My opinion doesn't lead to harm to other people, so you'll understand why I don't respect yours. Your right to swing your infected spittle ends where other people's mouths and noses begin.
> My opinion doesn't lead to harm to other people, so you'll understand why I don't respect yours. Your right to swing your infected spittle ends where other people's mouths and noses begin. Don't you have the ability to stay home and avoid breathing near other humans if you're so concerned? I'm confused by that statement. How is demanding reduced freedom for him more just than simply exercising your own?
This isn't about me. I'm not concerned about catching diseases. I'm concerned about acting as a vector for disease spread and mutation.
And no, I'm not a programmer. My job isn't remoteable outside of the occasional paperwork or Zoom meeting. I can't stay home.
Attitudes like yours are why it kept spreading instead of petering out. I'm not saying that people need to get vaccinated, but I'm god damn sick of people not caring about spreading disease, whether vaccinated, or not. Humanity, as a whole, is in a war with disease. We don't need collaborators. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00319-9 > Heal…
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I'm a biologist. Yes, I also have OCD, but my OCD is not concerned with personally catching a disease.
You can keep your uninformed opinion about me to yourself.
If Metformin reduces the viral load, it probably does so throughout the entire body. Whereas intramuscular vacccination leads to good protection against serious disease through humoral (body serum) immunity, it does not, unfortunately, provide significant protection to the other immune compartments like the upper respiratory mucosal layer (served by a different set of antibodies than the humoral). So this is good. Th…
I honestly can't imagine taking more covid vaccines. I haven't even thought about covid for a year now.
Some of us think 7 million dead is a lot, and find it harder to ignore than you do.
So I guess what I'm wondering is, how do we know we are treating lingering covid rather than pre-diabetes symptoms? Pre-diabetes is not symptomless and metformin is prescribed off-label to manage those symptoms. How many pre-diabetes symptoms overlap with long-covid classification?
> The primary method for ascertaining long COVID was participant-reported receipt of a long COVID diagnosis from a medical provider. Participants were asked whether a medical provider had given them a diagnosis of long COVID in follow-up surveys on days 180, 210, 240, 270, and 300. See the outcomes section. Also, read the paper.
I had long covid back in early 2022. It was not fun, despite being fully vaccinated and being extremely fit(run 20+ miles a week etc). It took me 3 months to shake the symptoms and I tried everything. Vitamin B IV injection(helped a little with splitting headaches I constantly had a month after covid). Vitamin D 5000iu daily, Fish Oil supplements, Zinc(had to stop from stomach issues), even tried MSM with Tumeric. I…
I don't think 3 months to recover from COVID is considered long COVID. 12 weeks to recover from a viral illness, is unfortunately not special. I believe most definitions are 12weeks+ WHO definition is 3 months from onset with symptoms for at least 2 months (so there could be a brief recover period after which symptoms return). If it took you "3 months to shake the symptoms" you wouldn't meet WHO criteria.
so I contracted covid jan. 1st 2022, and was having symptoms in april of that year, I actually was admitted to the scripps long covid clinic, so I guess it was a bit longer than 3 months, memory was a bit fuzzy during that time. The Dr. who I saw at the clinic said on the scale of long covid symptoms mine were on the milder side, I couldn't imagine what moderate or severe would be like. Equally frustrating was the lack of tests that could detect it. The Dr. readily admitted this issue and said it made people who were suffering sometimes feel like imposters due to tests showing anything concrete.
You are spreading misinformation. The fatality rate in the US was never as high as 1.1%. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
I don’t think “misinformation” is appropriate. Given the novel nature and chaos with COVID, the limitations with best effort, rushed information, etc there were a lot of different numbers thrown around for various cohorts, etc. Figures like 1.1% were definitely cited, especially in the early days where the initial iteration of the virus devastated congregate living and other settings. It also took about 6 months for…
Saying that the fatality rate is around 1% is pure fear mongering.
Maybe 1% for highly at risk populations like elderly and immune compromised people but nowhere near 1% for the general population.
I don’t think “misinformation” is appropriate. Given the novel nature and chaos with COVID, the limitations with best effort, rushed information, etc there were a lot of different numbers thrown around for various cohorts, etc. Figures like 1.1% were definitely cited, especially in the early days where the initial iteration of the virus devastated congregate living and other settings. It also took about 6 months for…
Saying that the fatality rate is around 1% is pure fear mongering. Maybe 1% for highly at risk populations like elderly and immune compromised people but nowhere near 1% for the general population.
I got the data from https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid which, recently, uses WHO data. In the case of the US, this is probably CDC’s. I probably should have noted that, initially, when COVID tests were scarce or non-existing because at that time a diagnosis implied symptoms. Still, the numbers are not as off as GP claimed. One number that still seems to hold is a 50% fatality rate for patients admitted to ICU (I just checked with a doctor friend)
One thing metformin does is occasionally encourage cells to burn excess energy rather than store it. This may lead to extra cellular repair processes. I heard cancer rates were lower in metformin users and could extend life. Had my doc prescribe it to me 5 or so years ago. I take it daily. There were mild GI side effects and weight loss at first, but my body adjusted and now it is BAU. Haven't changed my lifestyle, c…
Can I ask what dose you take, and also whether it has caused any issues with hypoglycemia?
500mg twice daily, but I usually forget in the morning and take 1000mg before bed.
At least for my body, the troubled GI side effects faded over time. I never noticed any lightheadedness or fatigue by it unless I overdosed. But as I mentioned, I never changed my lifestyle and eat America-sized portions, so I suspect there's plenty of sugars and energy sloshing about and all systems have power.