Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Ninjasquirrel]

No longer a virgin, I just passed my first test. I know it’s early, but I am so nauseous. I can excuse allergy symptoms, but that was a symptom too many. I was handed a test by my friend, and a woman that works in the hospital lab happened to be standing outside the door, asking what I was doing. Gosh, the tests are easy. I was too nauseous to read the instructions though.
I’ll still have to take another in a few days.

It's not like they're asking you to find the approximate area of a dodecahedron. It's a simple medical test. Why would it be hard

 

[NanaK]

No longer a virgin, I just passed my first test. I know it’s early, but I am so nauseous.

I read this and I thought I'd missed some posts somehow?! I thought what are we confessing here?

Can't decide which is worse. For levity.

I don't want either, thank you!

 

[NanaK]

I didn’t mean to omit the word “C0vid.”

I do hope you feel better quickly!

 

[Brooks_]

I do hope you feel better quickly!

Fully agree.

 

[BullChick]

It's not like they're asking you to find the approximate area of a dodecahedron. It's a simple medical test. Why would it be hard

I know what the old tests entailed, and it wasn’t as simple. I also could not read these instructions because I was too sick. So it was indeed a relief to have a pro to tell me what to do, and how long in between vomiting.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

I know what the old tests entailed, and it wasn’t as simple. I also could not read these instructions because I was too sick. So it was indeed a relief to have a pro to tell me what to do, and how long in between vomiting.

That's as simple as a test that costs twenty dollars more that simply says pregnant or not versus a cheap one where you have to interpret lines

 

[Beer can]

Good news for first responders, essential workers in NY.
NYC fired roughly 1,700 employees for being unvaccinated earlier this year, many of those fired were police officers and firefighters, nurses.
A New York state Supreme Court ordered all New York City employees who were fired for not being vaccinated to be reinstated with back pay.
The court found Monday that "being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19." New York City Mayor Eric Adams claimed earlier this year that his administration would not rehire employees who had been fired over their vaccination status.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Good news for first responders, essential workers in NY.
NYC fired roughly 1,700 employees for being unvaccinated earlier this year, many of those fired were police officers and firefighters, nurses.
A New York state Supreme Court ordered all New York City employees who were fired for not being vaccinated to be reinstated with back pay.
The court found Monday that "being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19." New York City Mayor Eric Adams claimed earlier this year that his administration would not rehire employees who had been fired over their vaccination status.

Meanwhile in Chicago all their SWAT sued the city over unfair labor practices because due to covid and crime they had to be on call 24/7. They lost and the court is now ordering the proud men in blue pay the city's legal fees. Individually. Not the department. It's a shame how the work force has been treated during this whole thing.

 

[saysfaa]

From Mr. "I would NEVER fund a gain in function project" Fauci.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/boston-university-lethal-covid-strain-lab
What sane person would think this a good idea?

All over newsfeeds is how Boston U research has been misunderstood.

Quote of the newsfeed articles
The news reports pulled one line from the paper's abstract out of context," said Ronald Corley, director of the BU National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL), in an October 17 post on the university's website.
Unquote

Here is the paper
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134v1.full.pdf

Here are the first 12 lines. The lines are even numbered, although it is distracting in this format.

The recently identified, globally predominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (BA.1) is
42 highly transmissible, even in fully vaccinated individuals, and causes attenuated disease
43 compared with other major viral variants recognized to date1-7. The Omicron spike (S)
44 protein, with an unusually large number of mutations, is considered the major driver of
45 these phenotypes3,8. We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S
46 gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this
47 virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant. The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly
48 escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor-
49 binding motif (RBM), yet unlike naturally occurring Omicron, efficiently replicates in cell
50 lines and primary-like distal lung cells. In K18-hACE2 mice, while Omicron causes mild,
51 non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality
52 rate of 80%. This indicates that while the vaccine escape of Omicron is defined by
53 mutations in S, major determinants of viral pathogenicity reside outside of S.

Lines 61 through 64 say Omicron escapes antibodies more than the earlier versions and causes less disease in people and in test tubes.

Line 73 and 74, they put an omicron spike onto the earliest common strain. The combined version is called Omi-S.

Line 79 - 83 they test how infectious Omi-S is compared to the original strain (called WT) and to Omicron.

Line 84-86 They give the results: In 24 hours, WT spread to 89% of the cells in the test, Omi-S spread to 80%, Omicron spread to 48%.

Line 86-88 They give more results (different test for the same purpose): In 48 hours, WT spread to 60%, Omi-S to 41%, Omicron to 10%.

Line 115 - 131 They test WT, Omi-S, and Omicron is mice. Omi-S is 80% as damaging/deadly as WT. Omicron is not damaging/deadly.

Lines 132-140 They test the spread of the three versions in live mice. Results are consistent with the earlier tests.

Lines 200-431 They give specifics of how they did each step.

It seems like far more than one line to me.

Fyi, a different lab is doing the same thing with Monkey Virus. That escaped the prohibition on "Gain of Function" because it wasn't considered a risk to cause a pandemic... I don't have it opened, so may not have it quite right. And/or there is some hokey definition of "gain of function" that it doesn't mean making a virus more dangerous... it means making a virus more dangerous by using more than different strains of the same kind of virus.

 

[h2oratt]

Meanwhile in Chicago all their SWAT sued the city over unfair labor practices because due to covid and crime they had to be on call 24/7. They lost and the court is now ordering the proud men in blue pay the city's legal fees. Individually. Not the department. It's a shame how the work force has been treated during this whole thing.

I agree