Posted on 03/15/2020 9:01:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A sequel to a movie that you didn’t want to see in the first place is one thing, like Ghost Rider 2 after Ghost Rider. A sequel to having a COVID-19 infection would be something completely different.
You may think that the one “positive” of testing positive for the COVID-19 causing coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) and surviving would be that you won’t get infected by that virus again. At least not during this pandemic. Ah, but is this assumption really true? Will you indeed be immune to the SARS-CoV2 after you’ve recovered from a COVID-19 infection? Some reports out of Japan and China seem to suggest otherwise.
For example, Daniel Leussink and Rocky Swift reported for Reuters about a female tour bus guide in Japan who tested positive for the virus after recovering from a COVID-19 infection. Here is a UNTV news report on the case:
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Does this case actually prove that re-infection with the virus is possible? Or was this just a mistake in the testing? Or did the person have a particularly weak immune system so that she couldn’t generate immunity? After all, one case can be an accident, an aberration, an anomaly, an aardvark in a sea of anemone.
Well, oops something like this happened again, according to a more recent NHK-World Japan report. This time it was a man in his 70’s, who first tested positive for SARS-CoV2 on February 14 while on a Diamond Princess cruise ship. After being transferred to a medical facility in Tokyo, he stayed there until testing negative for the virus. On March 2, he left the facility and traveled home via public transportation. However, the man eventually began feeling sick with a fever, which prompted him to go to a hospital on March 13.
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It’s truly horrifying.
He was not raised as an Animal Person and has virtually no clue how to read them, check them over for problems, or anything else beyond putting food in their bowls...sort of.
I. Can’t. Ever. Get. Sick.
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That’s down towards the more liberal part of WV.
You need to come visit Morgan County.
You will NEVER open a door for yourself or have to worry you’ve broken down along the road and no one will help.
After a couple hours over there, I come home completely spoiled by the habitually kind people.
Still WV clear.
Dang I hope it stays that way, just to confound people.
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You mean even every horned toad and frog I picked up never caused warts? I’m stunned. Btw, I remember the first time I got bit by a dog,I jumped a fence trying to escape a neighbors dog, it got me on the little finger as I was scaling the fence trying to get away. That night I thought I’d get rabbis and wake up with a hairy face...No joke.
Yes WV is cool. Just getting the stereotypical jokes out of the way. https://youtu.be/rK9hdUgMvEU ... was there.
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Cool video! Were you there?
After a couple hours over there, I come home completely spoiled by the habitually kind people.
That's always how we feel after being in the South for awhile, once returning to The People's Republik of Connecticut. People aren't exactly "habitually kind" here (although not everyone is nasty either).
Yes.
To be more specific you will never get THAT type of cold again. But there are hundreds of types of rhinoviruses and they keep mutating. So you will catch it's brother rhinovirus and sister and uncle and niece and first cousin once removed...
And 12 miles south, you’re in the best part of Virginia, too.
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“Well first, this isn’t a flu at all, it’s a coronavirus. Same family as 15% of the common cold. Which, incidentally, shows that yes, you likely can be re-infected. Seeing as how people can catch the cold multiple times a year, some of those are certainly repeats of the same (common cold) coronavirus.”
There are over 200 viruses that cause the common cold. Probably not getting the same virus when you catch multiple colds unless there is something wrong with your immune system.
They might accidentally create one while attempting to create one that they can, and then it gets accidentally released.
This is an interesting article, but it fails to address another possibility. What if, once you are infected and ‘recover,’ the virus never leaves you but takes up residence in your body, i.e., nerve ganglion, to reappear again at a later date? Chicken pox is an example of once infected, always infected. If a mad chemist were to engineer a virus, it seems this ‘enhancement’ would be high on the list. I have run into some individuals reporting who suggest the Wuhan virus brings with it, at least in some cases, nerve damage, which is clearly what happens with the reemergence of the chicken pox virus in the event known as shingles. I have also hear that the second bout of Wuhan may be more severe than the first, which is reminiscent of the chicken pox/shingles event. Bottom line: no one should celebrate having contracted and ‘survived’ the Wuhan virus because there may be unknown later adverse consequences associated with the virus.
PCR tests, because they detect DNA or RNA fragments, are not useful as tests of cure/reinfection.
There are 2 Covid 19 strains: The L strain which is the more virulent and lethal strain and the S strain which is milder. I don’t know if screen tests differentiate between the 2. It is conceivable that reinfection occurs with different strains, although this is conjecture on my part.
That info, on the existence of the two strains, is from a Chinese study, IIRC. Has the existence of two strains been confirmed by anyone outside of China?
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