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Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
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I don't normally wish bad things to happen to people but would the world be a worse place without this oblivious entitled woman?
https://twitter.com/WestminsterWAG/status/1289895372676947968?s=19
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- Aug 2008
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- The zero meridian
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostI don't normally wish bad things to happen to people but would the world be a worse place without this oblivious entitled woman?
https://twitter.com/WestminsterWAG/status/1289895372676947968?s=19
A very Katie Hopkins style post.
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- Mar 2008
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Originally posted by gjw100 View PostA worrying development at my wife's nursing home today. One of the elderly residents who had and recovered from the virus back in April has tested positive again today.
Hmmmmm, that is rather ominous, isn't it, though not exactly a surprise given some of the studies which have shown that post-infection immunity isn't particularly long-lasting.
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Sobering piece
https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1290249724440633345
Since the pandemic began, I have spoken with more than 100 experts in a variety of fields. I’ve learned that almost everything that went wrong with America’s response to the pandemic was predictable and preventable. A sluggish response by a government denuded of expertise allowed the coronavirus to gain a foothold. Chronic underfunding of public health neutered the nation’s ability to prevent the pathogen’s spread. A bloated, inefficient health-care system left hospitals ill-prepared for the ensuing wave of sickness. Racist policies that have endured since the days of colonization and slavery left Indigenous and Black Americans especially vulnerable to COVID‑19. The decades-long process of shredding the nation’s social safety net forced millions of essential workers in low-paying jobs to risk their life for their livelihood. The same social-media platforms that sowed partisanship and misinformation during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa and the 2016 U.S. election became vectors for conspiracy theories during the 2020 pandemic.Last edited by ursus arctos; 03-08-2020, 15:46.
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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post
Hmmmmm, that is rather ominous, isn't it, though not exactly a surprise given some of the studies which have shown that post-infection immunity isn't particularly long-lasting.
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Originally posted by Jimski View Post
I'm not sure studies have shown that, have they? They've only shown that antibodies tend to reduce in number - unless there's been something I've missed, which is entirely posisble.
Well, most of the science is well above my pay grade, Jimski, but I thought there was evidence to suggest that in some former sufferers there was no sign of any antibodies in their blood a matter of months after their infection, but you might well be right. Either way, it doesn't look as though recovering from the virus gives you long-lasting antibody immunity.
But then there are K cells, about which I know very little, but which seem to be another important factor in post-infection protection.
We probably need some informed input from Janik or one of OTF's other scientists.
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Yeah, I'm definitely not one of OTF's scientists, but I did read this article, written by professors of immunobiology, that convinced me that disappearing antibodies aren't necessarily the problem one might think they'd be:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/o...nion&smtyp=cur
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Originally posted by ad hoc View Post(Update on our status: No obvious symptoms yet, but a lot of anxiety. I've reached the point where I am not sure of the various physical issues I'm feeling are signs of the virus or simply physical manifestations of stress about it)
I found what helped was to do some physical activity (cycling fast, in my case), to prove to myself that my lungs were still fully functioning.
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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post
Well, most of the science is well above my pay grade, Jimski, but I thought there was evidence to suggest that in some former sufferers there was no sign of any antibodies in their blood a matter of months after their infection, but you might well be right. Either way, it doesn't look as though recovering from the virus gives you long-lasting antibody immunity.
But then there are K cells, about which I know very little, but which seem to be another important factor in post-infection protection.
We probably need some informed input from Janik or one of OTF's other scientists.
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