COVID-19 'Pandemic'

Hoid

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The Alberta covid outbreak is especially concerning.

43% of the cases have no contact tracing. They have no idea where they got it.

BC has to take a serious look at that border. It is particularly porous because so many Albertans live/work/play in eastern BC. Places like Kelowna are home to thousands of them
 

petros

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Bullshit. I've seem Asian women and men wearing face masks since I was a kid living in Winnipeg. That was the early 90s. It has nothing to do with air pollution. It's to prevent getting sick, or giving it to others, if they feel they have a cold.
Then, in the 1950s, Japan’s rapid post-World War II industrialization led to rampant air pollution and booming growth of the pollen-rich Japanese cedar, which flourished due to rising ambient levels of carbon dioxide. Mask-wearing went from seasonal affectation to year-round habit. Today, Japanese consumers buy $230 million in surgical masks a year, and neighboring countries facing chronic pollution issues—most notably China and Korea—have also adopted the practice.
 

petros

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The Alberta covid outbreak is especially concerning.
43% of the cases have no contact tracing. They have no idea where they got it.
BC has to take a serious look at that border. It is particularly porous because so many Albertans live/work/play in eastern BC. Places like Kelowna are home to thousands of them
if you live in Kelowna you arent an Albertan.
 

Blackleaf

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UK Government Planning To Pick Off Individual Local Councils For Tier 3 Restrictions!

Angry Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham made a statement moments ago.

 

Blackleaf

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Hopefully, Burnham just tells the 3 million people of Greater Manchester to just ignore the restrictions imposed on once-free people by this fascist regime.
 

spilledthebeer

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SK is doing something right. !!!




Yeah - not letting people into the province! If nobody goes there who is ill then NOBODY there gets infected either!
Civil serviced union HOGS and other arrogant wealthy types DONT BOTHER MUCH with Saskatchewan!
Globe trotting Covidiots prefer the bright lights and big cities!
 

JLM

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Yeah - not letting people into the province! If nobody goes there who is ill then NOBODY there gets infected either!
Civil serviced union HOGS and other arrogant wealthy types DONT BOTHER MUCH with Saskatchewan!
Globe trotting Covidiots prefer the bright lights and big cities!


For sure! You gotta wonder why that message is so sinking in. Do we have to start taking a page out of Doug Ford's book?
 

JLM

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Hopefully, Burnham just tells the 3 million people of Greater Manchester to just ignore the restrictions imposed on once-free people by this fascist regime.


That a boy, just start ignoring restrictions and you'll soon discover how f**king free you are! ENJOY!
 

Blackleaf

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Sunetra Gupta - "Long COVID sufferers" is a well known and rare outcome of viral infection

Sunetra Gupta is Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellow. She holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of London. She has been awarded the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London, the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award, and currently holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship and an ERC Senior Investigator Award.

 

Mockingbird

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Everything needed to treat covid is state of the art and some even thousands of years old.
Question. Have you been tested? If you were tested positive but you were feeling perfectly normal, what would you expect to happen afterwards?
A 14 day stay home notice, medication, advice? Is it enough? Too little?
Is there anything you could do to mitigate the infection from going from sniffles to septic?


Yes, state of the art treatment that wasn't around thousands of years ago, and so research throughout time has led to the better treatment options available today. We don't rely solely on age old treatments. Out of genuine curiosity though, which thousands of years old treatments are you referring to?

Have I been tested for Covid-19? No, I haven't been tested. If I were tested and I tested positive but felt perfectly normal what would I expect to happen? Well I would hope that I would continue to feel perfectly normal and that my body could fight it off. But with so much unknown about this disease I wouldn't know what to expect. I could feel perfectly fine for a spell then not feel so well. And I guess that would depend on a lot of things, my age, my physical condition or if I had any pre-existing conditions etc.

Is there anything I could do to mitigate the infection from escalating from the sniffles to becoming septic? I would follow the advice of my Dr's and take any treatment plan that they suggest and hope for the best outcome. We should all be so lucky as Trump was to have access to the best care/most current treatment options available that mitigated his infection from worsening.