On #8 - my pregnant daughter and my two granddaughters caught what appears to be #8. In the granddaughters it settled in the ears and sinuses. appropriate doses of Azithromycin (Zpacs generic name) cleared them all up in a few days. all are not vaccinated. Zpac is an anti-bacterial agent. viruses need not apply. I am a nurse and waited to get the J&J vaccine. I liked the approach to tackling the virus and only one dose. The studies show a steady rise in antibodies over time with no decline since the study began. I was only a little more sleepy during the 24 hrs after the injection. I’m conjecturing that my body was diverting energy to the immune system. At 65 my energy well isn’t as deep as it once was. ( just try to keep up with a 4 yr old to test this one). The viral epidemic appears to have caused a change in death rate. However if you do a little research you will find out the recent largest change in death rate was from 2014 to 2015 with about a one year change from an increase of about 300,000 a year to an increase of 700,000 , over a 100% change in rate of increase. Why do I focus on rate of change. simple, since 2009 the baby boom bubble is popping.The change has been about 350,000 a year upward since then. They lived longer and now they are reaching the end of their life spans. Overall US death rates have been driven up as the bubble bursts with heart disease and cancer the primary causes of death.Throw in strokes and the rate is over 2 million a year from these three killers. ( nothing is sadder than seeing a 40 or 50 year old in the stroke unit , I can tell you 99% of the time without looking at the chart that they smoke and drink to a high level.) in 2020 the overall death rate went up from 2,854,838 3,358,814 or about a 500,000 overall death increase. Not the biggest increase in the past 20 years by far. Also as viruses survive they tend to mutate to be more transmissible and less lethal. This is an evolution that leads to more virus, which like any form of life, is the usual goal - more of us. Time to get off my soapbox. But bests things to do - wash your hands when you get back from outside your home, avoid sneezing and coughing people, avoid touching your face and head. ( that’s a hard one to train yourself to do, but most easy access to your insides occur on your face and the rest of your head). And give the little petri dishes that are your children and grandchildren lots of hugs, you gotta go sometimes, you might as well be happy and smiling.
If Covid is a bioweapon wouldn’t it be possible that it doesn’t operate as a “normal” virus?
You raise many good points.
I’m not a big antibiotic fan. Just the opposite. You and I know of people who jump to give their kids antibiotics for every sore throat. They grow up with no immune system.
This recent “thingy” ie $8 was thought by me to be a virus, in fact I thought it might be the delta variant, as I never get Summer colds.
After coughing up junk for like the 7th day, I said enough, and reluctantly I started the Z-pac. Second dose it was like 50% better, then vanished by day 3. I finished the pills anyway, probably didn’t need to.
You’re right also, about the death tolls. Even though 700,000 Covid deaths, the annual number of people dying in the US hasn’t changed much? Maybe we’re counting the flu deaths as Covid deaths, any everything else as Covid deaths.
I was in a hospital setting, seeing dozens of Covid cases per day. I’m 70. I decided to get the vaccine. Everyone in out clinic got sick but me.
If I were not exposed, don’t know if I would have got the vaccine, I probably would have, as I was seeing people, young in their 40s very fit, getting sick, and bad sick.
Now, it would be much better to endure the infection and have a natural immunity.
I don’t see the need to get vaccinated at this point.
OTOH, if you are a beautician, manicurist, work servicing people...I’d say you’ll have piece of mind with the vaccine.
The misinformation out there is deafening, from both sides.