COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (4 Viewers)

[SWJJ]

I don't think you have friends, man.

I don't even want to try to count how many people I know personally who got omicron, but I'll throw out a few.

A business acquaintance of mine in her 30s got it, then her husband who is 40 got it, then their three kids, all under 10, got it.

A close friend and his wife (both 20s) got it.

My wife in her 30s got it. I got sick the same week but never tested positive, but it was a pretty big coincidence.

Three close colleagues (50s, 40s, 20s) at work got it.

A former student (20) got it.

My pastor (30s) and his whole family got it, as well as a guy in the church in his 40s that got it, a girl in her late 20s that got it.

And then my mom's friend in her 50s that got it and passed.

This is just me spitballing off the top of my head. If I kept going, this list would grow. So many people were affected by this wave.

I echo this experience. My kids have been home FOR WEEKS because they keep getting contract traced because kids in their pods at school keep getting COVID. My Boss is home quarantined because his wife has it. My first cousin and his girl friend in Nashville both have it. I have at least a dozen acquaintances, not including the kids. The kids all seem to have stomach and intestinal issues from our anecdotal parent group's experience.

 

[efil4stnias]

I echo this experience. My kids have been home FOR WEEKS because they keep getting contract traced because kids in their pods at school keep getting COVID. My Boss is home quarantined because his wife has it. My first cousin and his girl friend in Nashville both have it. I have at least a dozen acquaintances, not including the kids. The kids all seem to have stomach and intestinal issues from our anecdotal parent group's experience.

all the kids at the lil party from Sat night- of the 5 positive ( now ) , 4 ( now ) have what we would equate to a "stomach bug". ( added 1 more to list this am lol - shirt is literally wildfire )


and within our friend group, not a single family has been unaffected since Dec 31. And most of the time, its multiple family members - so all told has to be at least 20 folks we know directly that have had covid in this wave.

previous waves ( delta - 2 degrees - original wave 3 degrees of separation) this wave was ZERO. lol

 

[UncleTrvlingJim]

We've been pretty fortunate so far. My wife got it a couple of weeks ago -- had mild symptoms for about a week. My kids and I all routinely tested negative and had no symptoms.

One of my co-workers was out sick for over a week with pretty bad symptoms (severe vertigo, hacking cough, headaches, etc), but refused to get tested (he stayed home -- mostly). He's vaccinated, but won't get boosted and thinks everything is overblown.

But that's been about it since the Omicron wave hit -- I keep getting contact tracing emails from kids' schools b/c there are tons of kids out sick with it. But no one we directly know.

 

[hockey2112]

It's been fairly routine in data since boosters have come available. 1 shot gives some very short lived amount of immunity against all variants from the little research I've seen but it's main purpose is the primer for the second shot which gives a much more robust and sustained response since the immune system has been "trained". It's why the vaccine was created for two doses to begin with. Either people have taken the vaccine as it was designed or they have not.

Makes sense. I was unaware that it had become routine to report it in that fashion.

Partial immunity is like your girlfriend using partial birth control pills.

What, you can't cut the pill in half to stretch your supply??

 

[hockey2112]

So now that my family's extremely-mild case of covid has come and gone, what does that mean for my wife and oldest daughter who both never tested positive (both fully vaxxed, wife boosted)? Are they super-immune? Or just abnormally lucky? It still shocks me that they never tested positive, as we took zero in-house precautions/quarantine measures while I and my two youngest were positive.

I guess my real question is... should my wife feel confident "out and about" since she has now stared covid in the face and said "no"? Not that she is hiding away or anything, but there is a certain amount of emotional and mental freedom that you feel after clearing a mild covid infection.

 

[nolaswede]

Denmark becomes latest European country to lift almost all Covid curbs

Government follows UK, Ireland and Netherlands in easing restrictions despite high number of cases

amp.ft.com

 

[nolaswede]

Was either in this article, or another one I read this AM, that mentioned how they consider Covid a thing of the past. At least until November/December. I guess that kind of make sense, especially when 80-85% of their population is vaccinated!

 

[SWJJ]

Was either in this article, or another one I read this AM, that mentioned how they consider Covid a thing of the past. At least until November/December. I guess that kind of make sense, especially when 80-85% of their population is vaccinated!

