Posted on 03/16/2021 4:38:46 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Hope you’re right. We’re expecting a grandchild any day now, and Cuomo or his equivalent might sneak some Covid patients into the maternity ward.
“Lots of people are still dying from COVID. How is this newsworthy?”
She’s under 65. That’s how.
She was pregnant and had the baby by csection. Then there is the immediate post op and post natal changes. Those in combination are hard on the body as it is, especially when the unfortunate woman was sick with a serious virus. Even a normal post natal course involves fluxes in fluid balance and hormones, including the lactation mechanisms. A lot of water weight to be lost and changes in iron levels and a higher risk for blood clots and coagulopathies...that’s just for normal post natal courses. Throw in covid 19 with respiratory failure and some poor woman is apt to be in deep trouble.
My daughter is breastfeeding our latest grandchild and just got the Moderna vax. The pediatrician said the immunity should pass through to the baby via breast milk.
IMO Governors and Mayors have far,*far*,too much power when it comes to things like public health "crises".
The deceased was only 26 y/o. Fairly unusual.
That analysis does not take into account decreases in fatalities from other causes (flu, for example). Also, CDC is still stuck on roughly 83 million reported plus unreported cases. So...
I’d guess 300k excess deaths from 90 million infections = 99.67%. And, CDC is notoriously pretty low on things like actual fatalities until well after a year of occurrence.
Plus from what I’m seeing around me, there are quite a few people left with long term difficulties. That’s a problem in and of itself. Plus, if one recovered from COVID well enough to go home, and 7 months later the damage from COVID contributes to their fatality, despite no COVID disease present, what’s on the DC? Probably not COVID.
Bottom line is that there’s likely at least a 10% chance that COVID would put me, a reasonably healthy person in their mid-60’s, in a bad way for at least months, and early on I could unwittingly pass it on to someone close to me and more vulnerable. So, all the talk about overall survivability becomes rather irrelevant to my own actions and precautions.
IMO, if Governors etc. had done 1/10 as strong an effort with education and proper PPE available, as with mandates and shutdowns, we’d have 1/2 the COVID-19 fatalities. Throw out horrific policies forced on nursing homes in some states and it’d be even lower.
Yep. Mutations of viruses normally attenuate the effects and increase spread.
BTT
Age group constitutes 0.37% of COVID deaths. Unusual, but not really newsworthy.
Mutations are always detrimental to the virus, rendering it less dangerous -— Jan
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Could you expand on that, sounds positive
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Yep. Mutations of viruses normally attenuate the effects and increase spread -— IamConservative
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That sounds positive too, but is spread increasing a good thing, because it is less dangerous and helps get to herd immunity?
Thanks to both of you for your informative posts.
The most important post on this thread.
Like what happened with Benjamin, this newborn baby will never know his or her mother. It’s just heartbreaking regardless of the cause.
The most joyous time of life turned to utter grief.
It shouldn’t be, but has to make sense somehow, eventually.
RIP.
Biological mutations are never beneficial. That is, they never add to the organism, they take away or are detrimental.
By organism, do you mean the virus, or the host, ie human?
Sorry, I am just a layman
Two obvious answers to that: 1) flu decreases were put into the COVID bucket. 2) the rise in lockdown-related deaths far exceeds any flu decreases. Now you'll probably argue that flu deaths weren't put into the COVID bucket, but that's not correct. Most respiratory victims were presumed COVID and untested. There are lots of false positives.
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