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Theresa's avatar

So perfect. My spouse who has behaved as if there is no covid since the state emergency ended, has covid. He says he doesn’t feel that badly, but the cough is bad. Like the athletes, “I am struggling to breathe, but it’s not that bad.” He is isolated to family room and our shared bedroom. I moved out of our room at the first signs, when he told himself that it was asthma.

Anyway, he begged me to watch track and field in the covid room, I said no. Not even with n95 masks on. He doesn’t wear a mask when I am not in the room. Covid gets in our ears and eyes. So perfect that he is watching the covid games with covid.

My spouse is healthy and fit, and 71. This is at least his 2nd round of covid. His other case in Dec 22 ruined my life. I have long covid, from my one “mild case” of a basl 3 disease. I lost my 100% remote job, that I liked more than any other job. I lost my ability to think and to remember. Can’t do a thought job when your brain has lost its ability to think.

There is a reason the movie idiocracy is popular.

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KOB's avatar

It's wild so many spouses, often men, are negligent and abusive in this way with their families. I'm sorry you're having to deal with this and I hope you're able to avoid catching it a second time

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Ric Vaughn's avatar

How many other athletes now have Covid from this jerk competing for another two days after diagnosed?

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Glenn Toddun's avatar

It always drives me wild that if we, as a globe, all stayed inside for 2 weeks. the virus would have died.

Adding to that is that we can still do it, and it would kill COVID along with a lot of other lil nasties that like to travel with us.

But we won't. It's not even on the menu of consideration because the spice must flow.

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KOB's avatar

And if people ever say this is not possible, refer them to SARS-COV-1 and MERS

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Maggie JK's avatar

I was watching a YouTube clip Of an NBC or CBS News report from the other day that says doctors in California have figured out that that inflammatory problem that children were having right after surviving an infection is an autoimmune disorder.

These people are giving their children autoimmune disorders just so they can pretend everything’s fine. It’s sick

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Amy - The Tonic's avatar

Thank you for capturing my outrage so well. To add to it, there is some evidence that elite athletes get hit with long COVID more than others. Let Bednarek fuck around and find out.

https://open.substack.com/pub/wmcresearch/p/the-athlete-paradox-why-do-elite?r=o3zsi&utm_medium=ios

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KOB's avatar
Aug 9Edited

Not only zero precautions are being taken, Medical Teams are actively green lighting athletes to perform while sick. That is gross negligence and if athlete's career is now ruined as a result of them catching covid and performing while sick, could they sue anyone about it? Cuz let's not forget a lot of these athletes are not paid well or have full benefits when they're not performing.

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Citizen Erased's avatar

Reading this brings to mind a recent BBC 'public health'-type article I read - where an expert virologist was quoted saying covid is just another cold no one should be worried about. This was the BBC deliberately propagandising for capital by peddling misinformation.

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Godfree Roberts's avatar

"In the context of public health, there is none. Governments do nothing to stop the spread of the world’s leading cause of infectious disease death"??

The Government of China did and is doing a bang-up job of stopping the spread. To contain plague outbreaks, China did vector tracing and block-by-block lockdowns in the twelfth century.

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Perplexed Rationalist's avatar

“And is doing a bang up job”, what exactly are they doing now that is bang up? They have moved on exactly like the rest of the world and not only do they now do nothing to stop the spread but the official narrative is that it is only a cold and even mentioning covid gets many social media posts and articles shut down. In fact internet speak for covid here now involves calling it ‘hot mouth virus’ or ‘probiotic’ to get past the censorship

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Maggie JK's avatar

Ew you’re one of those weirdos?

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Maggie JK's avatar

Didn’t they stop doing all that?

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Jane Fisher's avatar

The WHO called an emergency meeting yesterday about the spread of mpox in Africa and that news barely got reported. I guess we’re about to find out if government officials learned anything about how to prevent the next pandemic.

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Parri Marshall's avatar

Great article, thank you. The ignorance is mind blowing. We have never before in human history had such access to scientific information (e.g., anyone can access Google Scholar), and such blatant disregard for this privilege.

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the suck of sorrow's avatar

What I write is not an endorsement of the International Olympic Committee and their Olympic Games.

Can China now receive acclaim for running a responsible contest for athletes that focused on mitigating viral infections while providing first rate event facilities?

I littered the Internet with predictions of Paris being a shit show (giving thanks that my triathlon career did not include dips in the Seine.)

These current games demonstrate clearly the moral depravity of Western capitalist leadership. Give me some communism please.

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GioGio's avatar

The vaccines are supposed to prevent covid and serious illness, but the athletes at the Olympics are still getting covid and being hospitalized. So are the vaccines worthless?

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chamag's avatar

They were never designed to prevent covid, but to reduce the seriousness of the infection and to reduce numbers of deaths. The rest is political and media spin and nonsense.

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Carmen's avatar

It is not know how many are vaccinated or up to date on their vaccinations.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Jesus wept. Are you sure that they didn't collapse 'with' the vaccine?

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the suck of sorrow's avatar

Given that the current vaccine uptake in U.S. adults is around 6 percent and there are no longer vaccine mandates one can be pretty confident that the collapses were not caused by vaccination.

Obligatory append: fighting a disease spread by aerosols strictly with non-sterilizing vaccines is lunacy.

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Jo Waller's avatar

But they'd all presumably had at least one jab so they still collapsed 'with' them, just as they collapsed 'with' a positive test, though not necessarily 'of'.

Unlike the original vaccines these ones don't seem to do the job (though neither did the original smallpox one either https://jowaller.substack.com/p/lets-hope-the-monkey-pox-nonsense) and must be continually topped up. Is that what you mean by 'non-sterilizing vaccines'.

Where is the evidence that any disease is spread by aerosols please?

https://jowaller.substack.com/p/how-does-transmission-of-illness?utm_source=publication-search

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chamag's avatar

My hunch is for it's a mix of reasons. It could be onset of Long Covid as a consequence of pushing too much too soon after or during an infection. (Happened to us that way in the first wave before any vax were available & before people knew that "pushing through" could cause permanent disability.) Also covid infection and vax are known to cause Myocarditis and pericarditis. Plus random other factors. The real problem is governments have tried to manipulate and failed to grasp the opportunity to gather decent statistics so we all end up guessing and treating beliefs and hunches as if they were facts when they fit the various narratives preferred. The truth is we don't really know. That's why making decisions around all this is so fraught. I think the best we can do is to each make our own choices and support others in theirs regardless of whether they are the same or not.

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Maggie JK's avatar

What are you even doing here shouldn’t you be on gab or truth social or somewhere where your cult hangs out

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Jo Waller's avatar

I'm just interested in the evidence and the science. If you are not- what are you even doing on substack?

By all means call me a cult member if it helps you avoid looking deeper and bothering to develop your critical analysis skills.

Have a nice day.

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Theresa's avatar

The book by Tainter is available for free: https://archive.org/details/TheCollapseOfComplexSocieties

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Lisa's avatar

All this before schools go back. Around and around we go.

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GioGio's avatar

The vaccines are supposed to prevent covid and serious illness, but the athletes at the Olympics are still getting covid and being hospitalized. So are the vaccines worthless?

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chamag's avatar

They're not supposed to prevent covid. They were designed to mitigate it's effects.

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Maggie JK's avatar

Well yeah they’re pretty much a year behind they’ll start making it for strains that we don’t have anymore by the time it comes out.

Plus it doesn’t stop infection. I’m already disabled by viral damage, I don’t actually want to live more disabled by Covid. I would rather it just take me than leave me damaged and unable to shower or cook meals.

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