Yes. Who'd have thought that letting dozens of people congregate indoors might help spread infection? But someone's got to get into the city centres to save Pret a Porter.UK cruising back into lock down, unless you need to go to work or school with hundreds of other people.
The worry though is that even though we have some improvement, we are still expecting the long term effects that we experienced with MERS and SARS, which regretfully found that in our 10 year+ studies, leads to pulmonary fibrosis. But on a larger scale and bilaterally rather than unilaterally, as COVID-19 attacks both lungs (bilaterally) and SARS and MERS were more unilateral in their attacks, but is the same type of damage.For once good news
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It seems that covids long term damages might not actually as permanent as assumed. A lot of people who still showed severe lung damage after 6 weeks according to CT scans have eventually improved their condition after 12 weeks . Study is still ongoing with additional scans planned after 24 weeks.
There's been pretty constant good news. We started with a virus that could have potentially infected 70% of everyone and killed 5% of those, and have had lists of good news ever since.For once good news
This is exactly what we expected to happen however, when compared to our SARS and MERS studies, so it isn't actually changing our outlook for 10 and 15 yrs due to the 2yr results being promising as well. There was improvement up to two years after recovery, but that did not change the outlook of developing pulmonary fibrosis longer term. Unless we find new methods and change how we treat COVID-19 patients vs the SARS patients long term, we can expect same/ similar results in COVID-19 Patients as we had in SARS 15 years down the road. The claim " long term damage reversible" is misleading. Only some of the damage is reversible.There's been pretty constant good news. We started with a virus that could have potentially infected 70% of everyone and killed 5% of those, and have had lists of good news ever since.
A bit like the blitz in WW2 was constant good news for the British, I guess. The government had projected German bombing to kill half a million people within the first month; as it happened over a year they "merely" killed under 50k and destroyed 2 million homes.There's been pretty constant good news. We started with a virus that could have potentially infected 70% of everyone and killed 5% of those, and have had lists of good news ever since.
You know as well as I do how many times there's been good news about this virus.A bit like the blitz in WW2 was constant good news for the British, I guess. The government had projected German bombing to kill half a million people within the first month; as it happened over a year they "merely" killed under 50k and destroyed 2 million homes.
Would you prefer otherwise?Good news! It turns out the coronavirus is less deadly than the Black Death!
Sure, if you're not in the US or some other country that royally screwed this up!You know as well as I do how many times there's been good news about this virus.
See, the fact that it's projected to kill 300,000 people in the US before the end of the year is actually great news. Now all those dead people won't be filing for unemployment, and that will mean the unemployment numbers will go down on paper. Everybody wins!Sure, if you're not in the US or some other country that royally screwed this up!
We actually initially thought however, it would be like SARS, but then it was like SARS BUT was much more contagious than SARS, attacked the vascular system unlike SARS, did bilateral damage rather than Unilateral damage like SARS, and Our government didn't even attempt to contain or control it like they were able to do with SARS so sure, if we put aside all that then it has been great news! XD
Right because Trump's planned " K recovery" would have just put more of those people on the bottom half of the K that Trump isn't going to do anything to help at all once he is reelected! He is only willing to do anything at all to barely help them because he is worried about losing votes, but once he can't be elected anymore, he doesn't even have to bother with that!See, the fact that it's projected to kill 300,000 people in the US before the end of the year is actually great news. Now all those dead people won't be filing for unemployment, and that will mean the unemployment numbers will go down on paper. Everybody wins!
Yeah, it's still sitting at a 3% US mortality rate along with the rest of the kleptocratic shithole world, and I'd wait until more definitive studies are released about the long-term health impacts of COVID infection come out before jerkin' your gherkin to that.There's been pretty constant good news. We started with a virus that could have potentially infected 70% of everyone and killed 5% of those, and have had lists of good news ever since.
If the US screwed it up, it's only by overreaction. The next time you get actual bad news about this pandemic, it's going to be the retrospective studies of how much death could have been avoided by not freaking out.Sure, if you're not in the US or some other country that royally screwed this up!
DO you live in some alternate reality where the countries that actually took proper precautions, provided their first responders with adequate PPE and the populace behaved responsibly to reduce the spread somehow did worse than the US? That was the APPROPRIATE reaction. The US failed at that on every level due to a president pretending it was a hoax, acting too little too late and then not following through where needed.If the US screwed it up, it's only by overreaction. The next time you get actual bad news about this pandemic, it's going to be the retrospective studies of how much death could have been avoided by not freaking out.
I know very little of the good news stemmed from the efforts of the US federal government.You know as well as I do how many times there's been good news about this virus.
Okay exactly what part of "novel, highly contagious, virus with no data on long-term resistance or immunity, or long-term health consequences" do you not understand?If the US screwed it up, it's only by overreaction. The next time you get actual bad news about this pandemic, it's going to be the retrospective studies of how much death could have been avoided by not freaking out.
Depends who's got it to be honest. Some people are rubbish.Would you prefer otherwise?
This is probably the least deadly pandemic ever. Also, the cure is literally just Vitamin D!!!Good news! It turns out the coronavirus is less deadly than the Black Death!
The mortality rate is not at 3% nor has ever been at 3%. The current numbers put the mortality rate at anywhere from 0.22-0.67%. Way back in April, anti-body surveys put the estimated death rate at 0.37%, which is right in line with what current numbers put it at. Thus, it was never even at 1%, yet alone 3% or 5+% either. Plus, the mortality rate and hospitalization rate is dropping considerably now as well.Yeah, it's still sitting at a 3% US mortality rate along with the rest of the kleptocratic shithole world, and I'd wait until more definitive studies are released about the long-term health impacts of COVID infection come out before jerkin' your gherkin to that.
The US did a shit job, but we also did overreact. Do you not recall all the ridiculous stuff people were wearing in the 1st month or so of the pandemic? A former friend said there was going to be martial law enacted (and I'm like the only Martial Law you'll see is Sammo Hung and Arsenio Hall). My aunt and uncle were taking out thousands of dollars weekly from the bank and every time they'd come back from the store, they were disinfecting everything (the groceries, car, etc.). There was a major shutdown for really no reason when all you had to do was wear masks and not congregate publicly in indoor spaces, that's literally Japan's strategy and who's doing better at this pandemic, US or Japan? You didn't need to be South Korea or Taiwan to handle the pandemic well. More hardship is most likely going to happen due to the economy shutting down than the pandemic will cause directly.It is truly astounding that some people have actually convinced themselves that the US did too much to address this rather than accept the reality that the ENTIRE world sees that the US royally screwed up by not doing enough.
There is data on long-term resistance and immunity. We discovered that SARS-COV-1 has at least 17 years immunity because we found out that people that had it 17 years ago are immune to SARS-COV-2 today. All signs point to long-term immunity and this virus will be gone for good rather soon. COVID-19 is not going to be something that comes along every year, this is not the "new normal".Okay exactly what part of "novel, highly contagious, virus with no data on long-term resistance or immunity, or long-term health consequences" do you not understand?