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If it comes back to the hotspots, I’m wrong. Clearly. And time will tell. But imho, based on how contagious this is, if even a dozen people had it, and way more than that have it, the actions and activities of the last few months would mean logically that it should be spreading again. FWIW, unless I read you wrong, at one point you said the prior hotspots are declining because of the proper following of protocols. In this post you are saying they are declining because the disease is not prevalent. For me, imo, I’m just doing some basic troubleshooting based on logic. Everyone seems to “know” the answers. Yet the facts continue to change as new data comes to light. I’m just following the patterns as they emerge and using logic. Even a few cases should be enough to cause huge spread based on previous examples. Unless some kind of natural resistance is building in the population.
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My last comment: I did not say that I got hit personally by the virus: what I said is that I wasn't so lucky not to know anyone who caught it.
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You said, “we were hit before them” in Europe. That is what I was referring to.
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I used to think like some of the people here and thought “ I don’t know anyone who has it” that has changed in the last 2 weeks.
Family in Houston, Mexico City,NYC, Dallas, have tested positive and unfortunately 5 people I know locally have passed away in just last week (just one of them was above 50 years old) Everyone has the right to think what they want and treat this thing as they wish, just mind the rest of the people and think about your family. God bless you and your family.
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I personally knew 2 people who died from contracting Covid 19, both were school teachers, I was sat next to one of them at a restaurant about 5 months ago. Both were elderly.
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Poor statistics with scenario analysis leading the way and based on the Monte Carlo of just a few. If we were looking at statistics, our sample testing globally are heavily populated into those at most risk that skew figures. That is a poor sample of the population and in statistics would have low significance. People that don’t feel well seek testing while those that do, do not. This increasing the perceived mortality rates. Add false positive rates that are very high (statistically) speaking then lower heard immunity by keeping everyone away from each other and funneled all in one place only (grocery store) and it’s a recipe for disaster. Doing this would make even alternative mild bugs, impactful. Same concept as going to a different country and common bugs making you sick. Unless everyone was wearing P100 respirators with full face masks, really counterintuitive to wear masks but leave eyes exposed. Wearing masks that harbor germs, really is just a way to increase societal sickness if not done fully. How many people really wash their N95s or replace after every single exposure. So my point is masks are false hopes that make us feel safer, but have really poor protocol. Forcing many to wear masks that end up being cloth in many cases where they can’t find or afford is a recipe for disaster and a huge societal burden on health. I don’t see anyone passing out proper masks in poor communities. Even rewashed N95 aren’t the most sanitary. So perhaps minimize covid while increasing things like bacterial pneumonia, which in turn makes co-infection with covid more likely. It makes much more sense for those weakened to isolate themselves as we do with other illnesses, then to expect others to not bring germs to. Just like all other germs we’re going to be exposed to it whether we like it or not, if we haven’t already. Isolation is a good way to decrease heard immunity or at the least delay it and make it more difficult. H1N1 infected 25% of the global population, lasted 1 1/2 years, and killed over 500k people in conservative estimates. If we would’ve socially distanced I’d be horrified by those results. We would’ve delayed infection rates and by proxy given the virus more time to spread and to a greater proportion. Just like a fire you can either let it burn out quick or cuddle it and blow oxygen on it. Either way gets worse before better. I had family die from both H1N1 and the 2018 influenza. But neither of those were something we held debates over or as a society cared much about. Restrict people from doing stuff now we care. Go figure. The largest difference is social media in 2020 and our desire to virtue signal instead of addressing problems with solutions. Social media’s ability to essentially craft story lines by moderating has made them de facto publishers. That allows generally accepted theories that are not scientifically proven to become fact by group think. But some perspective and the only thing novel is the reaction. |
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Population compliance with masking correlates pretty well with countries’ success in combatting this virus. No mystery there, pretty straightforward. Wear the mask. This is the way.
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I know two people who passed away and several who were infected. We live in NJ, which was hit hard.
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Take a look at Europe. Nuff said. Hopefully the medical community will bail us out of this one, ASAP. |
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I will wear a mask, I don't know if it would help save someone from contracting the virus from me if I had it. What I do know is this, less of my spittle or droplets that carries the virus would be transmitted to anyone close by than if I wore nothing.
