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Re: I Have the Common Cold Right Now [Re: morrowasted]
#27095375 - 12/18/20 06:46 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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My test was an oral swab. I'm glad I didn't have to do the nose thing...
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Re: I Have the Common Cold Right Now [Re: 1234go]
#27095377 - 12/18/20 06:49 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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1234go said: My test was an oral swab. I'm glad I didn't have to do the nose thing...
okay well same difference. it's a piece of plastic with some cloth/silk like woven material at the end. i'm just saying, as someone who does testing, if someone were to say "Can I closely investigate the swab before you put it in my nose?" I would be like uh yeah knock yourself out. I will bend over backwards to try and help the hoaxers and conspiracy theorists see the light before they have suffer the consequences of their somewhat understandable inability to think clearly during this very stressful time.
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Re: I Have the Common Cold Right Now [Re: morrowasted]
#27095379 - 12/18/20 06:54 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah, I certainly wasn't attempting to debate that. That's absolutely ridiculous...
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Re: I Have the Common Cold Right Now [Re: 1234go]
#27095381 - 12/18/20 06:55 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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one final point. COVID is arguably the most common cold right now. I know what you meant, but over time what the term common cold refers to may change, or we may come up with a different term
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Re: I Have the Common Cold Right Now [Re: morrowasted]
#27095409 - 12/18/20 07:53 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've been having headaches for like a week now after getting the flu shot... I kinda wish I had had Covid, just to know what it feels like.
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Re: I Have the Common Cold Right Now [Re: anatomality]
#27095439 - 12/18/20 08:17 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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It feels like a really bad flu. Imagine that, someone sitting on your chest, and not being able to taste or smell much of anything.
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Re: I Have the Common Cold Right Now [Re: MorphinTime]
#27095827 - 12/18/20 01:12 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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RobZombie68 said: Because that shit don't work. I wear a full respirator at work painting and my nostrils are still lined with paint dust.
I was surprised at how much dust and fine particles still get through the respirator filters when I started my painting job. They definitely help but moving around so much I'm sure the filter's seal on my face doesn't stay perfect. The first week I was grinding down a garage floor with a concrete grinder, so my brand new respirator with new filters was a necessity. Concrete dust still got through even though my head was mostly staying in one position.
Imagine how much worse it would be if you didn’t wear a respirator. The respirator doesn’t prevent all the dust from being inhaled, but it certainly cuts down on the amount.
This situation is fairly analogous to the function of medical grade masks and even simple face coverings. Nobody is claiming masks prevent all viruses from being inhaled, but because your chance of becoming infected is almost directly proportional to the number of viruses you are exposed to, being exposed to a fewer number of viruses reduces your chance of being infected.
The chance that any single virus will lead to infection is extremely tiny. A virus has to manage to essentially come in contact with the susceptible part of a susceptible cell by chance before the inate immune system neutralizes it.
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Re: I Have the Common Cold Right Now [Re: koods]
#27095949 - 12/18/20 02:39 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I wonder if exposure to tiny amounts of covid via a facemask 36 hours a week can lead to gradual antibody production similar to a vaccine
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Re: I Have the Common Cold Right Now [Re: morrowasted]
#27096041 - 12/18/20 03:33 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Probably not much. Asymtomatic infections don’t even produce much immunity
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Re: I Have the Common Cold Right Now [Re: koods]
#27097504 - 12/19/20 11:07 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Imagine how much worse it would be if you didn’t wear a respirator. The respirator doesn’t prevent all the dust from being inhaled, but it certainly cuts down on the amount.
This situation is fairly analogous to the function of medical grade masks and even simple face coverings. Nobody is claiming masks prevent all viruses from being inhaled, but because your chance of becoming infected is almost directly proportional to the number of viruses you are exposed to, being exposed to a fewer number of viruses reduces your chance of being infected.
The chance that any single virus will lead to infection is extremely tiny. A virus has to manage to essentially come in contact with the susceptible part of a susceptible cell by chance before the inate immune system neutralizes it.
I am aware of the analogy. I'm not an anti-masker or anything, I was just commenting since with respirators the particles are just large enough to see with the naked eye when they conglomerate and was thinking that the average face mask people wear has to be letting things as tiny as a virus through that much more easily. Breathing through a respirator is so much more restrictive than breathing through a mask. I wear a mask every day for my other job too. Kinda sucks but I like looking like a ninja so it's cool.
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