Lots of links to legitimate sources showing that #SARS-CoV-2 frequently leaves lasting damage, including brain and cardiovascular damage, even after a "mild" #COVID-19 infection.
New intelligence assessment confirms what intelligence agencies said in early 2020 (before President Trump said the same thing).
This is one of the reasons I've always believed that #COVID-19 / #2019-nCoV came from the Wuhan lab. The original assessment (as reported in news sites in 2020 ... I don't have any access to such agencies' internal docs) said that several lab employees were missing work because they were sick ... and this was said to be BEFORE any publicly acknowledged outbreak at the wet market.
I don't recall how the discussion got there, but we were talking about shutting down schools due to the #COVID-19 pandemic and he said that "we knew from the beginning that it basically did not affect children and that we didn't need to do that". I pointed out that we did not know any such thing, and that despite generally less severe effects, those kids live with parents, grandparents, and other adults ... sending them into germ factories unmasked (as he'd have wanted) would have been a death sentence for many of the adults in these kids' lives.
Then I mentioned that most schools have ventilation issues and many are in buildings that date back 50-100 years. (And in fact, one of the facilities we were supporting was in an old school that was probably built in the late 1940s or early 1950s. In this case, it was an area of small towns where almost everyone under 50 had left to find jobs, so most of the schools closed.) He insisted that all schools had done ventilation upgrades in 2020 as the pandemic spread across the nation.
At that point, I understood that this person likely ingested too much propaganda from a certain "news" channel, much of which is probably originally designed in Moscow, so I stopped responding.
He was probably a normal or nearly-normal person until the fear that #2019-nCoV was a plot by #China and the #Democrats to displace #Trump came about. I don't have any indication that this is what he believed / believes, but I think a lot of #anti-vaxxers and #anti-maskers started there and moved on to their extreme beliefs afterward.
Official poverty rates fell last decade across the US, but the *asterisk* is that 2009-2011 rates were affected by a severe and long-lived recession. 2019-2021 rates were affected by #COVID-19 and its related economic slowdown, but also by stimulus packages.
#MS had the highest previous rate, at 21.0%, the only state above 20%. #NH had the lowest previous rate at 7.3%. Ten years later, #Mississippi's rate fell to 18.1, which still appears to be highest; #New_Hampshire's rate reached 5.6%, which likewise appears to still be the lowest.
> New research looks at the effects of repeated Covid infections and finds pretty much what you would expect: you not only do not get any kind of superimmunity, you increase your risk of long-term consequences, hospitalization and death. The worse news is that this holds true regardless of vaccination status.
Remember at the height of #covid19 lockdown, where the #medical staff were hit by far the worst, Western governments bent over backwards making it known how medical workers were heroes that were literally, not figuratively, keeping the country from collapsing, complete with multimillion dollar nation wide media campaigns and flyovers with jets at the largest hospitals.
But paying medical workers more as they risk their life and sanity to save lives? Now you're just being entitled!
@betabug There were empty shelves during #COVID19 of course, but e.g. the shortage of corn #oil and wheat #flour is directly related to the #war in #Ukraine.
#Census records say 73% of US counties had more deaths than births in 2021, due in part to #COVID-19. Most also were affected by internal and international migration patterns.