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Originally posted by a1abdj:
You know what would be better and more effective? Treat these types like the bikers in Bronx tale. Let them come in, lock the door, and explain that you need them to take a message back to their bosses. The mob types use these methods because they are highly effective. Screaming and yelling may yield temporary results, but it doesn't generally really get the message to sink in.

Locks door. "Now youse can't leave."

The following is from a well respected peer reviewed Journal. Please note the sample size.

1 in 3 People Who Survive COVID-19 Are Left With ‘Brain Disease’ or Psychiatric Disorders, Says New Study

Researchers are continuing to study the long-term effects of COVID-19. And now, there's evidence to suggest that a third of COVID-19 survivors are struggling with brain disease or other psychiatric disorders.

That's the major takeaway from new research published in The Lancet Psychiatry on Tuesday. The study analyzed data over a six month period from 236,379 patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19. The researchers discovered that 34% of COVID-19 survivors had a diagnosis for either a neurological or psychological condition within six months after they were infected.

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A little more than 17% of those patients were diagnosed with anxiety, while 14% were diagnosed with some form of mood disorder. A smaller number of former patients experienced brain hemorrhaging, stroke, or dementia—all of which can be considered types of brain disease.

The incidences were higher the more severe a person's COVID-19 illness. More than 19% of patient who were in the ICU when they had COVID-19 struggled with anxiety, while nearly 3% were diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. The percentages of those who were diagnosed with neurological conditions like stroke and brain bleeding were also higher in this group.

RELATED: Does COVID-19 Cause Brain Damage? Here's What We Know So Far

The researchers also compared data from people who had COVID-19 with those who had other respiratory tract infections at the same time. What they found: People who had COVID-19 had a 44% higher risk of neurological and psychiatric illness than those who recently recovered from the flu.

That said, the researchers also discovered that two neurological diseases that are common with viruses— Guillain-Barré and parkinsonism (a group pf neurological disorders that cause movement issues similar to Parkinson's disease)—weren't any more common in COVID-19 survivors than patients who had recovered from other viruses. In the study, the researchers said that the reason why was "unclear," but also suggested that some patients may develop parkinsonism in the future, calling it a "delayed outcome."

"Our results indicate that brain diseases and psychiatric disorders are more common after COVID-19 than after flu or other respiratory infections, even when patients are matched for other risk factors," study co-author Max Taquet, PhD, a professor at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry, said in a press release.

RELATED: Is Confusion a Symptom of COVID-19? Here's What Experts Say

While the study didn't uncover why this link exists, Paul Harrison, lead author of the study and associate head of the department of psychiatry at the University of Oxford, tells Health that there are some theories. "One of the more obvious explanations may be that COVID-19 affects the brain more than other viruses. It gets into the brain directly," he says.

There is also a known link between severe illness and neurological and psychological complications, infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, MD, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, tells Health. "This is well described in scientific literature," he says, citing sedatives, paralytic medications, and disruption of the sleep-wake cycle as possible reasons why someone who is hospitalized with a serious illness might have brain after-effects. "But the mild cases…we don't understand why that happens," he says. "It may be the result of inflammation that occurs during the illness. We've really just started scratching the surface of what this means for mild cases."

There are limitations to the study, though. "It could be that your doctor is more likely to notice the symptoms you may have," Harrison says. "It could also be that people who are recovering from COVID are monitoring their bodies more closely and looking for symptoms." However, Harrison says it's more likely that COVID-19 actually impacts the brain in some way.

RELATED: Doctors Report Small Number of COVID-19 Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms—Here's What to Know

This also isn't the first study to link COVID-19 with brain disease. A study published in March 2020 of 730 COVID-19 patients in China found that 96.2% of them experienced some symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) after recovering from the virus. Another study of 381 former COVID-19 patients treated at a hospital in Rome, Italy, found that 30% experienced PTSD after they recovered from the virus.

