DuatDweller on 2/8/2024 at 17:01
Quote Posted by Nicker
LOL
Good one.
;)
Qooper on 2/8/2024 at 17:43
Quote Posted by Sulphur
And... nah. There's value in a good burn. We've had a long and proud tradition of meeting inanity with zingers, and there's little reason to stop now.
Actually, I do agree that a really good, thoughtful zing can add comic relief and I'm not against that at all. And there are a few of those here every now and then, and that's certainly a breath of fresh air. It's the fart in the envelope that gets old really fast, you know, adding a little brimstone and shaking your fist "This'll show him!"
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The only issue is that SubEff can't make a good one to save his life, which is clearly why that's his name.
Well, I don't know him that well so I can't comment on that. Who knows, maybe he's got some really good ones but happened to be lazy in this particular instance.
lowenz on 30/10/2024 at 19:09
Finally COVID (not the first not-so-human-tuned variant) found me.....can't get the vaccine in time this year so here we are.
Now I know EXACTLY how it works.
The lung deadly manifestation, just I've always said, is really a minor aspect of the disease and one of the LAST tail of the infection......it's important for the demographic of deaths but man, the virus is really doing some alien shit considering how it attacks the human system.
The smell/taste damage (I've lost it all in exactly 12 hours 3 days ago) is MASSIVE and totally separate from the nose/mouth mucosa "classic" infection (like in influenza or similar): it starts from the blood vessel feeding the neurons thanks to ACE2 and does so much extensive damage in so little time, without any form of inflammation linked to it (that's for the lungs and the interstitial pneumonia manifestation).
The first thing you can feel, like in the vaccine, is the action of the replication of the virus as its spike protein and the interaction with the blood vessels when the number spikes (pun intended).
When this happens you're already infecting other people since 3 days absolutely with no idea of that.
In the same time some kind of reaction of the kidney system and then *silence*, just some little uneasiness.....and then the real damage of the virus begins.....in the nerves! Just like herpes!
The respiratory tracts inflammation (and so the pneumonia) is really one of the last manifestation of the infection and meddled with the immune response.
The virus is indeed moving from an individual to another thanks to the replication in the oral mucosa but it's really wrong to consider the COVID-19 a "respiratory disease" because of that and because of the killer pneumonia (when it happens, the disease can't even progress along that way but take a totally different route).
lowenz on 30/10/2024 at 19:36
Quote Posted by DuatDweller
Try to remember that when having a brain stroke or a heart attack.
It may happen soon.
Even "that" vaccine maker had to accept that there were side effects.
A simple blood thinner solves that *rare* incovenience without any risk the virus and the infection involves and when the spike is cleared - it's the spike proliferation that alters the blood vessels behaviour and so can cause light myocarditis or/and clotting - you just got the antibodies ready to protect you from something you can't control or reverse.
You can reverse a 12 hours heart failure (and even an ischemic stroke by a functional point of view), you CAN'T reverse a 12 hours neural micro-tissue damage.
Antivaxxers can't grasp how things work, they're just (auto)fearmongers believing in every "antisystem" fantasies (like hydroxychloroquine and other totally unrelated drugs) just for the sake of that and so doing a political (puppet) role.
henke on 31/10/2024 at 09:00
I also finally caught the covid. Feels bad. Well, feels like a regular cold, mostly. I'm not happy about it tho. Was gonna go to Games First in Helsinki and get drunk with all my gamedev friends this week. That ain't happening! :mad:
Subjective Effect on 31/10/2024 at 11:10
Get well soon henke and lowenz!
I've had Covid at least 3 times now, but honestly I've lost count and it could be 5,6 or 7 times. The first time wasn't the worst, it was one of the subsequent times and it was rough. I don't think I've got long-Covid like dema though, so I feel a little lucky.
Azaran on 31/10/2024 at 19:53
If you have echinacea and vitamin D, take it. I only had it once, milder than a cold, but left me with a dry cough for weeks afterwards
lowenz on 1/11/2024 at 12:09
No problem here about the respiratory aspect, ZERO. Way less than influenza.
The big problem is the smell completely suppressed. Vitamin D can't help with that (and really isn't necessary in big quantities), it's more about vitamins of the B group and other things taken for nerve damages (like rethynopaties).
Sulphur on 1/11/2024 at 12:27
Yeah, you only need Vitamin D if your bloodwork reports that you're deficient in it. If you've got retinopathy or atherosclerosis already, you should be looking at managing your blood pressure too along with taking those B complex supplements.
Anyway, covid is fucking terrible regardless of how severe its symptoms, so get better soon both of you.
Harvester on 1/11/2024 at 12:30
Yes, get well soon. I had my second covid infection two weeks ago, missed a week of work. Thankfully working went okay again this week and I don't seem to have any post-covid symptoms.
