COVID-19

[shoeshine boy]

She's still a covid denier even after getting it?

yep though now it's changed to "see? it's not big deal!"

[NTP66]

She's still a covid denier even after getting it?

yep though now it's changed to "see? it's not big deal!"

If only pissbaby had died to help the cause.

[Morkle]

I honestly feel so weird about celebrating a denier getting sick, then I get annoyed if they have a easy case of it.

[count2infinity]

Did a flu report come out recently? My Bedford County friends are all talking about flu numbers and how they're in the basement. Their logic is that all the covid number right now are actually flu. Not that flu numbers are down possibly due to masking, social distancing, working from home, ya know... the things that are shown to work against flu cases. No no no, it's because we're being lied to and COVID isn't real, it's just flu.

[faftorial]

Did a flu report come out recently? My Bedford County friends are all talking about flu numbers and how they're in the basement. Their logic is that all the covid number right now are actually flu. Not that flu numbers are down possibly due to masking, social distancing, working from home, ya know... the things that are shown to work against flu cases. No no no, it's because we're being lied to and COVID isn't real, it's just flu.

[Beveridge]

Did a flu report come out recently? My Bedford County friends are all talking about flu numbers and how they're in the basement. Their logic is that all the covid number right now are actually flu. Not that flu numbers are down possibly due to masking, social distancing, working from home, ya know... the things that are shown to work against flu cases. No no no, it's because we're being lied to and COVID isn't real, it's just flu.

A 70+ year old man that's at the gym every morning was asking about this a couple weeks ago and that's what I was explaining to him. He wasn't going deep in the whole flu reported as COVID, but he was teetering on the edge of it. This despite probably having COVID himself after Thanksgiving but refused testing.

[count2infinity]

I think seeing what impact the protocols are having on flu really shows you how dangerous covid is... I'm a bit flummoxed by people interpreting the numbers any other way.

[NAN]

Did a flu report come out recently? My Bedford County friends are all talking about flu numbers and how they're in the basement. Their logic is that all the covid number right now are actually flu. Not that flu numbers are down possibly due to masking, social distancing, working from home, ya know... the things that are shown to work against flu cases. No no no, it's because we're being lied to and COVID isn't real, it's just flu.

All those "normal" viruses are in the basement because of quarantining, mask wearing, etc. People that think what you stated are idiots.

[King Colby]

I honestly feel so weird about celebrating a denier getting sick, then I get annoyed if they have a easy case of it.

Yikes

[Morkle]

I honestly feel so weird about celebrating a denier getting sick, then I get annoyed if they have a easy case of it.

Yikes

Yup, it's terrible, and I freely admit that. That sense of denying and refusing to do anything for the greater good is what floats me into the aggravation department constantly.

[King Colby]

I think seeing what impact the protocols are having on flu really shows you how dangerous covid is... I'm a bit flummoxed by people interpreting the numbers any other way.

It certainly proves how communicable this thing is. Crazy that it still gets around all the masking and hygiene practices that have hammered down every other virus

[AuthorTony]

That sense of denying and refusing to do anything for the greater good is what floats me into the aggravation department constantly.

Yep, I know where you're coming from. A childhood friend of mine has been a huge anti-masker, causes scenes at stores, etc. Her husband got Covid over Christmas and lost his sense of smell for a couple days and that was the extent of it. That just gave her more ammunition to demand everything open up and everyone to stop wearing masks/social distancing. She now says everyone should get covid so they'll have antibodies, not the vaccine, because it's not bad (her husband is proof!) and the media is making up the deaths/serious cases.

[DigitalGypsy66]

This past summer, public health officials sounded warnings about the dangers of an impending flu epidemic on top of the coronavirus pandemic.

Yet this year's flu season has been exceptionally mild.

During the 2019-2020 flu season, some 400,000 people were hospitalized for the flu, with 22,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last week — just ahead of the season's usual peak — the CDC had recorded just 165 flu-related hospitalizations since October.

"Flu has been essentially nonexistent," Dr. William Schaffner, infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, said in an interview with Weekend Edition.

The mild season has benefitted from measures like masks and social distancing, he said. It helps too that, last year, a record number of people got a flu shot.

But Schaffner says there's more to it: Kids — habitual superspreaders — are staying home.

"Children are generally thought of as having the distribution franchise for the influenza virus," Schaffner said. "They produce much more virus, they shed more virus for longer periods of time."

But over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, as schools went virtual and children interacted less, the chances of spreading the flu narrowed.

[meow]

:dodint fist pumps:

[King Colby]

I wonder if there could be a pretty nasty flu bounceback once we return to normal maskless life, since nobody's systems have been exposed to it

[NAN]

https://www.foxnews.com/health/breakthr ... als-oregon

I see this as a win. There have been 4 cases of fully vaccinated individuals in Oregon that tested positive COVID even 2 weeks after the second shot. However, the symptoms were extremely mild. This was also expected during the trials for the vaccine.

So even if you can still get the virus, the symptoms should be greatly reduced.

[King Colby]

Im interested in knowing how shedding works for a vaccinated individual. I wonder if replication competent virus is gone sooner

[NAN]

I wonder if there could be a pretty nasty flu bounceback once we return to normal maskless life, since nobody's systems have been exposed to it

I wonder this as well. Those viruses won't go away. They are just not moving right now. But one day when we get back to "normal" I wonder if it will explode again, or if it's even more of a prolonged period if the symptoms will be worse as our bodies haven't been introduced to it for a while.

Any doctor input would be great.

[nocera]

I guess that's why the efficacy is not 100%.

[MR25]

They said this was going to happen though, that people who got the vaccine could still experience symptoms, just not ones that are life-threatening.

This isn't new info, but seems like it's meant to be a scare tactic and likely will turn more people off from getting the vaccine because "it doesn't prevent you from getting it".

[robbiestoupe]

At this point, if info like that is going to put you on the other side of the fence, you were always going to be on the other side of the fence.

This morning I woke up and thought: I can't imagine what we'd be complaining about now if the vaccine was still under development. We'd all be going insane right now

[mac5155]

Now 50+ hours out from the vaccine, I presume I'd have had more side effects if anything was going to happen. I had a weird fever/sweating/chills for like a half hour last night. I always sleep hot too, and haven't really had anything out of the ordinary. Arm has no pain whatsoever now.

19 more days til the second dose; my brother said his second dose hit a lot harder than the first.

[dodint]

:dodint fist pumps:

Germ bombs.

Someone paid money to find out children spread germs. Cool.

[CBear3]

Wife had her second Moderna on Friday and other than an itchy arm didn't have any issues. Took some ibuprofen before and after but other than that was pretty much ready to roll.

[dodint]

Now 50+ hours out from the vaccine, I presume I'd have had more side effects if anything was going to happen. I had a weird fever/sweating/chills for like a half hour last night. I always sleep hot too, and haven't really had anything out of the ordinary. Arm has no pain whatsoever now.

19 more days til the second dose; my brother said his second dose hit a lot harder than the first.

My arm pain is down to the level I expected, pre-shot. Still a little bit of a buzzy head today but I went for a walk at Mammoth and ran some errands. Feeling fine, lucky to have today as a holiday though.