Dealing with COVID-19

[Angular Chap]

It has replaced the common cold and flu in winter here I think. Instead of getting a seasonal cold, most people I know got a light COVID infection instead. A few people got it in summer as well. It's about 30% mask use here too. NHS Scotland stood down the last of the mask requirements back in May. I wasn't required to wear a mask or social distance to see my doctor in person last month and no one in the clinic had a mask on, staff included.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Based on the statistics I collected for my province. Covid was overrated, only effected. Subgroup of people has a genetic basis on who gets sick. I not sure how this translates to the rest of the world. Nobody scientists included want to speak to the truth Politicians, never cared about the truth. I got a high temperature last week did a couple of quick covid tests both negative. temperature lasted for a few hours. Was it covid and my body fought it off who knows?

 

[Loren]

I am wondering how the covid situation is in other parts of the world. Does anyone have any info or interesting things to share? Are there still facemasks and social distancing rules and such some places? Are there places where it is a big problem now?

All requirements and restrictions have been lifted in California. Medical offices are permitted to continue to require masks, but, not mandated. Not sure about hospitals. I see approximately, 5% of people wearing masks when I am out and about. I haven't kept up with the infection statistics.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Based on my statistics about 10% of the population has the gene making them susceptible to covid. and no one wants to test, politically expedient to pretend everyone can get it. Either way for anybody new to this forum I have a dedicated thread on covid from start to end. At the time I updated daily even predicted when it would become endemic, out by two days.

 

[Tony Ramirez]

I see about 5% people wearing masks in NYC and it still ticks me off. They are useless, still never caught it and I still refuse to ever wear one even if I am sick they do nothing and they make you look creepy.

Covid was all hype here. I am glad it's over and everything is open again, no restrictions.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Agree mask wearing is stupid unless your inside in a crowd have the gene and someone else with you among the crowd is a active carrier is filling the room with virus most doctor offices have filters or should have. It still amazes me how wrong the medical community was on Covid being air borne. Took them two years to see what the engineering community saw in the first few weeks.

 

[Au Naturel]

Very little masking out here. (Southern California) The little I see are visitors from Asia or Latin America. We're pretty heavily vaccinated in this corner of the country.

 

[VAW]

I am wondering how the covid situation is in other parts of the world. Does anyone have any info or interesting things to share? Are there still facemasks and social distancing rules and such some places? Are there places where it is a big problem now?

Here in Wisconsin people have seemed to forget all about covid, Very few wear a mask anymore, once in a great while I see an older couple wearing a mask. No restrictions, No distancing, Even doctors and hospitals don't require a mask unless you are sick with fever or cold etc...

 

[Mary Terry]

Based on my statistics about 10% of the population has the gene making them susceptible to covid. and no one wants to test, politically expedient to pretend everyone can get it. Either way for anybody new to this forum I have a dedicated thread on covid from start to end. At the time I updated daily even predicted when it would become endemic, out by two days.

I recently read that there isn't a gene making people susceptible to covid, but, rather, genes that help people recover from covid or have asymptomatic covid while they infect others. Something to do with T-cells.

Few people continue to wear masks where I live (Mississippi). Store clerks and cashiers who constantly deal with the public and elderly people seem to be the ones who continue to wear masks. I no longer wear a mask (although I keep a couple of masks in my purse and car "just in case") but I definitely social distance. Will probably do that for the rest of my life.

 

[Forest Cat]

Here in Wisconsin people have seemed to forget all about covid, Very few wear a mask anymore, once in a great while I see an older couple wearing a mask. No restrictions, No distancing, Even doctors and hospitals don't require a mask unless you are sick with fever or cold etc...

That sounds a lot like how it is here. It was strange, when the Russia/Ukraine war started, everyone forgot about covid overnight. It just stopped, it was so weird. I haven't seen anything about covid on the local news for a long time now, it's like it just went away and that was the end of it.

 

[Rodafina]

I definitely social distance. Will probably do that for the rest of my life.

Same here. It works well for me for so many reasons besides protecting my health!

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Covid is air borne, only contagious to people that have the genetic predisposition, for everyone else not an issue. Looks like 10% on the population carries the gene, at least here in Ontario. The majority of the south Asian population carries the gene. The gene originally came from cross breading with Neanderthals. the scientists who matter are aware of this just check who won the Nobel prize in medicine.in 2022 see what his research was about no coincidence. That was their way of giving the finger to the politicians.

 

[Au Naturel]

I recently read that there isn't a gene making people susceptible to covid, but, rather, genes that help people recover from covid or have asymptomatic covid while they infect others. Something to do with T-cells.

Few people continue to wear masks where I live (Mississippi). Store clerks and cashiers who constantly deal with the public and elderly people seem to be the ones who continue to wear masks. I no longer wear a mask (although I keep a couple of masks in my purse and car "just in case") but I definitely social distance. Will probably do that for the rest of my life.

Yeah. I saw that they think there's a gene that will completely suppress COVID in about 20% of the population. It stomps on the infection so fast that you never get sick; some don't even become infectious. It is one cause of asymptomatic COVID.

Another example of why diversity is good.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

My wife got interested in this did her own research, found out that there is a couple of neanderthal, Genomes one with a gene that suppresses covid and a second that, makes carriers susceptible.to getting it. this is causing some confusion.

 

[NoKipAr on the run]

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what's your plans for COVID' end celebration?

my father and My friend were thinking of going across the country in an RV or something,

years past and I couldn't even set up things in my head where how that would go down.

then we completely forgot and now me and my other friends with the same friend as before would go somewhere.

nothing is set in stone, so what are you guys doing for a Post COVID celebration?

 

[Forest Cat]

I'm going to Finland for a week.

 

[Judge]

nothing is set in stone, so what are you guys doing for a Post COVID celebration?

Exactly.

Since nothing is "set in stone", why contemplate something ending that has yet to actually end?

Kind of reminds me of a conversation between two soldiers (Band of Brothers) where the officer asks an NCO what he'll do after the war. His response? "Frankly sir, I try not to think about it."

 

[Mary Terry]

Exactly.

Since nothing is "set in stone", why contemplate something ending that has yet to actually end?

Kind of reminds me of a conversation between two soldiers (Band of Brothers) where the officer asks an NCO what he'll do after the war. His response? "Frankly sir, I try not to think about it."

What one will do after the war depends on who wins the war!

 

[Judge]

What one will do after the war depends on who wins the war!

Indeed. Though the conversation took place in December, 1944. Where most anyone could see the eventual outcome. But such conversations also emphasized a grim reality that many more soldiers would lose their lives in the next five months to the end of that war.

Sad to think of how the real persons depicted in this drama commented on how when they could see the outcome of the war, how they began to take better care of themselves, and try to avoid the worst risks as possible. Imagine the anguish of any parents of soldiers killed in the last moments of any war.

But in this particular Covid war, the "mRNA bullets" being used are not entirely killing the enemy.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

With COVID becoming endemic I am not celebrating its end. The BA variants show a great capability of injuring the immune system and long COVID with organ damage is not gone.

What WILL end COVID will be an intranasal vaccine that stimulates true protection against infection and transmission. The mRNA manufacturers have gaslit us. While those vaccines limit severity, they do not prevent infection and are very specific to the variant type. The Novavax vaccine, purified spike protein, shows great cross reactivity and is the superior product.