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Correction: the virus isn't some sort of strange monster in this particular aspect. Have you seen the reports of blood-clotting problems? Sudden deaths from peo
by _bxg1 7y ago
Correction: the virus isn't some sort of strange monster in this particular aspect. Have you seen the reports of blood-clotting problems? Sudden deaths from people who'd shown no symptoms? There's still a lot that's weird about this disease and we have a long way to go before we understand it.
- TheBlight 7y agoI'd hold off banking too heavily on anecdotal data. That's how everyone got all worked up about this reinfection story a few weeks ago.
- jonahbenton 7y agoWith respect, the story of both governmental and private sector response to COVID has almost universally been not being worked up enough.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoSurely the right response to that isn't to always be more worked up.
- felipemnoa 7y agoI think he means plan for the worst, hope for the best.
- dekhn 7y agoFrom what I can tell, the governor in my state (CA) took an appropriate level of actions at roughly the right time (after realizing that the federal government declined to be useful). We appear to be passing through the first big wave of deaths, and cautiously reopening slowly. It's unclear what additional actions would have changed things (in terms of reducing total # of deaths, or any suffering while sick).
- fuckknows 7y agoSure, but by getting yourself worked up you're not improving that situation any.
- nradov 7y agoHave we looked closely for blood clotting problems and other odd symptoms with other respiratory system viruses? People get unexplained blood clots all the time. How do we know they weren't caused by a hidden viral infection? I have a feeling that in 2120 people are going to look back at us as idiots for missing a lot of stuff that will seem obvious in retrospect.
- Ensorceled 7y agoPretty sure they will have pictures of Florida beaches and the reopen protests beside pictures of the SF Spanish Flu reopening and think we didn’t learn a thing in 100 years.
- makomk 7y agoI've seen suggestions that a lot of these strange problems happen sporadically with other viruses like the flu too, and it's just more newsworthy when it happens with Covid-19.
- yters 7y agoThis. All the weirdness and horrors of "normal" diseases are now in the spotlight due to media attention on covid-19.
- pritovido 7y agoThose problems are common with regular flu. I had lots of complications the last year with a common flu. My joints and some internal organs became inflamed because of the immune response and I could not move and was very painful. This year I got covid early from meeting a person coming from Shanghai. I thought it was a weak flu. Now I give positive in antibodies test.
- pritovido 7y agoWow, it is interesting how the censorship in HN grows over time. Looks like Reddit again. You can not write pretty mundane things without being downvoted. The flu kills a lot of people(thousands in my country) every year. When last year I had the reported problems the doctors were not surprised, it was normal for them. Being downvoted for saying that? I am not implying that covid is not dangerous for lots of people(because I experience it weakly), but that normal flu is dangerous too, specially for old people.
- dekhn 7y agoA lot of the reports you're citing are just press-release-science being turned into breathless headlines.