infections because of major league baseball.
MLB has set the standard for having large numbers of infected yet grinding ahead. Ignoring that MLB probably shouldn’t have started, definitely should have stopped, and the obvious differences between an outdoor sport and a school, these great institutions of learnings will follow their lead right off the cliff.
lmaoooooo wtf is this the same guy who tried to go for herd immunity? Yo Sweden what in the absolute fuck. Like you’re amazing at everything else why are you so unbelievably bad at this.
You would think after the massive failure that was herd immunity they’d just be like ok lets get our shit together and copy countries doing a good job.
This article is so frustrating. The main thrust is the county ME has 80 covid deaths but he state lists 20 because they go by residence not county where the death occurred.
Nowhere does the reporter tell us if the missing 60 are listed correctly in the overall state death toll based on being in their county of residence.
It seems implied because they are no deaths listed for that county which occurs in other counties which seems odd. I think it’s unlikely none of this particular counties residents died of covid in a different county.
