freitasm:

 

At this point I think anyone flying long haul is really playing against the odds.

 

Looks like I'll be testing that theory this evening.  Flying out to Canada for a trip booked early in the year.

Got the latest booster a couple of weeks ago so I'm about as protected as I can get.

Just gotta roll the dice and hope for a Natural 20.

Batwing: Our kids school and daycare postponed then eventually cancelled whanau events in the lead up to Christmas due to staff illness.

Yet daily during pick up and drop off I am the only adult I see masked except for the after school program they've been masked throughout.

Incredibly none of the teachers at my kids' kindergarten have had covid yet, all three of them! 

^ here's some wood

My dad has had a relapse. He had covid earlier in December, felt better and tested negative on the 16th. He felt terrible last night, this morning took a test and returned a strong positive. According to the Healthline person he spoke to it should be impossible to get covid again or be infectious. 

cddt:

 

My dad has had a relapse. He had covid earlier in December, felt better and tested negative on the 16th. He felt terrible last night, this morning took a test and returned a strong positive. According to the Healthline person he spoke to it should be impossible to get covid again or be infectious. 

 

sounds like healthline trying to downplay it.

he could have gotten two different infections, or one of the newer ones which seam to be defeating immunity (from the old ones) a bit better. 

People who aren't doctors shouldn't be giving diagnoses.

Well, had my second negative result today. My wife as well. Our daughter still had a positive yesterday.

So it could go two ways:

1. The first test was a false positive
2. The first test was the last day of positive, now with two days of negative.

Either way, I am not feeling anything. My wife had headaches and sniffles, our daughter had a bad day earlier this week.

Discovery : Putting the mouth back into the body

Interesting comment starting at 35:15: "COVID-19 is a vascular disease of the lungs. It's not a conventional pneumonia, it's more a disease of the blood vessels with clotting & congestions in the depths of the lungs"

Does any one here know of more info about this?

ANglEAUT:

 

Discovery : Putting the mouth back into the body

 

Interesting comment starting at 35:15: "COVID-19 is a vascular disease of the lungs. It's not a conventional pneumonia, it's more a disease of the blood vessels with clotting & congestions in the depths of the lungs"

 

Does any one here know of more info about this?

 

It's a respiratory virus but if you don't fight it off fast enough and get a high viral load it will spread throughout the body and infect any cell in the body like endothelial cells (blood vessels), cross the blood brain barrier etc so there are vascular follow on implications.

If you are tired, stressed, have other risk factors (low vitamin d, overweight, immune compromised etc) or just unlucky.. on your nth infection you have higher chance of a bad outcome.

Studies have been revealing this since early on 2020ish.

The seriousness has naturally been drowned out in the general public's perception because "I got it once and I was fine ergo it was just like a cold/flu", classic survivor bias as the hidden damage internally is not visible unless you're unlucky enough have long covid symptoms on this round

The fact we have so many cases now in peak summer show that it's not seasonal and it's not going away anytime soon and that new variants will cause reinfection and with every reinfection there's another chance of being unlucky.

Medcram has some great videos explaining some of the medicine/science involved over the last 4 years (more than 200)

https://youtu.be/Aj2vB_VITXQ?si=OrEudo72rYgSF6-M&t=60

https://youtu.be/PzcfpGhPySo?si=fLGw7fiAsTwO8Ijh

https://youtu.be/vkSI87l8eqc?si=QpR4rkuYNrezHYpK

https://youtu.be/22Bn8jsGI54?si=GHYC9bqJEW9lTwlB

Is that the case with the other endemic coronaviruses like N229 and OC43? If not, then what is fundamentally different about Covid-19 that it propagates differently through the body?

Turns out that Covid 6 weeks before an Ultra Marathon is not ideal training.

While the symptoms were again minimal with basically a head cold that lingered a couple of weeks, the knock back effect it had on my training up to that point was significant.

Longest training run was 30km for what was supposed to be a 105km Ultra run.  Tapped out at basically the halfway point aid station of 58.8km with nothing left in the tank.

Still my longest run, up from the previous of 52km and by far the longest time on my feet at 11 hours.