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> only to face weeks or months of recovery. FTR, this also happens with other respiratory diseases. You can also take quite a bit of time (months) to fully rec
by lbeltrame 6y ago
> only to face weeks or months of recovery.
FTR, this also happens with other respiratory diseases. You can also take quite a bit of time (months) to fully recover from "regular" pneumonia.
- charwalker 6y agoWhich is still really bad! Especially when wearing a mask may prevent spread by 70%. Just because other diseases are also bad is not reason to shirk personal safety and protection. I don't want the flu same as I don't want COVID.
- lbeltrame 6y agoI didn't want to downplay the fact that it can be bad. What I meant to say is that this is a respiratory disease virus, and a lot of the stuff it is supposed to cause (according to the press) is actually due to that, not because it is novel. Even the reported brain infections (neural invasion) aren't a unique feature of this virus, but are recorded as happening with other coronaviruses (the most common ones, not SARS or MERS).
- rurban 6y agoIt's called flu. Which are basically two diseases, first the bacterial infection in all the dead cells the T-cells killed. In the lung this is pneumonia. Pretty serious stuff. Second the rampage the T-cells are doing elsewhere to fight suspected virus cells. They might attack way too many healthy cells everywhere. This is called the cykotine storm, treated with standard cykotine storm suppressors. The virus itself is doing nothing, it just causes the immunosystem to overreact.