Bill Loser
5 year old buck +
"I don't fear covid" lol
Wow, BigBend, I simply can't compete with your incredible use of capitalization. But I will try. Oh, look, that took me all of 30 seconds to find current literature on Pubmed speaking to the point you wanted me to address. One among many. And yes, among the primary literature. Which is where any good scientist STARTS their search (see I can emphasize using capitals too lol).
Is it possible that you didn't consider mortality in the black population? When you're a data-driven scientist, details like this matter. What else didn't you consider in your superficial analysis? Please, next time, don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
Remember, all I've been saying is don't dismiss what we don't fully understand yet. Is that so hard a point to grasp? Or do you think that you have all the answers? If so, please share them. But with someone else. I'm going back to the habitat side of things. I agree with you on one point for certain. I suspect that I have little chance of influencing anyone's opinion. This is not a productive use of time.
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Bill, I totally respect your right to disagree with me, and if we're talking about cumulative numbers of dead this century, then you are 100% correct that there are worse villains out there. And who said the earth isn't flat (and carried on the back of a turtle and four elephants lol).
And I will respond directly to SD by saying: I agree! Lockdowns are NOT THE ANSWER. But neither is denial. The repercussions of any action we take to mitigate the spread need to be weighed against the demonstrated consequences. For example, masks slow the spread. They don't eliminate it, but they certainly can reduce the viral load upon infection, as well. There's very little downside to masks. So why so much anger and pushback? Lockdowns can backfire in close communities where household spread is the major route, in addition to having all of the issues associated that SD mentions above.
But even if I we discount 95% of the mortality ascribed to SARS-CoV-2, this is still a rampaging b!!tch of a killer. The flu has killed more, but this is no flu. What makes it most heinous (to quote Bill and Ted) is that we can't predict who will fare well and who won't. Age is a factor, for sure. Diabetes, probably. But there are so many variables that don't compute. I know that I'm not concerned for myself (valid or not), but I am concerned about my wife, who has lung scarring from having pneumonia while with her parents on a geological excavation in Algeria as a five-year-old. If I happen to get it and have mild symptoms, then I will thank that man above, not discount the severity of other folk's worse outcomes.
We study cardiac disease risk following COVID-19 in my lab. I'm not sure who's telling you that your dying of a heart attack in the next 90 days is going to be listed as COVID-19 on your death certificate, but I think that this information is incorrect. However, we have several folks now in the hospital who were admitted for COVID-19 complications and had a heart attack (survived, thankfully) while in the ICU. Most likely, if they were to pass, they would be listed as COVID-19 related complications.
Given the immense pressure that medical providers are under with the current surge, I know that there's been decreased clarity from both primary care providers and the health department, somewhat understandably. Believe it or not, I log in here and respond as a respite from the pressure of job. In science as elsewhere, everything has become more difficult and demanding as the dumpster fire of 2020 progressed. We are still in the tunnel, but I'm beginning to see light.
And when I need a bit of levity, I think about how the naysayers claimed that the virus would magically disappear after the election. Two months later, and the numbers are skyrocketing. The worse it gets, the more vehement the denial. When's the next milestone for this mysterious vanishing act? Because I want a piece of that action.
Honest question here. If you have covid, don’t know it, and wear a mask, will you be exposing yourself to more virus but rebreathing air thru the mask.
Is there a potential in this case to make yourself sicker?
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Wife tested positive today so I had to go get a test. Here is the part that makes no sense to me. Her mandatory quarantine starts today. If I am positive mine also starts today. If I am negative mine won’t start until her 10th day. Still no symptoms for either of us and it has been 7 days since she was exposed. I was also told there are no false positives only false negatives. That didn’t sound right to me. Either way now we are in the states data base and will need clearance from the county to leave the house.