Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
My nephew is trying to set up a financial management franchise. I bought life insurance from him. Payments are too high imo due to being a nicotine user, but I am willing to help him out. He's only 22yo and working his butt off. I'm proud of him but it remains to be seen what will come from all his hard work.
I found out over Christmas that SIL and cousin had bad covid experiences the past year, including covid pneumonia, and both still have some remaining symptoms. This virus is terrible.
Glad, I'm relieved you are ok. NPR reported that Kentucky has a lot of wild fires right now -- and winter fires have never happened there before! Wow. Makes you wonder what is going on, and I'm praying this level of devastation will stop soon. I feel for anyone going through this.
"Deaths from influenza and pneumonia typically number fewer than 10,000 annually in pre-pandemic years, according to federal health statistics, with COVID-19 deaths in Canada more than 30,000 in slightly less than two years, with evidence of neurological, kidney and lung issues for some surviving patients not typically seen in flu cases. In the U.S., COVID-19 has killed more than 800,000 Americans in two years, while flu typically kills between 12,000 and 52,000 a year"
Pretty convincing that this is not just another flu, however, like flu, it will stay around.
'"Certainly COVID will be with us forever," Dr. Albert Ko, an infectious disease specialist at the Yale School of Public Health, told The Associated Press. "We're never going to be able to eradicate or eliminate COVID, so we have to identify our goals."
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, is looking ahead to a time when controlling the virus "does not disrupt society, that does not disrupt the economy."'
One bonus of wearing a mask in our very cold temperatures with a frigid wind is that the mask protects your face and makes going out much more bearable!!!
Last year, the CDC reported around 600 or so deaths from Flu compared to the average of 36,000 flu deaths in the US . This incredulous drop in flu deaths is due to the deaths being wrongly counted as Covid deaths.
This new mutant, called B.1.640.2, has 46 mutations in an "atypical combination," several more mutations than omicron, which has 37, according to a preprint study that has not yet been peer-reviewed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/new-corona-variant-identified-in-france/ar-AASqDvy?getstaticpage=true
Posted on facebook, plus an update on the omicron variant?
Interested in his recommendations for supplements to increase immunity,
(see his Video Update #59).
Also, drugs hospitals are using to treat the virus. (If I have that right). The recommended monoclonal antibodies (must be infused) are Bamlavimab, Estesevimab, Casirivimab, Imdevimab (Regeneron), and to neutralize the omicron variant: Sotrovimab.
Requesting prayers for my dear mom who contracted Covid. We just got the results today. I also have Covid and niece and brother still waiting for test results. Mom feels quite ill but stable.
Prayers
EB, good thought for your family.
It is against the law to send certain biohazards in the U.S. mail for a reason.
But here we all are, so eager to be sending back a PCR test in the mail for results. Or sending a specimen to be tested for occult blood. Handled by non-medical lay persons, aka the general public.
Watching the news is more than disturbing. Has anyone noticed the changes in testing techniques using the swab up your nose? Now self-administered by the public, who would not know a pharynx from their nasal passages to save their lives. You can now watch this on your T.V.
Please don't shoot the messenger.
I was always asking my husband to repeat himself, so he scheduled hearing tests for both of us.
So, we go and low and behold, he needs hearing aids.
On the way home, I ask him if he is okay, because I think it is a challenge when we are faced with loss of any ability. He responds, I don't have a problem needing hearing aids, I'm upset because I just knew I would be telling you, "See, I told you so. You can't hear."
We still laugh about him not getting to tell me he told me so.