Covid facts

[GreekOrthodox]

Yes, it's good news, even though for a while we will continue to have high deaths/day here in the U.S., because even though Omicron is less severe, it's infected so many more at once, so quickly, that even less severe, it's still filling up the hospitals in many areas, and killing, even though at a lower rate per case (much less often deadly per case, but far more people have it at the same time now, which offsets that lower severity). But it will end, yes, and not long now.... I found that video link above now, and put it in the post above.

And we have fewer staff working the floors now. When Covid first hit, my hospital was able to shift staff around and there was a camaraderie to face it down. Two years later, we're running with 75% of our needed staff. So we cant shift staff around like we used to. This also means that non-Covid issues still have to be dealt with. But we don't have the staff to cover the empty beds. So we keep struggling on.

 

[com7fy8]

My biggest question is how much has covid 19 faded?

Well, according to the person in Halb's Youtube video in Post #3 > Omicron is taking over, because it spreads so much more easily than Delta, plus it does get an immune response which also multi-tasks against Delta and a number of other COVID virus strains.

So, Omicron is vaccinating people, and boosting people so it is harder to get other strains . . . or, of course, to get reinfected by Omicron itself.

But what about the possibility that some super-virus will come and be both easy to get, like Omicron, but also deadly like Delta? He says it is not likely that a COVID virus can mutate to be very easily spread and also very deadly.

It looks like Omicron can spread so well because it has a lot of spikes for attaching to cells. But because of so many spikes making it sticky, it gets caught in the nose and throat and higher and larger lungs tubes, before it can make it down deep in the lungs where immune overreaction could cause the inflammation that suffocates people to death.

But if a virus strain has fewer spikes, like Delta, now it will not spread so easily, but also it won't get stuck in the nose and throat and so it can all the way into the deep lungs. And an overreaction of the immune system to it in the deep lungs can result in inflammation that can suffocate a person. But, like I say, it would have to have fewer spikes, in order to get down there.

So, I see how this could mean a COVID virus can't be easy to spread because of a lot of spikes, but also very deadly down deep in the lungs, since all those spikes keep it from getting down there.

 

[returntosender]

I would like to know, having one in March of 2020 and another in Nov. Of 2021
The first one was mild compared to the second but lasted for months. It would be good for research to know how long immunity is. The damage each did. The second for me was very damaging. Maybe I am not allowing enough time for recovery but my brain damage doesn't seem reversible. So much could be learned and avoided if they had stats on after affects, etc.
I can't say my immunity was almost two years unless I had the same strain, right?

 

[returntosender]

If everyone used a netti pot, they wouldn't get any of them.

 

[muichimotsu]

If everyone used a netti pot, they wouldn't get any of them.

Viruses are adaptable by nature and you can't really expect everyone to do all the same things consistently on hygiene or even agree on what's the best thing (because someone people will, no joke, use a nebulizer with urine in it and call that something to "improve" health versus likely making them lose cognitive capacity long term), especially in a modern world where we're so busy, we don't even seem to recognize how toxic productivity is becoming a thing: we'll work ourselves to death via long term fatigue and that's a thing I feel like we hear about MORE with the anime industry these days, though not sure of frequency.


And then there's manga, where the problems are stretched out, but we also have artists that destroy themselves to a point where a series I enjoy was on hiatus for 2 years because of upper cervical injuries to their spine from being hunched over their desk to do the art. And I think another artist might've had early signs they noticed and he took about a month break.

 

[GreekOrthodox]

And then there's manga, where the problems are stretched out, but we also have artists that destroy themselves to a point where a series I enjoy was on hiatus for 2 years because of upper cervical injuries to their spine from being hunched over their desk to do the art. And I think another artist might've had early signs they noticed and he took about a month break.

Then there is the Chinese 996 work system. 9am to 9pm 6 days a week making for a 72 hour work week.

 

[muichimotsu]

Then there is the Chinese 996 work system. 9am to 9pm 6 days a week making for a 72 hour work week.

Given Chinese influences on Japanese culture, would not be shocked if there is something similar in terms of the idea that you barely get ONE day off and are working 12 hour days at the office because it's "good work ethic"

 

[GreekOrthodox]

Given Chinese influences on Japanese culture, would not be shocked if there is something similar in terms of the idea that you barely get ONE day off and are working 12 hour days at the office because it's "good work ethic"

You mean like Karoshi?

Karoshi - Wikipedia

 

[returntosender]

But a netti(sp) pot washes everything out of the nose. A strain couldn't attach it's self.

 

[muichimotsu]

You mean like Karoshi?

Karoshi - Wikipedia

That would be one of the main associations, yes. And I doubt it's just prevalent in animation production, because I'd almost bet you have incidents where someone is found dead at a more standard company, the salaryman working themselves to near death, falling asleep and then not waking up (something I feel like happens far too often because of that kind of long term problem that results in a sudden death)