Posted on 12/10/2020 9:39:45 AM PST by Jayster
I’ll take your word for this. No other proof required.
I have partially collapsed lungs and qualify for a medical exemption in Texas, no mask. Wearing a mask causes breathing distress and can cause loss of consciousness. Been tested several times, clear.
But these people are all sick....in fact concern over taking care of the mother, (who is 91 might need hospitalization)...as they’re all ‘sick’ with this.
I wish you good health. Stay safe.
Since they are all from the same family, they very well could have a genetic disposition that makes them more vulnerable than most people. They may also have similar lifestyles and culinary preferences. It is well known that Covid disproportionally affects fat people, and countries with a lot of fat people are disproportionately affected. Many African countries have had some of the highest infection rates but some of the very lowest death rates. The thing that most of these countries have in common is that their populations tend to be leaner than populations in Europe and the USA.
At this point in her life Sally Struthers should stay out of Africa.
So are you saying if you're leaner and you get covid your chances of death are less? At 5 ft 106 lbs that would be great to hear!
There are other risk factors, but being over weight or obese has been one of the greatest, especially for younger people.
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html
Oh wow!
-Having obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection.
-Obesity is linked to impaired immune function.2,3
-Obesity decreases lung capacity and reserve and can make ventilation more difficult.4
-As BMI increases, the risk of death from COVID-19 increases.
Studies have demonstrated that obesity may be linked to lower vaccine responses for numerous diseases (influenza6, Hepatitis B7,8,9, tetanus10).
Yes, I am sure that I do not need to tell you this, but congratulations for keeping your weight under control. It has benefits that go far beyond attractiveness, self esteem, and better mobility especially as we get older.
I have an uncle who is in his 90s that was morbidly obese for approximately 50 years. His primary joy in life was going from restaurant to restaurant with my aunt who despite this always somehow kept her weight under control. Several years ago after a health scare, his doctor told him he was going to die if he didn’t lose a lot of weight. It was a come to Jesus moment for him, and in fact there was a great deal of prayer involved.
Over the next couple years through exercise and diet he lost nearly three hundred pounds. He was able to give up his scooter ahd wheel chair and became much less dependent on my aunt. They now have a much happier and more active life style and still go to restaurants in moderation. But now they are able to enjoy so much more than they had previously, and despite their advancing years are now able to be of service to others in their church.
Turning off bluetooth is not the same as turning off bluetooth and wifi scanning.
These are features that allow apps to use bluetooth and wifi information to more accurately determine your position, so you can get more relevant ads, no doubt.
Settings to disable scanning are in different places in Android depending on your phone model, and some do not allow the option.
Nefarious actors (China, Google, your favorite stupid game app) can use bluetooth scanning to locate and track your movements with far greater accuracy than GPS alone. Not only were you at the mall at x.x W, y.y N, but you were in front of the bluetooth beacon in the Eddie Bauer rack on the second level of Penney’s for 7 minutes and 33 seconds. Oddly enough, Private Johnson’s fitbit and General Discharge’s Samsung watch were both there at the same time for the same amount of time - three times this week.
Building a 3D map of all the paths in a building and a metadata file of all the people nearby, when, where, and with what frequency can yield a treasure trove of information that would cost the lives of untold numbers of Humint assets. Big problem with the Chinese drones and apps that go with them.
Earlier this spring/summer, Android rolled out the Covid tracking update which wasn’t particularly highlighted, but I have avoided on my devices for all the above reasons.
They *say* they aren’t tracking you and the data is anonymized. And that *may* be true, for now. But when has the camel ever been satisfied with just a sniff under the canvas?
See my post 70 above.
I think I am in a minority here with my opinion of Covid. For instance, I find it disconcerting to realize that most people seem to have a logical disconnect when they point to studies proving so many false positives or asympomatic positives and use them to say that the virus is therefore not as bad as the flu. If you say there are x% fewer actual cases, then it necessarily implies that the death rate is x% higher than the one you report which is based on the “bogus” denominator. We can’t have both. And we don’t know the denominator of people with flu who didn’t know it anyway. So I remain convinced that the actual death rate is much higher than we are currently allowing or wishing it to be.
But the answer to protecting elderly folks is not relying on a security erasing nightmare of an app that has more holes in it than the masks most people wear - there is no guarantee that the Typhoid Mary you were next to at your local grocery store has the required update, or scanning turned on, or a phone at all - but on common sense.
I went shopping Saturday, there were a lot of people there. I am not going out again for the next week, perhaps we can visit then, Grandma... or, The weather isn’t good enough to see you outdoors today, wish I could hug you, but we’ll try again next time...
Problem is, many if not most of the older folks I know are tired of it. It is they who are demanding that we live while we live, and not cower away into oblivion. Depending on the person and circumstance, I have begun to mostly honor their wishes in the matter.
Realizing that there is a bit of the same argument against my security position that I make against the Covid threat detection, I maintain there is enough difference that the compromise in personal and national security is not worth the possible benefit of a Covid alert. That’s just the bait to make it palatable.
“People seem to think these dastardly virions are all over the place ready for you to let your guard down for a split second so they can jump up your nose.”
They are (at least in populated areas) but not in sufficient concentrations to cause a viral load capable of causing problems. This is what people out on nature walks with masks, or driving their cars with no passengers don’t seem to understand.
You should read the following by James D. Agresti from the Heartland Institute. It probably will not but might change your perspective.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/10/essential-facts-about-covid-19/
Last Spring it was indicated by several studies based on antibody tests that the actual number of people who had already been infected and currently were was most likely at least ten times the current number that had tested positive. This was poo-pooed by the press and authorities because the death rate would then have been less than the flu. This year when tests are not just available to everyone but authorities are forcing well people to be tested when they want to travel and for numerous other reasons the increasing number of positives is not just accepted... it is cited as evidence of a “2nd wave”.
It is obvious to those of us who spent our careers transporting and caring for people with respiratory ailments that the reason that the current perception of the public is mostly based on hype that was meant to get rid of President Trump. If flu deaths start being tabulated the way Covid deaths are... we will all be wearing masks and putting up with nonsense for the rest of our lives.
You and many others here are a victim of media hype that has been foisted on you for political purposes. It is obvious to me because I spent my career assisting sick people and so did my wife who was a career nurse and department head in multilevel care facilities. This is the most outrageous nonsense that we have ever witnessed.
I will read this when I awaken.
Reportedly it uses Bluetooth to detect other phones that have tracing turned on. So it doesn’t record where you are, but it records what trackers you were near. It is also not supposed to know who you are. It only knows tracker 223 was in proximity to Tracker 953 on this date. If 953 says he tested positive two days later, it notifies you that you were possibly exposed.
Haven’t seen that in NC. I’d think it would deploy everywhere at once.
My phone has tracking turned off.
In the iPhone there is a setting to notify you when Exposure Notifications is available. I have it turned on, but have not received a message that the service is now available.
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