Posted on 10/17/2020 9:30:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Shaban Faruqui, strapped into a gurney, rolled down the hallway five months ago at Baton Rouge General Medical Center to cheers and applause from the hospital’s employees.
It was May 18, two months after he was hospitalized with the coronavirus. As the former chief of gastroenterology at the hospital, everyone had been rooting for him.
He had survived the worst of it and was going home. To a wife of 45 years, to three daughters and four grandchildren who had hung paintings of hearts and sunny skies on the walls of his Baton Rouge home to greet him.
When he arrived home in the ambulance, Faruqui’s fingers fluttered with urgency when he saw his wife. She grabbed his hand. A doctor herself, she would oversee his care as he recovered.
That day marked what the Faruqui family thought would be the end of a long struggle with the coronavirus.
It wasn't.
What they didn’t realize then, and what is becoming clear to some other coronavirus patients and their families, is that the fight for survival doesn’t end when a patient leaves the hospital.
On the Louisiana Department of Health website, a hopeful green number ticks up each week in the left corner of the state’s coronavirus dashboard. It represents the many “presumed recovered” people who survived their initial infection. There are 161,792 of them in Louisiana as of the most recent count.
The state considers someone recovered if they meet one of two criteria. Either it has been more than 14 days since they tested positive and they aren’t in a hospital or dead, or if they are still alive 21 days after a positive test.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
So, it turns out the Wuhan virus behaves like any other virus. I had “Glandular Fever” as a teenager and fifty years on the effects are still with me.
I have a friend who had a horrible case of food poisoning 2 months ago. His stomach still isn’t the same and he’s very picky about what he eats...with almost no appetite yet.
I just order on line and get the curbside pickup at Lowes and Home depot , no need to stand in line with someone coughing or sneezing.
I totally agree that a risk-based approach to this virus - keep schools and jobs open, shield the elderly and infirm, exile Connie Corleone and Michigan Medusa - would have saved lives, lowered unemployment, been less disruptive, and so on. Indeed, as I posted recently, on the new "hot spot" Idaho, the under 30 crowd accounts for 40% of cases and 0.2% of fatalities while those 70+ yrs old account for 8% of cases and 80% of fatalities. All young people I know who've had this thing felt tired and coughed a lot - after a few days of quarantine they were ready to get back to life.
So yes, a lot of damage was inflicted unnecessarily, but I hardly consider the truth to be fear porn.
I’m sure this is why they are not allowing people in bus and restaurants ...Barbers and hair stylists .... etc.
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Not sure what part of the country you are in....but, in TX, restaurants are open at 75% and barber/hair salons have been open for months. Bars have recently opened, at a minimized percent (those that serve food have been open.)
NO uptick in hospitalization rates, and no real uptick in cases.
Lots of false postive cases, tho.
Related study:
Multi-organ impairment in low-risk individuals with long COVID
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.14.20212555v1.full.pdf
Wow, very interesting. Yes I am in California. it’s rough!!!
This is a bullet list in the article:
“A growing body of research is showing that patients may have cardiac effects, even if they were not sick enough to be hospitalized.
About half of patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 had kidney damage, according to a study of 4,000 patients from Mount Sinai Hospital System in New York. Of those, 82% had no prior history of kidney problems.
CT scans of the inside of patients’ lungs show that even asymptomatic people can have lung damage, according to the peer-reviewed journal Nature Medicine.”
Your odds of surviving, IF you catch the virus, are:
0-19 = 99.997%
20-49 = 99.98%
50-69 = 99.5
70+ = 94.6%
CDC numbers. Not “just the flu”, but hardly instant death.
“according to the peer-reviewed journal Nature Medicine”
Do you really trust medical journals any more? Including Never Trump Journals?
All kinds of sweating are good.
The tarantella, a dance created for people who had been bitten by the spider.
A friend of mine used to take hot showers as soon as he got the first symptom of a cold. It worked.
I don’t trust wishful thinking
Everyone wants the disease to be history. Some people give in to their longings.
I don’t trust doctors with TDS. Too many journals have it.
It is astonishing that some people with access to actual data on the results of this virus are still in denial about its dangers.
2) Your accusations of denial of dangers? Where do you get that from?
Just like my discussion of reducing the size of government, libbers accuse me of anarchy.
Systems. We live in systems. We do not look at things in isolation. But when we look at systems it becomes clear we are not in control. Can’t have that so we go back to the minutia like masks that we think we can control.
It is unfortunate that the first real global pandemic got politicized. I sometimes have to differ with some of my conservative friends and this is one of those times.
Many things were built into this bioweapon, and it seems that political division was one of them.
Or maybe we are just like that science-fiction species that will fight no matter what. “You don’t have to starve them to get them to fight; it’s their nature to fight,” says the guy in the pet store.
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