I never received an answer, but if perchance I did, I missed it and apologize. My grandson has Covid for the 4th time. Being a teacher he was required to be fully vaxed with boosters. Today I located the following. Any additional input is welcome.
https://time.com/6553340/covid-19-reinfection-risk/
https://x.com/DrBenTapper1/status/1687603811425124353
It's a cold. Stop worrying.
Thank you!
share"It's a cold. Stop worrying."
Oh, thank god!
Diamond and Herman Cain have nothing to worry about, then.
Oh thank God! A doctor on Twitter! They know everything.
shareHe's a medical doctor.
shareHe must know more than all the other doctors that disagree with him!
shareThat and the quote from the CDC.
shareWhich issss?
shareugh..you want me to have a discussion with you, but you didnt even read the link.
shareYes, I read the link to your TWEET. No where did it say that it was just a cold. It said that most people have mild symptoms and it didn't even link to the actual CDC which says that some people will DIE or require hospitalization.
You can read the rest of that article here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/treatments-for-severe-illness.html
Pronouns, covid.. way to turn General into Politics.
Yeah, yeah, I know neither are necessarily political, but you know what you’re doing.
How can a disease be political? How can pronouns be political? We haven’t discussed anything political in regards to both. You are the one making it so. Picture this: Big family dinner. “Politics not permitted at the dinner table as we are all of different ideologies. Leave politics at the door.” Someone states “You guys are aware I’m trans, what you didn’t know is I had Covid several weeks ago and I took the vaccine and boosters. I’m OK. Not contagious. That’s why I made excuses not to attend some of our family dinners. All is well and I’m happy to be with my family again.” “ABSOLUTELY NOT” is the reply. “Need I remind you “no politics” at the table? Check them at the door!”
YOU'RE RIGHT...NOBODY WOULD SAY THAT IN RESPONSE TO SUCH AN ANNOUNCEMENT...
HOWEVER THE LESS MANNERED UNCLES AND COUSINS AND MAYBE EVEN DAD WOULD SURELY JUMP AT THE CHANCE TO AIR THEIR THOUGHTS ON SUCH TOPICS WHICH WILL OBVIOUSLY ENVOKE A RESPONSE FROM THOSE WHO DISAGREE....AND NOW THE DINNER IS WRECKED.
UNINTENTIONAL OR NOT...YESTERDAY'S THREAD WRECKED OUR DINNER AND TODAY'S HAS THE SAME POTENTIAL.
During my 7 years on this board I have never received as many replies or seen replies to others as I’ve had with that piddly OP! I didn’t wish to wreck anyone’s dinner. Maybe it’s time to adjourn to the family room for some belching & farting! Used to say smoking, but that isn’t a good idea either.🙇🏼♀️
shareTHE BEST THINGS ABOUT GENERAL DISCUSSION ARE THE LACK OF DIVISIVE ISSUES AND BETTER MANNERS THAN ELSEWHERE ON THE BOARD.
WE ALL NEED TO BE BETTER.
I’ve thought about this reply on & off during the past…let me check…oh OK 8 hours or more. I finally determined what was eating at me when you referenced the General Discussion Board:
”… BETTER MANNERS THAN ELSEWHERE ON THE BOARD.”
Frankly, I felt under siege by some. I felt there was an attempt to silence me by some just for asking a generic question about Covid and making a statement in another OP about pronouns. Neither one had anything to do with politics. This OP of mine brought forth replies no different from the Politics Board. I was accused of being underhanded with a certain goal in mind.
” Pronouns, covid.. way to turn General into Politics.
Yeah, yeah, I know neither are necessarily political, but you know what you’re doing.
Accusatory? YOU BETCHA! Where were the better manners? BTW, this poster wasn’t the sole ripper!
I get the game now. It takes intelligence to pen an OP “Am I Racist?” or an OP about “Fire Crotches”. Which by the way GREATLY OFFENDED ME! But, I didn’t whine about the asinine OP or lambaste the one who wrote the OP. I didn’t have to read it.
You didn’t wreck my dinner.
shareI’m happy to hear that Wan King! What was your dinner? Tea & Crumpets? Crumpets are just pancakes or waffles w/o sugar. Blah!
sharePizza, garlic bread, followed by a slice of leftover birthday cake from my daughter’s recent birthday and a cup of tea.
shareWan King, I feel the need to say I LOVE YOU!🥰🥰 You didn’t pounce on me for asking a question about Covid which my grandson has for the 4th time. Psst, psst I have to let you in on something I learned today. The adage is true. Ya learn somethin’ new every day. Covid is NOT a human disease. Shh, don’t tell anyone what I’m about to tell ya…it’s a political disease! Got that? Keep it to yourself. Shh…
shareLove you too Kissy 😘
I’m not a doctor, so cannot give you a professional opinion.
Nevertheless, it depends on which strain you contract and how you are affected as an individual.
The latest variants don’t seem as robust as previous ones.
Because we regularly travel internationally, my family and I are all vaxed and boosted to the max. I have no interest in what their people decide or don’t decide to do regarding vaccinations.
“You guys are aware I’m trans, what you didn’t know is I had Covid several weeks ago and I took the vaccine and boosters. I’m OK. Not contagious. That’s why I made excuses not to attend some of our family dinners. All is well and I’m happy to be with my family again.”
