Covid-19 Discussion (moderated)

Read the thread. As if every forum/messageboard on the planet didn't have Covid threads on them when the outbreak happened...

I do not go near reddit if I can help it. It's a disorienting mishmash of 1990s-looking bulletin board crap.

Dr, your spot on with post 4470. I had body aches but it wasn't as bad as the 1st one 2 yrs ago.

Apparently the array of symptoms is shifting too. Fewer people are losing their sense of smell.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240111-covid-19-how-does-its-symptoms-differ-from-flu#:~:text=The%20version%20of%20the%20Covid,health%20and%20their%20immune%20system.

Seek medical attention or check into the nearest nuthouse.

then go there and leave us.

i am really lucky with covid (so far). i've had all of the shots and the only result has been slight arm soreness the next day that went away quickly. wifey caught covid twice and i either didn't get it or i did with no symptoms.

I forgot about the stiffness and slight swelling at injection site. With all the rest, I really don't look at that as much of a symptom.

Per the CDC https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00 The week of Jan 6 had 35,801 Covid-19 hospitalizations. But only 899 deaths.

Either the variants are getting weaker or the vaccination campaigns have been having an effect. Maybe both?

There's also - the worst strains of the virus run out of hosts to kill.
Even before Louis Pasteur and vaccinations one of two things happened with a plague.
Either one's immune system adapted and killed the virus - or the virus kills you first before it can.
Humanity has survived for that reason - because enough immune systems adapt quickly enough to keep the human race going.
But without vaccination - many more millions of people would have died.
As with other plagues.

Yes, two of my sisters (and their husbands, of course) have had the most recent strain of Covid. They've all been boosted and no one has been hospitalized or has had anything but the usual crappy feeling, fever and coughs that comes with the Covid-19 virus.

maybe it’s time to let endgy back in..

Endgame was blocked by me personally for PMs that are outside the scope of this thread, so he won't be coming back. If chess.com ever allows "per thread" blocking, I will reevaluate.

as you and this thread were ‘chosen’ by cc. i feel that you lost your right for personal decisions and you must fit to your ‘clothes’. i.e. objectivity.. lol. so i ask you to reconsider.. that’s all.

There's no problem with my objectivity. When he was posting, I did not block him (and he seemed surprised by that). When he did something else not related to this thread, I blocked him as a general member, not for moderating the thread guidelines here...thus his absence from the block list on page 1. The block mechanism works the way it works. Put in a ticket, I guess.

This is no longer the only Covid thread allowed so the point is moot, really.

'per thread' blocking is a good way of putting it. I've been saying for years that chess.com should have 'venue-specific' blocking instead of global blocking. But I don't think its ever going to happen unless the owner of the website decides it would be better to have such options for members. Perhaps the rationale is that people don't block for an enormous number of different reasons including very good reasons ... but rather that people block because they don't like somebody so it may as well be global. The anti-blocking people would hate 'venue-blocking' because it would encourage people to use their blocking options more and interfere with the phobias and lobbying against blocking.

See note above: "The week of Jan 6 had 35,801 Covid-19 hospitalizations. But only 899 deaths."

That's lot of hospitalizations for something that is "over." But, the disease mainly poses the most threat to the unvaccinated and unboosted who have the least protection, along with people with suppressed immune systems and other medical problems that would make an infection much worse.

899 deaths in a week is a lot of deaths.
Even though only a fraction of the death rate before.

I don't think covid will ever be over, its just much more manageable than before. People may start to look at it as just another form of cancer.

Don't post things you cannot back up.