Coronavirus Pandemic: Apocalypse Now! Or exaggerated scare story?

I hope this is not noise. I want to wish you all a jolly christmas! I found a feelgood song, a new one, from an austrian artist, so it is not only german, it is austrian! Greetz to you guys, too, here on the forum. It is about all the stuff we live through. I think you (who understand it) will like it.
 
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Israel was an early leader in COVID-19 vaccinations, specifically Pfizer’s, after it cut a deal last year with the pharmaceutical giant to receive a large number of vaccine doses before many other countries.

United States health regulators authorized the use of the Pfizer pill on Wednesday, followed by authorization for a similar drug from Merck a day later. But Pfizer’s drug, Paxlovid, is all but certain to be the preferred option because of its mild side effects and superior effectiveness, including a nearly 90% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths among patients most likely to get severe disease.

The US will pay about $500 for each course of Pfizer’s treatment, which consists of three pills taken twice a day for five days. Two of the pills are Paxlovid and the third is a different antiviral that helps boost levels of the main drug in the body.
 
Heather said:
Hi SOTTREADER. Sorry I'm late getting back to you on this, I haven't checked in here for a while.

In case you still need this info, here's one I just found on Amazon:

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Test seem to be scarce these days.
If you're still out to get a pcr, you might do that with your GP and there you can get tested for your Vit D level as well. In Germany you can do this and then you just pay for this service (not included in health care here).
 
Update from the covid trenches 🤪: Symptoms continue to be more "cold like" though certain signatures remain that match what I experienced last time though this are very feint. On the face of it, things appear to be getting better and I'm now mostly left with a runny nose as the primary symptom with the headache and dry throat improving quite a lot.
 
michaelrc said:
Algerian football player Sofiane Lokar dies of heart attack during match

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www.gulftoday.ae

Algerian football player Sofiane Lokar dies of heart attack during match

The incident took place during his team's match against Oran Association, on Saturday, in the Algerian second division league.
www.gulftoday.ae
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3 football players died of heart attacks in the last 5 days.

Croatian Marin Cacic, 23 years old.

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Omani Makhlid Al Raqadi, 29 years old

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1474894098830086147
 
SOTTREADER said:
If Omicron indeed can "reinfect" it's not the end of the world as it's more like a cold but I think understanding the underlying mechanisms, even conceptually will be key in keeping people informed and alert to what can happen (and therefore how it can be mitigated).
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Great that you are getting back into shape little by little.
In September, I came across an article that talked about possible reinfection, here something more comprehensive, and also an article that outlines it:
New surveillance data from South Africa published in the medRxiv* preprint server suggests that the new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant has the potential to escape naturally-acquired immunity. The research indicates people who previously recovered from a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are at risk for reinfection with the Omicron variant. The results show that the risk of reinfection is greater with the Omicron variant versus Delta and Beta.
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Omicron variant increases risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.11.21266068v2.full.pdf

And an old post of Gaby:
Gaby said:
For the record, I'm re-posting what my former school mate has to say about the COVID-19. It will give us a fairly good idea of what mainstream sources know (she is a virologist):

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Can one become twice infected with SARS COV-2? Is Natural Immunity Protective?

Now the answer based on scientific evidence:
NOT KNOWN YET !!!

For the following reasons:
1. The possibility is discussed because there have been patients who, after being discharged, relapse, return to seek medical attention and test positive for SARS-VOC-2 again. This virus or parts of the virus have a very long and somewhat erratic excretion.
* In a study by Zhou et al in Lancet (doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (20) 30566-3) indicate that patients can have positive results by Rt-PCR up to 20 days after the onset of symptoms or until the death.

-> So a positive RT-PCR after re-entry does not necessarily mean re-infection, but rather means prolonged excretion.

2. Is the immunity produced protective? It is not yet known for this coronavirus.
* For other coronaviruses such as SARS1, it is believed that in 3 years a person can become reinfected (doi: 10.3201 / eid1310.070576).
* Very old studies from the 80s-90s where experiments were carried out with volunteers who were inoculated with the respiratory coronavirus 229E (doi: 10.1017 / s0950268800048019), all mounted an immune response and then after one year, they attempted to reinfect them. Many were reinfected, although producing a milder clinical picture. THIS TYPE OF STUDY MADE UNDERSTAND THAT RE-INFECTION WITH RESPIRATORY CORONAVIRUS AFTER A TIME IN WHICH THE IMMUNITY IS LOWERED IS POSSIBLE (and is observed year by year in the clinical setting).
* However, for other coronaviruses using animal models (doi: 10.3201 / 2206.160192, doi: 10.1371 / journal.ppat.1006565) the results are conflicting, sometimes protecting against reinfection and sometimes not.
* In a pre-print (a macaque model using SARS-COV2 (doi: Reinfection could not occur in SARS-CoV-2 infected rhesus macaques) has not been published or peer reviewed yet) indicate that re -infection is not possible, but this was performed only 28 days after the first infection. These experiments should be done after at least 1 year to determine if immunity is protective.

-> THEREFORE, IT IS VERY SOON TO DETERMINE HOW THESE VIRUSES WILL BEHAVE IN THE HUMAN POPULATION WITH RESPECT TO WHETHER THE NATURAL IMMUNITY IS PROTECTIVE AGAINST RE-INFECTIONS OR NOT.
* and this must be taken into account when trying to produce a vaccine ...
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A preprint was recently published analysing official daily covid-19 cases and deaths in the EU by country and estimating the conformance to the Bedford distribution. Bedford's Law was used extensively in the 2020 US elections, suggesting that election fraud was taking place in multiple states.

The results here may not be so surprising either:

Previous studies have used Benford's distribution to assess whether there is misreporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Data inaccuracies provide false information to the media, undermine global response and hinder the preventive measures taken by countries worldwide. In this study, we analyze daily new cases and deaths from all the countries of the European Union and estimate the conformance to Benford's distribution. For each country, two statistical tests and two measures of deviations are calculated to determine whether the reported statistics comply with the expected distribution. Four country-level developmental indexes are also included, the GDP per capita, health expenditures, the Universal Health Coverage index, and full vaccination rate. Regression analysis is implemented to show whether the deviation from Benford's distribution is affected by the aforementioned indexes. The findings indicate that only three countries were in line with the expected distribution, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Romania. For daily cases, Denmark, Greece, and Ireland, showed the greatest deviation from Benford's distribution, and for deaths, Malta, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, and Luxemburg had the highest deviation from Benford's law. Furthermore, it was found that the vaccination rate is positively associated with deviation from Benford's distribution. These results suggest that overall official data provided by authorities are not confirming Benford's law, yet this approach acts as a preliminary tool for data verification. More extensive studies should be made with a more thorough investigation of countries that showed the greatest deviation.
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Taken from the following tweet:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1474855839748046851
 
this is something that is going around in german groups on telegram.

To all the unvaccinated.

What you have accomplished this year❤️
If you realize what's going on and didn't take the poison, then you survived the greatest psychological campaign in human history.
Do you realize how much time, energy, money and effort they have put into it? They have tried to manipulate you, to wash your brain and to force you. They have tried to scare you, to make you feel guilty, to bribe you with gifts. They have tried to confuse you and question your reality and also your sanity.
They have tried to make you betray your principles, your morals and your words. They have even managed to turn your friends and people you love against you.
Almost all of them have fallen over. But you didn't. You never gave up on yourself. You stood up for yourself. Against all odds. You rose like a phoenix in the night to your full power. Keep it up.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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