That sounds like a political ad we might see on tv lol js; though I do believe that a person who is pronoun-conscious, such as a trans person, wouldn't use gendered language terms like "guys".
You got me! I hesitated…then what the hell! That’s my manner of speaking.
shareDoesn’t surprise me that the progressive cabal wants to bully you into putting your “wrong-think” posts into a place they are less likely to be viewed
shareYIKES
shareRight you are! But, who’s the cabal? This has got me thinking. Where in the hell would have been a neutral place to discuss Covid? Would Measles be permitted here on the Gen. Dis. board? Mumps? Chickenpox? Or worse…Smallpox! Hey! How about Crabs! WHAT TO DO ABOUT SYPHILIS? I regret…HELL NO I DON’T REGRET SOME GETTING THEIR TIGHTY WHITEYS OR PANTIES INTO A WAD WHEN I HAD A QUERY ABOUT COVID!! DAMMIT!!
share"gendered language terms like "guys"."
I thought it was quite cool they way "guys" turned into a sort of neutral male and female collective expression , but it never *quite* fully got there
I mean the classic "Hey You guuuys" in The Goonies was addressed at male & female
“Hey you guys!” is part of my vernacular. I’m too old to worry about it. When my kids (goats) had birthday parties I would ask “Any of you guys want more cake?” They were all little girls! When my friends had adult parties it was common to hear “Any of you guys want more of…” whatever? We don’t look upon it as gendered. You could say it’s “gender neutral” because it is used in the collective.
“Guys: Noun
Used to address a group of people of either sex”
“A group of people can be guys, even if they're all female.”
You had to of known this was going to morph into Politics the moment the subject matter was posted
shareWhy do you suppose that is? It’s a damn disease like any other disease which we humans can catch if contagious. I personally don’t see the connection. Was polio political? Was Smallpox political? Measles, Mumps, Chickenpox? It’s a sorry state of affairs when we cannot ask questions or give answers about this, this, shudder, shudder disease known as Covid.
Russian Flu? Political?
”Known as the “Russian Flu,” this influenza outbreak is believed to have begun in St. Petersburg but it soon spread across Europe and the world. It was one of the first epidemics that was covered regularly by the developing daily press. Newspapers wrote about the local spread of the disease and also discussed the situation in other distant European cities thanks to telegraph reports. It is estimated that around 1 million people died of the Russian Flu.”
Spanish Flu? Political?
”Known at the time as the “Spanish Flu,” this flu pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recorded history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus. According to the CDC, an estimated 500 million people — or 1/3rd of the world’s population — caught the virus during the pandemic and between 50 million and 100 million people were killed. 675,000 died in the United States alone. Some victims died within mere hours or days of developing symptoms.”
The only reason my OP morphed into God Forbid! POLITICS…was due to the fact…there were those who made it so.
Anytime your immune system creates an inflammatory response to an infection or injury there is a chance for it to cause permanent damage to another part of your body.
shareThank you for a common sense reply. Just as I thought before I read the Times article. The human body can take only so many attacks before the auto-immune system starts failing. My husband acquired Lyme disease. Even though he was under the care of a doctor he was failing daily. I had to change his linens daily as he was running a constant temp of 102 plus. This so-called doctor (quack) was treating it as a flu and said just wait it out. My husband got to the point of not being able to turn the shower handle. After five days of running a high temp I went to the quack’s office and raised hell. I informed the staff it’s not normal for an adult to maintain a high fever for that length of time. My husband actually felt himself slipping away.
As it turned out the quack was out of town and the best physician in town was handling his cases. They made the call to have my husband see the new one. He took one look at my husband and immediately hospitalized him. The diagnosis was Lyme disease (red circle with evidence of bite from a tick), pleurisy had set in, then Lupus (auto-immune disorder) all due to the quack’s ignorance. My husband was informed to avoid, as much as possible, people who were ill. His auto-immune system was forever compromised.
From your link:
"... he found that people who had gotten COVID-19 at least twice experienced higher rates of short- and long-term health effects, including heart, lung, and brain issues, compared to those who were only infected once."
I read a few years ago that covid damages cells. The level of damage becomes worse with each infection. It can be any part of the body like heart or brain. I know there are reports of people getting diabetes and heart damage and someone I know ended up with arthritis.
Covid damages the body in a manner that other viruses don't.
Young children tend to be more resilient to covid so I don't know if it affects them the same way.
This is no worse than the common cold & flu so relax.. Boy, the liberal media and Fauci really did a number on people over this
shareAs a rule I tend to agree with you, except for ” This is no worse than the common cold & flu so relax”
When I got Covid in January 2023, I ran a temp of 105 for 3 days until I became delirious. My friends called 911. I was transported to the ER then hospitalized. I was informed by the ER physician it was a good thing I came in because if I had waited one more day I would have kidney failure. So, it was worse than the common cold, but possibly akin to a severe case of the flu. The flu can be deadly.
BTW, I never took the vax and I won’t. Also, my doctor won’t give it. I was released after 2 days with no residual effects except for Covid brain fog which can last a year. Most people died due to underlying issues. People also died from the respirator due to having it inserted into compromised lungs.
Some people can get hit over the head with a hammer, and they'll still volunteer to get hit over the head with hammer, again.
As to why that would be so, ask the gods.