My daughter has covid for the third time. Not sure how she is so unlucky. She has no idea how she got it. No one else that she knows has it, including her boyfriend, though there is definitely a spike of cases in the area where she goes to grad school.
Iâve had Covid once that I know of. I recently had a brutal cold, consistently negative for Covid. I was way sicker and for longer with that dang cold than I was with Covid. For now I live life with essentially no restrictions.
The risks of Covid compound with each infection. This semester has begun with essentially zero mitigation strategies. Very few universities have isolation dorms, air purification systems, N95 or KN95 masking, or remote learning options. Itâs a âlet it rip,â âdonât ask, donât tellâ approach, and there are copious public health data to suggest it will end very badly.
Covid denialism is widespread because acknowledging the harms of Covid is economically inconvenient. We are insidiously creating millions of future physical and cognitive cripples:
âExperts Arenât Sureâ Until Youâre Dead
JESSICA WILDFIRE
"Thereâs been a handful of stories across the internet lately pointing out that more Americans and Canadians, especially young adults, are dying than anyone expected this year. Weird, huh? For example, USA Today ran this and The Globe and Mail ran this. And The Telegraph ran this, noting the record level of heart attacks after the pandemic. Thereâs also a piece in The New York Times that asks, âHow Bad is a Second (or Third or Fourth) Case of Covid?â Itâs infuriating how obtuse these pieces are, but itâs not shocking.
They all make the same statement:
âExperts arenât sureâŠâ
They use different phrasing, but they pull the same moves. They introduce doubt and uncertainty where thereâs actually a lot of consensus. They cite one or two studies that confirm what weâre witnessing with our own eyes. They pretend that nobody really knows whatâs going on.
They act like thereâs still a lot of debate.
Thereâs actually very little.
Thereâs hundreds of studies on the long-term, lethal risks of Covid. They paint a very clear picture. The mainstream media continually refuses to illuminate that picture for the public. Letâs put it in plain language:
Getting Covid is bad for you.
Weâve known this since 2020. Hereâs an excerpt from UCSF Magazine, which interviews a range of experts:
Now researchers at UC San Francisco and around the world have begun taking a closer look at this dizzying array of symptoms to get at the diseaseâs root causes. They are learning from people inside the hospital and out; people on the brink of death and only mildly sick; people newly exposed and recovered; people young and old, Black, brown, and white. And they are beginning to piece together the story of a virus unlike any known before.
Letâs emphasize that last phrase:
A virus unlike any known before.
Thatâs the headline.
Thatâs what the media should be telling the public. This virus does things that weâve never seen a single virus do. Itâs not a respiratory virus. Itâs not the flu. Itâs much more. It invades your brain. It attacks and fuses neurons. It causes microlotting in your blood vessels.
It disrupts and damages your immune system.
It damages your heart.
It scars your lungs.
Weâre reliving the denial years we saw with HIV, with asbestos, with tobacco, with radium. Thereâs an established historical precedent for corporations and politicians lying to the public about known health risks. Thereâs a precedent for corrupt doctors to lie with full knowledge of the harm theyâre doing, because theyâre either pressured or paid to play along.
This is one of those times.
These arenât opinions. This isnât hypothetical. This isnât up for debate. These things are happening. Honest doctors and epidemiologists have observed it. Theyâve observed these outcomes in healthy people. Theyâve observed these outcomes in young people. Theyâve tried to warn us.
Hereâs the only âdebatableâ part:
How many infections?
Well, sometimes it only takes one. Sometimes it takes three or four. All of the evidence points to a grim conclusion: If you keep getting infected with Covid, you will eventually develop a disabling condition.
It will eventually kill you.
Weâve also seen compelling evidence that you donât develop lasting immunity to Covid. Your symptoms might feel milder at first. Thatâs it. You think youâve gotten better, but Covid is still in you, doing damage.
The media either doesnât understand science, or they donât want to understand. No scientist is ever going to say theyâre 100 percent sure of anything. Weâve studied Covid for about 4 years now. Thatâs not long, but weâve already produced hundreds of articles that all indicate the same thing:
Covid is dangerous.
The media also pulls another move.
They present binaries.
Youâre either living in a bubble, or youâre living your life. Youâre either living in fear, or youâre moving on like the rest of the world. Youâre either ignoring Covid, or you have Covid anxiety syndrome.
Itâs one or the other.
Theyâve stopped mentioning masks. Theyâve stopped mentioning air purifiers. They recommend the same two things over and over: vaccines and Paxlovid (by Pfizer). They never talk about how difficult it is to get Paxlovid now. They never mention how hard it is to get a reliable test.
The media donât report that stores are selling expired test kits. They donât report that Covid is mutating faster than vaccines can keep up. They arenât grilling the CDC on their sluggish booster schedule. They arenât demanding updates on NextGen vaccines. They didnât report the drastic change in how the CDC calculates excess deaths.
Theyâre asleep at the wheel.
Iâm going to say it:
If we had a Republican president, the press would be barking at them constantly, just like they did the first year.
Theyâre not.
Thatâs not journalism.
We know why life expectancy is falling. We know why people are dying of sudden strokes and heart attacks. We know why musicians are collapsing on stage. We know why students are struggling in school.
