Plague Update: What Does COVID Do Anyway?

COVID-19 a thrombotic disease that can be caught again, and again, and again if the first bouts are survived, and isn’t confined to a “season” because it’s so much more contagious than influenza. It has multiple waves that sweep through a community each year. Governments are using ‘magical words’ to convince people there’s a “mild”, “new normal” that is acceptable and survivable so the people will willingly return to economic activity compatible with consumptive capitalism. That locust-style capitalism also happens to be ending our habitat’s economic viability and then our survivability sometime this decade or the next.

Hey, who is noticing that “post-pandemic normal” is a lot of “I’ve been knocked out by this cold for weeks” and “Sorry, we’ve had to cancel this event!” and “My kids are sick for the second time in two months!” and “Due to staffing shortages…” and “The ER wait was 10 hours!”

— Amanda Hu (@amandalhu) May 16, 2022

Sorry 🙈
Bottom line: COVID causes clots, often on a level that standard tests are not picking up. There’s increasing evidence for complications from blood vessel disease/clots post COVID, but treatment and access to the right tests is lagging.

— Binita Kane (@BinitaKane) May 17, 2022

In the absence of any other treatment, why are we not prescribing these drugs to people with #LongCOVID? With monitoring / risk benefit discussion of course. RCTs are not the only type of evidence. Real-world studies could be set up quickly via LC clinics 11/

— Binita Kane (@BinitaKane) May 17, 2022

#COVIDzero is looking a helluva lot better than this bleak future while we can't even get OTC anti-virals for this damn virus that everyone maskless doesn't care if they spread to careful people. https://t.co/vqYLV8K0tG

— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) May 16, 2022

@nytimes May 16

“The coronavirus has become more adept at reinfecting people as Omicron and its many descendants seem to have evolved to partially dodge immunity. Waves of infections two, maybe three times a year may be the future of Covid-19, some scientists now fear.”

10% of an expected 100M Americans infected by this coming winter, is TEN times the entire population of Saskatchewan all suffering a debilitating, potentially life-long illness. Why are cruel governments not trying to stop this preventable suffering?#COVID19 https://t.co/lfbaksuymf

— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) May 17, 2022

1) Changing the meaning of words, which could be called spells or magic words, involves mobilizing language to mystify, but also making acceptable what should be unacceptable. Here are a few examples:

"Learning to live with it" means accepting high levels of death and suffering.

— Jon Parsons (@jwpnfld) May 16, 2022

Given that many people mistake immunity against COVID-19 to be akin to immunity from chicken pox, instead of influenza for example, it's understandable that "get it over with" is a theory some people have. How do you get a flu over with?
1. Vaccination.https://t.co/Uwfoa8RQvG https://t.co/lMqmwLzo1x

— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) May 17, 2022