re: The Darwin Award winners: The University of Alabama

Where does it say that the students attend the University of Alabama? Stillman College is there as is Shelton State. I swear people seriously need to read the fracking article!

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Yes you do purposely let your other children get chicken pox when one of them contracts it. At least that is what used to happen.

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They have a vaccine for it now, so no need to do it.

Yes doing those things strengthen your immune system. shite happens and you’ll get sick, correct. But these dumbasses are doing it on purpose to try and catch it. You understand that correct? Because I don’t think you are getting the point

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Yes doing those things strengthen your immune system. shite happens and you’ll get sick, correct. But these dumbasses are doing it on purpose to try and catch it. You understand that correct? Because I don’t think you are getting the point

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The more low risk people who get it the better. Maybe on an individual basis it's dumb, but in terms of the general public, it's a good thing.

I think people also look at things wrong when it comes to higher risk people. They often times leave out the time factor, which in the end dramatically increases their odds of catching it. The more we "flatten" things, the more elder people are at risk.

To a certain degree that makes sense, you don't want your healthcare systems over run. But outside that you really want people to get it as quickly as possible, get over it and become immune to it.

Once that young person is immune, they are no longer a danger to the elder people around them. If they can control when they get it, they can quarantine themselves away from higher risk. It's over in a few weeks.

Now, take someone else who doesn't get it on purpose. Every single day from now until they do get it, they are at risk of infecting a higher risk person. As time goes on, the exposure risk just keeps increasing. Maybe they go 3 months before they get it, maybe they have symptoms, maybe they don't. But they are coming in contact with those people over and over while potentially being contagious.

So everyone getting it = shorter exposure window. While doing what we do now = longer exposure window.

AZFamily.com - New study shows asymptomatic have lung damage

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Arizona doctors are seeing a trend with COVID-19 that, at first, doesn't seem to add up.

“You look at a chest X-ray and say, ‘My God, this guy should be dead!’ And you talk to them, and they say, ‘No I feel fine. I’m not that bad,’ and they’re relatively asymptomatic,” said emergency medicine Dr. Frank Lovecchio.

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Now, a study out of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego backs up what Dr. Lovecchio is seeing first hand. The study found that on the Diamond Princess cruise ship earlier this year where there was a COVID outbreak, more than half of the 76 asymptomatic people infected on board now show significant lung abnormalities that weren't immediately apparent.

“The few times I’ve seen it and my colleagues, it’s usually been younger folks,” said Lovecchio.

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“The body is so smart that if one area of the lung is blocked off because there’s virus in there, it will say, ‘I’m not going to give you blood!’ And shunt blood, or move blood, to another part of the lung,” he said.

And he said younger people specifically have more lung capacity.

“It’s truly amazing that you can cut off like 10% of your lung and have no difference in your respiratory reserve or how you’re breathing, etc., so that’s probably what we’re seeing,” Dr. Lovecchio said.

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This is just one of 100 reasons we have no clue about the long term effects of this. Doesn't mean we shut everything down, but it does mean it's silly to just say "nobody is dying so WTF, why should I care?".

2020 covid national champions

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I'd bet almost anything that it ends up not being true, especially long term.

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I mean, alright? I'd almost bet that I'd prefer to wait and find out whether it is or not before treating it the same as I do the common cold. And no, that doesn't mean shutting yourself in the house all day. It does mean taking basic precautions and living your life in a very normal way.

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Look at the damage smokers do to themselves for example. You can smoke so much and take your lungs down to a point where there is very little left at all.

And yet the moment you stop smoking your lungs begin to heal. Even in people with COPD(although they don't usually full heal like others). After only 9 months of quitting smoking, the lungs will have healed significantly. Repairing themselves all over.

So I know the lungs are very capable of healing themselves, so I'm pretty skeptical about the long term claims.

Also, maybe they should be rethinking what x-rays on someone who "should be dead" looks like if the think someone who says they are find should be dead. That whole paragraph screams bull shite to me.

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Again, that's fine, and people can do whatever the hell they want. But a lot of people have just decided what they've decided and they don't want to hear anything different - this is the cold there is nothing else to it and I won't believe anything else.......or........this is an absolute disaster we must get cases to zero before we do anything or else we are all murderers.

I think it's pretty idiotic to throw yourself into something that we have no long-term studies of (or medium-term, or even short-term). But again, everyone gets to make their own choice.

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Again, that's fine, and people can do whatever the hell they want. But a lot of people have just decided what they've decided and they don't want to hear anything different - this is the cold there is nothing else to it and I won't believe anything else.......or........this is an absolute disaster we must get cases to zero before we do anything or else we are all murderers.

I think it's pretty idiotic to throw yourself into something that we have no long-term studies of (or medium-term, or even short-term). But again, everyone gets to make their own choice.

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I get what you are saying

But we have run 1000s of labs where I work on people that have recovered, we have run 100s of scans of lungs as well

There is no long term effect for the 99% of people that get covid without a very severe outcome. If there was, the labs or scans would be showing at least something. They aren’t

Interesting...some posters have this mindset towards it as well.