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COVID is on earth forever

This Coronavirus Is Never Going Away. No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.

Even vaccines will never get rid of a virus, or almost never. We have to live with these things. Viruses go viral, regardless of what humans do.

Over time, SARS-CoV-2 becomes just another seasonal respiratory virus, like the four other coronaviruses that cause a sizable proportion of common colds: 229E, OC43, NL63, and HKU1. These cold coronaviruses are so common that we have likely all had them at some point, maybe even multiple times. They can cause serious outbreaks, especially in the elderly, but are usually mild enough to fly under the radar. One endgame is that SARS-CoV-2 becomes the fifth coronavirus that regularly circulates among humans.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Medical at 18:12 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Good stuff; and human life spans have been on a sharp up swing. So maybe this a bump on the graph. The problems are political; and the hill we did not die on was the essential services hill. What is essential is that we all get there and do what we want for what other people are pay us. This is an impossible concept for Newsom, or Murphy or....

#1 SF jeff on 2020-08-04 18:56 (Reply)

Of course it goes away.

The day after the election.

#2 Sixtyville on 2020-08-04 20:58 (Reply)

How is it that smallpox is no longer with us except in a few laboratories? (sure hope not in Wuhan). and I agree about the day after the election, that's when the vaccine comes out or maybe it's Jan 20th.

#3 grant1863 on 2020-08-04 21:26 (Reply)

One important point to consider is that most people who have died from the Coronavirus were the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems; such as those who are HIV positive. For young healthy people, it's not that dangerous. So I don't really think it's a national emergency. The people who have died were going to die anyway. What else are we going to do with forty million bed-ridden old people? And twenty million AIDS patients? There are many Americans who love to thump their chest, and claim to be morally indignant when facts are placed on the table.

#4 Ron Liebermann on 2020-08-04 21:56 (Reply)

And viruses also weaken with time, don't they? As even AIDS has done!

We also know that all common colds are Covid (or at least will cause you to test positive for it).

It's time for governments to admit what the rest of us already know, that Covid is long past being an emergency if it ever was, and it's past time for everyone to return to normal life. Yes, the old normal. And not doing so is killing more people than the disease.

#5 jdgalt on 2020-08-04 21:58 (Reply)

Horowitz: Moving the goal posts: Global elites hint that corona restrictions will continue forever

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-moving-goal-posts-global-elites-hint-corona-restrictions-will-continue-forever/

and so we don't run out of things to worry about, perhaps the lockdown can be extended for this:

CDC expects 2020 outbreak of life-threatening AFM in children

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-expects-2020-outbreak-life-threatening-afm-children/story?id=72170783

#6 feeblemind on 2020-08-06 10:45 (Reply)

Targeting People With Mental Illness and Dementia for Euthanasia

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As of now, the nine states and the District of Columbia that have legalized assisted suicide limit access to patients who are terminally ill. But that’s more a political expediency than a principled limitation. Indeed, restricting assisted suicide to the dying is philosophically unsustainable.

Think about it. If the point of allowing suicide by doctor is to eliminate suffering — and if eliminating suffering can include eliminating the sufferer — how can facilitated death be forbidden to patients, such as those with dementia and mental illness, who may suffer far more extremely and for a much longer time than the already dying? It makes no sense.

Despite continuing disapproval of euthanasia for mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association, that point is increasingly being made in the media and professional journals.

. . . Ponder this for a moment. Instead of being duty-bound to save the lives of all their suicidal patients, mental health professionals would become approvers for and facilitators of self-destruction. That should be unthinkable.

https://spectator.org/targeting-people-with-mental-illness-and-dementia-for-euthanasia/

#7 feeblemind on 2020-08-06 11:37 (Reply)

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