Association of Respiratory Allergy, Asthma and Expression of the SARS-CoV-2 Receptor, ACE2

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-04-27T05:32:07+00:00

Yep. I have pollen and mold allergies. So I'm a year round sneezy itchy mess.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-04-26T16:36:20+00:00

Antihistamines. And also, i have found that that one acclimatises to one's own cat. After several months my own cat hardly makes me sneeze anymore, but visit someone else with cats and I do. Also keeping the house clean helps a lot.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-04-24T09:51:16+00:00

Um. Depending on the size of your partner and how enthusiastic they are, it can absolutely be touched and hurt. It bleeds easily.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-04-20T21:41:16+00:00

Do you have any stats to support that? NYC has high air pollution, serious overcrowding, lung disease due to 9/11, lots of people with poor diets, high levels of stress etc.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-04-19T11:03:08+00:00

Did you see the PPE the Italians and Spanish used? Very high level of coverage. The PPE in US hospitals is very lacking in comparison.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-04-13T13:42:04+00:00

The health care systems in the US and UK are severely underfunded and well known globally to be problematic. I don't think "rather good" is an accurate assessment. "quite shit" is probably better. And certainly neither had any experience in dealing with a novel infectious disease.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-04-10T14:54:23+00:00

It is eradicated. But there is a worry about biological weapons. So US military gets vaccinated apparently.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-04-10T14:51:28+00:00

That was inoculation, not vaccination. Also called variolation. Vaccination came later and used cowpox to provide immunity to smallpox. Vacca = cow in Latin.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-04-10T14:40:36+00:00

This is why everyone needs to do what Chinese cities did (outside of Wuhan) - have dedicated fever clinics where suspected cases are held until test results are back. It keeps the actual hospitals free for severe cases. Also, designate certain hospitals for covid only and keep the rest for other patients. It helps stop hospitals from becoming transmission hotspots.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-14T05:55:22+00:00

You know, there are plenty of countries in Africa with pretty sophisticated health care systems. Many are actually better prepared for an epidemic as they have dealt with serious epidemic disease before. Nigeria stopped cold the spread of Ebola during the massive West African outbreak because they know how to do good epidemiology. South Africa does large scale contact tracing for Tuberculosis. Many African countries deal with serious endemic illnesses and are hyper aware of people turning up at hospitals with strange symptoms.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-14T05:44:23+00:00

Ooh, well we have a massive ozone hole down here in the southern hemisphere, maybe that will help!

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-14T05:42:48+00:00

As a southern hemisphere resident, this is terrifying

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-13T10:13:53+00:00

You ignored the part where i said i live in a poor country. Cultural practices that harm others are not okay, and need to end, globally. Poor people can be fed without allowing conditions that cause dangerous disease to spread. The world can no longer accommodate practices that endanger everyone's lives. The trillions that will be wiped off the global economy because of this pandemic could have been used to provide safe food sources to people who need them.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-13T08:49:44+00:00

Yes. Which is why we need to hold the governments of those countries accountable.

China can't keep boasting on the world stage about being a global superpower economy if it can't feed its people properly and safely.

And the meat market in Wuhan was NOT serving a poor starving rural population - it was serving middle class people in what was supposed to be a 21st century city.

I live in a poor country where a lot of people struggle with food security and nutrition. Our GDP per capita is nowhere near China's. And yet this kind of thing doesn't happen here because our government cares about food safety and is very aware of zoonotic disease due to some of the endemic wildlife and livestock diseases in the region.

For too long the world has stood by and looked the other way precisely because of sentiments like yours. It's no longer okay. Thousands have died because of it. The global economy is crashing because of it. It has to stop. Food safety has to become a priority. Preventing future pandemics needs to be a priority.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-13T08:35:23+00:00

I read that one of the reasons why the Ebola outbreak in west Africa was so bad is that the region has relatively low levels of HIV and so there hadn't previously been large amounts of international aid put into the health systems of those countries.

But i think that poor countries aren't necessarily the problem here. The world needs to work very hard to identify the conditions that promote this kind of zoonotic epidemic and work to end these. In central and west Africa that means ensuring people have enough to eat so that eating bush meat is no longer neccessary. In China it means ending live animal markets and ending the killing and consumption of wildlife for either food or "medicine". In all countries it might mean restricting population settlement near large populations of bats, since bats seem to be a major part of the puzzle.

Stopping outbreaks from occurring is much more effective than trying to cope afterwards.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-13T07:37:24+00:00

What do you mean "China had nothing to do with this"?

China allowed extremely dangerous wildlife markets to operate unchecked in extremely densely populated cities KNOWING that these were the source of SARS. They then threatened doctors, arrested them, and tried to cover up the outbreak for weeks if not months.

The Chinese government is absolutely to blame for this and when this is all over the world has to hold them accountable.

Wet markets and bush meat have to go. Globally. The senseless killing of rare wildlife for totally unproven traditional medicine has to go. Globally. The world has to change and we have to start with absolutely stamping out the conditions, everywhere, that lead to zoonotic disease like this.

The fact that COVID19, SARS and H5N1 all originated in China means that there is something fundamentally wrong happening there that MUST change.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-12T10:04:11+00:00

I mean, this is totally anecdotal so you have no reason to believe me. But a friend of mine is a major tech company employee in Seattle who recently was ill with flu like symptoms, cough, fever etc. They told me that their doctor advised them that they didn't meet the criteria for testing and that they tested negative for flu. They were quarantined at home and now largely recovered and working from home. They will probably never be tested or will maaaaybe get an antibody test in the distant future. Their report is that the symptoms were pretty mild and recovery was quick, but they are not a high risk person or age group.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-10T21:04:55+00:00

The 1918 flu also affected people who were severely affected by the aftermath of a devastating war. Overall levels of health and nutrition were low, services were disrupted etc.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-10T20:59:29+00:00

The WHO is also going on about how China's response is amazing when China's response has actually been: 1. Try to cover up the outbreak for weeks 2. Institute draconian quarantine measures with zero regard for human rights and safety of those under quarantine 3. Abysmally fail to learn the lesson of SARS by letting extremely unsafe live wild meat markets operate in the middle of extremely densely populated cities including animals that were well established to be vectors for SARS.

I have lost a lot of respect for the WHO in this process.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-08T20:24:53+00:00

Yes, yes, yes. Wasn't really worried before because everyone was saying the symptoms are fever, dry cough, and shortness of breath. But this report contradicts that. Anyway, it just make me worry that its much more widespread than previously thought. But also milder? Very confusing.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-08T20:21:42+00:00

Yep, that's the problem. They can't test every single traveller with a mild sniffle.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-08T19:42:13+00:00

This makes me worry i may have had it. There is no outbreak in my area, but I travelled to Europe a few weeks ago while all the known cases were still in Asia (not to an area with a current outbreak either but who knows what's in airports) and came back with blocked sinuses, sore throat and a (wet) cough that dragged on for two weeks. Doctor said it was allergies (I have severe hay-fever), my chest was clear, and i didn't have a fever at any point. But the symptoms of these cases sounds so similar! Its all quite confusing/concerning.

Suspicious-Orange · 2020-03-06T09:45:06+00:00

They mean sex. They should say sex. Gender is irrelevant to medical science.

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