“I suspect this is closer to AIDS in the long run.”
How so? AIDS takes much longer to incubate and cause death and you have certain means of transmission that aren’t at all like covid.
The damage to the immune system is similar.
We’ll see.
the longest anyone has ‘recovered’ from thing thing is about 3 months. We know nothing about the long term effects of having had this thing.
Sad story in today’s New York Post about 45 doormen, porters, and supers who have died from COVID-19 in New York City alone. I thought of that when this started: the poor guys have to stand there while every gabbledegook talks his or her head off, especially now when everyone is lonely from being cooped up in their apartment.
And in the beginning the service people didn’t even have masks on.
They deserve a big cheer. We depend on them.
Did you compare the symptoms, the manner in which they both attack and then use the body’s own immune system against itself? They’re the same.
On top of that, covid has extra features, the residual cardio, pulmonary, vascular, and organ damage makes it even worse. Now we’re reading studies of neurological damage on top of all. But this data will come out in time too.
To me it looks just like AIDS, though transmitted by pulmonary virus and shared surface contact, rather than direct contact of bodily fluids as with known in traditional AIDS.
p.s. Not that there’s ANYTHING traditional about AIDS =o/
For the fluboi reading, don’t even get into it with me. Flu doesn’t do ANY of the additional damage this does, so go debate yourself on your own pimpthread. I don’t argue with fools.