Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

[ADevilYouKhow]

China’s Latest Source of Unrest: Unpaid ‘Zero Covid’ Workers

Companies that reaped windfalls helping the government implement strict ‘zero Covid’ controls are now struggling to pay and keep workers.

www.nytimes.com

 

[SwizzLake]

You clearly know more than the people running the study so go call them and tell them they're wrong while sucking that covid infested dikk

Are you saying that the study didn't focus on the vaccinated? Have you read it?

 

[88m3]

NYC records 400 COVID deaths in 2 weeks as PCR testing drops

The number of NYC residents taking PCR tests, which determine official records and help track the disease, is the lowest it’s been since May 2020. But does that matter?

gothamist.com

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

F.D.A. Outlines a Plan for Annual Covid Boosters

In advance of a scientific meeting on Thursday, officials proposed offering new shots to Americans each fall, a strategy long employed against the flu.

www.nytimes.com

 

[bnew]

Studies give cause for concern: Lauterbach warns of incurable immune deficiency caused by Corona – Archyde

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www.archyde.com

Lauterbach warns of incurable immune deficiency caused by Corona - Early Bulletins News

Anyone infected with Corona is at increased risk of developing an incurable immune deficiency. According to Health Minister Lauterbach, this is shown by various studies that are currently being investigated further. As a result, the risk of chronic diseases such as dementia increases. According...

earlybulletins.news

STUDIES GIVE CAUSE FOR CONCERN: LAUTERBACH WARNS OF INCURABLE IMMUNE DEFICIENCY CAUSED BY CORONA​

January 21, 2023 by archyde

01/21/2023 06:42 am


Anyone who gets infected with corona more often runs the risk of developing an incurable immune deficiency. According to Health Minister Lauterbach, this is indicated by various studies that are currently being further researched. As a result, the risk of chronic diseases such as dementia would increase.

According to Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, several corona infections in one person can have serious consequences for the immune system. “It is worrying what we observe in people who have had several corona infections. Studies now show very clearly that those affected are often dealing with an immune deficiency that can no longer be cured,” said Lauterbach of the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post”. .

“This can be a risk factor for the development of chronic diseases, from cardiovascular problems to dementia,” emphasized the minister. “As I said, that’s not certain yet, it’s being intensively researched. I’m following the studies and discussing them with experts. This shows that if someone has a severely aged immune system after two infections, it’s advisable that they avoid further Covid infections,” said Lauterbach.

Speaking to the newspaper, the minister also announced a major initiative for people with Long Covid. “For example, a hotline will be set up in my ministry in a timely manner. It is intended to serve as a contact point for people who are looking for information about Long Covid,” said the SPD politician. He also wants to fund so-called healthcare research with 100 million euros in the future in order to improve the situation of those suffering from Long Covid. The aim is to find out what the optimal care concept is for those affected.

LAUTERBACH APPEALS TO CARNIVAL ORGANIZERS​

“We assume that a relevant proportion of those who fall ill after a corona infection are struggling with long-Covid symptoms. Estimates assume five to ten percent. For the individual, this often means a hard blow of fate and can even become relevant for the labor market if the number of sick people continues to rise,” explained the minister.

In view of the upcoming carnival celebrations, Lauterbach asked the organizers to offer corona tests for indoor meetings. “At the Oktoberfest in Munich we saw how not to do it,” he told the newspaper. “I therefore appeal to the organizers of carnival sessions to offer tests so that all people go to the event tested.” This can be “easily accomplished using mobile test units,” said the minister. “It’s affordable for the organizers and creates significantly more security.”

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Some people need to feel afraid in order to feel alive.

Look at this writing.

What’s CH.1.1? Meet ‘Orthrus,’ a new wildcard Omicron strain with a concerning Delta mutation

CH.1.1 is an Omicron with a concerning Delta mutation—not quite a "Deltacron," but still potentially concerning, experts say.

fortune.com

Omicron spawn XBB.1.5, also known as “Kraken,” now dominates the U.S. COVID variant scene, comprising an estimated 61% of cases, according to federal health data released Friday.


But there’s now a new player being tracked by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that could give Kraken a run for its money. CH.1.1, or “Orthrus,” was estimated to comprise 1.5% of U.S. cases as of Friday. Another Omicron spawn, it was named after a mythical two-headed cattle dog killed by Hercules, by Australian variant tracker Mike Honey.

It’s anyone’s best guess as to how CH.1.1 will play out in various countries throughout the world, including the U.S., Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), tells Fortune.

“I don’t think we have a real sense of what variants to be concerned about and which not to be,” he says.

Case in point: XBB.1.5, which “started out looking like it was going to be a very serious challenge, in terms of COVID” in the U.S. But after attaining dominance in the Northeast, “it just began to peter out throughout the rest of the country,” where it hasn’t risen as swiftly, he says.

He's talking to a lot of yall in this thread.

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[88m3]

U.S. Plans to End Public Health Emergency for Covid in May

The end of the emergency will bring about a complex set of policy changes, and it signals a new chapter in the government’s pandemic response.

www.nytimes.com

still hitting hard in NY

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Chinese Travel Is Set to Return. The Question Is, When?

