Posted this in the megathread originally but I thought it deserved its own post; I quote the article:
She says patients who've had COVID-19 symptoms show a severe chest X-ray every time, and those who were asymptomatic show a severe chest X-ray 70% to 80% of the time. "There are still people who say 'I'm fine. I don't have any issues,' and you pull up their chest X-ray and they absolutely have a bad chest X-ray," she said. In X-ray photos of a normal lung, a smoker's lung and a COVID-19 lung that Bankhead-Kendall shared with CBS Dallas, the healthy lungs are clean with a lot of black, which is mainly air. In the smoker's lung, white lines are indicative of scarring and congestion, while the COVID lung is filled with white.
I've tried to explain this to dipshits in local subreddits when they proclaim we should just vaccinate the 60+ crowd and let everyone else catch it because 95% of the deaths are from that demographic. As though death is only thing covid can do to us. They invariably think I'm being dramatic and we just need to tough it out to protect the economy because people gotta work. They're scared to death of a lockdown more than they are of having their lungs ripped to shreds.
Awful, is there any treatment for your lungs if you get scarring and whatnot? Or are you just fucked for life
great. just great. I started smoking again couple months ago. heavily.
