I’m not sure what to make of it either. Roughly the same feel better as feel worse compared to before diagnosis?
Kids are amazingly prone to suggestion (See: satanic panic) too. No idea what to do with this.
Symptoms seem to be leveling off for both of us. Taste and smell are still gonezo and we are still congested but we’re no worse for the wear beyond that…except for the brain fog. It’s stubbornly not getting any better and I’m very worried that I might not be able to stay in school. I’m reading the material but it’s just not ‘sticking’ at all. I have until the 9th to drop without financial penalty and I really hate to do it because I can’t take this class again until June (and it’s a pre-req to pretty much everything in my program) but idk if I can do this in this state.
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I think it will take years. There have been more recent studies looking at poorer lifelong outcomes of being in utero in the worst quarters do the 1918 flu- lower average size, more heart disease and even more mental health. Though lol mental health metrics (admissions I think?) in early to mid 20th century.
I believe I’ve seen something about a brain fog type phenomenon too observed in the 1920s.
Too much suggestion bias in the short term. The Icelanders and Scandinavians will settle this in about 30 years.
Meh maybe? Viruses spread through poop too just like bacteria and that isn’t airborne. Not sure what’s more contagious.
I don’t think this is quite right. Most of what’s in poop that would get you sick is bacteria that aren’t airborne. Some pathogens might be, but even then, they aren’t usually getting aerosolized by pooping. Meanwhile, most of what you smell is volatile chemicals that are both smaller and lighter than bacteria or viruses.
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LOL Poop
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What was your mask situation? I take it you weren’t rocking your P100 mask.
Edit: I see you answered it later. Disregard.
Regarding the discussion about airborne transmission above… it’s just been announced here that Victoria appears to have had a case of transmission between rooms in a quarantine hotel. A family of five in a room had the UK strain and a woman in the room across the corridor acquired COVID during her stay. Genomic analysis demonstrated that her strain was identical to that of the family. There are cameras in the corridor, so authorities were able to verify that there was no breach of protocol. Staff wear PPE and have no direct contact with guests. Victorian Police Minister:
“What the public health team believe is the most likely, the working assumption, is that … the viral load in the room of the family of five … was so high that just even opening the door to pick up your food has seen the virus get into the corridor,” she said.
“And the only reason that people open doors – there’s no interaction with staff – is to pick up their food or drop their old laundry out, et cetera.”
So this new strain seems to be no joke in terms of its airborne spread capability, it’s super good at it.
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My Publix has started vaccinations. They had five little chairs in the aisles. That was their waiting room. Its just so pathetic. Can’t really believe this is the plan. I should get mine by 2024 or so. Maybe. I guess.
New study in Science reporting:
- 70+% of transmission attributable to adults between 20 and 49; <5% to children under 10, even after school reopenings.
- R “well below one” in all groups except 20-49, even where schools are open.
- Conclusions may not hold in the future due to superCOVID.
Not really sure what to make of this one–lots of incomprehensible (to me) math involved.
This is probably going to go Full America, like Gold Club Members and AMEX Platinum Card holders get vaccinated, everyone else can just die or whatever.
New York State is allowing local governments to add taxi drivers, restaurant workers, and developmentally disabled facilities to pool of people eligible for vaccines
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The Hollywood film Contagion showed the importance of securing enough Covid vaccines for use once they had been approved, the health secretary said.
Matt Hancock said he had watched the film - which is about a deadly virus - and insisted the UK ordered enough jabs for its population.
He told LBC Radio the 2011 movie also shows there is a “huge row” about who should be given the vaccine first.
It led to the UK setting out early its “order of priority” for the jabs.
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Mr Hancock said in the film it shows the “highest stress” around the vaccine programme is after it starts getting rolled out.
I can’t quite puts my thoughts into words here …
So he’s saying that a fictional movie convinced him that having plenty of vaccines on hand was a positive? This guy is some kind of genius.
I’m assuming your sense of surprise comes from never having witnessed one of his interviews.
I’m pretty disappointed that J&J won’t have 100,000,000 doses available until summer. If anyone was going to have the capacity to produce massive doses before approval it should have been them.
IIRC they weren’t doing any old people in these trials because they were worried about health risks right?
I don’t know those particulars.
Would hope they are checking the ventilation systems thoroughly. I would expect to either hear of more cases like this happening in quarantine hotels with this strain or would suspect there is something ventilation related that was sharing air between the two rooms. Hotel room kind of a bad place to be once virus is present.
Or the new variant is measles like and we just are all going to get it, but if it was that airborne would expect we’d see it transmitted more than once in quarantine hotels.
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States are setting up mass vaccination sites as well. The flow will improve, each publix/pharmacy doing 20-25 of these a day will make a dent over time. Vaccines distribution will get better, it won’t take until 2024. It may take until 2022, but decent chance the issue next winter isnt supply, its getting uptake levels high enough to avoid another winter of harsh restrictions and closures.