And yet another study, this one of 74 patients in the Boston area who were diagnosed with COVID-19, found that 18 were admitted to the hospital due to stroke after having the virus, 15 had seizures, and 26 experienced confusion and delirium.

Research on the impact of COVID-19 on the brain is continuing, but Harrison says people who have had the virus shouldn't panic. "Two-thirds of people did not have any of these problems," he says. "The average person after COVID is not going to have these problems. We need to have this in perspective." Still, if you've recovered from COVID-19 and are noticing any new neurological or psychiatric issues, it's best to bring them up to your doctor.


link: https://www.health.com/conditi...sychiatric-disorders

^^ The next BIG EXCUSE why people need government checks in their mailbox every month, from now until they die. You had a head cold and it disabled you permanently. Not only are you permanently disabled, you are also a hero and you deserve the constant and unwavering admiration of your peers, who are obligated to assist your free ride through life physical and mental struggles- unless you're a conservative straight white male, in which case, you're on your own, you racist, murdering Nazi.

My advice to all of you is to start pushing back at the narrative that this virus has destroyed the world, or the leftists will fuck up your quality of life so badly, there will be no recovery from it.

What a marvelous time to be a hypochondriac, I suppose, and a marvelous time to be a criminal, too. You robbed that convenience store because of C'OvId-1-9

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
The following is from a well respected peer reviewed Journal. Please note the sample size.

1 in 3 People Who Survive COVID-19 Are Left With ‘Brain Disease’ or Psychiatric Disorders, Says New Study

Researchers are continuing to study the long-term effects of COVID-19. And now, there's evidence to suggest that a third of COVID-19 survivors are struggling with brain disease or other psychiatric disorders.
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A little more than 17% of those patients were diagnosed with anxiety, while 14% were diagnosed with some form of mood disorder. A smaller number of former patients experienced brain hemorrhaging, stroke, or dementia—all of which can be considered types of brain disease.

You gotta be kidding me. Anxiety and mood disorder. But the headline is front and center screaming BRAIN DISEASE! So ridiculous.

Anyone who has a rough time with any disease or sickness and is hospitalized will probably be a bit anxious afterwards or develop a bad mood. But please, let's keep funding these jerkoffs so they can continue their "peer reviewed studies" and scare the hell out of the public. I'm less than impressed.

Dr. Fauci says he takes vitamin D and C supplements and that they can lessen 'your susceptibility to infection'
glandsverk@businessinsider.com (Gabby Landsverk) 9/11/2020


Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading US expert in infectious disease, said in a recent interview that he takes vitamin D and C supplements to keep a healthy immune system.
There's good science behind his recommendation, with plenty of evidence that being deficient in either nutrient can make you more susceptible to infection.
Fauci said most other immune-boosting claims, however, are useless. There's little evidence other supplements make much difference in preventing illness.

The leading infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci recommends taking your vitamins now that school has started and flu season is nearing.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, specifically suggested taking vitamin D and C supplements and said he takes them himself in an Instagram Live interview with the actress Jennifer Garner on Thursday.

"If you're deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection. I would not mind recommending, and I do it myself, taking vitamin D supplements," he said. "The other vitamin that people take is vitamin C because it's a good antioxidant, so if people want to take a gram or so of vitamin C, that would be fine."

There's a large body of research supporting Fauci's recommendations. Studies suggest vitamin D and C are your best bet for supplementing immune health. However, many of the other products sold for this purpose are useless or worse.
There's evidence to support supplementing vitamin D and C for immune health

Extensive evidence has linked vitamin D deficiency to greater risk of infection, particularly from respiratory diseases like COVID-19.

That's led many researchers to investigate the use of vitamin D supplements to help prevent or lessen the effects of the coronavirus. While the findings are somewhat contentious, since researchers don't fully understand if vitamin D supplements can cause better health outcomes, studies have consistently linked vitamin D deficiency to greater risk of severe infection.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/heal...nfection/ar-BB18WvmA

At the very least, Fauci should be stripped of all credentials and banished from public life. What really needs to happen, though, is a long jail sentence. Ten years oughta do it. He can have it cushy in a Club Fed somewhere. I don't care, just as long as he shuts his mouth for good.