The country has dropped restrictions on overseas journeys for its citizens, but once-popular destinations are still waiting for the flood of vacationers to arrive.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Been sick with a really bad cold for a week now. Started out with a itchy throat and cough and got worse fast. Went to urgent care a couple of days ago and got tested. Everything came back negative so I dunno what I got but it knocked me out.

 

[eXodus]

Been sick with a really bad cold for a week now. Started out with an itchy throat and cough and got worse fast. Went to urgent care a couple of days ago and got tested. Everything came back negative so I dunno what I got but it knocked me out.

I tested positive on the 23rd. Dogded that shyt for 3 years and finally got it. Had the same symptoms as you, itchy throat, and a cough, also night sweats the first couple nights.

It’s been about 2 weeks and the main symptoms are gone but I still feel a little off

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

I tested positive on the 23rd. Dogded that shyt for 3 years and finally got it. Had the same symptoms as you, itchy throat, and a cough, also night sweats the first couple nights.

It’s been about 2 weeks and the main symptoms are gone but I still feel a little off

I was surprised it wasn't covid. The one time I did get it this past summer It started with an itchy throat but overall it was really light. It felt like a mild cold and I was over it in less than a week. This shyt I got now is fukking me up.

 

[mastermind]

World Economic Forum: Here Are All The Covid-19 Precautions At Davos 2023

The WEF has requirements such as the following: “On Forum-provided official transport, all drivers will wear masks at all times.”

www.forbes.com

 

[mastermind]

Why is the business press outreporting the left on COVID?

Newly disabled victims of COVID pile high while the left spreads ableist nonsense

thegauntlet.substack.com

Putting together a few pieces of information: that Long COVID is a serious outcome, that it is common, and that risk of LC increases per reinfection, we get a pretty grim picture. It is a picture of everyone moving closer to severe outcome and disability over time.

I’m sure many who have not kept up with the ongoing scholarship around post-COVID effects (including Long COVID, high risk of stroke and heart attack, and organ failure) will consider this piece to be fear-mongering. The reality is that we know enough to know that letting this virus continually rip through the population is an insane gamble with plenty to indicate that we’ve already lost our bet.

Anyone reading the many emerging studies pointing to severe long-term consequences of continual COVID reinfection know that the “let it rip” approach quite simply will not hold long term. So why aren’t we seeing any red flags in the press? As it turns out, there is one corner of the media ecosystem that cares about an unprecedented, mass-disabling event: it’s business reporters.

A short sampler below:

WSJ: A Key to Long Covid Is Virus Lingering in the Body, Scientists Say

Bloomberg: UK Says Long Covid May Explain Much of Spike in Inactivity Rate

Financial Times: Long Covid: the invisible public health crisis fuelling labour shortages

CNBC; Long Covid may be ‘the next public health disaster’ — with a $3.7 trillion economic impact rivaling the Great Recession

FORTUNE: Companies haven’t addressed long COVID in the workplace—and they’re paying the price

CNBC: Long Covid’s financial devastation: $8,000 in credit card debt, ruined retirement plans

Washington Post, Business: Mass Long-Covid Disability Threatens the Economy

Sadly, while human lives are cast aside by right and left-wingers alike, the only part of the political spectrum concerned about disabling the public are employers realizing they’re losing human capital.

And from these headlines, it’s clear exactly why and in what context the business press cares about human beings: in the context of their ability to serve as workers for capitalism. Over and over again, headlines in WSJ and Fortune are warning of the dire economic situation ahead, the widespread labor shortages across every frontline industry, and jobs reporting showing record numbers of workers out with long-term illness. LC is urgent not because of our suffering, but because of our inability to work.

That the business press is leading the way because they value their employees more than we value our neighbors is an embarrassment to the movement. Where are the voices of Long COVID patients in the New Republic? Why aren’t disabled journalists the ones covering this mass disabling event? Why is the left repeating misinformation that exculpates our politicians? Why is it defaulting to a eugenicist worldview that if you’re “not healthy” you should stay in your house or die? Why are we talking about strikes and sick days, but never even daring to mention the obvious cause of ongoing and widespread frontline worker shortages?

I haven’t even mentioned socialist magazines like Jacobin or Current Affairs, because they haven’t even mentioned the uh, ongoing mass death event and normalization of excluding disabled people from public life lately. Jacobin is busy unpacking which superheroes are the most fascist and whether You’ve Got Mail, a movie that came out in the 90s, is neoliberal. No time to follow up on that once-in-a-lifetime disease epidemic killing hundreds of people every day- the majority of them now vaccinated.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Why is the business press outreporting the left on COVID?

Newly disabled victims of COVID pile high while the left spreads ableist nonsense

thegauntlet.substack.com

And who exactly is the left in this centrists mind? I can’t take folks like this seriously. If you’re punching left on Covid after everything that’s happened you got issues

The New Republic posting one article isn’t “the left”. I get tired of these centrists and their boogie man leftist bullshyt