Covid-19 positive

[Oregongearhead]

Meet Covidisor, A Practical COVID Helmet That Lets You Drink Coffee | Sprudge Coffee

And it looks sharp to boot!

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I"d wear it ! Anyone remember the TV show "Lost in Space" ? Looks just like those early astronaut helmets.... lol

 

[Cookieman]

I"d wear it ! Anyone remember the TV show "Lost in Space" ? Looks just like those early astronaut helmets.... lol

 

[Rockclimber]

Being in Jiu-jitsu 6 days a week bleeding and sweating on over 30 different people weekly I have some perspective on C-19

Around 16 people from our academy have tested positive and quarantined over the past few months. My symptoms were that of allergies or a cold, most people had similar mild symptoms but we are all young and athletic individuals. We have 3 nurses that work on the Covid floor, one of which travels state to state for $10,000 a week. She has been to New York City and Houston. Her stories are the opposite of my experience. People bleeding from their eyes, etc. She is not as laid back about this as all us dumb Jiu-jitsu guys seem to be. The other nurse has similar stories but has only worked locally. My mom and dad had it, mom is a doctor and has almost no symptoms, dad is having a hard time but still at home. Both around 68 years old.

 

[nidnoy]

Of course doctors and nurses are going to see the worst of the worst. They are dealing with all the people who get this really bad. They are going to have a different perspective than many. And a lot is just they don’t want to see other people suffer and die like that. They see what we don’t, the theoretical possibilities to us are reality to them. I am not saying we need to all hide away, in fact I am against that, but it is wise to do some thinking at least about what risks one is willing to take.

 

[Uglyrichie]

Saw this in a reddit forum, long read but if your religious it's a good one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/new



Supreme Court Backs Religious Groups in Challenge to New York's Shutdown Order: "Even in a pandemic, the Constitution CANNOT be put away and forgotten. The restrictions at issue here strike at the very heart of the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty."

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The Supreme Court late Wednesday blocked New York officials from limiting religious gatherings, a win for Orthodox Jews who had sued over restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Members of this Court are not public health experts, and we should respect the judgment of those with special expertise and responsibility in this area," the majority opinion said.
"But even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten. The restrictions at issue here, by effectively barring many from attending religious services, strike at the very heart of the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty."
In a 5-4 decision, the nation’s highest court said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and other officials cannot enforce occupancy limits set in a previous executive order.
Cuomo had mandated that attendance at religious services remain at 10 people or under in so-called red zones and at 25 or under in orange zones.
New York officials have created a color-coding system to mark what levels they believe the pandemic has affected certain areas.
Lawsuits brought by he Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Agudath Israel of America triggered the ruling.
“Stemming the spread of COVID-19 is unquestionably a compelling interest, but it is hard to see how the challenged regulations can be regarded as ‘narrowly tailored,’” the Supreme Court said in the unsigned majority opinion.
“They are far more restrictive than any COVID-related regulations that have previously come before the Court, much tighter than those adopted by many other jurisdictions hard-hit by the pandemic, and far more severe than has been shown to be required to prevent the spread of the virus at the applicants’ services.”
The plaintiffs were likely to prevail on First Amendment ground, the court ruled.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Donald Trump appointee, wrote a separate opinion siding with the conservative majority, saying churches and synagogues were treated differently than commercial institutions by the state.
“It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues, and mosques,” Gorsuch argued.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, also concurred, noting that temporary injunctions were warranted but that the Nov. 25 decisions were not final.
Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett and George W. Bush appointees Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito also voted to block the restrictions from being enforced.
Bush appointee John Roberts, the court’s chief justice, said in a dissenting opinion that “there is simply no need” to grant injunctive relief.
“Numerical capacity limits of 10 and 25 people, depending on the applicable zone, do seem unduly restrictive. And it may well be that such restrictions violate the Free Exercise Clause.
It is not necessary, however, for us to rule on that serious and difficult question at this time,” he alleged.
Barack Obama appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined with Bill Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer in a separate dissenting opinion.
Breyer wrote that he also believed there is not a need to issue injunctive relief because the parts of Brooklyn and Queens where the Diocese’s churches and the two applicant synagogues are located are no longer within red or orange zones. Cuomo, whose office didn’t respond to a request for comment, had made that argument last week in a court filing.
“The applicants point out that the State might reimpose the red or orange zone restrictions in the future. But, were that to occur, they could refile their applications here, by letter brief if necessary. And this Court, if necessary, could then decide the matter in a day or two, perhaps even in a few hours,” Breyer wrote.
“Why should this Court act now without argument or full consideration in the ordinary course (and prior to the Court of Appeals’ consideration of the matter) when there is no legal or practical need for it to do so? I have found no convincing answer to that question.”
Finally, we note that the court earlier this year declined to lift pandemic restrictions in California and Nevada when the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was on the court.