Itâs Covid.
This is exactly what hundreds of experts warned us about for the last three years. They told us to expect a tsunami of heart attacks and strokes. They told us to expect a visible decline in learning.
Weâre seeing it.
The media will always be able to find one or two scientists willing to go on record and say, âIâm not sure.â Thatâs the safest response. It carries zero liability. Thatâs exactly what every single living human says when they donât want to tell you what theyâre really thinking.
Itâs the ultimate nonanswer.
Those kinds of experts arenât sure about anything until youâre dead. They werenât sure about asbestos, tobacco, radium, lead paint, or HIV until it was already too late for millions.
They call it waiting for the evidence.
Youâre the evidence.
MeanwhileâŠ
We have more tools at our disposal than ever. Using masks and air purifiers doesnât mean youâre living in a bubble. It means youâre not as completely helpless and reliant on Pfizer as the mainstream media seems to want everyone to believe. You donât have to keep getting sick. You donât have to wait until late September to protect yourself from a virus thatâs surging now.
The media acts like experts arenât sure.
Theyâre sure enough."
We all got covid on 7/14. Never had it before or since, so far. We continue to mask with kf94 masks when in indoor crowded spaces and try to limit our exposure to crowds.
We have cut back on travel and only resumed it 3/2023.
Agree that the âCâ line for the testsâ Control is really, really not a good idea. I think lots of people will make the mistake your friend did.
The C line presumably exists to indicate whether the test is still good, and that enough liquid is used. The instructions do say that the test is only valid if the C line shows, in which case the T line indicates the result.
Yes, thatâs the conventional presentation of these tests. But when testing for âcovidâ, I can see how a line on the âCâ indicator can be confusing.
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And Iâm glad they never needed to read a pregnancy test.
These two are highly educated, one has a Pulitzer prize, but they needed a medical reporter to help them read the test. âTwo lines, you need TWO lines.â
Daughterâs wedding is in 3 weeks. She and her fiance have started wearing masks again. (Or at least they tell me they are!) FOB and I are too.
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WellâŠIâm recovering from my first bout of Covid. I had a mild case. Principal symptom was extreme fatigue. I was supposed to go to a party a few days ago. Felt much better and planned to go. I thought I just had a cold, but took a covid test to be sureâŠand darn, I had it.
So, it hasnât gone away.
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As long as the control is not labeled âPâ for paradigm.
H tested positive for the first time last week. I came up positive two days ago. This is my second round with the last being June of 2022. Both fully vaccinated and boosted.
Iâm experiencing much more severe symptoms this time. Headache, chills, sore throat, cough, head congestion, mild GI issues. My abs are sore from all the coughing. H has a horrendous headache, fatigue, cough, loss of taste. Interestingly, H has a wet bronchitis-like cough and I have a dry cough that sounds like the croup.
And then there is thisâŠ
âThis two-part narrative review presents evidence for the widespread harms of novel product COVID-19 mRNA and adenovectorDNA vaccines and is novel in attempting to provide a thorough overview of harms arising from the new technology in vaccines that relied on human cells producing a foreign antigen that has evidence of pathogenicity. This first paper explores peer-reviewed data counter to the âsafe and effectiveâ narrative attached to these new technologies. Spike protein pathogenicity, termed âspikeopathyâ, whether from the SARS-CoV-2 virus or produced by vaccine gene codes, akin to a âsynthetic virusâ, is increasingly understood in terms of molecular biology and pathophysiology.â
Full text
âTraditional COVID-19 vaccines have not produced the high rates of adverse event reports that characterise the gene-based COVID-19 vaccines. This is further evidence that the risk is in the body-wide biodistribution and prolonged production of spike proteins. It points to pathogenicity of the spike protein and, given the evidence described above, also the lipid-nanoparticle carrier matrix.â
âTherefore, in the young and healthy the encoding-based COVID-19 vaccines will transfect a far more diverse set of tissues than infection by the virus itself.â
Three of the seven authors of that paper are from âChildrenâs Health Defence (Australia)â, which is a branch of the US anti-vaccine group Childrenâs Health Defense.
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Can I just say again how grateful I am for your contributions to this thread?
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Punned is a very reputable government site for publications. So excuse me if I âfollow the literatureâ rather than an internet posters bias against the authors.
Iâve come to the conclusion that most people on this site are so entrenched in their beliefs one way or the other that they will never believe the science that goes against them.
I believe the vaccines may be beneficial but Iâm not so naive as to believe that MRNA is perfectly safe. My reaction to the vaccine (and family members reactions) were not good! There needs to be a LOT more studies on this issue (studies without bias).
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Incorrect. Pubmed is a search engine for information contained in various health related journals. Pubmed will pull up recalled articles, too, if the search terms lead to them.
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Now might be a good time to kick the habit that apparently is linked to higher Covid risk:
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nose-picking-linked-to-higher-risk-of-covid-study-shows/
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D1 tested negative again today and is back in the classroom with a mask. She only had one positive test out of the 4 that she took and the line was faint so she thinks she must have been at the end of the infection.
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Some Covid-related Q&As:
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