It will be a much more painful trip there for the United States. There are like 45 countries that have a higher percentage of their population vaccinated.

 

[Arathrael]

Not sure if this has been posted, but mast cell activation may have a huge component in causing long haul covid, the article is from Nov. 2021...

Mast cell activation symptoms are prevalent in Long-COVID

Hyper-inflammation caused by COVID-19 may be mediated by mast cell activation (MCA) which has also been hypothesized to cause Long-COVID (LC) symptoms…

www.sciencedirect.com

Not my field, but from a quick look at the methodology of that paper it's not particularly compelling by itself. It's based on a symptom survey, so they're showing some similarity between long Covid and MCAS patients. But a lot of the symptoms of both syndromes are really broad, like brain fog, muscle pain, fatigue, etc. So I'm not sure how compelling similarity of symptoms is in terms of indicating underlying causes there. Certainly worth following though.

Yeah I had done a ton of research on Mast Cell Activation... my doctor didn't even know what it was when I asked him about it. Lots of fasting and diet change helped mine tremendously and is pretty much gone at this point.

I did notice that one of the symptoms they included in that paper was literally 'Fasting worsens symptoms', with significant increased symptom severity in that category for both long Covid and MCAS patients compared to controls and pre-long Covid patients. So while that won't be the case for everyone (it's an average, so individuals may vary substantially), that does suggest fasting won't be the way to go generally for that particular condition.

 

[SaintInBucLand]

I did notice that one of the symptoms they included in that paper was literally 'Fasting worsens symptoms', with significant increased symptom severity in that category for both long Covid and MCAS patients compared to controls and pre-long Covid patients. So while that won't be the case for everyone (it's an average, so individuals may vary substantially), that does suggest fasting won't be the way to go generally for that particular condition.

Well in my case the paper is entirely wrong. Fasting and an elimination diet are what pulled me out of the constant nerve pain I was experiencing. Not to mention all my blood work has been looking good, I have lost nearly 50lbs(from 226 to 179), and I have more energy than I have in a long time as well as feeling invigorated and much more focused. Many medical professionals are going to dismiss fasting because they(and big pharma) can't make any money from it, so it doesn't surprise me.

 

[efil4stnias]

Well in my case the paper is entirely wrong. Fasting and an elimination diet are what pulled me out of the constant nerve pain I was experiencing. Not to mention all my blood work has been looking good, I have lost nearly 50lbs(from 226 to 179), and I have more energy than I have in a long time as well as feeling invigorated and much more focused. Many medical professionals are going to dismiss fasting because they(and big pharma) can't make any money from it, so it doesn't surprise me.

energy directly related to weight loss.

congrats on the 50 lbs. Im about 12-15 over my summer weight and i can absolutely tell, from a "giddy up" perspective. Soon as Feb 1 hits, im back in gym. First week ill have to force myself lol

And I fast on weekends...1 meal only each Sat and Sun. Has worked for me for almost a decade now.

 

[Arathrael]

Well in my case the paper is entirely wrong. Fasting and an elimination diet are what pulled me out of the constant nerve pain I was experiencing. Not to mention all my blood work has been looking good, I have lost nearly 50lbs(from 226 to 179), and I have more energy than I have in a long time as well as feeling invigorated and much more focused. Many medical professionals are going to dismiss fasting because they(and big pharma) can't make any money from it, so it doesn't surprise me.

No, that's not how that works.

The people saying that fasting made their symptoms worse in that paper are the patients, not the medical professionals.

Your individual experience does not override theirs.

That doesn't mean it was just coincidence and that it didn't work for you, of course. The average experience doesn't override your personal experience either. But it does very strongly indicate it not only wouldn't work for everyone with those conditions, it would make a lot of them worse.

 

[sammymvpknight]

At least this guy was calm and polite, so many of these videos are not

What a sweet old lady. Sucks she even has to deal with this crap

 

[bclemms]

So Sarah Palin tested positive for Covid, two days later was in a restaurant in NYC when someone posted a picture to social media identifying Palin as Tina Fey.

Just doesn't get much better than that.

 

[SaintInBucLand]

Just saw on a podcast about a massive trucker convoy going on in Canada against the mandates for them specifically.

I mean they have a point, why do they have a mandate if they are alone in their cabs nearly all the time driving cross country.