Hazmat Santa

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Try and spread holiday cheer and not COVID this season. Santa is an elder and thus more susceptible to severe complications from an infection. Don’t sent Santa to the ICU. Wash your hands, social distance, and wear a quality n95 mask when indoors. Consider thinking about someone other than yourself this holiday season. By protecting other you are protecting holiday traditions.

The media has been talking of the tripledemic hitting this winter. Flu hit earlier than usual this holiday season and RSV has been sending plenty of children to hospitals instead of Santa’s lap. Then on top of it all the COVID pandemic is not over. I know many people have chosen to ignore the fact that over 400 people are still dying every day so that they can back to “life as normal.” Pandemic fatigue is real. Many cope by burying their heads in the sand or snow.

People are getting infected multiple times and the misguided hope was that they would build immunity. However each new infection gets worse. It turns out COVID destroys T Cells needed for immunity. People are suddenly more susceptible to flu and RSV infections that put them in the hospital. COVID is more like aids than a common cold. Convincing people that getting infected is the best way to battle the virus was stupid and criminal.

If you caught the  original strain of COVID you might infect 2 other people. With Alpha you might infect 3 other people. With Delta you might infect 5 other people. With Omicron you might infect 9 other people. Some claim that with BA.5, the variant circulating right now, you could infect 18 other people. That would make COVID more contagious than the measles. Rather than settling into a predictable endemic pattern, the virus is becoming insanely more infectious. 601 Americans died of COVID on December 22, 2022. 2,852 Americans died from COVID in the past 7 days.

The steps to protect yourself and your family are simple, wash hands, get vaccinated, wear a mask and be thinking about ventilation. Have everyone in your  family test for COVID if you plan to get together. Think for yourself and avoid infecting others.

Immunity Down

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Andrew Nikiforuk at The Tyee wrote an amazing article about U.S. immunologist Anthony Leonardi who has been arguing since early in the COVID-19 pandemic that T cells are becoming hyperactivated by SARS-CoV-2 and are prematurely aging, harming organs, and becoming exhausted trying to rid the body of an immune-evasive virus. I highly advise going to read the whole article.

“Leonardi warned that the virus undermined and aged the immune system by hyperactivating and exhausting T cells. This over stimulation could in turn damage organs including the heart, brain and kidneys.

He predicted that the pandemic would reduce life expectancy around the world, most harming people aged 50 and over.

He hypothesized that the virus, by harming the immune system, could make people more vulnerable to other infections and cancers.

He speculated that COVID reinfections could be big trouble and should be avoided.

Given the virus’s ability to undermine and age the immune system, he argued that exposing children repeatedly to a virus that impairs the immune system and causes vascular disease and brain shrinkage was bad policy.

And, very early in the pandemic, he argued that herd immunity was wishful thinking and could not be achieved.” reported The Tyree.

What we are left with is a forever pandemic because many scientists and policy makers though it wise to just the the virus rip though society unchecked.