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Post by Dabeagle on Dec 23, 2020 12:31:21 GMT -5
Well folks it seems about that time to give you some kind of update. It's been an annoying year, but for the most part I have to say we came through better than many others. That's not to say we didn't have our challenges. We've had a lot of unrest with two teenage boys showing us just how far they can push things, my own medical annoyances and so forth. Unfortunately my oldest son has now tested positive for covid due to an infected student at school. I think they should have closed schools about Thanksgiving due to people being stupid and refusing to not stay away from each other, but I'm just the one voice.
So while we are on quarantine, you may be wondering about the state of my writing. I started off the year so well, then I got the fissure and my writing slowed to a trickle. I still have a work in progress that is nearing 100 pages, but I'm only picking at it here and there. I have some story ideas, but I haven't started most of them. Frankly my push to create has been very low through the second half of the year, and so you, dear reader, haven't had a lot to read from me. I don't hold out real hope for anything productive before the end of the year, but never say never, right.
In the meantime, we'll be waiting to see if any of the rest of us are infected - and unfortunate likelihood due to the delay between notification of potential exposure and five people living under one roof. We'll hope for the best - I think it's all some folks could do this year.
Let's hope 2021 brings something better.
Be safe out there.
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Post by dgt224 on Dec 23, 2020 17:33:40 GMT -5
Oof! Sorry to hear about your son. I hope he turns out to be like the vast majority of folks his age and suffers no serious ill effects. And that the rest of you manage to dodge this one.
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Post by Neal on Dec 26, 2020 4:07:16 GMT -5
Sorry also, and I hope you all are in fine health in no time.
Here is a giggle for you.
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Post by padrepower on Jan 16, 2021 16:12:51 GMT -5
It's been awhile since you posted this so I hope nothing bad happened in the meantime.I pray that your son is past this.He should get priority to get a vaccine but that won't happen until Biden becomes president I'm afraid
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Post by dgt224 on Jan 16, 2021 23:16:03 GMT -5
It's been awhile since you posted this so I hope nothing bad happened in the meantime.I pray that your son is past this.He should get priority to get a vaccine but that won't happen until Biden becomes president I'm afraid I'm not sure where that last bit came from, but it seems to reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of what vaccines are all about.
The purpose of a vaccine is to "trick" the immune system into developing an acquired immunity to one or more disease organisms. This is not an overnight process; it commonly takes up to two weeks for the immunity resulting from a vaccination to become fully effective. In the case of the two SARS-Cov-2 vaccines that have been approved in the U.S., they both take two separate injections two or three weeks apart to reach their maximum effectiveness. A typical SARS-Cov-2 infection that doesn't cause severe disease resolves in less time than it would take a vaccination to produce full immunity, and the best evidence to date is that infection with SARS-Cov-2 produces immunity about as effectively as the vaccines; reports of re-infection are quite rare.
So between the fact that the vaccine would not be effective as a treatment and the fact that the young man is probably already immune to the virus as a side effect of fighting off the infection, he seems like a particularly low priority candidate for vaccination. In addition, there is some evidence that pre-existing immune response to the virus can make side effects of vaccination more extreme. Not dangerously so, but a higher likelihood of discomfort or mild flu-like symptoms from the vaccine triggering an immune response.
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Post by PaulR5 on Jan 17, 2021 14:21:05 GMT -5
In case someone is not aware, Sars-Cov-2 is another name for Covid-19 or coronavirus.
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Post by dgt224 on Jan 18, 2021 18:33:30 GMT -5
In case someone is not aware, Sars-Cov-2 is another name for Covid-19 or coronavirus. Oops. Good point.
In the literature, Covid-19 is the name of the disease, and SARS-Cov-2 is the name of the virus that causes it. "Coronavirus" is commonly used to refer to either the virus or the disease, but not generally in the medical or scientific literature, because "coronavirus" actually names a collection of viruses that cause a variety of diseases, including SARS, MERS, and COVID-19; several varieties of coronavirus are causes of the common cold. (And the reason there isn't a vaccine against the "common cold" after all these years is that it can be caused by a wide variety of viruses - one estimate is about 200 known varieties, with 20%-30% of colds in adults caused by unknown viruses.)
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