The Coronavirus Thread

[pErvinalia]

[rainbow]

In other news, Musk will be releasing 'the Fauci files' later this week.

51 current and former intelligence officials say that it has all the hallmarks of a racist far-right conspiracy theory

51?
Gosh that is a lot.

[Tero]

(Trying to sell a paper)
Not now kraken corona!

[L'Emmerdeur]

The usual confederacy of dunces has latched onto the collapse of a professional American football player on-field (his heart stopped after a hard blow to his chest) as supposedly another instance of Covid-related heart disease. You can be sure this site would have been regaled with quotes from incisive tweets on the topic if the itinerant peddler of errant bullshit hadn't just toddled off for another long break.

This piece takes way too long to dissect the question, but then that is one of the advantages that errant bullshit enjoys--it often takes much longer to refute than to proclaim.

'Here's Why Anti-Vaxxers Pounced on Damar Hamlin's Collapse

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed after making a tackle during a Monday Night Football game versus the Cincinnati Bengals. While most saw a tragedy, anti-vaxxers saw opportunity.

As of this writing, the reason Hamlin’s heart stopped remains unknown—one possibility raised by cardiologists is an arrhythmia caused by blunt impact to the chest—but that didn’t stop conspiracy theorists from baselessly claiming it was a COVID-19 vaccine.

Whether Hamlin has taken the vaccine or any boosters, and (if so) how many doses he’s had, isn’t publicly known either. He was in the league last season, when the NFL said “nearly 95 percent of players are vaccinated,” so it’s likely he’s had at least one COVID shot, but even if that’s the case, we have no idea if he’s had any since, and most of the already rare heart issues that arose after vaccination have occurred within seven days of getting one.

Nevertheless, some MAGA influencers, such as YouTuber Tim Pool and former Navy officer Andrew Rose, used the incident to declare that public health officials’ were lying when they said approved COVID vaccines are “safe and effective.”

Celebrity doctors who have spread doubts about COVID shots got in on the action too. Drew Pinksy, the former host of VH1’s Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, tweeted “Another athlete who dropped suddenly” to his 2.6 million followers, implying the number of athlete collapses spiked in the last two years (it hasn’t), and that medical examination has indicated the not-actually-real spike was caused by vaccines.

[macdoc]

so glad partner and I have dodged this.. :eek:
so far,,,,

[macdoc]

this too very informative and enjoyable

[Strontium Dog]

I still haven't had it

[macdoc]

Neither partner nor I have either but so many close to us have.....and one seems permanently disabled and another nearly died ( he was asymptomatic but had it and nearly did not make it )

[Svartalf]

I don't even know if I've had it. At any rate, I got 4 shots, and expect to get more in time

The funny bit is that in August, I had a very bad flu like thing (I mean , I got to 39.6C° fever, and was completely exhausted... but I noticed it only because, about Aug 15, the weather turned and I noticed I had been blaming the hot weather, but was still feeling bad when it turned cooler. I took a test, when in the very middle of it, with high fever, and it was n egative. But the quackl insisted it really looked like a covid thing... so basically, I don't know if my doctor was mistaken, or if the tests are actually worthless.

[NineBerry]

Tests aren't worthless but not perfect, especially the lateral flow tests. They depend a lot on that you perform them correctly which is not easy.

[Svartalf]

Well, the test I took was in the very middle of the illness and performed bby a professional... so if it could yield a false negative under those conditions, I think that the difference from absolute worthlessness is kind of negligible

[NineBerry]

Hm. PCR performed by a medical professional? Or Lateral Flow performed by some guy in a pop-up test-center at your local Kebab place?

[Svartalf]

Nose rape performed by a supposedly trained person a a regular pharmacy.

[Svartalf]

I mean, I doubt the lady is a full on pharmacist, but she's the one in charge of their lab.

Do PCR and lateral flow have the same speed in delivering results? if not, I guess it may have been lateral flow for swiftness.

[NineBerry]

Okay, pharmacy sounds good. Over here a lot of test centres were operated by former kebab shop personnel. Lateral Flow takes 15 minutes while PCR takes several hours.