SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death

OMG getting sick hurts your body tissues? Yeah, that was sort of a thing that was obviously going to happen.

Am I the only one who sees this coming a mile away?

One thing this is missing is context: what’re the rates for flu, etc. reinfections?

From everything that I’ve read, one of the things that we’ve realized with this pandemic is that we have no idea if the same thing happens with other diseases. We just tended to assume that once you recover, anything that you develop is unrelated.

Plus we don't routinely use track/trace for other diseases, so it's likely that data would be quite hard to find.

They called me on the carpet (virtually) and gave me double top secret probation. Any single transgression and I'm out.

I've been transgressing non stop since then. Opened several ethics complaints. They closed those out Friday. 2 out of 6 were partially substantiated. The others were completely subjective and the subjects weren't talking.

It could be that I had level 4 whistleblower protection. I think it has waned to level 1 and health is at a negative 2.

Company is going through a corporate split. Schizophrenia is another term for it.

Here's the TLDR:

This is too good, and it is pertinent: all this went down during covid:

https://reformingretail.com/index.p...o-so-it-can-deliver-twice-the-disappointment/

Why are you thanking me, Gnome? I did it for my own entertainment.

Asshole. They're called Native Americans.

Oops.

B.C. hospital sees fast spread of COVID-19, but no outbreak declared due to 'negative connotations'

https://x.com/fangoria/status/1700870954014933324?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...9.uD4LEO_iJZojIA_KLBZe_Uja8FuqW2cOUDUvB2QAA5g

Refresh my memory. Was the consensus that it WAS or was NOT acceptable to attack someone for wearing a thing you dislike?

<avalanche of bullshit double standards ensues>

How does someone wearing a mask pose a threat to anyone else?

It obviously had a swastika on it.

Saving for posterity. Just like UA thinks ‘porn’ should be allowed to be read to elementary students as long as it is in the furtherance of keeping teens from learning about rape and consent, he also thinks someone wearing a mask is the same as marching around wearing a Swastika.

Not even close. Try again.

Covid may have permanently damaged people's immunity

https://fortune.com/well/2023/09/16...020-who-urges-vaccination-boosters-high-risk/

https://www.timesunion.com/health/article/insurance-issues-lead-cvs-others-cancel-covid-18368441.php

Wow, that was a whole lotta nothing. FFS of course a sickness that was that bad would effect someone for the rest of their life. It is like saying surviving cancer at a young age would effect their health for the rest of their life.

Is this just to remind us that our bodied break down over time due to infections and damage? OK, we know that. It may be years before we see a real bad failure that started with covid. No fucking duh. Am I the only one who thinks this is completely obvious?

She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough.

She might have helped crack issues related to not only Long COVID but other illnesses as well.

Paywall, and I'm not giving them my email for free access.

If you’ve got Amazon Prime a subscription to WaPo is ~$20/yr.

Don't have Prime.
As a USPS mailed carrier, Amazon annoys the piss out of me.

In short, the woman had mono as a teen, then as an adult, breast cancer, and then later, COVID. She kept having problems with her energy levels, and it turns out that she has another medical condition that I've never heard of, that was part of the source of her having periods of extreme fatigue. She managed, however, to get her masters in a medical field, this lead her to discover that whatever that the other medical condition was, treating it helped her condition and also seems to show promise in treating people with Long COVID.

I found these whilst reworking some slides from a colleague for a university module I'm taking over. They may be apropos here - note, not intended as a response to any particular post... just valuable advice generally:

https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/04/02/a-rough-guide-to-spotting-bad-science/

https://www.compoundchem.com/2015/04/09/scientific-evidence/