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xxredridinghoodxx · 8 months
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And the pandemic didn't magically disappear just because you stopped thinking about it, considering it a pandemic or calling it one.
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Reply to a user who commented on Paramore's post about Haley's months long illness, needing to stop performance to avoid permanent damage, and having to cancel their shows and issue refunds. The comment, "Did you guys know that the problem that she suffered is from weeks ago? I think you should be more careful before talking or spreading wrong information.'
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owlservice · 2 months
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SARS-CoV wasn’t gone, it was only hiding. [...] Like an aftershock to a quake, a new case broke in Guangdong. Soon afterward, three more. One patient was a waitress who had been exposed to a civet. On January 5, 2004, the day the first case was confirmed, Guangdong authorities reversed policy again, ordering the death and disposal of every masked palm civet held at a farm or a market in the province. Wild civets were another question, left unanswered. [...] During the days that followed, more than a thousand captive civets were suffocated, burned, boiled, electrocuted, and drowned. It was like a medieval pogrom against satanic cats. This campaign of extermination seemed to settle the matter and made people more comfortable. That sense of comfort remained for, oh, a year or more—until other scientists showed that the doubts about reservoir identification were well-founded, that the judicious language of Guan Yi was percipient, and that the story was just a little deeper and more complicated. Woops, civets aren’t the reservoir of SARS. Never mind.
Regarding SARS-COV-1, the coronavirus that causes SARS, from Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (2012) by David Quammen
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maisha-online · 3 months
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The Increased Risk of Arrhythmias Following COVID-19: What You Need to Know
The Increased Risk of Arrhythmias Following COVID-19: What You Need to Know #Covid19 #Arrhythmia #SARS #CoronaVirus #CardiacArrhythmia #Heart #HeartHealth
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the numerous complications associated with the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). While the respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 are well-known, there is growing evidence suggesting an increased risk of cardiovascular complications, including arrhythmias, in individuals who have contracted the virus. In this…
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angryrdpanda · 7 months
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COVID SAFETY 101 (2023)
Covid (SARS-Cov-2) is short for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus is airborne and neuroinvasive. It causes vascular disease and dysregulates immune systems. The pandemic is not over, the virus never became milder, and the government has continually lied about the threat. Because the virus is being allowed to spread freely, more dangerous variants are constantly emerging. We are all in serious danger.
COVID IS A BSL3 PATHOGEN
Biosafety level three pathogens are those that cause serious or potentially lethal disease through inhalation. Other BSL3 pathogens include yellow fever, West Nile virus, and tuberculosis. When Covid is handled in a lab setting, this is what people wear (left). Covid has always been classified as BSL3. Omicron is not mild.
COVID IS AIRBORNE
Covid is airborne. Staying six feet apart does not keep you safe. Social distancing was never enough to prevent transmission. Masks work, when worn properly. Washing hands and getting vaccinated do not stop Covid infections, because the virus is in the air and can linger in the air for hours.
More at CovidHelp.org
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yannjo · 5 months
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Petite sortie avec un pote
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eternalistic · 1 year
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DailyMail article: "The University of Boston [...] adding that the research was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Original study abstract: "We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the [spike protein] S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2..."
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rikaklassen · 2 days
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CW: COVID-19
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Yes, I wish the general public takes COVID more seriously.
Coronavirus is not like the flu nor RSV and we've known about that since MERS and the first SARS. Also, massively disappointed with queer assimilationists since COVID is quite similar to HIV/AIDS and given how the government's eugenicist policies and their anti-LGBT campaigns wiped out many of the people who would have been elders in our communities today. Let's alone the deaf communities with the older generations of sign language folks becoming deaf and multi-disabled because of rubella, which is much more infectious than COVID.
I encourage you to read what Augie has to say since the screenshot is a snapshot of a five-parts thread.
Here is the spreadsheet where Augie took the time to read over 1 500 studies and summarized the findings of about 500 of them: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/
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theculturedmarxist · 9 months
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Implications
Additional SARS pandemics are therefore expected, like those associated with influenza. Influenza viruses are at present vastly more diverse than SARS-CoV-2, but over decades we are likely to see significant diversification of SARS lineages, if IBV’s history is to guide us. The frequency of these future pandemics is unpredictable, as is their severity. Establishing the “SARS” category as proposed here is necessary for proper preparation for such future events.
Influenza pandemics have all been self-limiting, and early in the first COVID-19 pandemic it was regularly interpreted in a similar manner, i.e. as something that will naturally dissipate. More recently that has shifted towards an acceptance of “endemicity”, where “endemicity” is sold as a state of constant circulation that is not overtly disruptive to normal societal functioning rather than the actual scientific definition, which is constant circulation of the pathogen, and which tells us nothing about its impacts on humans.
