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Covid has a death rate hundreds of times higher than a cold. Colds don't make healthy women in their twenties stay up all night coughing so hard their oxygen di
by causality0 5y ago
Covid has a death rate hundreds of times higher than a cold. Colds don't make healthy women in their twenties stay up all night coughing so hard their oxygen dips into the 80s. Colds don't cause lung, heart, and cognitive damage that is potentially cumulative.
If covid brain fog compounds over time there will be some serious damn consequences.
- pikma 5y agoActually my wife had a bad cold this summer and she coughed so hard during the night that we had to take her to the ER and she was lacking oxygen (not sure by how much). She is otherwise healthy in her early 30s, though she was pregnant, which might have made it worse. It surprised me, I always thought that colds were harmless.
- Enginerrrd 5y agoYeah, they're really not. I was a paramedic about 10 years ago. Every winter I'd see colds or influenza kill people. (Or at least, initiate convalescence and subsequent rapid death from related issues within a few weeks.) Always though, those were people who were either very old or had COPD (a lung disease). It's a common way that people go out actually. A cold leads to weakness/stress leads to pneuomonia/UTI's/sepsis and then death.
- smt88 5y agoColds kill thousands of people every year and some may have lifelong effects, such as neurological impairment or heart damage.
- UncleOxidant 5y ago> though she was pregnant, which might have made it worse. Being pregnant does dampen the immune system.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoThe death rate isn't the same for your 1st case of covid and your nth case.
- Consultant32452 5y agoIs there even a single confirmed death from Omicron yet? I've heard of a couple but they turned out to be fake. This is a highly dynamic situation. Omicron is not alpha or even delta.
- EA 5y agoAn unvaccinated man with underlying health conditions died in Texas mid December after testing positive for the COVID-19 omicron variant, officials in Houston said, marking what is believed to be the first death linked to the strain in the U.S. https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20211221/unvaccinated-texas-man-omicron-death https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021122...
- Consultant32452 5y agoYour article perfectly illustrates my point. It says Omicron is 3/4 of the cases and that this one person MIGHT have died from it, but it's unclear and may be due to his other health conditions. Let's just assume it was Omicron that killed this guy. All signs point to Omicron being less deadly than the common cold.
- kcplate 5y agoI can’t find the article, but I believe that hospital modified their statement to specify that he died *with* Omicron, not *from* Omicron.
- ricardobayes 5y agoThere are yes. On another note "28-day average case fatality rate in South Africa, the likely origin of the Omicron variant, tumbled in the past six weeks from 8% to 0.2%" from WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-variant-may-end-up-saving-lives-infection-antibodies-spread-sick-covid-19-coronavirus-hospitalization-death-vaccine-11641153969 https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-variant-may-end-up-savi...
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoBut are most of those issues with naive subjects? Once everybody is vaccinated or has had it once, the extreme reactions should drop way off.