I can never remember if it’s good or bad to have lamb’s blood on your door because I don’t really Bible. But if you haven’t been sick in a long time, that is all the more reason to expose your immune system to all the fancy trick plays that the new teams are dreaming up. Otherwise you might get knocked out by a fake kick or some dumb shit.
I’m very proud of this football analogy, BTW. It makes getting a flu shot seem more manly and I hope @beetlejuice will set me straight if I’m saying some dumb incorrect shit. It’s like, you’re not just getting a flu shot, you’re watching tape and reviewing offensive schemes and shit so you can win on gameday. It’s like, it doesn’t matter how strong and healthy you are, if your immune system has never seen a forward pass before, you’re gonna get rocked.
Well we’re talking about coronavirus common colds, not the rhinovirus ones. So we’d need to take samples of coronavirus common colds in a lab somewhere, I’m sure those exist, and then basically create samples of them to be administered like vaccines.
I think the theory is that all of the coronaviruses started as bat colds or whatever, and if your t-cells know how to attack one of them and trigger antibody production for one of them it helps quite a bit with others. Like since coronaviruses cause such a low percentage of the cases of the common cold, most people have never been infected by one.
This could help explain why some communities/countries seem to do a lot better with this than others, even when taking similar precautions.
I’m usually not the best with this - I tend to forget to get it in the late summer/early fall and then when it’s going around, I’m like, “Oh shit, I forgot again,” and it’s typically too late.
So what’s the optimal time to get it? Like mid-Sept?
Some of the coronaviruses have been spreading among humans for a very very long time and our defenses kinda know how to deal with them. The issue with these novel bat coronaviruses is that almost no one has seen this crazy bat spread offense before. As I understand it, there is some strong cross-reactivity with SARS, but I’m pretty sure you’ve never been exposed to SARS. We abandoned research on a SARS vaccine after it basically went away on its own.
PS: I legit do not know if the original reservoir for this novel COVID19 is bats or pangolins and that seems like something we should have figured out by now. Is there any good intel on this? I really like bats, I don’t want to falsely implicate them. Bats are mostly pretty great.
One of my all-time favorite movie bits is from Contagion where Brian Cranston is all like “What if the Chinese are trying to weaponize the bird flu!!!” and Lawrence Fishburne is like “Motherfucker, the Chinese don’t need to weaponize the bird flu, the birds are already doing that.”
If you’re all like “How can I intentionally expose myself to coronaviruses?” then I have good news for you, the coronaviruses are already trying VERY HARD to come at you.
I would guess that it probably shouldn’t matter, but for real you shouldn’t get medical advice from random morons like me on the internet, ask your doctor. Don’t listen to me when it comes to your health; I just listen to podcasts about diseases and shit.
I get that but so are the rhinoviruses. Like I’m 34, I’ve probably had the “common cold” approximately 35 times in my life. A few years I’ve been sick twice, a couple times I went without catching anything.
There are approximately 200 common cold viruses, four are coronaviruses, but WebMD says around 20% of common colds are caused by coronaviruses. So my EV would be to have had 7 colds from coronaviruses. No clue what the standard deviation would be there, though. As a poker player I should be exposed to more stuff than the average person. I got sick twice in Feb-Apr of 2019 and once this past Jan-Feb. So it’s probably better than 50-50 that I had a coronavirus cold in one or those bouts, just off random dumb luck and having two back to back increases the likelihood it was two different bugs.
Never the less, I would 100% take a common coronavirus infection right now. Basically zero long term risk and a significant chance of meaningful reduction in COVID-19 risk? Sign me up.
My educated guess is it would not give us full immunity to COVID-19, but would reduce the risk of a more severe case and increase the likelihood of asymptomatic or common cold like cases that may not last as long.
Man, I dunno. Even it you’ve been exposed to a regular human coronavirus, this bat-league coronaviurus is running silly trick plays that you’ve never ever encountered before in your life. It probably helps a bit, but I can’t believe it helps you that much. Anyway, there’s no way to deliberately catch a human coronavirus other than running around maskless sniffing people’s coughs and you don’t want none of that right now.
As always, I’m talking out of my ass, so don’t take any of this as medical advice.
It likely originated in bats but almost definitely went through an intermediate host…if that host was a pangolin or some other non-bat answer, not sure…but it wasn’t bat to human, it was likely-bat → ?? → human
You know what, just fuck pangolins. I never even heard of them before, they’re some scaly weird assholes, they can all just fuck off. They’re like giant armadillos but not cute, fuck off with that.
Jane Ward, a middle-aged resident of Owosso and one of the few women at the barbershop, told me that she had come for the company, after experiencing depression while isolated at home. “I’ve had all-time lows,” she said. “The Governor doesn’t address mental wellness—only the virus.”
A man sitting beside us told her, “That’s what they’re counting on, that people don’t talk to each other.” He wore a leather racing jacket, an American-flag bandanna tied around his neck, and a hunting knife on his belt. A crucifix was tattooed on the back of his hand. “That’s what the social distancing is for.”
“Right,” Ward said.
The man explained that the government was working with a “facial-recognition company in Israel” to conduct “mass-scanning”—but people needed to be “spaced apart for it to work.”
I was about to cite the potential benefit of masks in thwarting such technology when another customer said, “They have refined it to the point where all they need to see is the eyes.”
Ward said, “Like, what’s the movie—‘The Matrix’? I mean, I can relate so much of this to so many movies.”
i don’t think covid is as groundbreaking as the forward pass, but i’m not a sports guy, so if you like it, go with it. it’s a total waste of time to even think about this shit this much. the people on the other side voting and massing guns don’t even think the virus is real
If you wanna blow these people’s minds have them watch the Ghost in the Shell anime that’s supposed to take place in 2029 when done in 1995. Blow their minds even more telling them about a TV show called Westworld, even more by telling them about a movie called Jurassic Park, and even more about a movie called Westworld where a guy purposefully walks for an hour after a guy running from him. They would not be able to stop talking…ever.
Marlene Palicz, an elderly protester in a MAGA hat, told me that “Faux-Fauci” and the “Demoncrats” had orchestrated the “plandemic” to prevent Trump’s reelection. Bill Gates wished to depopulate the world by fifteen per cent, which is why Palicz would never submit to a COVID -19 vaccine. “They’d have to tie me down,” she said. “But they’d have a problem doing that. I used to be a member of the Detroit Judo Club.”
