COVID-19: OhMyCronus!

Oh crap.
They think to have figured out how it's possible covid infects brain cells, while these havenot got the spikes (ACE-2-receptors) covid uses to get in.
They use the nano tubes between cells.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0171



This is an ominous sentence in the article:
"Our data highlight a previously unknown mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 spreading, likely used as a route to invade nonpermissive cells and potentiate infection in permissive cells."

It means you can't be careless about infection with Covid, as it has found a way to have impact on essential cells, your brain, while in theory it should be impossible to do just that.

 

The feckup part of it is that the "alternative route" evades immunity surveillance of the body.

 

Damn, that’s a shame. Hoping she gets well and soon.

 

She threw up around 3hrs after we got up that Wednesday morning. Fever disappeared after that, but she complained of sores in her mouth and sore throat. Yesterday she developed croup, but still no fever, so that's weird. Only problematic when she's tired. Half the day you can't even tell she's sick. She's doing alright.

Thx.

Also, my wife is doing a hiking tour with a group in the Lake District, England. A lady in the group is apparently a hoity-toity epidemiologist. She told us to wait 3 months to get the 2nd shot. Getting the vaxx right after having a viral infection can lead to complications. I'm guessing this holds true for all/most vaccines?

 

Doing alright is good. Keep it up kiddo.

I used to do quite a few solo hikes in the lakes back in my misspent yute. I camped one weekend, swimming and diving off the same pier that Campbell used the next weekend when he was killed.
Jealous of your wife there.

yeah, I know. It’s not all about me.

 

Antivaxxers and election truthers are the stupid kids that had to repeat kindergarten:

Still camping out on the National Mall, there appears to be a coronavirus outbreak among members of the 1776 Restoration Movement, formerly the People's Convoy. It's gotten so bad that the group's leader is now suggesting convoy-goers get tested for Covid-19.

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) July 24, 2022

 

After avoiding covid for 2 and a half years it has entered my house. My elderly mother (she is 85, had TB when a child, 2/3 of a lung removed in her 20's and has chronic respiratory issues that cause her to occasionally cough blood tested positive a week ago. Subsequent tests continue to be positive. Her isolation should end today but I will wait until she tests negative (current requirements here say 7 days with no test required if symptoms gone). She has a chronic cough and apart from a mild fever on day 2 and a slightly increased cough she has shown no real discomfort. She feels pretty normal today. The anti virals she got were unused as the potential side effects were worse than what she felt. I've avoided infection so far. There is only the two of us here and we can divide the premises OK and wear masks in the common area. She has had two shots of AZ and two shots of Pfiser (as have I) with the last booster a month ago. To be honest if we didn't know she had a known exposure (she spent 6 hours in a car with her niece who tested positive the next day) we wouldn't even have bothered testing. The vaccines seem to have done their job so far.

 

My best wishes to your mother. Mothers are important.

 

Thank you and yes I agree, mothers are very important. Fortunately she is feeling well. Still testing positive but the line was a bit paler today. I'm still negative but only going out for essentials at the moment.

 

Just an update that today my mother tested negative. She got infected about a month after her last vaccine booster. The vaccines we have here aren't that effective in preventing infections of the Omicron Strains currently circulating but seem to do a good job of preventing serious illness. Some stats released from Victoria a few days ago are saying you are 90% more likely to die if unvaccinated.

 

That goes for Covid vaccines everywhere, except for maybe the crappy Chinese and Russian ones.

 

Just had another look at the box of anti virals I got for my mother. Underneath the subsidised cost we pay ($48.50) it has the real cost in fine print. Turns out the real cost is $1101.20.

 

Well, if this doesnot work as an incentive to avoid getting covid, you really are dumb.
According to a research done by the Dutch Radboud university and published in the Lancet, 1 in 8 infected people suffer from long covid.
That's a huge economic cost of this disease, apart from the impact on the lives of those concerned.

 

Glad you're feeling better! Keep an eye out for the Paxlovid rebound.

 

https://giphy.com/gifs/season-6-the-simpsons-6x8-xT5LMyEE6AEVZqyFd6

 

How Covid changed us: Example 2,345.

I was out driving yesterday and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sign that advertised Vaccination Bible School.

Made sense to me, it was a liberal church and all. It took me four or five beats for it to sink in that it was Vacation Bible School. Though I would be interested in the curriculum of a Vaccination Bible School.

 

Now at 1.04 million US deaths.

Passing the total population of Djibouti with Eswatini (Swaziland) on deck.

 

Some possible side effects for the moderna vaccine.

Men under 40.

It Is Now Undeniable 👇
Vaccine can cause more Myocarditis in Men Under 40 Than COVID-19;
Just OUT! Patrone Circ 2022;

I have said repeatedly Moderna should be banned in Men<40
FDA failed Americans
& this analysis is more complicated
Everyone gets breakthrough eventually 1/7 pic.twitter.com/CBmWcgYl1i

— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) August 29, 2022

 

Covid isolation impact.
Grandma and granddad with time in covid became smaller and smaller in kids drawings of them.

Opa en oma steeds kleiner op kindertekeningen in coronatijd: 'Géén goed teken'

OnderzoekUit het oog, uit het hart. Tijdens de coronaperiode ontwikkelden kinderen in korte tijd een bijzonder negatieve kijk op ‘oude mensen’, blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek van kindertekeningen. Zelfs de emotionele afstand tot de meest nabije senioren in hun leven, opa en oma, nam toe.

Edwin van der Aa 30-08-22, 06:00 Laatste update: 07:35

Grandparents are getting smaller and smaller on children's drawings in corona time: 'Not a good sign'
Research Out of sight, out of mind. During the corona period, children developed a particularly negative view of 'old people' in a short period of time, according to new research of children's drawings. Even the emotional distance to the closest seniors in their lives, grandparents, increased.
Edwin van der Aa 30-08-22, 06:00 Last update: 07:35

 

Supplementing the random Tweet...

From the American Heart Association:
COVID-19 infection poses higher risk for myocarditis than vaccines

 

Well i guess it was bound to happen sooner or later, I tested positive today. So far not too bad, a bit achy and tired but that's about it.

 

Just remember you're vaccinated and if your symptoms get worse there are amazing antivirals. Go watch some garbage television and feel better soon.