moody monday: it's starting
2022-Jul-18, Monday 07:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI told you the 5 things that you need to know about SARS-CoV-2. Now, I'm seeing the expected pattern emerge.
* I told you about the immune damaging properties of this new virus. I expect the earliest carriers to be the first to show signs of C-AIDS (Covid-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), people like our frontline healthcare workers who risked their lives for the rest of us. Like this doctor, who has been infected 5 times already. Her CD4 T cell count may be low enough already to qualify for an AIDS diagnosis if it was HIV causing the drop. Other doctors are noticing it too. What's causing her immune problem, though? It's a real mystery.
* They sent kids with no vaccination into classrooms. They brought them back to class after only 5 days of isolation after being sick, or no isolation at all if someone in their family was sick. Now, we have kids coming to the hospital with multiple simultaneous viral infections (free archive copy (also, "a big increase" of viral meningitis in infants)). Why? It's a real mystery.
* Europe is already bracing for 3 simultaneous epidemics of flu (out of season), covid (yet another wave), and monkeypox (authorities still insist it's sexually transmitted instead of airborne). Weird, huh? It's a real mystery.
* The airline industry dropped mask requirements after specifically asking for them, then they began cancelling flights due to staff shortages. Same thing is happening in mass transit, healthcare (especially nurses), nursing homes, teachers, and other industries. All of them are "essential workers" that capitalism refuses to protect, because they're supposedly replaceable. Until they aren't.
It's not clear to me whether the immune suppression effect recovers over time, or if it progressively worsens (due to chronic infection, for example).
A single tweet succinctly covers how I feel about this situation:
I made the right call to quit my job when they went mask optional. I hope I acquire a remote job before my savings run out, so I don't have to return to the plague pool. Our collective governments (except China) have put us into an awful situation. You can't externalize costs when the entire system is dysfunctional. I really don't see any path forward in which I'm wrong about the 5 points. I'm sorry.
* I told you about the immune damaging properties of this new virus. I expect the earliest carriers to be the first to show signs of C-AIDS (Covid-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), people like our frontline healthcare workers who risked their lives for the rest of us. Like this doctor, who has been infected 5 times already. Her CD4 T cell count may be low enough already to qualify for an AIDS diagnosis if it was HIV causing the drop. Other doctors are noticing it too. What's causing her immune problem, though? It's a real mystery.
* They sent kids with no vaccination into classrooms. They brought them back to class after only 5 days of isolation after being sick, or no isolation at all if someone in their family was sick. Now, we have kids coming to the hospital with multiple simultaneous viral infections (free archive copy (also, "a big increase" of viral meningitis in infants)). Why? It's a real mystery.
* Europe is already bracing for 3 simultaneous epidemics of flu (out of season), covid (yet another wave), and monkeypox (authorities still insist it's sexually transmitted instead of airborne). Weird, huh? It's a real mystery.
* The airline industry dropped mask requirements after specifically asking for them, then they began cancelling flights due to staff shortages. Same thing is happening in mass transit, healthcare (especially nurses), nursing homes, teachers, and other industries. All of them are "essential workers" that capitalism refuses to protect, because they're supposedly replaceable. Until they aren't.
"It’s got all these different reservoirs,” he said. “It’s very much like HIV in that sense.” Gupta is an HIV researcher who is known for having treated the so-called London patient, the second person to be functionally cured of the virus. For him, there are “a lot of parallels between HIV and what’s going on with this virus and chronic infection.” In both, the virus wages an ongoing war against the host immune system, the treatments, and even itself: “There’s a battle between different variants going on,” he said.
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2779850
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2779850
A single tweet succinctly covers how I feel about this situation:
I work in the busiest hospital chemistry lab & busiest blood gas lab in the US. We test literally thousands of patient samples each day. It's impossible not to notice the drastic & steady increase in abnormal test results across all patient groups over the course of the pandemic.
- tweet, David Christopher
- tweet, David Christopher
I made the right call to quit my job when they went mask optional. I hope I acquire a remote job before my savings run out, so I don't have to return to the plague pool. Our collective governments (except China) have put us into an awful situation. You can't externalize costs when the entire system is dysfunctional. I really don't see any path forward in which I'm wrong about the 5 points. I'm sorry.