COVID-19: Chapter 8 - Ongoing source of viral information, and a little fun

I’m in the Blue Mountains at the moment, which is considered Greater Sydney. On Wednesday a limo driver was diagnosed with the Delta strain of COVID. He was 60 years old and part of his job was driving around international flight crews and he wasn’t vaccinated nor had been doing the required daily saliva tests. So gjge there.

But anyway, the reason I’m poasting is that he gave is to another guy at a shopping mall and CCTV recorded only a fleeting contact, where they passed within about a foot of each other briefly. This Delta strain is good at getting passed on via incidental contact.

We’re due to fly home tomorrow night (Sun morning US time). Crossing fingers that the contact tracers got this under control. If a mystery case pops up, SA will probably require us to 14 day quarantine when we get back.

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On my walk today 4 different park bathrooms were out of soap. We’re back to normal baby!

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You should be fine. If shit hits the fan then it will still not be until Monday numbers are released. I am glad I have made no plans beyond dinner tonight as there is a good chance more restrictions are coming.

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I’m seeing about 2-3 people with the same nausea vomiting and diarrhea per shift! Progress!

Still no Trader Joes free samples yet though. :(

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Hooray -_-

EDIT: Okay, days after. All good!

What’s the disinformation? Israel reported months ago that they were investigating a potential 1/1,000,000 chance of heart side effects. This hasn’t been peer reviewed yet and the US is currently investigating.

Lets assume it’s all true - you take a vaccine which has a 1 in a million chance of heart inflammation which is most likely immediately treatable. A small handful of people of people may die.

You still snap take that vaccine.

We regularly take vaccines with worse odds than that. And those are for side effects we’ve confirmed.

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I find it extremely doubtful that anyone would be able to link Eriksens heart attack with a covid vaccine - I don’t think things work that way - so that is 100% disinformation.

Separately the facts in the article are what they are - 62 cases in 5 million.

More long Covid-19 twitter threads…

https://mobile.twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1405190209810178051

https://mobile.twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1405190929565241351

https://mobile.twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1405286609633775616

https://mobile.twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1405757533034205188

https://mobile.twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1406227309196152833

Eriksen didn’t have COVID and was unvaccinated.

If this is confirmed, then these Erickson posts should be removed. Not that part about potential inflammation, just the soccer player part.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/eriksens-former-cardiologist-says-he-had-no-history-heart-concerns-2021-06-13/

This kind of science has basically never panned out in any meaningful way. Could this be significant now? Sure I guess, but I remain deeply skeptical.

We had a post-vaccine myocarditis in our ER that gets >70k visits per year last week.

sure but they regularly tested players throughout the season. Without a positive covid test, you can’t say it’s related to covid. What happened is a known thing that happens to a few athletes every year.

Color me skeptical on “oh yeah even though he never tested positive for COVID maybe it was COVID” but, regardless, what does that quote have to do with a vaccine causing heart inflammation?

The article itself isn’t disinformation and posting it seems fine, but the eriksen stuff is just not relevant to the vaccines.

How’s that working out?

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Interesting. No idea how to confirm, dr opinions?

I don’t doubt that there are going to be some long term effects of the virus. Some of the symptoms of “long” Covid will turn out to have a clear physiological basis beyond the obvious lung damage stuff. I’m also certain that some things will remain nebulous and never scientifically associated-falling.

In my non scientific opinion, yes this will happen no doubt…

I’m posting these articles here in case anything relevant is in there that I’d miss as a layperson.

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Ok, thanks for clarifying

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