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"Never forget" x "It's over, get back to normal" (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (12 children)

the fact that a post like this still has people in the comments acting like COVID is in the past and 1k ppl in the US alone aren't dying of it every week. COVID literally hasn't gone anywhere all of you have just closed your eyes to the consequences of your actions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)

19k people die in us yearly just because they use a gas cooker.

Dont look up how many die per year from regular flu. Covid is over and its a small disease like any other now.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] HappyStarDiaz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you inject the bleach into your brain? Because this uninformed, selfish statement would sure fit right in this dumpster fire of the USA

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888

"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.

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