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> These same young males have virtually zero risk from Covid. This is a 2 years old belief that's convenient to politicians but has been utterly, comprehensive
by renaudg 4y ago
> These same young males have virtually zero risk from Covid.
This is a 2 years old belief that's convenient to politicians but has been utterly, comprehensively destroyed by science by now. It needs to die, yesterday.
For one thing, Covid-caused myocarditis is an order of magnitude or two more frequent than vaccine-caused myocarditis, at all ages. The latter also overwhelmingly resolves in a few days without treatment.
For another, there appears to be no such thing as durable "natural immunity" with Omicron. Reinfections are now documented to have happened as closely as 20 days apart !
Finally, not a single week goes by these days without a new study being released that describes "yet another creative way SARS-CoV-2 f*cks up the human body, yay!".
This week I suppose the most interesting development is a new meta-analysis reporting that HALF of people infected with Covid still have symptoms at least four months later (aka Long Covid) https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiac136/6569364 https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/inf...
In the UK, an estimated 1.3 million people had long Covid as of early 2022, growing by 200K each month.
It was estimated that nearly a quarter million people had dropped out of the job market completely as a result :
https://www.ft.com/content/33444f29-bab1-4655-85b5-c0b1f68d9653 https://www.ft.com/content/33444f29-bab1-4655-85b5-c0b1f68d9...
https://www.ft.com/content/8b9166af-2e85-4429-ab1f-362c189e46f2 https://www.ft.com/content/8b9166af-2e85-4429-ab1f-362c189e4...
Covid isn't going to immediately kill us all, but it's pretty obvious by now that it's already a mass disabling event, the main unknown being how reversible the neurological + cardio vascular damage is going to be in the long term.
- greenyoda 4y agoArchives of the above ft.com articles, to bypass the paywall: https://archive.ph/qcO5H https://archive.ph/qcO5H https://archive.ph/AHv1W https://archive.ph/AHv1W
- IdEntities 4y ago> For one thing, Covid-caused myocarditis is an order of magnitude or two more frequent than vaccine-caused myocarditis, at all ages. If only the vaccines would prevent infection, so these risks would be mutually exclusive, instead of cumulative. > Reinfections are now documented to have happened as closely as 20 days apart ! How soon has an infection been documented after becoming "fully vaccinated"?
- magicalhippo 4y agoJust a single data point, but a family member in her mid-30s was fully vaccinated (Pfizer) mid-September last year, got Covid in late January and got re-infected a week ago. Both confirmed with PCR tests after positive rapid tests.
- ta123457864 4y ago