luckygirl0100
Earning My Ears
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- Jan 4, 2013
Yep! I am not a panic type person.
I'm not sure I've read anything that indicates if someone has the virus and gets through it healthy, that they're immune to it. In fact, there have been reports of some people have it reoccur again after they already went through one bout. I'm not a doctor, but I don't think this is like measles or chicken pox- it's more like the "flu", and is something we could get again. It's why we're recommended to have a flu vaccine each year.
Oh, my. I'm not sure I wanted to read that. Thanks for the info, I think? I figured, having already been through it, that my immunity was solid. Now guessing, "Not so much; not so fast." Sigh.The virus is like the flu you can have it once and your done. With that said as with the flu the virus can have multiple strings and you can get infected with each string once. On Iceland they found 40 different Covid-19 strings. On string can be more aggressive than the other.
So if you get infected with the most common string(if there is a such)then your are immune.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...ed-to-be-first-juvenile-death-in-us?_amp=trueI honestly don't know. I have a child who is high risk due to unstable/ moderate/ severe asthma and to be frank it literally keeps me awake at night thinking about what happens when we start opening up again in the US. My mantra is that there are no deaths in her age range (14) and she is in fantastic physical shape (competitive gymnast) so I hang on to that. Going to a theme park though...I just don't know. We have AP and a trip planned for May 29- June 8. I just don't know.
It's a strain of virus, you do develop immunity to it just like the flu. When you get the "flu shot" that is a slightly different vaccine from every other year. It is the basic premise upon which our immune systems work.I'm not sure I've read anything that indicates if someone has the virus and gets through it healthy, that they're immune to it. In fact, there have been reports of some people have it reoccur again after they already went through one bout. I'm not a doctor, but I don't think this is like measles or chicken pox- it's more like the "flu", and is something we could get again. It's why we're recommended to have a flu vaccine each year.
A few things to keep in mind among the throng of social media noise.
1. As a novel virus we all have the POTENTIAL to catch it.
2. As with most Viruses some people will be naturally immune.
3. Most (>85%) of infections do not require hospitalization or supportive medical care.
4. Most deaths are still occurring in people who have comorbid conditions.l over the age of 75.
5. The deaths from COVID19 are still very much below yearly flu deaths each year.
6. We are vastly under testing people , especially people who have mild symptoms. This skews any mortality rate greatly.
7. 2009 H1n1 killed 500,000 internationally and 58,000 in the US in about 1 and 1/2 years.
8. Yearly flu, particularly 2017, kill many more people than covid has. In 2017, 4000 people a week were dying in the US alone, leading to a death toll of 61,000.....for just the US in 6 months.
The reaction we are having to this virus makes no sense at all given the yearly lack of and panic over the past ten years with much worse epidemics.
You are more likely to die in a long car ride to WDW then from this virus.
A few things to keep in mind among the throng of social media noise.
1. As a novel virus we all have the POTENTIAL to catch it.
2. As with most Viruses some people will be naturally immune.
3. Most (>85%) of infections do not require hospitalization or supportive medical care.
4. Most deaths are still occurring in people who have comorbid conditions.l over the age of 75.
5. The deaths from COVID19 are still very much below yearly flu deaths each year.
6. We are vastly under testing people , especially people who have mild symptoms. This skews any mortality rate greatly.
7. 2009 H1n1 killed 500,000 internationally and 58,000 in the US in about 1 and 1/2 years.
8. Yearly flu, particularly 2017, kill many more people than covid has. In 2017, 4000 people a week were dying in the US alone, leading to a death toll of 61,000.....for just the US in 6 months.
The reaction we are having to this virus makes no sense at all given the yearly lack of and panic over the past ten years with much worse epidemics.
You are more likely to die in a long car ride to WDW then from this virus.
It's already happening in Italy.I keep hearing this theory that the hospital system will be overrun with cases.
This is just another exaggeration being spread with little evidence to back it up......(snip)...........
I keep hearing this theory that the hospital system will be overrun with cases.
This is just another exaggeration being spread with little evidence to back it up.
In BOTH cases cited above it was a new strain of Flu we were experiencing. BOTH strain we had no immunity too, which is why they were so deadly. In the case of covid there is little evidence to show that it is more infectious then H1n1 or the 2017 H3 flu strains. We did actually have some trouble in 2017 with support care in the hospitals.
We need to stop parroting what we are reading on social media , since all its really doing it amping people into a frenzy panic. Currently most of the “stories” about young people getting it and dying are either internet rumor without sources, or when you investigate , the young person had serious health issues. You have to go beyond that Facebook post to see the reality.
You already know the answer, but just in case you need the last nudge: please do not go.I honestly don't know. I have a child who is high risk due to unstable/ moderate/ severe asthma and to be frank it literally keeps me awake at night thinking about what happens when we start opening up again in the US. My mantra is that there are no deaths in her age range (14) and she is in fantastic physical shape (competitive gymnast) so I hang on to that. Going to a theme park though...I just don't know. We have AP and a trip planned for May 29- June 8. I just don't know.
I keep hearing this theory that the hospital system will be overrun with cases.
This is just another exaggeration being spread with little evidence to back it up.
In BOTH cases cited above it was a new strain of Flu we were experiencing. BOTH strain we had no immunity too, which is why they were so deadly. In the case of covid there is little evidence to show that it is more infectious then H1n1 or the 2017 H3 flu strains. We did actually have some trouble in 2017 with support care in the hospitals.
We need to stop parroting what we are reading on social media , since all its really doing it amping people into a frenzy panic. Currently most of the “stories” about young people getting it and dying are either internet rumor without sources, or when you investigate , the young person had serious health issues. You have to go beyond that Facebook post to see the reality.
What we should be doing is isolating the susceptible people , elderly and immunocompromised. So that need immunity can take hold in the populations that are NOT at major risk.
It the much more simple and effective that what is happening now.
Now we have “senior only” shopping days???? Who decided that was a good idea? Let’s get the entire risk population in the same place at the same time??? So if one person in that crowd is actively shedding virus......they can all get it?
World leader are making decisions based on media and popular frenzy, not logic.