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Covid BBQ [1]
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Date: 2022-11-08
And Covid fatigue.
BQ1 strain seems to be the new most infectious, doubling in weeks and predominating in the UK.
I hope we go more with letters for new variants and less with numbers and periods. Their starting to look like ip addresses! Now they call em scrabble variants cause they use high scoring letters.
I have weak lungs and was very scared and careful before the vaccines.
I found this very stressful, not bc I masked, but bc I had to be careful EVERY single time and a single lapse could undo a years care and even kill me.
Also, I had to distance, not touch my friends (this sucked, some of them are pretty!) and disinfect all the time. I got so lonely and isolated…
Ive been surprised to see so little acknowledgement of this stressor among some who dismissively say just wear a
mask. Even if everybody does, you can still get it, especially the 10x as infectious variants. It takes a whole safety protocol and luck too, and is wearying. Saying just wear a mask, no probs, dismisses all this and makes me wonder if the sayer was even scared. Certainly not like i have been.
That said, for a year after getting fully vaccinated, i felt safe and took no precautions. Ive been getting a bit more paranoid lately, but nothing like 2020.
My friends who were enthusiastic about the vaccine and first two boosters are now being chivvied by me even to get the bivalent booster. Iron tortoise is going on a cruise! Things are safer and people are relaxing wether too much or not.
Remember when i said about long vid that anything that killed x# of people would long term mess up 2 to 3x that many? Exactly what happened. Then additional millions ranging from not quite incapacitated to merely inconvenienced.
At this point, the main real fear for the 5x vaxed who are lucky enough to have no underlying risk factors.
Most of Asia took better precautions than us and did much better initially. Then, they had their own waves, less severe except for china.
Turns out locking down cities of tens of millions, for months in response to as little as a single case, letting them starve, howl and jump out of windows isn't so great for your economy either. And, with their subpar “chinaproud” vax and relative lack of infections, they have built little immunity. The partial epidemiological success of the lockdown has even lowered vax uptake.
At least if society is under reacting, you can still take any individual measures. If your the property if Xi Jinping, you are subject to whatever is his whim. I think he'll keep using those apps forever as a social control. Chisoc, a boot stamping on a human face forever.
Here in the US we still have aboot 350+ deaths per day. Vaccines people, please? Thats about 3x car deaths, 10x guns, similar to alcohol, maybe 1/3d tobacco and a lot less than heart attack cancer or obesity.
We can probably expect a fall increase from Bq1 et cetera and cold weather. We do have more immunity from vax and repeat infections among the covidiots.
Here is an article on lung inflammation- i mentioned another in an earlier post but couldn't find it when a commenter asked. scitechdaily.com/…
The final symptom of vid fatigue? Im sick of writing about it anymore.
Good luck!
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