Oh, yeah, Fauci, take some D and some E and throw in some other letters of the alphabet for good measure, then triple mask up and go jump off a cliff. Bungie jump without the bungie. Have some gas station sushi. Change the channel from a Steelers game in a sports bar. Whatever, just get gone, you complete PHONY.

Don't take these videos too seriously. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. CREEPY AS HELL REGARDLESS

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Do scientists still care about distinguishing between causal relationships vs correlated relationships vs coincidence?

BTW, I haven't been sick (TMK) but I'm increasingly anxious. All this talk about passports, new normals, doomsday. What do I get?

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Fauci, take some D and some E and throw in some other letters of the alphabet for good measure, then triple mask up and go jump off a cliff. Bungie jump without the bungie. Have some gas station sushi. Change the channel from a Steelers game in a sports bar. Whatever, just get gone, you complete PHONY.

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A little more than 17% of those patients were diagnosed with anxiety, while 14% were diagnosed with some form of mood disorder.

Any chance there's a link between these displayed conditions/diagnosis' and the fact that the .gov, along with the infallible paragons of 'intelligence' in the public health community, have displayed NOTHING but complete ineptitude throughout this entire nightmare, supplemented of course, by the constant drumbeat of terror and death associated w/ COVID coming from the media establishment?

It seems the prescribed counter-measures/treatment/cure that's been imposed on society for this pandemic, just might be worse than the actual disease! I wonder...

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For all of those posting above. The Lancet will accept well reasoned rational argments that are in conflict with the journal report. For those who do not know:
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is among the world's oldest and best-known general medical journals. It was founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley, an English surgeon who named it after the surgical instrument called a lancet.

The editors are not in the habit of publishing garbage.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is among the world's oldest and best-known general medical journals. It was founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley, an English surgeon who named it after the surgical instrument called a lancet.

The editors are not in the habit of publishing garbage.

Other than the Wakefield study.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is among the world's oldest and best-known general medical journals. It was founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley, an English surgeon who named it after the surgical instrument called a lancet.

The editors are not in the habit of publishing garbage.

I no longer trust anyone on this subject. They can peer review until the cows come home. I'm not listening. I'm certain this seems irrational to many of you, but this is what happens when you lie to people enough, and I reached that threshold months ago.

Look at what's been done to the world in the name of "safety". They have fucked up the lives of tens of millions of Americans.

It's time for everyone to man up. You can cower in your house or you can choose to be alive, with all the risks that are associated with life.

^^^I reached that threshold 200 pages ago in this very thread!

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17% of those patients were diagnosed with anxiety, while 14% were diagnosed with some form of mood disorder.

When I was young and entertaining pre-med, Lancet seemed like a respectable publication.

But anytime I see "information" like this, I tune out and disregard anything else the "expert" is trying to say. I can't fathom how one would normalize all other factors to reasonably attribute something like covid to 'feelings' let alone measure the level and determine causal, not correlated, relationships.

The scientific method is lost.

My Doctor makes me fill out a form detailing the symptoms causing my visit. One of the questions asked is am I irritable?
I write down: ARENT WE ALL?
I should be careful about that. Probably puts me on a list somewhere.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

The editors are not in the habit of publishing garbage.

Well, I just read a piece on the previous page that seems to suggest otherwise.

IF you read that Lancet piece and don't walk away shaking your head, then you've seriously lost the plot.

Mood disorders... Anxiety... about COVID-19!!!

Who would have guessed???

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Well, I just read a piece on the previous page that seems to suggest otherwise.

Didn't I just remind you of your manners?

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Well, I just read a piece on the previous page that seems to suggest otherwise.

^^^^^^^^^
Perhaps you should submit a carefully crafted letter to the editors of the Lancet. Your considered opinion as a merchant marine will be eagerly anticipated.