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The article claims that both non-severe and severe patients get the same damage, meaning that globally we have at minimum 10 million people with this damage, probably many time more since most cases aren't tested.

But the article does very little to study if these changes actually effect people and for how long.

Evidence, as well as basic observation points to people recovering very well from the disease (we have over 4 million cases in the US but the number of people with crippling long-term effects is minimal, otherwise we'd be able to observe a massive group of impaired individuals).

The article does very little to illustrate that impact on people.

For example, people who lose their sense of smell, which is listed as symptom in this Chinese study get it back and they get it back faster than when they lose the sense of smell with other viruses:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/08/thousands...

Because of mass protests.

Because lawmakers have access to the best healthcare, wear their masks for the TV cameras, and then do the opposite when no one is watching.

Because politics is a social game of meetings, meals, drinks, and parties.

Probably many more reasons. Those are just a start.

Some area of Africa is estimated at over 40%

I am also almost sure I have the same double mutation. Positive all the time, pot never got me high, very even mood, always optimistic. But I am also very empathetic.

Police at polling stations to enforce rules is also considered voter intimidation thanks to Jim Crow jackassery a century and a half ago, so that is also a no go. We are also super litigious.

We have had large in-person primary voter turnouts without resulting surges in COVID cases, so I think it isn't really a danger.

Sometimes when you tell people it is difficult to not be happy and to get angry, they treat you like a skinny person humble bragging about how they can't gain weight no matter how much they eat.

It is just a thing in your genes and I am sure it came from my grandfather who survived the Bataan death march and Odonnel prison camp and was up until his death one of the happiest people I ever knew.

- A generally content person responds fluidly and naturally to negative events as expected and usually goes back to being happy after the negative event

- If you fall on the mania/Euphoria spectrum, things that should upset you and that do upset others do not upset you, there is literally a natural resistance to changing mood

I fall somewhere between a generally content person and the euphoric, probably closer to generally content - but my resistance to mood change is definitely abnormal in that no one I interact with at work or in my family is as even and naturally resistant to mood change as I am.

I am not going to wade into Mead, who certainly sounds like a racist, but may have research to back up his claims not cited.

The best part of the article is the last paragraph encouraging vigorous skepticism, which is true not only for assertions from observation, but also to the supposed data driven experts who have had a terrible track record as of late.

There was no indication of actual danger, or any frame of reference to other infectious viruses (flu and other viruses also cause temporary heart inflammation).

Those old values are fading for better or worse, and it will be interesting to see what happens next.

If an election is close and contested you don’t bow out until you’ve exhausted all your legal recourse.

And if anyone believes the military would support him if he actually tried to stay by force (hint he wouldn’t) they are smoking something. The military wants Biden so they can reinvigorate their endless wars, which their current commander in chief annoyingly speaks out against whenever he can. The generals hate him and would look forward to giving him the boot.

Wealth and security has the opposite effect. People take it for granted and that security becomes more important than the western values of liberty, etc.

Half the population wants the post-capitalist, ecologically sound, anti-racist path forward.

The other half wants to lean hard into capitalism and traditional civil liberties (“freedom to” not “freedom from”) with an emphasis on innovating our way to the future and out of our current problems.

The post-capitalists look too much like communists to be trusted by the freedom folks, and the freedom folks look too much like history’s economic oppressors and robber barons to be trusted.

Historically these divides take a long time dissolve (unless there is a bloody conflict and clear winner).

Reporting that they are at capacity intimates that they are packed full of Covid patients and overflowing.

That’s not a typo - 31.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Ag...

130 died from flu.

675 died children in car accidents.

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/child_passenger_safet...

I have no objection to mask wearing.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

Some of the states that had the strictest lockdowns, NY, NJ, also had the worst outcomes.

The purpose was never to stop the virus but to slow it.

Growing cases does not concern me. Death rate has blipped up a little but no where near in proportion to the cases.

This is no Tuberculosis, or even Measles.

Time to cautiously carry on and stop cowering.

Children have a higher chance of dying in a car accident, are you going to stop driving tomorrow, because you know a non-zero chance of dying is all you will accept.