Sars Cov 2 … the grinder continues to eat away at resources and humanity.

Hi Rasen how are you? I was scared you’d been run out of town!

I hope everyone is keeping well and fighting the good fight!

Thanks for that Rasen, and good to see you.

I was thinking today that I sometimes get lax about eye protection, mainly due to the fogging up issue that happens with glasses or goggles. A face shield is better, to a degree, though I get fogging on those, too.

I do wear eye protection when I go indoors in a public place, which is literally only when I go to the doctor or the pharmacy. Outdoors, I just avoid proximity to others.

CC -- thanks for the article on long-term sequelae. That really is my biggest fear with this. The fatalities are awful, of course - but I really see this leaving behind a huge amount of chronically ill people, which will cause all kinds of problems in terms of the workforce, burden on the healthcare system, etc. Not to mention, living with a chronic illness is no walk in th park, to which several of us can personally attest.

There's also the economic impact. I can't imagine how businesses (except essential services) are managing to survive at all. If work can be done remotely, business can continue.. but what about all the business that needs to be done in person?

Dec 27, 2020
Indian researchers have found 19 coronavirus variants circulating in India with "escape mutations" that allow them to evade the antibodies generated by immune systems and one such variant is spreading fast in Andhra Pradesh.
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The genetically tweaked variant with a mutation named N440K has been found in nearly 34% of the 272 SARS-CoV-2 genomes analysed from Andhra Pradesh.

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Feb 28, 2021
Researchers, including those from Kurnool medical college, have said that the novel coronavirus variant, N440K, can cause reinfection. According to them, this variant can escape the immune system and can cause reinfection in patients already recovered from Covid-19, reports Syed Akbar.

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1 case. That’s awesome.

From 1,000s of cases studies on others theses are the top three...

* Loss of IQ (already happening)
* increase in diabetes (what happens at infection 3 or 4?)
* kidney damage (that may or may not resolve or come on later...and again...what happens as folks don’t realize they were infected multiple times?)

Again the models show that more people have been infected than tested.... this next wave might be brutal just for that reason.

This just does not happen here.....in Iowa.... unless folks need a doctor.... most are just going about their business. And the wave is definitely creeping in..... more reports of coughing, flushed faces, and confused looks....

Nestico’s closes temporarily after staffer tests positive for Covid-19

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Nestico’s in North Syracuse has closed temporarily after a worker tested positive for Covid-19, according to the restaurant.

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In just random case studies.... I don’t post them all.... their in the 1,000s.... and reading news articles.... there is an increase in diabetes.

There have also been a few cases that resolved, but doctors can’t pinpoint why. And not all were obese.

Based on the conversations.... there looks to be a big cohort compilation going on.... might get that study before summer.

Oklahoma seeing increase of diabetes in children, COVID-19 may be to blame
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“We have been able to look back in reflection over the last five years of data and we’re seeing a pretty dramatic increase, upward approaching 20%, just in this one-year timeframe,” Tryggestad said.

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(I just a bunch of internal medicine nightmares as the waves keep coming.... which that’s exactly how I found the nightmare data...)

If there is one thing we have learned about this virus over the past year, it's the unpredictable nature of the beast and how it can go asymptomatic in some people and kill others in mere weeks. I also have a friend who is a long-hauler. Tested positive back in November. He's in excellent physical condition. He still has been unable to resume his workout routines at their previous intensities and he still occasionally gets a metallic smell/taste out of nowhere. Nobody else in his household was infected.

HUMINT reports are important, but they never show the entire picture. Let's not quibble over individual stories and stay focused on what may or may not be coming next. Right now I think our primary concerns should be efficacy of vaccines, emerging variants, and the potential of an even larger fourth wave.

I think I'm one of these. If y'all remember, I had my annual physical exam in August or so of 2019. My sugar levels were on the high side of normal, but still within tolerances.

Fast forward to early 2020 and all of a sudden my sugar spikes to 440 and my doctor diagnoses me with Type II diabetes. Now, a year after medication and diet changes, my sugar is not only back to normal, but I've experienced more sugar crashes over the past six months than my entire life. Used to be I would have one, maybe two a year. Now it's more like one a week.

Thing of it is, to my knowledge, I never had Covid. So I'm stuck wondering if this was just coincidental timing or if I somehow picked up Covid very early in the pandemic and was just completely asymptomatic. I doubt if I'll ever know for sure.

“Right now I think our primary concerns should be efficacy of vaccines, emerging variants, and the potential of an even larger fourth wave.”

All of which have the ability to totally screw with everyone that have previously been a host to China Asshole Virus.

I think I'm one of these. If y'all remember, I had my annual physical exam in August or so of 2019. My sugar levels were on the high side of normal, but still within tolerances.

Fast forward to early 2020 and all of a sudden my sugar spikes to 440 and my doctor diagnoses me with Type II diabetes. Now, a year after medication and diet changes, my sugar is not only back to normal, but I've experienced more sugar crashes over the past six months than my entire life. Used to be I would have one, maybe two a year. Now it's more like one a week.

Thing of it is, to my knowledge, I never had Covid. So I'm stuck wondering if this was just coincidental timing or if I somehow picked up Covid very early in the pandemic and was just completely asymptomatic. I doubt if I'll ever know for sure.

