Exactly.
In the US Covid has become a political issue.
After the omicron? variant or whatever one that was harmless and even not noticable to most healthy people ost countries went back to normal.
When I saw images from the US with many people wearing masks outdoors literally years later and I asked why I got immediately attacked as a bleach injecting Trumper.
I’m European. And the US is fucked up in many ways.
LOL
Yes, practically all governments in the world and their experts are misinformed.
Only the blue US MAGA cult is right bcs they must do the opposite of the red MAGA cult even to the absurd.
You are a joke.
“There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence,” says long COVID researcher, David Putrino[…].
So there is a cumulative effect that can be occurring with each infection.
Early in the pandemic, we actually published a paper where we showed that, even in animal models — when we infected mice with a very, very mild case of SARS-CoV-2 infection — which only caused lung inflammation, we still saw these inflammatory chemicals called chemokines emerging from the infected lungs and starting to attack central nervous system structures such as the spinal cord and the brain.
[…]You know, this is a virus that, once it enters the body, is very capable of entering the bloodstream, creating immune responses that travel all over the body.
It disrupts what we call “interferon signalling,” which is part of the immune system that helps you to fight off infections or latent infections, such as Epstein Barr virus.
Typically our immune system can keep these things suppressed, but when SARS-CoV-2 enters the picture, it starts to cause altered interferon signalling. It causes immune damage and dysregulation.
And suddenly, not only does your body have trouble clearing the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself, but it also starts to have trouble keeping some of these other viruses that have been latent from reactivating and causing problems.
In addition to SARS-CoV-2’s ability to dysregulate the immune system and suppress the immune system, the spike protein itself is very damaging to blood vessel structures as well as red blood cells and platelets themselves.
And so between those two features, the ability to dysregulate the immune system and the ability to cause systemic damage throughout the bloodstream, you have a very dangerous novel virus on your hands.
It really is. Lately, people here are so quick to either attack, or assume they’re being attacked. Someone just accused me of “lashing out” yesterday for explaining why a mobility solution they put forward for disabled people wouldn’t work for two disabled people that I personally know. No insults, no accusations, I even outright said “I sympathize” with the other commenter and their goals. I thought I worded my point in a neutral way, but someone still took offense so… I don’t know what else to say.
I figure it’s a trauma response from being entrenched in Reddit. Like people are primed to expect a fight and don’t know how to process a calm, ordinary conversation online anymore.
Exactly.
In the US Covid has become a political issue.
After the omicron? variant or whatever one that was harmless and even not noticable to most healthy people ost countries went back to normal.
When I saw images from the US with many people wearing masks outdoors literally years later and I asked why I got immediately attacked as a bleach injecting Trumper.
I’m European. And the US is fucked up in many ways.
Did you inject the bleach into your brain? Because this uninformed, selfish statement would sure fit right in this dumpster fire of the USA
LOL
Yes, practically all governments in the world and their experts are misinformed.
Only the blue US MAGA cult is right bcs they must do the opposite of the red MAGA cult even to the absurd.
You are a joke.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888
The shift in conversations on Lemmy after people fled Reddit is so glaringly obvious.
“X or Y? Pssh. How can you even consider something I don’t personally understand? Much prefer to voice an ignorant opinion.”
It really is. Lately, people here are so quick to either attack, or assume they’re being attacked. Someone just accused me of “lashing out” yesterday for explaining why a mobility solution they put forward for disabled people wouldn’t work for two disabled people that I personally know. No insults, no accusations, I even outright said “I sympathize” with the other commenter and their goals. I thought I worded my point in a neutral way, but someone still took offense so… I don’t know what else to say.
I figure it’s a trauma response from being entrenched in Reddit. Like people are primed to expect a fight and don’t know how to process a calm, ordinary conversation online anymore.
I really enjoyed the prior Lemmy wherein people led with their expertise, or approached conversation as an opportunity to learn.
This new paradigm of “my emotional impulse is equal to your knowledge” is definitely a decline, imo.
Claiming COVID is no worse than the flu demonstrate absolute no expertise though. There’s no both sides to such a misinformed comment.