Roses are Red, Violets are Blue

[greglepore]

Originally Posted by masraum

LOL!

I haven't had it either. But then I'm mostly a hermit. If I get it, it's most likely going to come via my wife from the grandkids and kids.

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Yeah. That was my deal, avoided lots of stuff like bars and restaurants etc. my kids came down for New Years. They were fine here but developed symptoms the day they got home. I was fine for 7 days after they left then blammo.


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[masraum]

Originally Posted by upsscott

In the last week almost everyone at work has gone out with covid. I can't for the life of me figure out how I haven't got it yet. I'm vaxxed of course but that's about it. I rarely wear a mask and I'm in and out of the office all day. Sometimes I wonder if I'm asymptomatic.

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Another thing that I wonder. Many years ago, there was a plague. It has been determined that some folks have a gene so that they either don't get the plague or if they do, they recover (depending upon if they have the gene twice (no plague) or once (recover).

I saw a show years ago that suggested that either that gene or another similar gene may exist for HIV (not get it or get it, but never develop into AIDS).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV

I don't see any reason why there couldn't be something similar for CV. That could potentially mean that some folks will never get it and some may get it but will recover with a relatively mild reaction.

[javadog]

That is a theory that’s being investigated as we speak and it is probably going to be proven correct.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Positive result came back first thing Saturday.
Another positive on Tuesday.
Another positive yesterday afternoon.

Just had a positive antigen test. Also, in the last 12 hours I have lost 80% of my sense of taste. I am eating Taco Bell and I can tell that each thing tastes different, but that's it. Oh, and hot sauce squirted right on my tongue tastes like watered down ketchup.

[Rikao4]

from MDlink.. site Preliminary studies early in the pandemic found evidence that countries with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination programs, which fights tuberculosis, could be associated with a reduced number and/or severity of COVID-19 cases. While clinical trials are ongoing to further investigate, a University of Houston computational biology researcher is reporting cross reaction between the two illnesses that might help explain what could be driving immunity brought on by the BCG vaccination.

"The protection against SARS-CoV-2 induced by BCG vaccination may be mediated by cross-reactive T cell lymphocytes, which recognize peptides displayed by class I Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA-I) on the surface of infected cells," reports Dinler Amaral Antunes, assistant professor of computational biology and a corresponding author of the work published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology...

Rika

[speeder]

Ran out of home tests but I'm feeling a LOT better...almost back to normal with the exception of a stuffed-up nose. Even that is not severe. I'm going to run down to the corner and get a free PCR test at one of the tents set up on the street everywhere, hopefully get a result in a day or two. I can take one of those everyday if I want but obviously will stop once I get two negative tests in a row.

It's been a drag but as I was telling someone yesterday, if all Covid ever did was what I experienced, it would have been a big nothing and nothing would have been shut down, etc...

Unfortunately, that's not the case. Earlier variants killed a lot of people.

[Bill Douglas]

Good to hear you're doing better. I remember in the early days of covid you had concerns about catching it. Health issues/breathing etc.

[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by speeder

Ran out of home tests but I'm feeling a LOT better...almost back to normal with the exception of a stuffed-up nose. Even that is not severe. I'm going to run down to the corner and get a free PCR test at one of the tents set up on the street everywhere, hopefully get a result in a day or two. I can take one of those everyday if I want but obviously will stop once I get two negative tests in a row.

It's been a drag but as I was telling someone yesterday, if all Covid ever did was what I experienced, it would have been a big nothing and nothing would have been shut down, etc...

Unfortunately, that's not the case. Earlier variants killed a lot of people.

We told you that Ivermectin would do the trick!

[upsscott]

Originally Posted by vash

This you?

Hahaha
More like this guy.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by upsscott

hahaha
more like this guy.

lol!

[rusnak]

My immune system is either really over taxed because I'm in and among the hoi polloi, or I lack the Neaderthal genes to fight off infection. Either way, every Fall I fold like a cheap suit and go down for at least a week. As for the genetic predilection or immunity to certain diseases, we will find out that we owe a lot to our species' forbears such as the Neaderthal, Denisovan, or Hindu. I think we'll find out that moder Human has a crappy immune system and is prone to cancer, viruses, diabetes, etc.

[javadog]

I’ll bet 90% of that was diet related.

[rusnak]

^ Very interesting point. It makes a lot of sense from an evolutionary standpoint. We're eating stuff we're not meant to.

[red-beard]

In a business meeting today. Between 1/3 and 1/2 of the people attending had Omicron in the past month or so...

[Zeke]

And now, BA.2, 4 cases confirmed in L.A. Much more of a breakout in Denmark as well as other foreign countries (not identified in the LA Times article).
I won't put in a link because it will just pop a screen for a subscription.

[red-beard]

The latest information is it is ~50% more transmissible. In statistics, less that a 50% shift usually means you need to dig deeper or expand the pool.

I don't think they have enough data except to try to scare people. We will see.

[Zeke]

The latest information is it is ~50% more transmissible. In statistics, less that a 50% shift usually means you need to dig deeper or expand the pool.

I don't think they have enough data except to try to scare people. We will see.

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I'm not able to follow what you mean....

[rusnak]

A larger universe of samples USUALLY yields more accurate results, but it also depends on the quality of the samples.

When the values that you're trying to correlate on an X Y scattergram are charted, you can tell if there is a trend line.

The sum of the squared value of each of the deviations from the median, or "sum of squares" are calculated to show an "R value". It is this value that will determine your correlation. If your R Value is less than 80%, then that is a poor study. If it is less than 50% then you have junk data.

In this case, you would be charting a postive test result over time.

[Zeke]

Well, that ^^^ clears it up.

[pavulon]

it seems that no one is saying “it’s just the flu” or calling HCQ a treatment anymore…I guess that’s progress around here.