Update on bil is that he had antibody infusion and is doing better. Still having symptoms, but now more "cold-like". Just really tired. He and sister are still isolating from each other.
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Update on bil is that he had antibody infusion and is doing better. Still having symptoms, but now more "cold-like". Just really tired. He and sister are still isolating from each other.
Happy, glad your BIL is doing better. I decided not to go to my dining group for awhile. Seems not worth the risk.
Thanks, TT.
wait…what? I have not heard that interesting theory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Only we had a surge last summer, so here the conspiracy theorist's are "it's seasonal, it's always surging in the summer", well yes, and the winter, maybe when people are indoors and gathering (due to heat or holidays)
Here is a study on covid deaths in children:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w
In addition to obesity it mentions other factors. For instance, half of all deaths occurred in children with complex multi disabilities such as those requiring tubes for breathing or eating. I would not hesitate to attend a birthday party for a healthy 4 year old.
You would have to actually put a gun to my head to get me to attend a 4-year-old's birthday party! :laff:Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Studies from pre-delta times are somewhat irrelevant at this point. But by all means feel free to continue to ignore the stories about jam packed pediatric hospitals in states like Texas since you have obviously pivoted from ‘old people who were about to die anyway’ to your new fixation of ‘children getting it doesn’t matter’.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
From the article it's children with such severe illnesses they would die anyway so I am still on the die anyway theme. These are people who would not have lived past infancy in years past but are now kept artificially alive with machines and tubes. If not covid some other opportunistic infection would have killed them eventually long before they reached a normal lifespan.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
There is an idea that due to modern medicine no one should have to die before 90 or 100 or something. It's fed by bogus "science". For example, you use increasingly aggressive diagnostic tests, some using radiation that itself can induce cancer, to screen for cancer. You therefore find cancer earlier than you would have otherwise and treat it. The person reaches the 5 mile mark and they are a survivor, a success story. But they die 7 years later when the cancer comes back.
So diagnose in year 1 and live to year 7 you "beat cancer".
Diagnose in the old days in year 4 and you live to year 7 it's only three years so you "succumbed to cancer" or "lost your battle against cancer".
But in reality you died at the same time, it's only twisted statistics that try to differentiate.
Well you have these "covid deaths" in people who if they didn't have covid would have died of the seasonal flu at median age 82.7 or as a child with precarious health. Is covid really a dangerous pandemic, or just the straw that broke an already severely fractured camel's back?
If covid kills off a lot of the people who would have died anyways in the near future our mortality statistics should plummet in the first few years post-pandemic, because the people who would have died in the next few years already did.
I felt the same way even when the 4 year old was mine!! :laff:Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa