re: Has anyone else been positive for Covid?

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Prior to covid we still had large gatherings without masks and with sinus infections, flu, stomach virus, RSV, strep throat etc all here alive and well and making people sick. Why are people continuing to treat this covid crap like AIDS?

People get sick, especially if you have little kids. Keep your body healthy and it’ll fight a lot off. No need for shut the whole world down.

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I think the biggest thing is that outside of flu, everything in that list (sinus infections, stomach virus, strep) are rarely fatal. Also, with flu, there is a vaccine that can reduce your risk of contracting it and reduce the severity of it if you do. Also, if you don't get the vaccine, there are therapeutics (tamiflu) that can treat it once you have it.

Unfortunately, especially for folks with one or more comorbidity (age, heart issues, obesity, diabetes, asthma), Covid is extremely dangerous and deadly. There isn't a guaranteed vaccine or even therapeutic.

Secondly, if you read the studies, the pneumonia/lung damage presents in a strange way. Typically if you are in respiratory distress, you have a hard time giving your body oxygen, but also expelling carbon dioxide. As the CO2 builds up, you start breathing heavily and showing other signs. With Covid, the body still expels the CO2, it is just the intake/distribution of O2 that is the issue. So you end up getting very lethargic, and your body starts to shut down from lack of oxygen, but your breathing isn't labored because the CO2 levels are normal and your body isn't going crazy trying to get it out.

Because of that, by the time you or a family member realizes something is wrong, the pneumonia is advanced and has really torn up your lungs. Ventilators don't help, because by being intubated, all it does is push the fluid and damaged tissue deeper into the sacs in the lungs. That is why a lot of hospitals now put patients on CPAP or BiPAP to try to give them as much oxygen as possible without doing more harm to the lungs.

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Prior to covid we still had large gatherings without masks and with sinus infections, flu, stomach virus, RSV, strep throat etc all here alive and well and making people sick. Why are people continuing to treat this covid crap like AIDS?

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I believe the biggest issues are how fast it spreads and the fatality of it. It just spreads very fast

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I hate this term and how we use it nowadays. It's used as a derogatory term to insult an opponent.

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Not really. It is similar to this idea. It is possible to be sincere but be sincerely wrong. Based on common sense science tells us you can do certain things safely, especially outside even while a potential COVID positive person is present.

People will argue you can't and people will argue you can indoors as well without other precautions, but they are sincerely wrong.