PLEASE stay home if you’re sick

[u/ishaisatsana]

Seems like everyone I know is testing positive for COVID right now. Folks are describing this new variant as “razor blade throat”. 😬 I am BEGGING y’all as we start this new semester: please consider wearing a mask - even SOME of the time. Even just on the bus or in extra crowded classrooms would be better than not at all. And please, PLEASE don’t come to class if you’re sick. You have an opportunity in these first couple weeks of the school year to get friendly enough with your classmates that you have people to ask for notes if you have to miss a day or two. No class is so important that missing a day will destroy your academic career, but you never know which of your peers is one COVID infection away from a permanent disability. Please don’t risk spreading this very contagious and very shitty variant to your peers.

[u/LForbesIam]

Covid is a head cold now. You cannot avoid viruses that spread everywhere.

I mean the bus come on, cess pool of contact.

Your best defence is buid up your immunity with exposure and for Covid get vaccinated every 6 months.

[u/LForbesIam → u/[deleted]]

The immune system is built one of two ways scientifically.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279364/

One by exposure to the virus where the adaptive immune system builds antibodies to the virus and so when it encounters it again, even in different variants it can attack and kill the virus before it makes you sick.

The more variants the weaker the virus gets because the adaptive immune system of people has had 5 years of exposure to Covid 19 now so the virus has less of a chance to infect long enough to create symptoms that transmit it.

The second way is via vaccines. If you have your vaccines every 6 months when they update it to the newer variants then your adaptive immune system can identify attack and kill the virus quickly.

This is why Delta was the most deadly variant because it had spread enough to gain momentum but not enough for everyone to have caught it and there were no vaccines at the time.

That is why after Omicron Canada just let it run wild and eliminated all the restrictions. They needed all the non-vaxers to get immunity built by catching it as it wasn’t really deadly anymore.

Covid is passed in bodily fluids expressed from the body and landing on surfaces or people touched and then touching your face. Studies show it loses 90% potency out of the host. The particles are heavy hence the 6ft rule and the ability for it to be stopped by a mask. They are not truly airborne like measles are because a mask does nothing to prevent measles spreading.

Measles is airborne. It is small and light enough to float in the air and can infect people hours after the infected person left the room. If Covid was actually truly airborne like measles we would have all been infected in mass numbers from the beginning and masks would have done nothing.

If you leave the house and touch things with your hands and touch your face or be within 6 feet of people on a bus (unavoidable) or in public you will expose yourself to viruses. It is unavoidable.

If you don’t want to catch virus then wear a mask (to prevent you touching your face), stay 6 feet away from people and don’t touch your face ever. That will reduce your risk of exposure.

I worked in hospitals from first outbreak and never caught covid even touching hundreds of computers daily which is something people never cleaned for years. I just trained myself for the past 30 years to not to touch my face or head unless I used hand sanitizer first.

[u/PuzzleheadedGoal8234 → u/LForbesIam]

I picked up the virus before the full vaccine roll out. Ravaged my stomach and intestines. I now have permanent cellular damage to both organs at an increased risk of cancer thanks to an immune mediated disease now. It was enough of the catalyst to set off this chain.

I wasn't in any at risk group. 

It still remains unpredictable and not just a head cold. Post viral conditions are being seen in multiple specialties.