Coronavirus (Ontario: health insurance, how much, house)

[Tulemutt]

Aaannnnd … the cage match battle royale thread rages on even through the night!

[beachGecko]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Aaannnnd … the cage match battle royale thread rages on even through the night!

I'm in France, it's 3pm here. Aren't you in Tahiti, it's 3am there

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by beachGecko

I'm in France, it's 3pm here. Aren't you in Tahiti, it's 3am there

You post 24/7, so time zone matters naught.

And no, I diverted to New Caledonia ….

[beachGecko]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

You post 24/7, so time zone matters naught.

And no, I diverted to New Caledonia ….

You went from Friday to Saturday!

And it must be the Long Covid goodheathen always talks about. I have superhuman abilities and don't require sleep anymore

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by beachGecko

... it must be the Long Covid goodheathen always talks about.

Try not to make fun of people whose opinions on the virus differ from yours. H/she is simply posting the data that's out there on that particular complication of COVID-19.

[beachGecko]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Try not to make fun of people whose opinions on the virus differ from yours. H/she is simply posting the data that's out there on that particular complication of COVID-19.

I'm just lightly teasing, nothing mean spirited. I think goodheathen would be happier relaxing a bit, but of course goodheathen knows best for goodheathen!

[goodheathen]

Originally Posted by beachGecko

There was some study a while back, where something like 50% of Long COVID "sufferers" were at least medically normal, the docs could not pinpoint anything wrong with them.

Now this is a cardinal sin in medicine to dismiss someone's condition as mental - but placebo effect is real and works both ways.

Your scaremongering over Long COVID will cause a lot of neurotic individuals to imagine they have Long COVID after infection.

Anyways, long COVID is not forever. There is no permanent damage for the vast majority of people "suffering" from long COVID.

They should do yoga, get some sun, push themselves to exercise more every day, and eat right, and do breathing exercises.

Summary: sheer ignorance.

After several months, the odds plummet that it goes away in the near future. One would think it resolves eventually (except for sense of smell, a less important 'complication' that's probably damaged forever), but who knows. Maybe if the medical community took it seriously....

Just as important is that years of letting it rip will cause the number of people willing and able to teach to shrink. Individuals don't really care about the children; at most they care about their own.

[beachGecko]

Originally Posted by goodheathen

Summary: sheer ignorance.

After several months, the odds plummet that it goes away in the near future. One would think it resolves eventually (except for sense of smell, a less important 'complication' that's probably damaged forever), but who knows. Maybe if the medical community took it seriously....

Just as important is that years of letting it rip will cause the number of people willing and able to teach to shrink. Individuals don't really care about the children; at most they care about their own.

I think we all anecdotally know dozens of people who got the virus.

I know a few who claimed lingering symptoms like cough, fatigue, arrhythmia during exercise, anosmia (lose of smell). But after a few months, they were back to normal more or less. I don't know anyone who has lingering symptoms after 6 months. Do you?

And by lingering symptoms, they were perfectly healthy enough to do basic day to day things, even exercise. Some people with seasonal allergies suffer more.

[JGC97]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Try not to make fun of people whose opinions on the virus differ from yours. H/she is simply posting the data that's out there on that particular complication of COVID-19.

That's very good advice. The same could be said for that person who, in previous posts (in this very long thread,) has called people who disagree with her ignorant, reckless, irresponsible, and selfish. It's a two-way street there.

[goodheathen]

Originally Posted by beachGecko

I think we all anecdotally know dozens of people who got the virus.

I know a few who claimed lingering symptoms like cough, fatigue, arrhythmia during exercise, anosmia (lose of smell). But after a few months, they were back to normal more or less. I don't know anyone who has lingering symptoms after 6 months. Do you?

And by lingering symptoms, they were perfectly healthy enough to do basic day to day things, even exercise. Some people with seasonal allergies suffer more.

Yes, online, not friends per se. Of course those people aren't hanging out offline unless they must.

I don't think anyone is coughing much more than 6 months after, barring serious lung damage. That's probably a helpful way to sort out Long Covid from not-very-long-Covid.