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Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic

mishie said:
Gotta say, when all of this regularly comes up, I enjoy just pointing at Australia. Where we've bravely volunteered to accidentally do a great study to show how well lockdowns work. Since you can just very easily compare New South Wales and Queensland, where NSW delayed going into a hard lockdown, and has increased up to almost 500 new cases a day, and has basically spent most of the past 2 weeks in a pseudo-lockdown which has consistently failed. On the other hand, in QLD they went into a hard lockdown for about a week after having a single cases detected, and during that week it spiked at something like and entire 15 new cases during a single day, thanks to the fact that every single family that was connected to that initial case stayed at home for 2 weeks, whilst the state paid for groceries to be sent to them to help them safely stay at home.

So that really nicely shows how powerful having a state/federal government that actually bites the bullet and goes into a fast lockdown can prevent cases from spiraling out of control, and also that by supporting those that are forced into lockdown you can actually encourage them to follow those rules and not fuck it up for everyone else.
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Or WA, which locked down every time and we're basically COVID free.
 
Trust me, the fucking up in NSW is entirely because our leadership was critical of lockdowns and hesitated to do so when it was necessary.

They've now done a complete 180 on the subject and pretend that they have always supported such measures.

Meanwhile, our vaccine supply is getting redirected all over the place in clear displays of favouritism for specific regions within NSW.

It's a bloody mess, and my family is stuck in the middle of it.
 
Let's not forget the antivaxxer issue, too, RE Australia…
 
Really frustrating having someone try to disingenuously reframe a conversation re:Lockdowns when I've already gone to the source they claimed proved their point and cited it back to them to show that it, in fact, does not.

Someone attempted to claim that NZs excess mortality increased during our Lockdown in 2020. I provided two sources disagreeing. They claimed a third disagreed with me. So I went to it and, surprisingly, it did not say what they said it did!

So they instantly backpedaled to talking about other metrics instead.
 
On the one hand, today the FDA finally gave formal (non-provisional) approval for a Covid vaccine.

On the other hand, apparently there's an associated risk of decreased cognitive ability if you have had the virus: https://www.researchhub.com/paper/1...ts-in-people-who-have-recovered-from-covid-19

... and the last thing we need right now is a widespread reduction in cognitive abilities.

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OverMaster said:
Is there any ill afteraffect this damned virus doesn't have?

It's the fucking Ginzu knife of disease.
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Regular diseases can also have fun amount of complications.

"Pneumonia is a serious flu complication that can result from either influenza virus infection alone or from co-infection of flu virus and bacteria. Other possible serious complications triggered by flu can include inflammation of the heart (myocarditis), brain (encephalitis) or muscle (myositis, rhabdomyolysis) tissues, and multi-organ failure (for example, respiratory and kidney failure). Flu virus infection of the respiratory tract can trigger an extreme inflammatory response in the body and can lead to sepsis, the body's life-threatening response to infection. Flu also can make chronic medical problems worse. For example, people with asthma may experience asthma attacks while they have flu, and people with chronic heart disease may experience a worsening of this condition triggered by flu."

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/symptoms.htm

Just in case of covid anything like that gets reported, unlike with flu.

So this is nothing very unusual.


Tooth infection can cause ( https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/ar...nfection-spreading-to-body#signs-and-symptoms ) :

Osteomyelitis: An infection of the bone surrounding the tooth.

Cavernous sinus thrombosis: An infection of the blood vessels within the sinuses.

Cellulitis: An infection of the skin and fat directly beneath the skin.

Parapharyngeal abscess: An abscess at the back of the mouth.

Sepsis: A serious medical condition in which the immune system severely overreacts to an infection in the blood.

(yes, untreated tooth infection can kill you)
 
Purplepurple said:
Regular diseases can also have fun amount of complications.
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Well, yes, although pneumonia -- a generic term for any inflammation of certain parts of the lungs -- probably wasn't the best example. Similarly, most of the tooth infection complications you listed were simply the infection spreading.
 
Aleh said:
Well, yes, although pneumonia -- a generic term for any inflammation of certain parts of the lungs -- probably wasn't the best example. Similarly, most of the tooth infection complications you listed were simply the infection spreading.
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In general any infection will cause damage by infection spreading, what exactly happens with COVID.

Other typical issues will be overreaction of immune system (but sepsis was listed), or by spreading of toxic products of ongoing infection or consequences of nonfunctional body part.

Main things is that COVID is not unusual here, other infections will also produce long list of unpleasant consequences. COVID is not unusual here, as far as serious diseases go. Still, it is serious disease - but not some magic or unprecedented in variety of consequences.

Note: I am not a medical professional, you are reading COVID thread on a porn site (and I would claim that you cannot verify my expertise anyway)

Note2: If long covid is appearing often and/or serious we are fucked, given how many people went through it.
 
Purplepurple said:
In general any infection will cause damage by infection spreading, what exactly happens with COVID.
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But it's not. COVID causes clotting. A lot of the damage we're seeing -- outside the lungs, anyway -- is essentially the result of diffuse mini-strokes throughout the body. It's not quite up to the level of disseminated intravascular coagulation, but it's there.

There's also the fever issue. I haven't seen much on this being a specific problem with COVID, many other illnesses have been known to cause problems simply because the victim's fever got so high that it's literally cooked their organs alive. This is actually a special case of one of the other common ways for illnesses to cause issues in places other than the site of infection: via the body's own immune response.

A specific form of this is blatantly an issue with COVID (specifically, so-called cytokine storms), but the damage is generally focused on the site of infection (in COVID, the lungs).

I could continue, but the fact of the matter is that your model there is oversimplified at best.
 
I didn't have any reactions whatsoever. I didn't even feel tired in the slightest.
 
Amazon Climber said:
I've seen all kinds of instances of people getting assaulted for wearing masks or enforcing mask mandates…
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Guardian Box said:
PM me some links. I could use a good laugh.
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Amazon Climber said:
Sure, just ask me in the COVID thread.
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Guardian Box said:
Would you also like an official invitation in ancient sumerian carved into a stone tablet as well?
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Amazon Climber said:
No, that's okay. A little post in the thread whose only rule is 'don't be a fucking moron' is all I ask.
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Guardian Box said:
That's just about every thread ever to exist.

Don't be a cunt and start inventing rules and clauses where they don't belong. If you have something you want posted, don't invent arbitrary requirements to have it posted, either post it or don't. If you don't want to post shite in the vein asked for, fine, just say so.
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"Hey Amazon Climber can you drop those links/pm/some form of sharing some where?"
 
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