Bottom line: I apparently have a reactivating of EBV (Epstein Barr virus) or CMV (Cytomegalovirus; or both, it happened after the first time I had COVID) which caused a lot of inflammation, EVERYWHERE but ultimately led to congestive heart failure.
PERMANENT Congestive heart failure. (Still waiting for test results on any damage to my kidneys)
I’m extremely fortunate it was caught in its early stages, EXTREMELY FORTUNATE.
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I’m not ‘average’ in terms of health; I’m 68, have had Multiple Sclerosis over 40 years, have Hashimoto’s disease, kidney problems, and a rare bleeding disorder. I was always in a group at higher risk from COVID.
Please, when you’re out in public, if you’re feeling the least bit ‘off’, wear a mask. For people like me, for people like my son who is my caregiver & is somehow blaming himself for getting exposed at work. . .
Masks aren’t a 100% solution but they do make a huge difference for so many of us.
Capitalists and their useful idiots couldnt give a fuck if you get Parkinsons in 10 years, Dementia in 20 years, and a timeline similar that shrinks in magnitude per each recurrent #COVID19 infection that activates Microglia to bulldoze your brain cells. 🧠
real talk - disarming yourself against covid infection is a special kind of eugenicist fascism that will not work out well for its advocates. "The meek will inherit" & machismo will die.
Ignorance, acquiescence may seem tempting, even liberating, but i promise you as the one far left, science-educated member of my family -- one vote offsetting the 11 Fox News "masks make you sick" deliberate clownshow denialists in my family -- my one vote will outlast theres by 40 years minimum.
do what you want, but ive decided to survive and thrive by supporting #CleanAir and #WearAMask initiatives.
First cases of #Arcturus#COVID19 variant found in #Ireland. The only surprise is that it took this long. Expect a rise in infections and hospitalizations in the coming month or two. No, it won't be a surge to rival the worst of the pandemic, but please don't ignore the risks of severe and/or Long COVID. A mask could save you or someone you love a great deal of suffering. #WearAMask
Short term, ignoring it does boost the economy. Long term, it will destroy the economy. Anyone pushing to ignore it is looking to cash out quickly at the price of harming people.
Note that mild symptoms ≠ mild infection
Covid 19 is a vascular infection - when the symptoms are awful, it means it infected your lungs/respiratory tract heavily. That system has obvious symptoms of infection, so it's "bad".
Only one other organ has major symptoms of infection that relate to breathing - your blood. If your blood is infected, it loses capacity to carry oxygen, so breathing becomes more difficult.
Another organ, there are obvious symptoms of infection - you can lose your sense of taste and smell, experience fatigue, have trouble remembering things, feel like you're in a fog - that's a brain infection.
But other organs, Covid-19 can damage them, and you're unlikely to experience any symptoms, until they're damaged to the point they struggle to do their jobs. Heart, Liver, Kidneys, Pancreas, Intestines, Stomach, Bowels... the only symptoms are THEY STOP WORKING.
Every infection has potential to create new variants, which are less likely to be stopped by vaccines. Because it attacks your immune system, each infection makes you less protected from Covid, and everything else. Cold and Flu are worse after Covid. You're now immune compromised.
So no, Covid-19, a SARS virus (sort of true, SARS is Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, and Covid-19 isn't a respiratory virus, it's vascular... the most severe visible symptoms are when it infects the respiratory system, but visible ≠ most severe at all) key is SEVERE.
Get vaccinated, and wear a mask - the two mitigations that, when combined, give you a shot at not getting infected, and not doing severe damage to your body, and even if it doesn't kill you, shortening your lifespan. Remember the whole "every cigarette takes a day off your life"?
Well, every covid infection takes years off your life - and damage is cumulative. Each infection does more damage, and shortens your potential lifespan more than the last, also increasing the odds of long term disability and dysfunction.
SARS-CoV2-19 isn't a joke. And where it came from, who's responsible, is not relevant to anything when it comes to the effects the disease has on your body, it's going to keep doing its thing and killing/disabling people until we stop acting like it's no big deal.
For the "masks don't work" crowd:
"Our results support universal masking as an important strategy for reducing #Covid19 incidence in schools and loss of in-person school days." #WearAMask