Talked with my roommate’s girlfriend this morning. She works at a chiropractor office and she took immunology classes in college. She said her patients that caught Covid, recovered, and returned were much harder to massage in their back area, even months after their “Recovery”. She believed it was lingering inflammation from Covid, even though some of her patients did not have what would be described as a severe case.
In spite of observing the significant physical changes in her patients, before and after Covid, she is vaccine reluctant. So reluctant in fact, in spite of her and her boyfriend being competitive dancers, they will not be attending an upcoming competition because proof of vaccination is required. She says there are too many adverse reactions to the virus the media is covering up. Further, she questions the vaccines effectiveness, citing disclosures on the vaccines.
Interestingly, if someone has a documented recovery from Covid within the last three months, the CDC says they can travel without immunization being recommended. What about after three months? Does this not suggest that immunity to flu-like viruses is only temporary, as it has always previously known to been? Does it not suggest that when it comes to flu vaccines, they are always lagging the frequent changes in the viruses and are doomed to be of limited effectiveness, with that effectiveness, if any, to be of short duration? Now they are talking about “Boosters”, already? Can anyone spell “Scam”?
My roommate’s girlfriend decided to donate blood and discovered she had Covid antibodies. She said she was asymptomatic, but I remember her having flu-like symptoms several months ago. That is at least 2 of 6 people who had Covid in the house I live in near DFW Airport. If I had it, it would be 3, except I was not living there at the time. Covid is infectious as hell and significantly more serious than the flu. I have been diligent wearing a mask for the past year, including inside the house when outside my room. In spite of Covid related restrictions being lifted in Texas, I am planning to increase my use of PPE, including goggles and gloves. Further, I will be avoiding eating out, including take out, because of Covid related concerns stoked when I went to pick up my order at a restaurant. There were two people nearby coughing and one sniffling. One of the persons coughing was with a party of 13. Other than employees, myself, and couple of others waiting to pick up their order, no one else was wearing a mask, including the waiting area.
Zoonosis and reverse zoonosis as well as weak public anti-virus practices will keep Covid and its variants in the news for quite some time.
Who do you think the apex predator is now?