New thing here, people need to cover their eyes.

We've been saying it for how long?

2 of the restaurants in my town are currently closed due to covid. I'm betting it's the same person that infected both places cause, you know, anti maskers everywhere.

Thanks for that Rasen, and good to see you.

I was thinking today that I sometimes get lax about eye protection, mainly due to the fogging up issue that happens with glasses or goggles. A face shield is better, to a degree, though I get fogging on those, too.

I do wear eye protection when I go indoors in a public place, which is literally only when I go to the doctor or the pharmacy. Outdoors, I just avoid proximity to others.

CC -- thanks for the article on long-term sequelae. That really is my biggest fear with this. The fatalities are awful, of course - but I really see this leaving behind a huge amount of chronically ill people, which will cause all kinds of problems in terms of the workforce, burden on the healthcare system, etc. Not to mention, living with a chronic illness is no walk in th park, to which several of us can personally attest.

There's also the economic impact. I can't imagine how businesses (except essential services) are managing to survive at all. If work can be done remotely, business can continue.. but what about all the business that needs to be done in person?

There might be something weird going on with diabetes, Riff. I'm having similar things happen for the last year. I'm not down to normal yet, but I've been able to get it down into the middle to lower 200's. What I DO know is when my sugar is that high, there's something else going on too. Is it my heart? Idk. The last time I was uncontrolled was when my kidneys shut down. Related? Maybe.

There's a thread floating around the board about high blood sugars too. I'll see if I can find it.

the fogging is a huge issue. here it is not so bad in winter luckily.see no way u can work a shift with these goggles.hence my idea to a helmet mask that propels the exhaust.

for now-try some shampoo. rub it on the lense both in and outside surfaces. this doesn't stop it but does help delay the fogging. the better the masks seals the less fogging as well. we have had less issues with it since going to half face masks.

Back from drain declogging ... was successful (on my second attempt -- I tried a few days ago, too) with a handheld drain snake down the grate, a long hook up the pipe, a longhandled grabber, and a fair amount of elbow grease. Came home smelling like Wordsworth! (In fact, I thought of him as I was mucking around in the nasty water with poop and rotting seeds.... yuck.)

I think CDC-ATL brings up an interesting question, put side by side with the many longterm sequelae we know exist for some patients (and the many articles CC and others have posted on this).... of course science doesn't yet have the answers to this question, but it is interesting to ponder why some areas seem to have a lot of people who fail to recover, whereas others don't.

In my personal circle, I now know a lot of people who have lost friends and relatives to this, and I personally know two longhaulers, and a few others who may turn out to be longhaulers. I'm thinking maybe certain variants are more likely to have longterm consequences. The CA variant seems to be pretty nasty -- though the science is so contradictory it's a bit hard to make much sense of it.

Let me throw this out there, just as a point of comparison. Many people who get Lyme recover just fine, especially with early antibiotics. Some seem to recover, but then relapse. Some people don't recover fully even with early antibiotics, and for some of us it becomes a lifelong disease. The science has been really skewed regarding Lyme (don't get me started on that) so it is hard to know the real percentages of people who become Lyme lifers, but it's added up to millions of us over the years.

At least with COVID, there's already a fair amount of attention being put towards the longhaulers, unlike with CFIDS, chronic Lyme, Fibromyalgia, and so forth (all of which are likely post-infectious or long-term infection syndromes). This is happening because an estimated 10 to 20% of infected people go on to develop long-haul COVID... and the numbers of chronically ill people will be staggering.

Well, for me at least, if my sugar gets that high, I become extremely lethargic, and I'm told that's due to my body working so hard to bring my sugar levels down. If my sugar crashes, I become very shaky and my balance is affected. Are your symptoms similar?

I use an app called "Blood Glucose Tracker" to record my sugar levels when I test them. Here's a perfect example of what's going on with me: On February 20th, my blood sugar tested at 160 at 08:00 before breakfast. Nothing I had eaten the day before should heave produced a result that high. On the exact same day, my sugar crashed to 75 at 15:30. Again, nothing I had eaten for breakfast or lunch should have caused that crash. So I have no idea WTF is going on, other than it's annoying AF.

This just does not happen here.....in Iowa.... unless folks need a doctor.... most are just going about their business. And the wave is definitely creeping in..... more reports of coughing, flushed faces, and confused looks....

Nestico’s closes temporarily after staffer tests positive for Covid-19

Less than 50%

Nestico’s in North Syracuse has closed temporarily after a worker tested positive for Covid-19, according to the restaurant.

[link to www.syracuse.com (secure)]

Well, for me at least, if my sugar gets that high, I become extremely lethargic, and I'm told that's due to my body working so hard to bring my sugar levels down. If my sugar crashes, I become very shaky and my balance is affected. Are your symptoms similar?

I use an app called "Blood Glucose Tracker" to record my sugar levels when I test them. Here's a perfect example of what's going on with me: On February 20th, my blood sugar tested at 160 at 08:00 before breakfast. Nothing I had eaten the day before should heave produced a result that high. On the exact same day, my sugar crashed to 75 at 15:30. Again, nothing I had eaten for breakfast or lunch should have caused that crash. So I have no idea WTF is going on, other than it's annoying AF.

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