If by wearing a mask I can be even 1% less likely to pass on anything that I have, then, out of respect for the people around me, damn right I will wear the mask. It is basic manners as far as I am concerned. I don't wear the mask for me and would be less than chuffed if someone didn't extend the same courtesy back.
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Unfortunately, at least here in America, mask wearing (or refusing to) has been highly politicized.
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A very good friend of mine had it, she's 77 and made a 100% recovery. I know several other people around the country have had it, only one had to be hospitalized and all recovered.
An ex-coworker got it and died, most of his family that lived with him got it, and all survived. I am being careful and cautious, but not hiding. I'm only going onsite to one of my clients, and I have my own office there and there are only 4-5 other people in the building, so we all feel comfortable not wearing masks. When I am in public around others, I wear a mask...grocery store, checking in for golf, a restaurant once or twice a week, and it adds up to maybe a total of 30 minutes of mask wearing a week, not a big deal at all, and if it helps even 1%, I'm all for it. |
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Kids and young adults are not dying because they naturally absorb multiple times more vitamin D than Boomers. So pretty simple fix to stay healthy. Start taking large doses of vitamin D daily. I’m hittin 10000iU a day of D now. Just read about the Spanish flu and doctors who treated their patients with Vitamin D and open air sunlight therapy. Damn shame nobody is talking about it.
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3 weeks ago all of us went back to the office. 2 weeks ago we all had our blood drawn and were tested. 1 of us came back positive. A field guy/ PM who frequently comes into the office.
Last week another PM, who sits maybe 10’ from me, tested positive following a weekend of feeling like he had been run over by a truck. Our first positive resulted in high anxiety throughout the office. The 2nd has been kept under the radar. I didn’t find out he had even been tested until Friday when he came back positive. Concerning. Becoming complacent is going to keep this virus going. |
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My wife is a "key worker" and in the UK that means you have to be tested. She was tested in early April and it was positive so I got a test too - positive. So we've both had it and that must mean (if it as contagious as they say) that our two kids have had it too.
My wife only experienced a loss of taste and smell (no temperature, no dry cough, no illness at all) and would have carried on working if it hadn't been for the test. I was completely asymptomatic - not a thing, in fact I kept up my daily 5k runs (indoor running machine) and HIT workouts all through. Kids showed no sign of a single symptom. My wife has now been asked to donate blood for plasma as she has the antibodies apparently. My mum is 77 and all through the 14 day incubation period (when we had no symptoms and therefore had no idea we had it) I continued to visit her out of necessity. She's showed no symptoms but hasn't had a test. There must be a lot people like us who have had this virus but have had zero symptoms and wouldn't even notice. Because of that I'm dubious about the statistics, especially mortality statistics when expressed as a % of those who have contracted it. |
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I desperately want to avoid another shutdown for many reasons. I fear that if we don’t remain vigilant it would happen again here in Michigan, but likely only in the setting of overwhelming our hospitals. Many died both from COVID and from not getting care for other maladies, either out of fear of going to the hospital when needed, or worse inability to access an overwhelmed system in their area. We can get through this if we work together. |
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Do you know how many other people you gave it to? Do you know how many other people your wife gave it to? Do you know if anyone died because you were part of the chain that passed on the virus to your wife and others?
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I had a guy tell me with a straight face yesterday that the stuff the government is putting in the jet chem trails is not the cause of COVID...that is until they activate it with the 5G towers. He is immune however because he puts a pinch of 20 Mule Team Borax in his morning coffee. I gave him a link to this site.
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Finished a long day with a PUI for appendics,full PPE .
Such a schlep ,BUT we do it right !! My new fragrance ...Eau de Alcohol 3 of my theatre personel tested positive in the one hospital . They rotated in the Covid ward . One was sick for a day ,one was admitted ,needed oxygen,discharged after two days and the third is still very sick . Want to give Covid a try ? See how it goes ? I don't think so . Mask Hands Distancing . |
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Don’t forget salmon, cod liver oil and egg yolk ! Sunlight is also known to deactivate the virus too
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Just curious but why take 10000 iU a day when 4000 is widely considered the safe upper limit? I’m genuinely asking as I am no expert. I’m taking 1000 per day.
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My wife sells an immune pack at her practice...
Glutamine Vit C Glutathione Vit D3 Mg Zinc I use it daily . |
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