have it right now and it feels like my jugulars are gonna pop all day long
and my heart feels like it does a flip every now and again
def could see it causing heart attacks and other issues for people that are vulnerable to it.
i already have heart disease so cool. cant wait to die of this
yeah. its such horseshit that theyre like 'its milder'. i got triple vaxxed and had it once before and it still makes me not want to walk around cause of how easy it is to get my heart worked up. and im not even unhealthy, i exercise a lot
and theyre expecting nurses to be walking around like normal?
This is related to how contagious it is, not how deadly it is
But everyone downplaying this shit as "mild" literally aren't working with any usable data yet (because we're only now getting hit by the Omicron surge, and the only usable data will come after some time of seeing its effects). These same "TRUST THE SCIENCE" fucks are literally being exactly as disingenuous as the conspiracy theorists they have such sneering contempt for, because it serves their political and partisan ends right now.
Absolutely fucking despicable. They've been consistently wrong in every single regard since Day fucking One. They're wrong now too.
EDIT: I also strongly suspect the reason it's being perceived as "milder" is because more VACCINATED people are getting it because it's so contagious, but are obviously dying or being hospitalized at a lesser rate.
Oh my god thank you this has been driving me fucking crazy. There is so so little evidence that omicron is less severe, and it clearly infects more vaccinated people which last I checked being sick is more severe than not being sick. That idea is based on a misunderstanding of too early to tell hospital data from South Africa, and a tiny, shitty study in hamsters, and US and UK media have spread it like wildfire. It’s mind boggling.
framing this as a path to herd immunity is extremely irresponsible and the whole Machine seems completely bought in
herd immunity doesn't fucking work with covid AND WE'VE KNOWN THAT THE WHOLE TIME. people have been getting covid multiple times from the start. it's what's made the boosters for the vaccine so unsurprising. we will never achieve herd immunity because we will never all get covid in the same 3 month period.
or idk maybe omicron will do it. maybe it's so fucking infectious that it will literally infect 90+% of the species in a fucking 3 month period. and after we clean up the bodies, we'll finally be free of this disease. or it'll fucking survive and come back around to infect us all again once our immunity slips.
god I want to throttle anyone who talks about herd immunity. they're just genocidiers who don't have the guts to follow through with their own hands.
I also have cumulative damage from reinfection.
First time around, it gave me skin damage on my finger. The skin is became permanently rough and discolored.
Second time around, this skin thickened to the point where it has no nerve endings there anymore. It basically feels like the glabrous skin on the bottom of your feet, except even less feeling.This is on a small patch of skin on my index and middle finger, but I think if I were to continue to go outside and get reinfected, this could eventually lead to gangrene or something.
Second time around my symptoms were actually a lot less severe too. But it caused more cumulative lasting damage.
It just does
hopefully this also makes strides in removing the western-view of diseases as isolated mechanical mishaps, and converts people to viewing disease as a set of complex reactions to common causes
There is also the issue of the vaccine causing long-hauler syndrome, which is totally unsurprising because the spike protein is the main culprit of everything COVID does, and the vaccines contain spike protein too. Unsurprisingly the vaccine long hauler subreddit is quarantined.
Fuck
It’s a narrative that has been pushed because it is politically useful. :biden-nibble: come on Jack
Absolutely fucking despicable. They’ve been consistently wrong in every single regard since Day fucking One. They’re wrong now too.
"don't wear masks" Fauci, March 2020
getting downvoted on reddit every day since March 2020 for pointing out based on global death toll patterns that the European variant is more contagious than the Chinese one, until a study comes out in July 2020 confirming what I said in early March that D614G is indeed more contagious, and STILL getting downvoted because Chyna still bad mayobrains
getting downvoted on reddit every day since March 2020 for being "alarmist" for pointing out that Long Haul COVID is a thing and that it clearly affects at least 10% of the population
seeing accounts of doctors refusing to believe that "happy hypoxia" (when O2 goes down without any externally visible distress) is real, even though I (someone without a medical degree) know that this is clearly connected to Nitric Oxide differences from pleasure reading I've been doing since 2014. And then experiencing actual doctors I visited tell me the same thing and that I didn't have covid.
seeing mayos wig out when Asian/African people had COVID and then start deny its existence when it becomes a white pandemic
seeing NPR and actual doctors/researchers equate shitty nasal swab tests with lymph biopsies, blissfully unaware that 90% of the human population harbors COVID in their bodies: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/10/1054224204/how-sars-cov-2-in-american-deer-could-alter-the-course-of-the-global-pandemic (this study finds that 80% of deer harbor covid in their lymph nodes, then stupidly concludes that deer are somehow superspreaders despite living at 1/100000000000000 the population density of humans, instead of correctly concluding that humans have the same shit and our tests are crap, and that we'd find the same thing with humans if we simply biopsied human organs to test for covid)
seeing evidence TWO YEARS INTO THE FUCKING PANDEMIC that viral DNA persists in the human body for at least 1 year and maybe longer, which is something I'd been saying since April 2020. It took them 21 months to say this.
seeing the vaccine go from "pandemic eliminator" to "reduces death rate" to "reduces death rate and reduces but doesn't eliminate infection" to "30% effectiveness against new strains" to "booster needed" to "double booster" to "triple booster"
seeing mayos double down on blaming China even though the USA had huge excess pneumonia deaths in 2019 and even though the Wuhan research program was literally funded by the fucking US government, and the fact that it makes ZERO FUCKING SENSE to release a bioweapon on your own soil instead of a different country
When you're obese with emphysema, congestive heart failure, diabetes, kidney disease, liver failure, cancer, or any other chronic condition that ties directly into the USA lifestyle, there is no mild version of COVID.
The latest chapo ep is really good on this. There’s no way out of the pandemic besides universal healthcare
Libs standing in front of buttons that say 'Socialism' and 'Barbarism' slapping the button on the right until the panel breaks.
"The common ruin of the Contending Classes" is literally the Libs ideal outcome.
That ep and any other candid depiction of hospitals in the time of covid get me every time. It's so unimaginably fucked.
Even then, how does that stop hospitals from being overwhelmed and HCWs from quitting?
:biden-troll: Listen, Jack, if you're vaccinated, there's no need to worry! Get back to work!
Can't wait for Dems to eat shit in the midterms so that Reps can remove pre-existing condition protections. Cause the healthcare industry is not interested in caring for millions of people with still poorly understood chronic conditions. All so the ghouls can then turn around and blame socialists for not :vote:ing enough.
The dark lathe is a mass shooting at a hospital by a deranged chud, I think the likelihood of that happening in ‘22 is very very high
It happened in Grey's Anatomy like 10 or 15 years ago it's astonishing that there haven't been any major ones that I can think of, especially since the pandemic started
A straight up shootout between the two factions at a mall food court
Omicron won't cause any deaths if the US kills them with other variants before it gets the chance.
:think-about-it:
it's not like anyone here called it, because it's already happened last year or anything
In other news, a crazy communist was found hiding under the stairs screaming "I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO" over and over again. The police are going to use mostly nonlethal force to dislodge them from the area, because the homeowners association didn't like how they looked in their backyard
