Posted on 06/28/2020 1:58:38 PM PDT by jonatron
A Maryland man who has helped organize 'reopen' protests against measures intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus says he has been sickened with COVID-19.
Tim Walters, a co-founder of the ReOpen Maryland movement, announced this week on social media that he has tested positive.
'I was diagnosed yesterday at the ER with COVID-19 and here I am months after not wearing a mask at rallies, churches and so on and so it's funny how capricious this thing is,' he said in a Facebook video.
Walters, a two-time Republican candidate for the state legislature, helped organize ReOpen Maryland protests in Annapolis, on the Eastern Shore and elsewhere in Maryland demanding that Governor Larry Hogan lift restrictions that were imposed to slow the spread of the virus.
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OK, Here’s the truth.
1. Tim is OK. He’s had a couple TIA strokes in the past. When he started feeling sick, the symptoms seemed similar so he went to the ER.
They confirmed and sent him home with the only treatment being rest and hydration.
He’s doing daily video’s to the ReOpen Maryland community. He said the first day was pretty rough but then said he’s feeling much better by day two and three.
He did NOT become infected at a rally. Let me repeat, he did not become infected at a rally. The virus has a two week gestation period. The last rally was about a month ago.
I shook hands with Tim Walters at the last rally and am not sick.
Fake News also only told part of the story with contact tracing. He has contacted everyone he remembers being in contact with over the last couple weeks plus an obviously public video and now news stories. He said that if state contact tracers called, he would not give them any personal information about his contacts or whereabouts.
I would hope that every conservative would do the same.
There are “Hiring, COVID Tracer Jobs” signs next to ‘work from home’ and ‘we buy houses’ signs along the roads around here. Someone is making money off of this.
Aren’t liberals always screaming “My body my choice?’’
That’s no big thing. I get bronchitis once a year or so and have a lingering dry cough that usually last for weeks or months.
I had it just as the lockdown was starting. My doctor was completely unconcerned about COVID. He said I could get a test if I wanted but he didn’t think I had it.
I knew it was just bronchitis and didn’t bother with the test.
He is a poster child for someone who SHOULD have a problem with this...diabetes, mini strokes, not young..
Could you find out his blood type.
If it is not type O and he doesnt have much of a problem with it then that is really good news..(for him, too)
Man catches a chest cold.
Media portrays it as an ebola outbreak because Orange Man Bad and people who like Orange Man Bad.
Did I miss anything?
No, I will not find out his blood type.
Freedom over fear.
Each of us are responsible for our own decisions. You are not responsible for me, I am not responsible for you.
I refuse to cower in fear from a hard flu.
okay..whatever
Yep. I am an American.
Your choice. You have to live with the consequences.
Yes, it’s probably only the bronchitis. There has been a lot of hype from media companies. For one, no one is really asymptomatic. The symptoms are there but so mild as to be unnoticeable in some.
And, as with Typhoid Mary, very few people with such mild symptoms are very infectious. It’s a rarity. Most people with mild symptoms, noticeable or otherwise, are only emitting very light loads of virus.
Really, most people in rural and small town areas that are largely unaffected have little to do or worry about. Most of them probably won’t come in contact closely enough to get the disease. Crowds in big cities or in towns closer to interstate highways with heavy interstate traffic are more likely to include infected people.
The incubation period is about 5 days on average, with nearly all cases between about 2 and about 7 days.
A member of my family does temperature and questionnaire checks for many people two or three days per week. The place does receive some heavy interstate traffic.
She wears several homemade masks every day, changing them out several times a day. The masks are very well made and close fitting with better materials, more properly handled, bagged for daily washing, etc. She wears those along with disposable gloves and shooting glasses (also changed out, cleaned and so on).
Those are only partial protections, but as some people have personally experienced, light loads are important. The symptoms are mild in many, but they’re weird symptoms, sometimes with quick mobility—not like common colds or flus.
A little personal suggestion: be careful about riding in an air conditioned car with someone who has been in crowds likely to include infected folks. If the car has an indoor ventilation air filter overdue for a swap, change the filter. If the weather is not too hot, open a window, sunroof or whatever for some outside air ventilation. Carry a bottle of water for each person in the car, if the drive is long (to avoid heat exhaustion).
Someone who has been in crowds that likely included infected individuals will probably have the virus on their shoes and clothes. Make sure that the person who may be carrying it on her clothes puts his or her clothes in the washer upon arrival home and gets directly into the shower.
And remember that it’s about keeping viral loads low. There’s no sense in being nervous or phobic and taking precautions that are very time consuming for most people.
Slightly more type Os have avoided noticeable symptoms, and a slightly fewer died. ...13% or something like that. But most type Os are not immune. It’s only of help to bio-geneticists doing vaccine research.
“he would not give them any personal information about his contacts or whereabouts. I would hope that every conservative would do the same.”
As I posted on another thread, if contacted by a tracer, mess with him. Provide a list of people you recently met with. Barbra Streisand for dinner a couple night ago. Joe Biden’s campaign manager. The president of your local RAT committee.
I’ve helped young neighbors with a couple of outdoor repairs on home utilities without a mask. They work with steel in well ventilated shops, don’t go to bars and are not likely to transmit the disease. I do wear a mask when going into a crowded, probably infected indoor place. My wife has severe asthma. I’ve also been getting more exercise and losing weight in efforts to get rid of a bloating and congestion problem that affects breathing. No problem with the mask. It’s made such, that the glasses don’t fog.
Many of the older farts wear masks around here, some with their MAGA hats or veterans’ caps. Without them and their work, we won’t get enough food or enough votes. :)
Yes, typo O is not immune from Covid. It has the best chance of beating malaria. Evolution created a blood type that smothers the parasite.
Somehow this virus wraps around to issues that involve Malaria and oxygen in the blood.
George Floyd had sickle cell trait. He had so many things wrong with him he should have had a hard time with Covid.
Sickle cell may provide some kind of an advantage just like thalassemia.
People were expecting a much bigger problem from Thalassemia sufferers but it didnt happen they way they thought in Italy. THey are still working out why,..could be because they stayed in.
Genetic information is valuable in assessing this disease
Too bad someone here refuses to see the advantage in knowing what could possibly help people fight it.
I see that you’re in Maryland. The virus already blew through there. Glad to see that it didn’t slow you down. :)
Speaking of which, I need to go out and get something done here...without a mask, out in the driveway.
btw, I view your numbers as meaningless and not accurate because way too much is unknown. Type O may make a huge difference in the end or it may make very little difference
but this is interesting
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-blood-types-disease-severe/
“People with Type O are better able to recognize certain proteins as foreign, and that may extend to proteins on virus surfaces, Hari explained.
During the SARS outbreak, which was caused by a genetic cousin of the coronavirus causing the current pandemic, “it was noted that people with O blood type were less likely to get severe disease,” he said.”
I rock. O POS.
There is a list of diseases that you are not susceptible too ...its interesting.
one of them is dementia...
something like other blood types are 80% more likely to get it than O
which may be why those with the ALzheimer gene MAY Have more of a problem with Covid.
It would be interesting to know how many Type O have the alzheimer gene.
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