TheModerateTankie [any]

Team Monsanto’s Lead Junior Red Dawn war re-enactor/co-ordinator for Anniston, Alabama

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  • I remember hearing that covid damages the immune system too so people who get it are actually more susceptible to other infection in general but I didn’t follow if that was true or not. Seems like there was some impact but it didn’t end up being as bad as HIV.

    It’s true, it opens us up to opportunistic infections. This also happens after a flu infection, which has led to some doctors dismissing it as a concern, but people don’t get the flu every 4-6 months or develop persistent flu infections like they do with covid.

    For an example, here is a chart showing the rate of bacterial infections for which there are no vaccines in the UK, showing the impact covid had:

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    Not as bad as HIV, but not great and more widespread among the population.

    We’ve also just had one of the worst flu seasons in 15 years, one of the worst whooping cough seasons since the 50’s, and here’s a chart that lists strep cases in the US:

    This happened after the covid restrictions were removed, and it was blamed on “people catching up on infections they missed during the lockdown”, but it’s been three years of this shit and if anything the problem is getting worse. The rise in the number of people who have anti-vax brainworms doesn’t help, but it doesn’t explain all of it.



  • Yes. It’s been relatively quiet since winter because there haven’t been any new strains, but that just changed. One of the new variants that appeared (in Asia and Australia soon to be everywhere else) is more contagious due to better ACE2 binding, which is main reason why this virus is so dangerous and has so many long term effects. Every organ in our body has ACE2 receptors and once it’s in our bloodstream covid can cause damage to all of them, or get in places that are hard for our immune system to clear, leading to a persistent infection. It will never be “just a cold” until we can develop a vaccine or otherwise prevent it from entering our bloodstream.

    I’ve heard there is some evidence that with multiple vaccinations and/or infections, that people are better able to fight off new variants, which may lower the risk, but nothing definitive. It sounds more like hopium to me. Last I checked the disability rate is still shooting up.

    Here’s a chart tracking covid hospitalizations the past year and a half in Australia. There is a new covid wave every 4-6 months, which tracks with about how long immunity to the virus lasts and the rate of mutation. For the past few years it’s been on track to be about 4x as damaging as some of the worst flu years, and that’s probably about as good as it’s going to get.

    The blue line is covid. Orange is the flu. For every major flu wave, there are four covid ones.