Going into lockdown again

Discussion in 'Random Thoughts' started by newo, Nov 16, 2020.

  1. snowtiggernd

    snowtiggernd Member

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    I keep to myself and only come out for groceries.
     
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  2. wilsjane

    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    I see that as a very premature assumption, since 99% of all human bodies can combat the virus. Those people who require medical assistance are suffering from the secondary pathogenic bacterial attack which can mostly be cleared up by the use of ventilation and antibiotics. In turn, those who die are mostly suffering from conditions such as a cancer and any virus would have shortened their life, mostly by only a few month. Their is also evidence of natural shared immunity, but that theory is always considered a hypothesis, since it can never be conclusively proven.

    This may just be a difference in terminology, but when compared with conditions such as tuberculosis, I would see it as classifying any virus as a disease, so where does it end.?

    We do not generally accept that viruses lead to death many years later, but this may not be true. I have scarring of the walls of my heart which modern science attributes to a virus in the past. Meningitis also has close connections with a virus and these are only 2 examples.
    Since those of us who do not die in a road crash are now living 15 years longer than we did 50 years ago, the whole of the understanding of our ultimate death is becoming a minefield.
     
  3. wilsjane

    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    Sorry Zen. These days influenza itself is now technically classified as "Highly infectious diseases caused by a virus".
    In some ways, I feel that it tends to muddy the waters somewhat, by not separating it from the better known and accepted diseases .
     
  4. loveslovely

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    oh wow my state was on lockdown in march till june and it lifted up and just got back on last friday cause the cases got more worser
     
  5. ~Zen~

    ~Zen~ California Tripper Administrator

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    The word disease is a catch-all term and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as:

    "an illness affecting humans, animals, or plants, often caused by infection"

    So Covid-19 and other coronaviruses are diseases.
     
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  6. Kinky Ramona

    Kinky Ramona Back by popular demand!

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    Lockdowns would work if everyone actually stayed at home but unfortunately people don't. Staying home absolutely slows the spread, but people don't understand the definition of essential and refuse to change their lifestyle. It's super frustrating, I live in an area where no one wants to wear masks but the hospitals are overwhelmed. My dad's best friend finally is over the virus, but he was flown a six hour drive from home while he was sick and his muscles have atrophied so much that now he has to spend the holidays in rehab building his strength again. The local emergency management coordinator put in a request for a mobile morgue. There's no point in yelling at anti-maskers, but I sure do want to sometimes. Especially when they are toting around a little one. Kids aren't impervious to this and it's dangerous for them, too.
     
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  7. Dude111

    Dude111 An Awesome Dude

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    No no buddy Im sorry,ill stay out of this thread...... I dont want you to be mad at me....
     
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  8. newo

    newo Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Watched football at home today, had a buddy over, and we ate, drank and got high. It was a good time but at the bar we can watch 6 games at once. Just trying to make the most of a bad situation, at least we hear a vaccine could start being distributed before the end of the year.

    So everyone hang in there and do what you can to keep your mind and body busy. We'll get through this together.
     

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