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Too many have been indoctrinated into their rights are more important than ensuring the safety of everyone.Originally Posted by kristofferrer
As for our country dealing with it, sure has been one of the better ones for the virus spread, just not helping the most vulnerable financially.
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With all of the weird youtube and app videos people have been posting up after weeks of cabin-fever isolation, this guy looks to have mastered that lockdown insanity two years ago, ready for times like this.
Looking at some of his other videos, they are very well done, and wouldn't have been easy to do.
(and naturally, the example I have included here was Transformers related)
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Children without pre-existing conditions are still proving to be unaffected by Covid-19, but in places that have had high concentrations of the virus, like the UK and New York, a new type of sickness is occurring, and only to children.
It is a type of body-wide inflammation, and seems to only be affecting children after they have had the virus (they are being tested, and found to have the anti-bodies that people get after they have had the virus, and as such they are showing up as negative for the active virus).
It is still only new, and there are still a lot of questions as to what it is and why it is happening after they no longer have the virus in their system, but it looks like it could be similar to an allergic reaction people develop to things like insect bites or foods, in their childhood... often after they have been exposed to it once without a reaction, but their body mistakenly creates anti-bodies to it, and then they have to avoid contact with it for the rest of their lives.
These kids are in areas that are heavily infected, so keep coming into contact with the virus, but now that they have an immunity to it, their bodies might be over-reacting with the new anti-bodies, overwhelming their weaker bodies.
At least here in Australia (so far), we don't have huge clusters of highly concentrated infections, so for those with young kids we shouldn't see this happening here, but for as long as the virus exists in Australia, there is still a very remote chance a child who has had the virus (without any symptoms), comes into contact with someone else later who is infected, and could set off their immune system... so be mindful of the symptoms - a fever, rash, upset stomach, swollen lymph nodes.
(it is being compared to Kawasaki Disease, which is said to be caused by the auto-immune system attacking the blood vessels in the body, and the heart)
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Finally got my flu shot yesterday. I hope it's an effective vaccine this year cause I don't want to spend 2 weeks in quarantine.
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Not sure how effective the flu shot would be against COVID. Honestly I've never taken the flu shot, I rarely get sick. And if I do it's usually only a few really bad days then on the mend again. Always happens though when we have funky changing weather. 15° one day, 40° next. Funny that I was running around Germany most of the time in a t shirt with temperatures ranging 1° to 10° over the 2 weeks and didn't get sick, come back to Aussie weather and within 2 weeks got sick.
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The "flu shot" is usually just a vaccine of the 2 or 3 strains that are most likely to hit the country in the winter, so it can be a bit of a guessing game (which is why they choose a few different strains in the one jab), but it usually depends on what strains were most prominent in the winter of the northern hemisphere.
As such, it will only protect you from those selected strains in the current year's jab. If you travel somewhere more exotic, or someone brings a less common strain to your neighbourhood, you won't be protected from any strain of the flu or cold not in the needle (including viruses like Covid)... so that's why it has always been a good idea to wash your hands often, not to touch your face, and avoid physical contact with strangers (including handshakes or (bro)hugs).
One of the reasons why the government (and sports) are really pushing the flu jab this year is so that it reduces the number of people needing to be hospitalised by the regular flu, so that resources are free for Covid patients... and so that people hit by the regular flu don't then catch the covid virus more easily (from others, or from the hospital if they have to go in for the regular flu).
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Perhaps DELTAprime meant that if you don't catch the flu then you won't exhibit symptoms that would require the COVID test? Because if you do get tested they still require you to quarantine yourself for up to 14 days regardless of the result since the test is not 100% accurate (as happened with my wife).
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Well done. I strongly advocate everyone to get their yearly flu shot. It's an insurance policy & for less than $20 (some employers provide free of charge), it's a no brainer.
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Yeah. If you get Covid like symptoms, AKA the flu, you're supposed to quarantine for two weeks. I'd prefer not to do that.
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Where does it say that?
If you get Covid like symptoms, AKA the flu, then you should get tested for Covid-19. Whilst awaiting the results, you should self-isolate. Once you're given the all clear, you're good to go.
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