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Coronavirus is known to have long term impairment typically a punctured lung. Is the article saying the same or worse than previous coronavirus?
Many symptoms there in long covid and itās interesting that a significant % have it who contracted covid. My sister lost taste (happens all of a sudden) for several months after contracting covid.
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My corner of AZ is getting slammed. Omicron first appeared here in December and as contagious as it is itās hard to believe itās only blossoming now. Maybe itās a new sub-variant. In any event people who had Delta last year are getting it and so are people who are triple and quadruple vaxxed. Eat right, take regular exercise and get enough sleep. Thatās about all you can do.
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Unintended consequencesā¦. We only needed to protect the vulnerable not everyone. Now weāre unleashing a new wave of other illnesses.
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These viruses miraculously disappeared during Covid and re-appear magically.
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They disappear because people werenāt going places to catch them. Now people donāt have any immunity from low-level exposure.
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Iāll say that Iām skeptical. itās based on peopleās feelings of how they feel now vs. before they had covid. People usually bias memories as better than they actually were. Iād love to see a study of people with and without covid asking the same questions. They could ask how people feel vs. 2 years ago. I bet a similar percent of people with and without covid would say they felt better 2 years ago. Itās how our brains work and remember things.
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Itās also the use of vague symptoms to define the condition and people who supposedly have it having been subjected to internet and broadcast panic porn for the duration.
āThe researchers also estimated the cost to insure the entire American populationāand the savings that measure would produce. They found that a single-payer health care system would generate savings in three ways: more efficient investment in preventative care, lowered administrative costs and increased negotiating power for pharmaceuticals, equipment and fees. This would ultimately produce a net savings of $459 billion in 2020 and $438 billion in a nonpandemic year, the authors found. ā
Um, the government canāt negotiate directly with those companies. Even democrats wonāt pass legislation to allow it. The person whoās advocated the most aggressively for it was Trump.
Also, has anyone been to the DMV, VA, or anything else government run? Itās a pipe dream to think thereād be lower administration costs. The IRS has 75k employees to process tax returns which happen once a year. How many government employees would it take to process all the healthcare claims that happen every month?
We spent how many billions on Obamacare, and how much did it move the needle on the number of people covered?
People always assume the US spends more, because we donāt have universal care.
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Very informative writeup from Wachter.
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A lot of viruses have āanimal reservoirsā including Covid. ie, cats, dogs, and mice can catch the diseases and pass them back to humans.
These are called corona viruses. Seven (include Covid-19) types identified so far. The early four types have been around for centuries.
https://coronavirusexplained.ukri.org/en/article/cad0003/
My statement is a sarcasm that
because can obtain good funding for Covid-19 and nothing for those previously known ones.
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COVID twice; the second time in March of this year and I barely noticed it. Got the RSV last month. 3-4 days of sorta sick followed by 10 days of hocking up balls of stuff. Annoying was all. Never saw a doctor for it. If balls are snot colored just drink lots of water. If red, green or some funny color then see a doctor.
BTW since half of COVID cases are asymptomatic half of those 37.3% have likey had it. So we have about a 75% total infection rate.
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Check for any long covid effect. If not, good.
Color me skeptical about long covid. Panic porn about it all over the net. You feel tired, depressed, whatever and are constantly bombarded with this stuff of course you never get over it. Iām sure it happens just like long everything happens to a few with most infectious disease. But I think the cases are over-stated.
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