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Originally posted by konata88:
Yet, despite their finding (masks not helping), they still advocate use of masks? Explain?

Simple. The sheep expect government to do something. The reality is, government couldn't do much of anything prior to distribution of these new vaccines to stop the spread of the virus (and the jury is still out on how effective these vaccines will really be in the wild). Soooooooo, Government being the pompous, self-important, asswipes they are, ginned up this mask BS as a response, and the media ran cover for them. As such, they are not going to back away from this mask mandate no matter what comes out. This was all just BS from the beginning and it continues to be BS today. But the sheep bleat contently as they mill through life with a rag across their pie hole waiting to get their vaccine shot that's estimated to be ~94% effective against a virus that's ~99.075% non-lethal to an overwhelming majority of the country. Welcome to 2021's version of Idiocrasy.

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Originally posted by TMats:
About 78% of people who have been hospitalized, needed a ventilator or died from Covid-19 have been overweight or obese, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new study Monday.

That is hardly surprising.

About 78% of people are overweight or obese.

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Originally posted by Fenris:

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Originally posted by TMats:
About 78% of people who have been hospitalized, needed a ventilator or died from Covid-19 have been overweight or obese, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new study Monday.

That is hardly surprising.

About 78% of people are overweight or obese.

That was the question that I asked, about four posts prior to yours. Looks like we're thinking along the same lines.

New Israeli drug cured 29 of 30 moderate/serious COVID cases in days — hospital

https://www.timesofisrael.com/...ithin-days-hospital/

Medicine developed at Ichilov moderates immune response, helps prevent deadly cytokine storm, researchers say; 29 of 30 phase 1 trial patients left hospital within 3-5 days

A new coronavirus treatment being developed at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Medical Center has successfully completed phase 1 trials and appears to have helped numerous moderate-to-serious cases of COVID-19 quickly recover from the disease, the hospital said Friday.

Hailing a “huge breakthrough,” the hospital said Prof. Nadir Arber’s EXO-CD24 substance had been administered to 30 patients whose conditions were moderate or worse, and all 30 recovered — 29 of them within three to five days.

The medicine fights the cytokine storm — a potentially lethal immune overreaction to the coronavirus infection that is believed to be responsible for much of the deaths associated with the disease.

It uses exosomes — tiny carrier sacs that shuttle materials between cells — to deliver a protein called CD24 to the lungs, which Arber has spent decades researching.

“This protein is located on the surface of cells and has a well known and important role in regulating the immune system,” said researcher Shiran Shapira of Arber’s lab.

The protein helps calm down the immune system and curb the storm.

“The preparation is inhaled once a day for a few minutes, for five days,” Arber said. “The preparation is directed straight to the heart of the storm — the lungs — so unlike other formulas… which selectively restrain a certain cytokine, or operate widely but cause many serious side effects, EXO-CD24 is administered locally, works broadly and without side effects.”

The medicine will now move on to further trial phases, but hospital officials were already hailing it as a possible game-changer in fighting serious COVID-19 illness.

Ichilov director Roni Gamzu, the former coronavirus czar, said the research “is advanced and sophisticated and may save coronavirus patients. The results of the phase 1 trial are excellent and give us all confidence in the method [Arber] has been researching in his lab for many years.”

He added: “I am proud that at Ichilov we are… possibly bringing a blue and white remedy to a terrible global pandemic.”

My wife currently has covid. She is obese (so am I). Her symptoms are like a mild cold with the exception of losing her sense of taste and smell.

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
My wife currently has covid. She is obese (so am I). Her symptoms are like a mild cold with the exception of losing her sense of taste and smell.

Here's hoping she recovers quickly and without issues.

Yesterday I heard the term LongHaulers for the first time. I have a once very active aunt who now cannot climb steps without losing her breath.

Long-haul Covid patients can experience 'waves of symptoms,' early research suggests

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I’m of the opinion that we will be seeing a lot of long term side effects of Covid that extend far beyond the illness itself. A co-worker and his wife got it back in October. She still has frequent intermittent loss of sense of smell and taste. Those that suffered lung damage may have issues for the rest of their lives. The frantic response to the outbreak by the Chinese for what in reality has a low fatality rate makes me believe they know the seriousness of long term ramifications.

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long term ramifications

What other virus causes these types of issues? Not only the ongoing problems, but the wide variety of them?

Ronin1069, is or was she a smoker? And or a regular drinker?

The loss of sense of smell / taste: what's happening here? I think I was losing my sense of smell / taste over the past several years (comments of late like - this dish is a little too salty or sweet or whatever when it tastes fine to me).

However, with the wuflu and this being one of the symptoms, I'm more aware of this.

https://www.kusi.com/governor-...rmal-after-pandemic/

For God's sake

Infinite jackassery. Stop talking, you idiot.

California? Look to Florida for how to navigate this you idiots. You are crushing the future of your residents, especially your youth. Inept, self serving morons.

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Yesterday I heard the term LongHaulers for the first time. I have a once very active aunt who now cannot climb steps without losing her breath.

^^^^^^^^^^
The latest stat was 78 percent of COVID patients have a least one lingering symptom six months later. There are a number of patients here locally that will need medical oxygen for the rest of ther lives.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
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I’m of the opinion that we will be seeing a lot of long term side effects of Covid that extend far beyond the illness itself. A co-worker and his wife got it back in October. She still has frequent intermittent loss of sense of smell and taste. Those that suffered lung damage may have issues for the rest of their lives. The frantic response to the outbreak by the Chinese for what in reality has a low fatality rate makes me believe they know the seriousness of long term ramifications.

First time I have heard of long haul but had been warned by our doctor after wife and I got it that long after we get past initial symptoms its not known what can come or go. We ended up exceptionally lucky in that we at the time still had some weight on and had a few co morbidities but beyond loss of taste and smell and sniffles we got past it. Sniffles within a few days but took a while for taste and smell to come back and some to us both seem off now - and have had times where its muted for lack of better words

Ultimately, I am left wondering with talk of viral load we could catch it worse later or a mutation compounds and it be worse since we had been exposed or will we be better off. Lots of unknown variables

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:


https://www.kusi.com/governor-...rmal-after-pandemic/

Yep, and there you have it. This was never about a virus, it was all about control.

I posit that it’s not just control but wealth. Temporarily depressing the economy and flow of goods and services has made capital ripe for the taking at bargain prices by the pelosi family of dynasties.

Huh? I don't understand what this is saying but it doesn't sound good.

https://www.oann.com/report-bi...ined-americans-data/

Report: Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation Linked To Chinese Company Found To Have Mined Americans’ Data


OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 9:14 AM PT – Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Bill Gates has reportedly been linked with a Chinese company U.S. officials are now calling a national security risk for nearly a decade. According to reports Monday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has worked extensively with BGI Genomics since 2012, which was formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute.

Back in 2012, the billionaire’s foundation established a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese firm to “bring genomics research” to the global society. This occurred as U.S. Intelligence officials said the company used COVID-19 test kits supplied to the U.S. government to “collect, store and exploit bio-metric information.”

“They are the ultimate company that shows connectivity to both the communist state as well as the military apparatus,” stated Will Evanina, former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center. “Current estimates are that 80 percent of American adults have had all of their personally identifiable information stolen by the Communist Party of China.”

^^^
"Cloud" anyone.

Did anyone think that Microsoft, Google, et al wouldn't scan data that was sent to a server farm?