Pretty easy to see which judges give a flying fuck about the Constitution.

 

[xgunx]

Personally I think covid is blown up just to scare us

 

[Brandaddy]

I just got over it. I didn't really get very sick. None of my friends got very sick either. The main things we all got were fatigue, mild insomnia, and an itchy throat. My GF and a couple of my other friends lost their smell and taste for a week.

So overall, nothing really that bad IMO. I consider puking my guts out and wondering if I'm going to see tomorrow bad though. Lol. Not just a little lack of energy and staying awake a couple more hours a day.

 

[malfeasance]

"It's not as bad as they are telling us."


What are the telling us?

The most current estimates are that, if you are actually infected, only 0.2% die. That is not 2%, but 0.2%. Not 4%.

0.2%.

99.8% survival.

Now, if you are a diabetic fat ass (whoa, this has been going on for almost a year, why did you not lose the weight since you claim to care about your health so much???), then your odds are not going to be 0.2%. The flip side of that coin is that if you are healthy, your odds are much better than 99.8%.


AND there is a favorable development. The virus is mutating, and the most prevalent virus now is much more infectious but much less lethal.

Quote starts here:
But one mutation stood out to Korber. It was in the gene encoding the spike protein, which helps virus particles to penetrate cells. Korber saw the mutation appearing again and again in samples from people with COVID-19. At the 614th amino-acid position of the spike protein, the amino acid aspartate (D, in biochemical shorthand) was regularly being replaced by glycine (G) because of a copying fault that altered a single nucleotide in the virus’s 29,903-letter RNA code. Virologists were calling it the D614G mutation.

The coronavirus is mutating — does it matter?

Different SARS-CoV-2 strains haven’t yet had a major impact on the course of the pandemic, but they might in future.

www.nature.com

Google D614G and read for hours. It is fascinating stuff. This variant is now almost exclusively what they find in current samples and has been for months, which explains why deaths are not matching the new cases.

In other words, the death rate is going to drop below 0.2%.

 

[malfeasance]

Covid-19 is becoming less deadly in Europe but we don't know why

London is getting busier as lockdown lifts It is becoming increasingly clear that people are less likely to die if they get covid-19 now compared with earlier in the pandemic, at least in Europe, but the reasons why are still shrouded in uncertainty. One UK doctor has said that the coronavirus...

www.newscientist.com

Covid-19 is becoming less deadly in Europe but we don't know why

Read more: Covid-19 is becoming less deadly in Europe but we don't know why

Article from back in August

 

[malfeasance]

• Researchers looked at the coronavirus strain of more than 5,000 Houston cases
• Found that 99.9 per cent of the strains discovered were the D614G variant

Coronavirus D614G mutation found in 99.9% of cases at US hospital

The D614G variant first emerged in Europe in February 2020 and spread rapidly to all corners of the globe, supplanting the original strain.

www.dailymail.co.uk

However, the D614G mutation sprung up at one specific location, called position 614, on the spike protein of the virus.

This spike hijacks the human receptor ACE2 and this is how it infects human cells.

The location of the mutation sits at a critical juncture which affects how the virus cleaves in half after infiltrating a cell.

The mutation is very small and simple, one amino acid is changed from a D (aspartate) to a G (glycine), hence the moniker D614G.

 

[malfeasance]

Same article: A September study from the US found 99 per cent of cases in a New York hospital were of the G strain, similar to the latest figures from Houston.

 

[Dognamefranklin]

@Mighty-mouse sippin that syrup mayne

 

[Cookieman]

Too many terrified people that believe anything that the media and government yell them..Read this regarding actual mathematical comparrison data and death rate...

A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19

According to new data, the U.S. currently ranks first in total COVID-19 cases, new cases per day and deaths. Genevieve Briand, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master’s degree program at Hopkins, critically analyzed the effect of COVID-19 on U.S. deaths using data from the...

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