Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Honestly, though, this is a big thing with the flu vaccine too, which is why it is important and works. When you read stories of people dying from the flu, especially people who you didn't fit the typical flu death type, they almost always didn't get a flu shot. People who get flu shots are much more likely, obviously, to not get the flu at all effective rate or not (I love the arguments against getting it when it's only 50 percent effective or whatever, I mean, that's better than zero, right?), not have complications from it if they do get it, and best of all, more likely to not die from it. If all this happens with a COVID19 vaccine it means it's working.

 

The South Carolina news is kind of strange to me. It's obvious to say it will be bad in December. Can't fault them for planning. But it's so far off how do they know? And how do they know it won't be bad in October? It's just interesting planning. While I know planning needs to happen for everyone, we don't even know what next month is going to look like but you're going to go as normal in the fall and then call things off?

 

football. They now have the argument in favor of going forward with football.

 

It certainly plays a role.

 

Flu vac is somewhat problematic because flu mutates so easily. No one knows what strains of flu will be infecting us come the fall. The manufacturers have to make an educated guess and begin the manufacturing process months in advance. They pick the three that seem most likely and put it out. I worked up close with sick people all the time, and I got the shot every year. It's a no-brainer. You should also see if you have had a pneumonia shot or if it needs a booster, particularly if you get a lot of upper respiratory infections or are over forty. It's cheap insurance, and it's something that you can do to help your odds. Why wouldn't you?

 

This is what's so maddening to me; WE DON'T KNOW how to fight/stop this virus; as my buddy in ICU just told me yesterday, all they can do is give anti-inflammatories, which is just masking it.

That should have been priority Number 1 from our federal government, devote all our resources to FINDING OUT; yet, even today, that has yet to happen.

Why has that NATIONAL effort not happened?

In WW II they built a naval ship a day, we should have made the same effort with COVID 19.

Voters, wake up!

 

No. We DO know how to fight it. It worked in China and South Korea. Test a lot. Isolate the positive. Trace their contacts. Monitor them closely, and if they spike a fever isolate them and trace contacts. Simple public health measures will go a long way toward smothering outbreaks. We don't have an effective treatment yet, that's true. We do all we can to minimize infections while the research for treatment and vaccines goes forward.

 

There's more to it than that. Roughly one of every six undergrads is from Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Massachusetts. If you're going to disperse them to their home turf for Thanksgiving, you run the risk that some of them will be infected while on break and will bring it back with them. So you have to give them time to get sick and hopefully recover by the time you bring them back.

 

The vaccine helps you to either not get it or it quickens recovery, which is useful. I got the flu vaccine at the beginning of March and got really sick a short time later, but it only took a few days to get over rather than weeks that I usually have to endure with a sickness (usually sinuses and coughing after dealing with the initial round of fever and body aches). Could also have been stress mixed with diseased children. But getting over Covid in the matter of days rather than weeks will mean much fewer deaths and hospitals are not as overrun. I'll take that.

 

If I was building in Russia, I think I would import windows from somewhere else. Domestic Russian windows are still having QC issues.

 

There are many people who believe that China lied about their COVID 19 deaths or perhaps even originated COVID 19.