I was tested in October and was negative

Covid.19 death sentence if they put you on a ventilator. I would resist letting anyone know.

for me it was a bad cold, with very intense cough but was over in about 10 days in late December 2019 (not confirmed it was Covid19 but it was a very bad cold and could be)

if they put you on a ventilator it's because it went into the lungs and you got severe pneumonia

you have like 20% survival rates if you require it, and if you require it and don't use it, you are essentially dead

My next door neighbor... has been in the hospital for a month plus intubated... the balance of the family recovered quickly.

My sister was recently diagnosed, mild symptoms so far - seems to be OK. There are more incidents happening nearby 6 reported cases at my middle son's school. His best friend's GF just was diagnosed. My dad is in a retirement home in OR, where about a dozen have died. It's an independent living home, so none required medical care before. They would have folks die of old age every so often, but nothing like this.

on the bright side this only happens to a small minority of symptomatic cases

note that these early bad numbers are partly due to the fact that they tried to avoid using them

and there was basically no treatment other than dealing with the symptoms and hoping for your immune system to deal with it

which is what we typically do with colds anyway

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/k3ohws/third_order_pearson_v_kemp_11292020pdf/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Can anybody tell me what this is about

It seems to be hit or miss as to whether it becomes severe or not. Some say it has to do with initial viral load, which is why medical front line workers seem to get it much worse.

yep that was the consensus around April already, and seems to be true

@TaLoN132 viral load... is definitely a factor in severity I believe for whatever little that's worth

death rates going down I'm not sure why exactly, can be a combination of earlier testing and treatment, and also the virus mutating to milder strains which has happened with previous epidemics

I got H1N1 too and it hit me much worse than this, genuinely feared for my life

for some reason, we didn't panic then

and at its worst, it hit many people

@nachik, you just advanced to level 9!

It's a good excuse to not have to hang around people too long. I'm best experienced in small doses - it's good to know your own shortcomings, I suppose.

we had 100s of thousands of people with long term sequels for H1N1

nobody even talks about it

I find it very weird that there is such strict control of the narrative and it genuinely creates distrust

here we have these official pressers with the PM and health experts, given a lot of importance

and they say stuff that directly contradicts their own previous advice, and we can't even point it out openly for fear of retribution

and it's not like many people think it's not a real virus or it's not serious for some demographics

in the area were I live, exactly one year ago it was illegal to cover your face

@nachik agree...

all very strange

All too convenient

the streets where I live are completely covered by CCTV

Canary Wharf, South Quay, Poplar areas

Poor guy https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-bidens-doctor-says-he-suffered-hairline-fracture-in-foot-after-he-slipped-while-playing-with-dog/#app

you would have been fined by simply covering your face, and now you are expected to even outside

As Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, adamantly denied there was evidence of widespread voter fraud in the state, Perdue and Loeffler called on him to resign, ostensibly in an effort to curry favor with Trump. Collins also criticized Raffensperger, igniting an unexpected feud among the top Georgia officials.

“We strengthened signature match. We helped train election officials on GBI signature match — which is confirmed twice before a ballot is ever cast. Failed candidate Doug Collins is a liar — but what’s new?” Raffensperger wrote in a Facebook post earlier this month. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/527549-five-things-to-know-about-georgias-senate-runoffs

I'm liking this Raffensperger fellow more and more

@meglide they all look like bank robbers from the past based solely off the picture.

Wait so Raffensberger is the good guy now

it does fit a theory from when Trump distanced himself from Sidney Powell