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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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MililaniBuckeye said:
Uh, it's not a "blessing" seeing as if you had the flu you wouldn't face the same risk as you would with COVID. That's like saying a guy with no legs has the unexpected blessing of not worrying about tripping and falling.
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Flu "prevention". It's a good thing, grasshopper! Reducing the "viral load" is a key factor in the level of Covid infection.
 
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"Immune Training"

One of those mysteries: why the experience can be so vastly different from person to person. One expert says the answer may mean taking a closer look at previous vaccines individuals have had.
"When we looked in the setting of Covid disease, we found that people who had prior vaccinations with a variety of vaccines -- for pneumococcus, influenza, hepatitis and others -- appeared to have a lower risk of getting Covid disease," Dr. Andrew Badley, an infectious disease specialist at Mayo Clinic told CNN's Anderson Cooper Monday night.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/index.html
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Uh, it's not a "blessing" seeing as if you had the flu you wouldn't face the same risk as you would with COVID. That's like saying a guy with no legs has the unexpected blessing of not worrying about tripping and falling.
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Have I missed something where we've learned that flu and COVID are mutually exclusive? If not, it seems like no flu is a silver lining in the cloud of COVID, albeit perhaps not a very significant one (although early on in this COVID experience, I seem to recall some folks making more of a big deal about the flu and its potential to cause deaths)
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Same but then again, how much more do we really trust our own government?

Eventually they will come out with something that they say is a vaccine/cure. I don't know of anyone who wants to be first in line for that shot.
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The government isn’t developing the vaccine though really, but the can mandate its use. A lot of it will depend upon what data is available from the actual scientists. But trust our government either? Hard pass.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Same but then again, how much more do we really trust our own government?

Eventually they will come out with something that they say is a vaccine/cure. I don't know of anyone who wants to be first in line for that shot.
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Compared to Putin's government? A lot more. That's not saying a great deal, but our "deep state" (by that I simply mean professional civil service employees trying to do their jobs) is, I think, much more likely than Russia's civil servants to try to head off or blow the whistle on really dangerous or awful behavior.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
Have I missed something where we've learned that flu and COVID are mutually exclusive? If not, it seems like no flu is a silver lining in the cloud of COVID, albeit perhaps not a very significant one (although early on in this COVID experience, I seem to recall some folks making more of a big deal about the flu and its potential to cause deaths)
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It's not like COVID is keeping you from getting the flu...
 
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