Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

There are far too few stories on the long-term damage COVID-19 could - and apparently has - caused to some who contract it and survive. Long-term lung damage, permanent damage to other organs and stuff that hasn't even been thought of by the proudly maskless and others who think science is for idiots.

 

I don't know what other health emergencies like this have been like because I haven't lived through them. I have a feeling that 10 years from now when this is under control and no longer a worry but some ridiculous number of people are still suffering from it we'll look back and there will be a consensus of just how bad it was. And everyone who denied it will deny that they denied it.

 

Look back at the history of the Aids epidemic from today's perspective. Covid has been undertreated in a similar fashion for different political reasons and is an ongoing and growing plague, and will be remembered as a similar huge failure.

 

I did think of AIDS after I posted that. We're definitely going to have a revisionist history history on this.

 

so, what 's the plan for returning our children safely to school?

 

Step 1: Define “safely”

 

Good start.

Have we had a national discussion about that yet?

 

We are right now exactly six months past the first confirmed US infection. There hasn't been enough time passed for anyone to gauge long-term effects. Anything right now is guessing. You had COVID in April. You survived. Your lungs, however, show scarring. Is that permanent? Will it clear up over time? Will the body --- as it is wont to do --- heal itself as much as possible? As smokers' bodies do? All unanswerable on July 19.

 

The primary question is "What do we do when someone in a class tests positive?". If it is anything other than send the teacher and entire class into quarantine for two weeks, we've got big problems.

 

Same for kidney damage, blood clots, strokes, embolisms, cardiac damage, and more, many of which do not repair themselves over time, or only to a limited degree of healing.

 

There may not be a way to herd immunity. Israeli doctor reinfected with coronavirus 3 months after recovering

One thing I’ve wondered, regarding that: Researchers have established that a recent change in SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein boosted its infectiousness. I don’t know if people who are being “reinfected” by the virus have in fact been infected by the two different versions, and I’m not sure if it’s possible to test for that.

 

Seems like we’re having pretty much the usual stereophonic one ... these people over here would rather eat an emu’s turd than give those people over there an inch (and vice versa).