Anybody want a Corona?

[warehouse]

bring it on, this virus is afraid of me

[Bi_3]

My uncle thought he had “long COVID”, but what it turned out to be was the virus fucked up his thyroid function, basically gave him Graves’ disease. I didn’t know that was a possibility.

[Stickman]

Fast-spreading new coronavirus strain dubbed ‘variant of interest’

[spike]

My uncle thought he had “long COVID”, but what it turned out to be was the virus fucked up his thyroid function, basically gave him Graves’ disease. I didn’t know that was a possibility.

potato, potato

[Bi_3]

My uncle thought he had “long COVID”, but what it turned out to be was the virus fucked up his thyroid function, basically gave him Graves’ disease. I didn’t know that was a possibility.

potato, potato

Well, one them is real like a potato and not psychosomatic like a potato

[spike]

Our sitter tomorrow night referred to it as “the pandy” in her intro email.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Fire her

[spike]

I know.

[B]

What?

[Matters]

Keep her. Consider a raise. Calling it “The Pandy” is great.

[Bi_3]

Just don’t share booster needles with her. No telling where she’s been

[spike]

She’s in nursing school, so it tracks, as we all know nurses don’t take Covid very seriously.

[Chris_H_2]

did someone say "babysitter?"

[dad]

She’s in nursing school, so it tracks, as we all know nurses don’t take Covid very seriously.

you're joking, right?

[spike]

She’s in nursing school, so it tracks, as we all know nurses don’t take Covid very seriously.

you're joking, right?

Generalizing, actually. Could’ve said young people too, I suppose.

[simple schoolboy]

She’s in nursing school, so it tracks, as we all know nurses don’t take Covid very seriously.

you're joking, right?

Generalizing, actually. Could’ve said young people too, I suppose.

They took choreographed dance numbers very seriously

[Stickman]

Things are nose-diving here
1 out of 16 people in my province are infected.

[Bammer]

She’s in nursing school, so it tracks, as we all know nurses don’t take Covid very seriously.

you're joking, right?

Generalizing, actually. Could’ve said young people too, I suppose.

And…?

[Bi_3]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10222767/

Less than a year after the global emergence of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, a novel vaccine platform based on mRNA technology was introduced to the market. Globally, around 13.38 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses of diverse platforms have been administered. To date, 72.3% of the total population has been injected at least once with a COVID-19 vaccine. As the immunity provided by these vaccines rapidly wanes, their ability to prevent hospitalization and severe disease in individuals with comorbidities has recently been questioned, and increasing evidence has shown that, as with many other vaccines, they do not produce sterilizing immunity, allowing people to suffer frequent re-infections. Additionally, recent investigations have found abnormally high levels of IgG4 in people who were administered two or more injections of the mRNA vaccines. HIV, Malaria, and Pertussis vaccines have also been reported to induce higher-than-normal IgG4 synthesis. Overall, there are three critical factors determining the class switch to IgG4 antibodies: excessive antigen concentration, repeated vaccination, and the type of vaccine used. It has been suggested that an increase in IgG4 levels could have a protecting role by preventing immune over-activation, similar to that occurring during successful allergen-specific immunotherapy by inhibiting IgE-induced effects. However, emerging evidence suggests that the reported increase in IgG4 levels detected after repeated vaccination with the mRNA vaccines may not be a protective mechanism; rather, it constitutes an immune tolerance mechanism to the spike protein that could promote unopposed SARS-CoV2 infection and replication by suppressing natural antiviral responses. Increased IgG4 synthesis due to repeated mRNA vaccination with high antigen concentrations may also cause autoimmune diseases, and promote cancer growth and autoimmune myocarditis in susceptible individuals.

Sounds a little like what HIV does. I wonder if the same effect is observed with reinfection and not just mo boost'n.

[Matters]

I feel more confident than ever in my decision to reject the covid shots for both myself and my children.

Joe Biden spoke on Friday about the next booster (the usual speech flubs removed):
“I signed off this morning on a proposal we have to present to the Congress a request for additional funding for a new vaccine that is necessary, that works” and said “everybody get it” once the shots are ready.

83% of Americans turned down the bivalent booster which became available about a year ago.

What’s the over/under on the % that take the next one? 15% feels about right but it could be higher since pharma will likely market the covid booster by simultaneously rolling it out with the next flu shot.