Posted on 12/02/2022 9:02:53 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
(NEXSTAR) – One week after the Thanksgiving holiday, and chances are good that you are sniffling, coughing or feeling a little scratch in your throat. It’s not just you – the country is contending with a “tripledemic” of viruses (not to mention, a whole lot of common cold).
As of late November, reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. were stable, but high. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded about 300,000 new cases over the past week, but that number is likely an undercount, as home tests often aren’t reported to public health agencies.
Meanwhile, influenza is rising rapidly and on its way to a peak much earlier than the typical flu season. The CDC’s preliminary count is rough, but the agency believes as many as 14 million have been sickened and up to 8,400 people have died.
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Cool, that’s fine. I’m just saying that it says the same kinds of things that the intensive studies did that were performed before the CoVid pandemic. Those were testing various mask efficiencies against SARS, you know, the same viral family as SARS-CoV-2.
If your little N95 mask is so great, then explain to me how my son, who wore his religiously got CoVid in May at his workplace. Everyone in that room wore masks, and some got CoVid, and others didn’t. They were all vaxxed and boosted because it was a work requirement.
If the N95 masks work, how did so many get CoVid?
It is dumb luck that you haven’t gotten sick, and nothing more. Sorry, Danny, that’s just the truth that you don’t want to accept. It is a feel good security blanket for you is all.
But, as you said, you do you.
We are running mid January high levels of flu calls right now. I’ve not seen this level of flu in my career in late November early December.
We had 45 minute waits to get patients a room at local hospitals a few weeks ago.
There is a Covid Variant making many of us, ill in N. California.
This Variant will make you miserable and very able to spread it to others.
We got this gift at a Thanksgiving Dinner at a son’s/DIL’s home.
Within 2 days post dinner, we had the variant described below.
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) N gene [Presence] in Nose by NAA with probe detection Active
Term Description:
Qualitative detection of nucleic acids within the nucleoprotein (N) gene of SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in nasal specimens by nucleic acid amplification with probe-based detection. Testing is performed for the diagnosis of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Source: Regenstrief LOINC
Part Description
LP417599-0 SARS coronavirus 2 N gene
The Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first known as 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), was first identified as the cause of a respiratory illness outbreak, later defined as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), in Wuhan, China. The full genome of the SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 was first posted by Chinese health authorities in GenBank, the NIH genetic sequence database, and in the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAI) portal. This facilitated detection of the virus globally with subsequent sequences being nearly identical, suggesting a single, recent emergence from a virus related to bat coronaviruses and the SARS coronavirus. Real time Reverse
Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (rRT-PCR) tests targeting regions within genes, including RdRp, S, N, M, and E genes, specific to SARS-CoV-2 have been developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and others for the diagnosis of COVID-19. Some assays only detect SARS-CoV-2 and other assays detect other strains (e.g. SARS-CoV) that are genetically similar.[CDC:coronavirus/2019-ncov][https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/laboratory-guidance]
Source: Regenstrief LOINC
SARS COV 2 N GENE QL, NAA
My wife and I tested + for this Covid, on: 11’29’22.
We are staying @/in home in isolation for a few more days.
No other Treatment recommended @ this time.
because it’s cold and flu season ?
Has it be determined how long after someone has been vaccinated that they are shedding?
Because they are not taking vitamin D3
So masks aren't perfect protection. And they should never be thought of that way. They are unlikely to block all virus particles. Plus it's know covid can infect through the eyes as well.
But there were studies done with influenza that showed that the severity of illness that occurred was correlated with the initial inoculum. In other words, the more virus particles you breath in when exposed, the sicker you get.
The theory is that your system has more time to respond to only a few particles as opposed to being overwhelmed with a lot of particles.
I don't get any shots. Haven't had the flu since 1989, had covid once back in June - it was like having a very mild cold, haven't had shingles, haven't had pneumonia. My vaxxed and boosted wife has been much sicker since taking the needle, including getting covid last month. I took no special precautions while she had covid and did not get it.
So screw getting any shots, period. I'll let my immune system do its job unhindered by any injections of any kind.
I had a mild flu compared to the flu I had in 1974 but this still ranks top-five infectious illnesses I’ve had in my life I thought there was a possibility Thanksgiving night I could take a turn for the train station I was tempted to ask my wife to take me to the hospital every breath hurt but I got better
When you have rheumatic arthritis influenza kind of gets exaggerated
“Because they’re not taking Vitamin D, zinc, and Vitamin C.
I take these three and haven’t been sick since catching delta for 24 hrs in September 2021.”
I take these three, and many others, never miss a dose, and have been sick three times since September 2021.
They aren’t magic.
But I also walk outside about 5 miles a day, never social distance and never, ever wear a mask unless absolutely compelled to (such as at a hospital).
I also eat well with plenty of eggs, sardines, berries, whole-fat yogurt and lots of meat.
I think it's the whole lifestyle, not just a few vitamins.
From Dr McCullough’s article
The pivotal questions are: 1) for how long is a recently vaccinated person at risk to shed on to others? 2) can shed mRNA be taken up by the recipient and begin to produce Spike protein just like vaccination? 3) can shed Spike protein cause disease as it does in the vaccinated (e.g. myocarditis, blood clots, etc.)?
I can't emphasize enough that taking regular large doses of Vit D and Vit C are extremely helpful and then taking additional doses when you feel run down or that scratchy throat coming on....
I'm talking 6000iu of Vit D every day and 1000mg of vit C with extra doses if you do get run down....
I am sure there are lots of people that take much more than that.....
during the summer when I am outside a lot I do reduce my Vit D amount...
we have not been sick in this house....no vaxx, no flu, no real colds....the last time I was sick with some kind of "flu" was early Dec 2019 but I really think it was covid at the time....
make up your mind that you will stay healthy.....
*** The theory is that your system has more time to respond to only a few particles as opposed to being overwhelmed with a lot of particles.***
You are right in that this is how the immune system works. Exposure to small amounts of viruses help us fight off future infections. If you do get sick, you are much better protected for the next time around.
I suppose if it makes you feel better and will actually go mingle with people versus staying home, you will at least be helping yourself by going out. If someone is too afraid and stays at home avoiding people, they don’t do themselves any service at all.
I think it’s fascinating that homeless people don’t get sick much, at least not from germs. They get sick because they do horrible things to their bodies with drugs and alcohol (which is also a drug). They don’t even bathe very often.
Doesn’t really matter if you believe that study or not.
Simple physics shows that the masks are pointless.
P.S. I like that you mentioned through the eyes. If we were really trying to protect ourselves, we would all be walking around in hazmat suits. At least, it’s nice that Fauci didn’t insist we start doing that.
” your immune system needs germs to practice on.”
I like it! I might grab it for a tagline.
That’s sort of precious.
We like “Vicks First Defence Nasal Spray” — get it from Amazon.
Look at the flu cases and deaths for last year ... they went nearly to ZERO after millions the years before. These people cannot tell the dif between Flu and Covid, so everything that was flu got chalked up to Covid, because the HOSPITALS made money on every case (they get nothing for flu). Now the covid is about gone and there’s nothing left but FLU ... so the counting starts again. It’s not “up” it is where it has been all this time.
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