Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I signed up through the state's website but can't yet through Richmond City's health department. I'm in the other part of 1b because apparently being a little overweight is enough to put you in a high risk category. They've barely cracked the 65+ part of the 1b group. Not holding my breath that I'll get a needle in my arm before May, at the very earliest.

 

Massachusetts, which has a bunch of world class hospitals, top notch medical research facilities, and is where one of the companies that developed a vaccine is headquartered, ranks a snappy 44th out of 50 states and D.C. in vaccine distribution to date. One clue as to how things are going. The sign-up website is so awful that a software engineer on maternity leave created her own site in her spare time. The Governor met with her yesterday to see if he can borrow it.

 

from the New Yorker about 6 weeks ago. This is why I wish painful diseases and death for every republican conservative Christian denier of the virus and they shit families. If there’s a god, it’ll see their evil and stop their bloodline.


There are three things this virus is doing that blow me away,” Brooks told me. “The first is that it directly infects the endothelial cells that line our blood vessels. I’m not aware of any other human respiratory viruses that do this. This causes a lot of havoc.” Endothelial cells normally help protect the body from infection. When sars-CoV-2 invades them, their powerful chemical contents get dumped into the bloodstream, resulting in inflammation elsewhere in the body. The rupture of individual endothelial cells coarsens the lining in the blood vessels, creating breaks and rough spots that cause turbulent blood flow.

The second surprise was hypercoagulability—patients had a pronounced tendency to develop blood clots. This reminded Brooks of Michael Crichton’s 1969 novel, “The Andromeda Strain,” in which a pathogen causes instant clotting, striking down victims in mid-stride. “This is different,” Brooks said. “You’re getting these things called pulmonary embolisms, which are nasty. A clot forms—it travels to the lung, damaging the tissues, blocking blood flow, and creating pressures that can lead to heart problems.” More puzzling was evidence that clots sometimes formed in the lungs, leading to acute respiratory distress. Brooks referred to an early report documenting autopsies of victims. Nearly all had pulmonary thromboses; until the autopsy, nobody had suspected that the clots were even present, let alone the probable cause of death.

“The last one is this hyperimmune response,” Brooks said. Most infectious diseases kill people by triggering an excessive immune-system response; covid, like pneumonia, can unleash white blood cells that flood the lungs with fluid, putting the patient at risk of drowning. But covid is unusual in the variety of ways that it causes the body to malfunction. Some patients require kidney dialysis or suffer liver damage. The disease can affect the brain and other parts of the nervous system, causing delirium, strokes, and lasting nerve damage. covid could also do strange things to the heart. Hospitals began admitting patients with signs of cardiac arrest—chest pains, trouble breathing—and preparing emergency coronary catheterizations. “But their coronary vessels are clean,” Brooks said. “There’s no blockage.” Instead, an immune reaction had inflamed the heart muscle, a condition called myocarditis. “There’s not a lot you can do but hope they get through it.” A German studyof a hundred recovered covid patients with the average age of forty-nine found that twenty-two had lasting cardiac problems, including scarring of the heart muscle.

 

At least you have a governor smart enough to do something like that.

 

The Left’s Vaccine Problem

It may take 18 months to get everyone vaccinated . . . but it will be FAIR!

 

My state is dead last in vaccine distribution. Maybe I'll get the shots this year, maybe I won't. I hate my state.

 

Baker (A Republican, by the way, BTE), is a former health insurance executive. This may explain why he did a real good job at the start of the virus, which was risk mitigation policy, and so much less well with vaccine management, which is essentially paying out benefits. Very much into crossing all the t's and dotting the i's before proceeding to the next step.

 

This was as inevitable as the right not giving a shit about the pandemic.

this has already affected my family. My parents ages 92 and 83 were scheduled for vaccines but when they got to the vaccination center they were told there wasn’t enough for them. Later in the week I read in the Washington Post that vaccines originally intended for my parents location were diverted to another center that served a more diverse community. And by diverse they didn’t mean a rainbow of different people but a homogeneous minority group. This occurred because of pressure from county council persons and activists.

 

I've been told I'll probably get dose 1 (of two) within a week. Woohoo for me.
I won't particularly change my behavior much, but I'll be a little less nervous in public places.

 

The second dose of the Bill Gates vaccine uses an extra-large needle, to handle the update.

 

It’s only delivered on a Tuesday, and it is delivered right at the moment when you have critical things to do.

 

The needle goes 95 percent of the way in before delivering an error message saying to contact your administrator. Then it uninstalls immunity.