If we are to instead view the first COVID-19 pandemic as the initial, and so far appearing to be permanent introduction of an entirely new type of pathogen (SARS) in the human population, and to accept the possibility of many novel SARS serotypes and strains appearing in the future, a rather different picture emerges. So far Omicron exhibits the lowest mortality rate of all sarbecoviruses known to have infected humans, but SARS-1 was much more severe than SARS-2, and the evolution of the first SARS2 serotype was towards more severe disease27 and current data suggests a similar trajectory within many Omicron lineages28.
Therefore it cannot be assumed that all future pandemic serotypes/strains will be “inconsequential”, or even tolerable (where “tolerable” has now been established to mean anything that does not break healthcare systems to the point where refrigeration trucks need to be called in to store the dead bodies), as subsequent iterations of viral evolution that gain a strong fitness advantage due to major antigenic innovations could revert to substantially more pathogenic states, as commentators have previously warned4,25. An understanding of the course of SARS-CoV-2 evolution so far as having already spawned two separate pandemics is needed to raise awareness of and prepare for these possibilities.
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karlstad · 8 months
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quotesfrommyreading · 9 months
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The emergence of the SARS virus is similarly the result of an abrupt expansion, in this case in the size of wet markets and the diversity of the strange panoply of animals they sell.
The SARS virus was not new. Nor were the practices that brought bats into proximity with people in southern China. The SARS virus “was probably there in bats for centuries,”  says the University of Hong Kong virologist Malik Peiris, whose team first isolated the virus. And the yewei cuisine and wet markets that brought bats together with people in southern China were long-standing, too.
Yewei cuisine is part of a range of traditional cultural practices in China that draw wild animals closer so that people can tap into the animals' power, strength, and longevity. People keep wild animals at pets (or, for the aspirational, dye their domesticated dogs' fur to look like tigers and pandas) and mimic their postures in practices such as kung fu. Traditional medicine practitioners administer their body parts as remedies: tiget whiskers for toothaches, bear bile for liver disease, bat skeletons for kidney stones. For people who consider wild animals precious natural resources – the rarer, wilder, and more exotic the more precious – consuming them is bu, restorative and stimulating for the body, endowing the consumer with a whiff of the animal's natural energy.
But for many years, economic and geographic barriers limited the consumption of yewei cuisine in China, and with it the size of wet markets. China had troubled political relations with neighboring countries such as Thailand and Laos and Vietnam, where many of the most desirable exotic animals roamed, so their supply for consumption was thin and prices high. While the elites could afford to dine on braised bear paw with carp tongue, gorilla lips and pig brain in wine sauce, and leopard placenta steamed with camel hump and garnished with pear, ordinary folk made do with more ordinary fare, or hunted for their own wild game.
Then, in the early 1990s, the Chinese economy started growing by 10 percent or more every year. Suddenly, a new class of young, aspiring, prosperous Chinese in booming cities had more money than they knew what to do with. Along with stocking up on Western luxury goods – Louis Vuitton sold more bags in China than anywhere else in 2011 – they started demanding more yewei cuisine. New restaurants serving peacock, swan geese, and sea cucumber, along with other exotic creatures, sprang up across the region. China reestablished trade with many of its Southeast Asian neighbors, allowing poachers and traders to plunge even deeper into the countryside to meet the rising demand. They crammed their stocks of wild animals into ever larger wet markets, stacking cages of live animals from increasingly disparate locales across Asia next to each other, awaiting sale to yewei-hungry shoppers.
It was only then, after the size and scale of wet markets grew, that a serendipitious sequence of events that could turn a virus of horseshoe bats into a human pathogen became probable.
  —  Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Sonia Shah)
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suzilight · 1 year
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New Boston Virus
“... what they’ve [Boston researchers] done is take the Wuhan virus, removed the spike proteins and put on the Omicron spike proteins and found out that this combination has made it 80% more deadly to mice.”  
/facepalm  wtf Lab generated pandemic
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ayurvedsutra · 1 year
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Genetic recombination made Omicron more infectious
New Delhi (India Science Wire): Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 keep changing their genetic makeup to escape human immune response. One of the ways they can change rapidly is Genetic Recombination which happens in a person co-infected with two different SARS-CoV-2 strains simultaneously. Researchers from the Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, and the Centre for Infectious Diseases Research,…
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seeecreett · 1 year
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Fuck it
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onlyhurtforaminute · 2 years
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SARS-BASTARD NATION
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willowreader · 28 days
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If you have a cold and test negative for COVID you are not in the clear. Tests take a while to turn positive. Meanwhile you are spreading COVID to family and friends. Mask up if you have any symptoms. This virus is just evil.
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roomstudent · 10 days
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