Posted on 06/13/2022 9:06:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I will shelter in place when the BR-549 variant appears.
A test on variant type is not done on corpses so you never know which strain killed the person. You can infer the strain by prevalence in the local population, but even that runs into the traveler who arrives at a hospital gasping and is from out of state and dies a few days later.
2010-2019 there were 12-52K deaths/year of flu in the US, varying each year by weather, vax numbers, hand washing. A typical year would be 35K. This is a best guess estimate because most states do not have flu as a reportable cause of death. But it is an estimate produced before Covid ever was heard of so they had no Covid relevant agenda in their estimate.
In 2 yrs+3 months, 27 months, Covid has killed 1.036 million in the US. Rather more than flu per year. Variants not identified on corpses, so you will never know which.
All you can know is the person appeared at the hospital, they were having trouble breathing, their blood oxygen had fallen below 90% and continued to fall with more gasping regardless of best treatment efforts.
They were hypertensive, but so is 77% of the over 65 population. It’s popular to “blame” comorbidities, but everyone old has one so what’s the point.
He works at a major Pharma corp in MA. Not Pfizer.
He gets tested weekly.
So, they are very sensitive about covid.
Understood. Just making a general point about testing ... particularly of healthy people. Hope all is well ......
There is another coronavirus (cold) going around that has long ago been filed as a common cold with some long term after effects. Seems to hang a bit more if you had covid in the past year. If the media actually did health reporting you would be aware of that, but real reporting does not result in clicks.
One phone call to whomever picked up the phone at my doctor said a lot of patients have been calling with the same symptoms and the after effects last a few weeks longer than the normal cold. If everything does not clear I had an appointment to figure out what remains going on, but we canceled it so someone else can see the doctor. Embrace the suck.
About week 3 in, everything but some post nasal drip is gone som just monitoring it going out the nose in the shower and getting back to heavier yard work and time to repair some stuff, fence and patio now that all the grass is knocked down before the heat wave arrives. Now wearing face and eye cover to keep from eating dust, all those N95s are useful for something, like 50 micron dust. Getting under the sun and doing real work seems to clear much more than all the OTC drugs other than Diphenhydramine HCl (Benadryl) seem to do.
So why can't they say that? Instead, they offer nothing.
I had covid in February 2021. It was like a mild cold for me.
I never tested because it was so mild. When I had my annual physical last December I had them test for covid antibodies. I was positive for the antibodies.
My wife had it last October. She had it for about two weeks. She lost her sense of taste and smell. Then her hair started falling out. Finally, it started growing back a couple months ago. When she first had it, I started to feel a little puny for about a day and then I felt fine. That is when I knew I must have the antibodies. I was not sure for another couple months later.
In April of this year I got a cold that turned into a sinus infection. Had to get a prescription for amoxicillin. it was a lot worse than when I had covid.
Yes, I think I had that cold in April.
See my previous post.
Ended up going to the CVS Minute Clinic for the very first time. I made the appointment online for 50 minutes later. Drove down, the nurse practitioner tested me for covid. Said I had a sinus/ear infection and sent the prescription to the Pharmacy 20’ away. I was out the door and back to work within the hour.
It sure beat making a Drs appointment, waiting in the waiting room. Waiting in the exam room and then still having to go to CVS to pick up the drugs.
He is fine. A healthy 24 year old male. It was the cold mixed with seasonal allergies.
Yup. Who cares about this crap anymore. Take your Vitamin D3 and Zinc or get yer clot-shot and wear face panties.
Still trying to sell covid, eh.
We ain’t buying it. We’re just going about our business as normal as we ever did. What sucks is the current cost and availability of things. The democrats brought all this on us. We need to remember that.
biden proved the kung flu is a scam when he waltzed into the white house, disbanded trump’s “operation warp speed”, opened our southern border, and continues to covertly spread over 2,000,000 (2 million) nondocumented unvaccinated invaders across our country during a supposed “global pandemic” while anthony fauci, the cdc, the nih, the world health organization, the enemedia, hollywierd, and the majority of our elected representatives sit back and watch...
trust our government to protect you and your health at your own peril...
Wow, you’ve been through it!
I had Covid in February for the first time, double “vaxed” no boosters... knocked me down for two weeks, it was terrible. This despite taking Zinc, Vitamin D, Quercetin, etc.
Just in time for the Nov midterms...../s
OMG!!!! We are going to die!!!! (True, but not from CV-19)
so now, everyone, run around in circles, waving your arms, shouting these phases again and again.
This will get a lot of attention and Congress can pass more useless laws.
btt
Death count, not rate, is all that matters.
You $hot $hill$ are the biggest liars going. That’s the biggest steaming pile of BS I have probably ever seen on FR.
What a classic example of how to lie with statistics. You aren’t even making anywhere near a valid comparison.
To be valid, compare the death rate of 100 people with a 0.1% death rate and you have 100 people who will survive the illness instead of 20 who die with a 20% death rate.
Or with the 330 million, a 20% death rate is 66,000,000 people dying vs a 0.1 % death rate of 330,000.
What is important to the person who gets sick is what their chances of dying from the disease are. The overall death rate means squat when you are the one sick and stand a 1:5 chance of dying vs a 1/10 of 1% chance of dying.
You $hot $hill$ are just evil.
THIS CRAP will be going on until the election comes with mail-in ballots, vote harvesting, drop boxes galore. The obvious idea for DemonRats is to keep people away, scare people away from physically voting on election day and any pre-voting days your state might have.
I don’t think you understand what I have ever said. The vax has no further value. Why would I be called shilling for it.
As for death count and rate, the rate does not determine life expectancy. The number of years of life lost across the population does that.
We’ve lost 1.8 years of life expectancy the past 2 years. It is currently 76.6 for newborns. It did that at whatever microscopic rate you want to embrace. It didn’t do that because of rate. It did that because of how many died.
This is societal impact. Not Joe Blow who gets a diagnosis and wonders about his odds. Rather, its children and grandchildren and knowing their lives will be shorter and shorter unless there’s a cure.
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