Definitely worth preventing. Admittedly doesn't have the mortality that was seen at the beginning of the pandemic(due to better treatment and vaccines) but the morbidity, both short and long term, is substantial.
Still masking 🙋🏼♀️ and trying my best to keep all kinds of nasty viruses away from my family. Covid has raised my awareness for airborne infections so much, I would feel absolutely stupid not to adapt.
I certainly worry about the range of CV damage this virus and the inflammatory response may be causing, acutely and across multiple infections.
Anecdotal yes, but I personally knew 2 people that died from aortic dissection within 3 months of their 1st infection in 2002. One was my dad. 😔
The World Socialist Web Site is not hardly anyone. It has a clear pandemic program, knows what it wants, and fights every day for immediate mitigation measures and an elimination/eradication program.
and very few people on the streets or in shops are considerate enough to cover their mouths when they cough or sneeze-sometimes right next to you.My family (bedbound son with ME/CFS) have all been affected by a heavy cold virus but haven't socialised, so it's been in a shop or outside. (We mask.)
Saw more masks Sunday at the grocery store. Usually it’s just my husband and me. Then I realized it’s probably due to wildfire smoke. I’m the only employee at my dialysis clinic who 100% masks in public. Very few of us care. ☹️
They want covid to be over and do not want to do the work to make it happen.
PH says it’s mild and those pesky viruses that we never used to hear about … they are nothing to do with covid
Those 450 dead Australians every month in 2024 don’t even make it onto the news.
In the past, I worked with an aging study for 10 years. We followed people longitudinally and I had the opportunity to see many people age over time. Now when I see "healthy" elderly in my region, they do not look healthy, they look diminished. Friends look like a shell of their former selves.
For what it’s worth I actually saw more people masked in the Miami airport yesterday than I have in a long time. Still small numbers but at least I wasn’t the only one.
I’ve read way, way too many disturbing news reports about the studies that have been coming out over the past year about long-term effects, to stop being concerned about getting it. I mask up a lot in public, still.
But I am definitely in the minority here in New York City.
I saw my husband nearly die from Covid after 4 years of us actively avoiding it . He’s in aged care;I caught from him.
2 days after testing positive I had brain damage -olfactory hallucinations.
3 months later only 1 now and again but still brain damaged.
I'm very sorry to see this and I'm hoping the best for both of you. 💚✊ It's especially tragic this happened after such admirable efforts to avoid infection.
New resident straight from hospital tested +ve
=>staff transmission
1 resident died.
I stayed with him to save the staff.
I was there 5 hrs.
He knocked my face shield which moved the mask a very little as he coughed in my face.
They’d started morphine..
I had to hold him.
That’s the thing.. we don’t really recover deep in our tissues.
Our immune system is compromised; aged.
Our vascular system is compromised.
We probably have micro clots etc
Our brains damaged.
I had to fight that curious feeling that I’d had covid & survived so I didn’t need to worry anymore.
I understand. Just have personally seen someone w/bad brain fog/phys weakness begin to recover very s.l.o.w.l.y. after 18 mos. Read a research paper on, for some ppl, recovery/repair starting 12-18 mos out, as well. I’m so sorry, and am hoping for the best for you both.
I would LOVE to be in that echo chamber. Also, if it were a literal chamber I might even feel safe socializing there with fellow testers and maskers! 💕
I still do 🙋♀️ At my school, I’m the lone masker (AuraN95), who knows about and uses a CO2 monitor, always turns on my two air purifiers (highest level) and ventilates my classroom by opening windows/doors. I’ve not been sick for 5 yrs and loving it! Preventing C19 transmission is 100% worth it!
👍😷😊 I too wish more people in my profession would once again become proactive about mitigations we used together to actively reduce transmission in our schools!
Are the air purifiers supplied or did you have to buy them? I know from teaching for many years just how much you end up getting because a request would be not allowed or so delayed as to be meaningless. Great if your school has supplied them though.
I teach in Melbourne. Our CHO at the was very knowledgeable and an early advocate for #Cleanair in schools to lower Covid transmission. The purifiers were therefore supplied by the Victorian government in 2021/22 to schools. We were very lucky😊
😊 After teaching for 30 yrs, this is the healthiest I’ve been. Prior to Covid arriving, I’d get a cold/gastro once or twice a year. Schools have always been an ongoing cesspit of sickness. Covid has made it next level. Mitigations, used consistently, work to lower transmission, sickness & absences.
This is my 19th year working in the school system and I would also get sick multiple times every year. Taking precautions has kept me healthy, while all around me are dropping like flies.
I 💯 agree with this. I used to have chronic sinus issues and get properly sick with an URTI 2-3 times per year. Since masking in clinic, on public transport, planes, in lectures etc since 2020 I’ve barely had a runny nose in 5 years
Brilliant! It certainly feels terrific doesn’t it, to be able to protect yourself from all the nasties endlessly floating around by simply wearing a mask👍😷😊
I’m the only one at my school too. I used to get sick a minimum of 3 times a year but have not picked up anything from school since the pandemic started.
Hang in there and stay strong👍✊😷 You may be the only one there, but there are many of us in solidarity with one another - you are not alone in wanting the best for your health!
That‘s why my 9 year old is not really happy about going to school (aka „Seuchenpool“) every morning. He‘s also a lone masker and has a teacher that claims the air filter is making her sick…
I feel that way, too. Friends and co-workers used to care, and now it’s all avoidance, “business as usual”, and “what are you gonna do?” attitudes. It’s so physically painful to see these shifts in attitudes and behaviors when I know what’s coming for them.
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Mass casualties is a very low bar for health promotion. C19 remains a frustratingly significant obstacle to a thriving population.
Anecdotal yes, but I personally knew 2 people that died from aortic dissection within 3 months of their 1st infection in 2002. One was my dad. 😔
Still novid, AFAIK.
In the UK, we've had 100,000s killed and disabled by COVID in plain sight. The first few years were literally 'WW2 level casualty rates'.
But its like everyone has just forgotten. It's scary.
PH says it’s mild and those pesky viruses that we never used to hear about … they are nothing to do with covid
Those 450 dead Australians every month in 2024 don’t even make it onto the news.
IMO
7% death rate for nosocomial C19 cases.
Chronic ill health risk.
Still killing prolifically in the community.
Inclusion issues.
Much more.
But I am definitely in the minority here in New York City.
2 days after testing positive I had brain damage -olfactory hallucinations.
3 months later only 1 now and again but still brain damaged.
=>staff transmission
1 resident died.
I stayed with him to save the staff.
I was there 5 hrs.
He knocked my face shield which moved the mask a very little as he coughed in my face.
They’d started morphine..
I had to hold him.
Our immune system is compromised; aged.
Our vascular system is compromised.
We probably have micro clots etc
Our brains damaged.
I had to fight that curious feeling that I’d had covid & survived so I didn’t need to worry anymore.
Starting to feel like our numbers are growing tho!
I wish my kids’ teachers were like you. I wish all teachers were!
Thank you!
There's definitely no echo coming back...