Listening to a neuroscientist explaining that it's worrying seeing how covid affects vessels, cells & neurons in the brain; long term effects unknown.
A cardiologist talking about heart, blood vessel & endothelium damage.
Are you personally sure that Covid can be ignored?
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A cardiologist talking about heart, blood vessel & endothelium damage.
Are you personally sure that Covid can be ignored?
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If so, why?
It's absolutely clear that there is still more that we don't understand than what we already know. But what we know is reason for significant concern. Read up on it.
It bothered me greatly when pediatricians came out so quickly to say there's no risk to children.
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It's absolutely clear that there is still more that we don't understand than what we already know. But what we know is reason for significant concern. Read up on it.
It bothered me greatly when pediatricians came out so quickly to say there's no risk to children.
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With a completely new virus, it takes a long time and an awful lot of research to be able to reach such a conclusion and it's clear that couldn't possibly have known when Govs also declared it 'mild' and akin to a bad cold.
There are hundreds of thousands of research papers.
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There are hundreds of thousands of research papers.
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Many of them are very concerning.
It's not just about the acute phase.
It's not even just about the longer terms effects that are noticeable & debilitating - so Long Covid.
It's also the unknown continual damage being done behind the scenes that takes time to develop and show.
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It's not just about the acute phase.
It's not even just about the longer terms effects that are noticeable & debilitating - so Long Covid.
It's also the unknown continual damage being done behind the scenes that takes time to develop and show.
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If we were taking a sensible approach to this, we would surely have to admit to ourselves that we don't know what the effect of infection and reinfection will be in 5, 10, 20 years from now.
We'd be trying to prevent it.
And there are ways to do that but it's being ignored.
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We'd be trying to prevent it.
And there are ways to do that but it's being ignored.
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If we invested in clean air mitigations in all public spaces, used proper airborne protections in all healthcare settings, the worst poss outcome is that fewer people get ill & we find out the damage is less severe than feared but we protected ourselves from future pandemics.
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We know the virus can persist in reservoirs in organs and tissues. We don't know how prevalent that is. We don't know if it's always replicating virus or more often viral fragments causing continual inflammation.
So if you feel invulnerable; I don't know how you decided that.
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So if you feel invulnerable; I don't know how you decided that.
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If you think kids with undeveloped brains are not at risk; I don't know how you decided that.
But what I do know is that you didn't decide that based on facts.
The fact is; we don't fully understand yet but what we do know is reason for very considerable concern for everyone.
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But what I do know is that you didn't decide that based on facts.
The fact is; we don't fully understand yet but what we do know is reason for very considerable concern for everyone.
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Personally, I am choosing to adapt behavior to protect myself and my family from infection as best possible.
I am choosing to push for better mitigations.
5 years into a pandemic is still early days in terms of long term outcomes.
We may find out too late.
Protect yourself.
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I am choosing to push for better mitigations.
5 years into a pandemic is still early days in terms of long term outcomes.
We may find out too late.
Protect yourself.
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