I've been trying to tell my relatives the whole "mild omicron" thing the media is pushing is verifiably bullshit, but they just believe whatever NPR says and go out to restaurants and movies and act like the pandemic's over. It's extremely fucked.
Just skimmed the abstract of the last article you linked. Looks like they think covid might be getting into cells in the pancreas and causing damage there which might lead to diabetes. It's so far just observational data, but pretty bad if true.
it's worse than that - covid seems to get into everything. it's apparently able to cross the blood-brain barrier. it also causes a bunch of autoimmune issues. and severity of symptoms (or lack thereof) during the acute infection don't indicate the severity of symptoms in the weeks and months that follow. mild or asymptomatic covid can still be debilitating in the long run because of the autoimmune damage the disease can trigger.
Yeah, the media messaging everywhere, not just over there in America is all about comparison to Delta and getting vaccinated. As if we ddint do a lockdown back in 2020. And vaccination is absolutely necessary, but framing it as if as soon as you are vaxed you are good to go is kinda bad.
I've been trying to tell my relatives the whole "mild omicron" thing the media is pushing is verifiably bullshit, but they just believe whatever NPR says and go out to restaurants and movies and act like the pandemic's over. It's extremely fucked.
I did not realise until fucking today that the “mild” qualifier is relative to Delta, not the initial Covid variant that there was shutdowns for. Omicron has a 51% increased risk of hospitalisation over the initial wild variant.
The “mild” thing is clearly an op to allow capital to kick the can down the road while Gen Z and Alpha Generation are going to be carrying the physical scars of this for the rest of their lives.
Just skimmed the abstract of the last article you linked. Looks like they think covid might be getting into cells in the pancreas and causing damage there which might lead to diabetes. It's so far just observational data, but pretty bad if true.
it's worse than that - covid seems to get into everything. it's apparently able to cross the blood-brain barrier. it also causes a bunch of autoimmune issues. and severity of symptoms (or lack thereof) during the acute infection don't indicate the severity of symptoms in the weeks and months that follow. mild or asymptomatic covid can still be debilitating in the long run because of the autoimmune damage the disease can trigger.
Yeah, the media messaging everywhere, not just over there in America is all about comparison to Delta and getting vaccinated. As if we ddint do a lockdown back in 2020. And vaccination is absolutely necessary, but framing it as if as soon as you are vaxed you are good to go is kinda bad.
You can't get back to normal without it being mild. We clearly need to get back to normal asap.